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90 min
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Distrito Único Andaluz
0–10
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Junta de Andalucía
4.0
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Junta de Andalucía 2026
The Andalusia PAU Cultural and Artistic Movements exam tests 2nd Bachillerato students on 20th and 21st-century art movements, mass media, cinema, digital art, and Andalusian cultural heritage. The exam lasts 90 minutes and is graded on a 0-10 scale. The practice items on this site are formatted as an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of the official 2026 Distrito Único Andaluz curriculum.
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1Which early 20th-century avant-garde movement, led by Henri Matisse, was characterized by the liberation of color from direct descriptive function?
A.Fauvism
B.Futurism
C.Constructivism
D.De Stijl
Explanation: Fauvism emerged around 1905 in Paris under figures like Henri Matisse and André Derain. The movement prioritized bold, non-naturalistic, arbitrary color applications over traditional anatomical or spatial depiction. Critics famously dubbed them 'les Fauves' (the wild beasts) at the 1905 Salon d'Automne.
2Which Spanish artist created 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (1907), a foundational work that signaled the birth of Cubism?
A.Salvador Dalí
B.Pablo Picasso
C.Joan Miró
D.Juan Gris
Explanation: Pablo Picasso painted 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' in 1907, breaking with traditional Western perspective by fragmenting human figures into sharp geometric planes and incorporating African mask influences. This work paved the way for Analytic and Synthetic Cubism developed alongside Georges Braque.
3What primary concept was celebrated in F. T. Marinetti's 1909 Futurist Manifesto published in Le Figaro?
A.Quiet spiritual contemplation and monastic isolation
B.Speed, industrial machinery, technology, and dynamic motion
C.Strict revival of Renaissance classicism and academic proportion
D.Unconscious dream analysis and psychoanalytic therapy
Explanation: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the 'Futurist Manifesto' in 1909, glorifying modernity, automobiles, industrial factories, speed, and aggressive technological transformation. Italian Futurism sought to dismantle traditional museum culture in favor of a dynamic aesthetics of motion.
4Which anti-art movement originated at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916 as a reaction against World War I?
A.Dadaism
B.Impressionism
C.Social Realism
D.Pop Art
Explanation: Dadaism was founded in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire by Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, and others in neutral Zurich. It used absurdity, nonsense, satire, and chance operations to protest the rationalized logic of Western societies that had led to the devastation of World War I.
5What term did Marcel Duchamp use for ordinary mass-produced objects selected and elevated to art status, such as 'Fountain' (1917)?
A.Assemblage
B.Readymade
C.Bricolage
D.Fresco
Explanation: Marcel Duchamp coined the term 'readymade' to describe prefabricated, mass-produced manufactured objects that an artist selects, repositioned, and presents as artwork. By submitting a porcelain urinal signed 'R. Mutt' as 'Fountain' in 1917, Duchamp shifted the definition of art from physical craftsmanship to intellectual concept.
6Who published the first 'Surrealist Manifesto' in 1924, defining Surrealism as psychic automatism in its pure state?
A.André Breton
B.Guillaume Apollinaire
C.Jean Cocteau
D.Paul Éluard
Explanation: André Breton published the 'Manifeste du surréalisme' in Paris in 1924. Influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories, Breton defined Surrealism as psychic automatism aimed at expressing the true functioning of thought in the absence of rational control or moral constraints.
7Which German art and design school, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, sought to unify fine art, craft, and industrial production?
A.Bauhaus
B.Der Blaue Reiter
C.Die Brücke
D.De Stijl
Explanation: The Bauhaus was founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimar (later moving to Dessau and Berlin). The institution revolutionized 20th-century design education by integrating art, typography, architecture, and craft into a functionalist, industrial manufacturing ethos summarized as 'form follows function'.
8Which Russian artist is credited with painting 'Black Square' (1915), a landmark work of radical non-objective art known as Suprematism?
A.Kazimir Malevich
B.Wassily Kandinsky
C.El Lissitzky
D.Alexander Rodchenko
Explanation: Kazimir Malevich unveiled 'Black Square' in Petrograd at the 0.10 Exhibition in 1915. He called his movement Suprematism, seeking the supreme expression of pure feeling devoid of any narrative or representational imagery.
9What Dutch movement, spearheaded by Piet Mondrian, advocated strict geometric abstraction using primary colors, white, black, and non-colors?
A.De Stijl (Neoplasticism)
B.Suprematism
C.Futurism
D.Rayonism
Explanation: De Stijl (The Style), also called Neoplasticism, was founded in 1917 in the Netherlands by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. It sought universal harmony by stripping visual language down to straight horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors (red, blue, yellow) alongside black, white, and gray.
10Which American post-WWII movement, exemplified by Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, emphasized spontaneous gesture and subconscious expression?
A.Abstract Expressionism
B.Pop Art
C.Minimalism
D.Precisionism
Explanation: Abstract Expressionism (the New York School) emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Artists like Jackson Pollock practiced 'Action Painting' by dripping, pouring, and flinging paint onto canvases on the floor, prioritizing physical gesture, raw emotion, and subconscious energy.
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