Question

What did Arthur Dove borrow from European Modernists?
a.
inspiration from nature, especially images of the sky and clouds
b.
interest in earthy colors
c.
interest in abstraction and creating representations for things that were not easily represented

Answer 1

c. interest in abstraction and creating representations for things that were not easily represented

Arthur Dove adopted the European modernists’ emphasis on abstraction—reducing forms, experimenting with nonliteral representation—to depict natural subjects and sensations in new, nontraditional ways.