They have a high moral prestige    - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Previous inventions were refined, and there were new ones, as:    + Air navigation, with supersonic planes and rocket-planes (see the arrival of the first man to the Moon).    + Underwater navegation, with nuclear submarines.    + Communication techniques, like television, radio and Internet.    - BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. It was discovered:    + Microorganisms, like bacteria, microbes and viruses.    + Vitamins, hormones, sulfamides, antibiotics and vaccines.    + Investigations about the human genome and different ways to human reproduction.    - PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY SCIENCES. New encouraging and astonishing discoveries:    + The Curies isolated the radium.    + German Plank established the theory about the "quanta", or the non-continuity of energy.

   + Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity, which modified the concepts of time, space and universal gravitation.

   + Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom.

   + Oppenheimer, Fermi and Meissner had a great success liberating uranium’s energy by the disintegration of the atom.

   4. Write if these discoveries are related to the fields of science and tecnology, biology or physics and chemics:

5. Modern art    - ARCHITECTURE. Functional architecture has two features:    1. Functionalism in all shapes, erasing what could be ornamental or don’t answer to the primary objective of the building.    2. It arranges to construction materials like reinforcing bar, steel, glass, aluminium, prefabricated clusters, etc.    - PAINTING. Their aspiration is the pure painting, without personal or Nature motifs, but created by the artist as a combination of geometrical forms, abstractions, subconscious desires and expression of his own intimacy.

   The precedents are in Cezanne and in Post-Impressionists as Gauguin and Van Gogh. The true driving force in the new painting is the French Maurice Denis, who defined painting as “a surface full of colors placed in a certain order”.

   The result of these aspirations of being pure is the abstract art.

   Se distinguen estas tendencias:

   + Fauvism, which is based on the particular interpretation of material things. The creator of the trend was Vlaminck, and the most famous painter was Matisse.

   + Cubism, which only presents geometrical elements full of plain colours and blurred shapes. The creator of Cubism was the Spanish Pablo Picasso.

   + Surrealism, which aspires to be a representation of an inner world of dreams, hallucinations, nightmares and memories locked in the subconscious. Among its representatives are the Spanish Dalí and Miró.

   + Abstract painting, with non-figurative shapes and unnatural colours, the result of the artist’s imagination. Importan names are Mondrián and Malevich. (See Composition II by Mondrián)

   - SCULPTURE. In general, the same tendencies as in painting were followed. Sculptor Arístides Maillol was inspired by Greek sculpture, and Spanish Clará embodied serenity.

   6. Write if these statements are about architecture, painting or sculpture:

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