11/11 Art History Quiz

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Un Chien Andalou

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Wild Strawberries

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8 1/2

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Rousseau - The Sleeping Gypsy

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Redon- Orpheus

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DuChamp - Fountain

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DuChamp - Nude Descending a Staircase

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Chagall - I and the Village

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Magritte - The False Mirror

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Dali- The Persistence of Memory

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Miro - Dutch Interior II

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Lascaux France cave painting

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DeChirico - The Soothsayer's Recompense

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Dali - Christ of St. John of the Cross

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Pollock

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Gorky - Water of the Flowery Mill

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Pollock - No. 1

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Kline - Mahoning

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de Kooning - Woman I

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Rothko - Blue, Orange, Red

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Rauschenberg - Monogram

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Johns- Three Flags

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Lichtenstein - Whaam!

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Warhol - 100 Cans of Campbell's Soup

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Oldenburg - Soft Toilet

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Hamilton - Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

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Biomorphic

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a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan

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Abstract Expressionism

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action painting, where the canvas was an arena to record the artist’s engagement with it. not a particular style but an attitude that called for freedom from traditional social and aesthetic values. placed emphasis on the spontaneous personal expression. Surrealism was a fundamental source: biomorphic forms, and automatism. preference for large canvases

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Pop Art

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Pop Art makes use of the imagery of consumerism and mass culture (comic strips, pin-ups, packaging, Hollywood stars) with a finely balanced mixture of irony and celebration. Pop should be:• Popular (designed for a mass audience)• Transient (short term solution)• Expendable (easily forgotten)• Low-cost• Mass-produced• Young (aimed at youth)• Witty• Sexy• Gimmicky• Glamorous• Big Business

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Diptych

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two panels

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Dada

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A nonsense word that emerged during and after World War I as a response to the devastation of the War. Dada is an attack on the so-called civilized Western world, The Dadaists’ response was: simultaneously absurd and playful Confrontational and nihilistic Intuitive and emotive. Dada is not a style but a world view. Dada artists had live performances that anticipated performance art

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Surrealism

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Surrealism means “above reality” (the reality of appearances). It is an art which seeks to reveal a world more real than visible reality. The world of the irrational, the dream-state, the sexual, the subconscious --influenced by Dada--also influenced by Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis and free association.--Surrealism is interested in chance, accident, automatism