Art 100 Fianl Study Questions

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Manet

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Subject: Took classical subjects and updated them with contemporary models and situations.
Style: Black outlines,little shading, visible brush strokes on surface. More colorful.
Quote: "I am fated to be vilified and I accept it"

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Monet

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Subject: Landscapers, riverside scenes. Series on haystacks, waterlily pond.
Style:Bright colors, choppy brushstrokes,late style very misty look.
Quote: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you"

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Degas

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Subject: Interior scenes of Ballerinas, women bathing.
Style: Duller, sometimes caustic coloring with pastels. Spontaneous looking compositions with figures crammed.
Quote: "A painting needs as much fraudulence, trickery and deception"

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Van Gogh

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Subject: Landscapes, still lifes, interiors, portraits, self portraits.
Style:Swirling brushstrokes, bright, used color to express certain moods or feelings.
Quote: "Instead of trying to render what I see before me"

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Seurat

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Subject:Park settings, circus, dance halls,bathers.
Style: Pointillism (small dots of pure color), repetitive forms, very organized and studied compositions..
Quote:"If, with the experience of art, I have been"

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The impressionists started out as ______.

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Radicals.

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The first major scandal of Edouard Manet's career was his Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the gress), which rejected by _____.

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The Salon.

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With Manet's Olympia, viewers were a shocked by the simple painting style and the _____, which was unlike academic painting.

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Harsh lighting.

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At the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, critics complained that the paintings looked unfinished with their visible _______ and imprecise definition of form.

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Brushwork.

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One of ____'s painted sketches, Impression, Sunrise, Caused the naming of the group as impressionists.

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Claude Monet.

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In the 1890's ____________ began to build his water garden at Giverny, which soon became his principal subject.

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Claude Monet.

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In the 1880s a number of young artisits tried to push beyond the impressionists technique in a variety of ways. We Call them _________.

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Post-Impressionists.

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Georges Seurat developed a systematic method of painting called ______, in which he applied his paint by means of small dots.

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Pointillism.

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Vincent van gogh left Paris, settled in the South of France and invited ______ to visit him.

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Paul Gauguin.

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One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, ________, shows his attempt to make a modern, religious art.

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Starry Night.

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Female Impressionist artists, such as ________, represented the rituals and disciplines of middle-class womanhood.

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Mary Cassatt.

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Post impressionists painters moved away from the real world, rejecting external appearances, in favor of an inner, personal, imaginative truth.

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True.

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Best known among the Fauve artists was _______.

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Henri Matisse.

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___________ means "wild beast." It was a critic's tag referring to the seeming "wildness" in the bright coloring and distortions of the paintings.

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Fauve.

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In the early years of this century, one city was viewed as the center of modernism; and one artist in this city is still for us the modern artist. Who is the artist and what is the city?

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Pablo Picasso/Paris.

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Pablo Picasso's __________ is repeatedly claimed to be the first modern painting of the 20th century.

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

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Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon opened the way to the 20th century movement: __________.

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Cubism.

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In Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, multiple viewpoints and the flattening of space were to be characteristic of __________ painting.

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Cubist.

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The nudes in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are presented to us as __________.

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Prostitutes.

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__________ artists attacked truth, beauty, reason, and science.

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Dada.

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Marcel Duchamp produced his __________, ordinary items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them.

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"Ready mades."

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In the early 1920s, __________ became one of the first Western artists to paint in a

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Piet Mondrian.

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As Nazi persecution grew more intense, many artists fled to London and especially to ______.

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The United States.

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Around the years 1939-1940, the center of creative vitality in the Western visual arts moved away from Paris to __________.

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New York.

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The leading Abstract Expressionist was __________.

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Jackson Pollock.

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Raised in the American southwest, Pollock was influenced by __________.

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Native American sand painting.

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With Pollock, we are shown that _________ has nothing to do with value in art.

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A recognizable image.

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Mark Rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only __________ on his canvases.

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Gradations of color.

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When did Pop Art come of age?

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1960s.

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In his art, Andy Warhol concentrated on the repetition of identical objects that are __________, as well as the repetition of people, especially movie stars.

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The products of mass production.

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Where did Christo mount his work Running Fence?

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California.

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The construction of an environment, rather than a single object, is "________ Art."

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installation

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Movement that valued the idea over the art object.

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Conceptualism

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"______ Art" embraced mass-produced commercial items for subject matter and style.

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Pop

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Postmodern artists who appropriate kitschy, "cute" objects and makes them larger.

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Koons

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Pop artists who examined celebrity through repeated images using screen printing.

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Warhol

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Meaning "borrowing" refers to pop and postmodern artists who use existing images.

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appropriation

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Photographer who places herself in her "untitled" images and explores gender roles.

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Sherman

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Lichtensteins 1962 painting of woman praising an artists work.

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Masterpiece

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Performance artists of Coyote: I like America and America likes me.

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Beuys

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"Post Pop Art" period of today that embraces appropriation and rejects Modernism.

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Postmodernism

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Pop artists who drew from comic books for his subject matter and style.

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Lichtenstein

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Artists who combines text and image in a slick "advertisement" look to examine how women are shown in the media.

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Kruger

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Dada artists whose "ready-mades" examined the role of context and originality in art.

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Duchamp

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"Flag" painter who represents a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

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Johns

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African American artists who parodied Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

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Colescott

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American photographer whose work was invoked in recent debates of art "censorship"

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Mapplethorpe

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Early 1980's movement showing violent paint application and vivid color: "Neo-_______."

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Expressionism

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The artists and usually viewer participate in the art event: "_______ Art."

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Performance

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Conceptual artists Kosuth's most famous work: One and Three ______.

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Chairs

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Process in which ink is dragged through stretched silk with stencils on it: " _______ printing."

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screen