Art History Quiz #2

Front 1

Define expressionism.

Back 1

-artists use form and not representation to get the viewer to feel what the artist feels using the medium and figures

Front 2

Define Fauves.

Back 2

-artists that use color is expressive and for compositional purposes but not to be representational

-want to create harmony and balance
-use color to evoke emotion

Front 3

Explain Die Brucke.

Back 3

-means "the bridge"
-believed that humanity could be at the cusp of a new revolutionary phase
-architects that started this group
-stressed the importance of authenticity
-wanted to change humanity
-used dissonance and sharpness

Front 4

Explain Der Blaue Reiter.

Back 4

-means "Blue Rider"
-used color as a way to tap into something
-used color to awaken the viewers spirituality because color was powerful
-they were the first to embrace lines and colors to create abstractions

Front 5

Define primitivism.

Back 5

-the incorporation in early-20th century Western Art of stylistic elements from the artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of the Americas

Front 6

Define abstraction.

Back 6

-the breaking down of an object into a juxtaposition of intersecting linear elements, color, and implied linear elements
-fueled by the scientific discovery that material objects were made of atoms and had no real substance

Front 7

Define analytic cubism.

Back 7

-the first phase of Cubism, developed jointly by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, in which the artists analyzed form from every possible vantage to combine the various views into one pictorial whole

Front 8

Define synthetic cubism.

Back 8

-a later phase of Cubism, in which paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject, in order to engage the viewer with pictorial issues, such as figuration, realism, and abstraction.