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30 Cards in this Set
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Realism
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An artistic literary style based on the theory that method of presentation should be true to life
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Who is the composer for Peter and the Wolf?
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Sergei prokofiev
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Nihilism
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A viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
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Serial Music
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In music, a mid-20th century type of composition based on the twelve tone system
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Style of Joan Miro
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Surrealism- A 20th-century movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
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Modernist rejected___?
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Realism
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Gehry used a aerospace computer to help create what?
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Walt Disney Concert Hall, uses style of futurism
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Aleatoric music
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"chance music", dependent on chance. In music, using sounds chosen by the performer or left to chance. in film, composition on the spot.
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Cultural relativism
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In reaction to ethnocentrism, asserts that beliefs, values, customs, and other expressions of cultures must be understood and judged within their own context rather than from outside viewpoints
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Choreographer of Rite of Spring
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Vaslav Nijinsky
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Akhnaten
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An opera by Philip Glass, Akhnaten is the main character, the scribe is the narrator
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Henry Tanner
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Very first famous African American painter
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Honore Daumier
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Often depicted urban scenes and known for caricatures
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Abstract expressionism
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An american post WWII art movement, splatter art.
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Existentialism
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insists on the actual existence of individuals as basic and important- rather than relying on theories and abstractions. Human being are what they make of themselves.
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Ephermeral
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temporary art, ex: Ice sculptures, land art, sand sculptures, chalk drawings
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Spiral Jetty
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sculpted by Robert Smithson, it is an earthwork sculpture.
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Aaron Douglas
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arguably the foremost painter of the Harlem Renaissance in highly stylized work, explores a palette of muted tones. Known for his illustrations and cover designs for many books by African-American writers.
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Alexander Calder
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known for kinetic art- art containing moving parts depending on motion for its effects. ex: wind chimes
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Shaker Hymns are used by____
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Appalachians
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Rhapsody in Blue Piano Concerto
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musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
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Diego Rivera
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revived the fresco mural as an art form in Mexico in the 1920s. Produced large scale public murals that picture contemporary subjects in a style that blends European and native traditions. Famous Ex: Fresco painting- "Enslavement of the Indians". He criticized the oppression of the Indians by the Europeans, very political (vocal about gov.), subjects are working people/ influential leaders
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Beliefs of Decadents
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saw the 19th century as the "end of the century" & the decay of civilization w/ flamboyant behavior, drug taking, and sexual license.
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Color Field painting
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Mark Rothko, number 10, 1950 oil on canvas, exhibits high individualism that follows a process of reduction and simplification
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Futurism
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An artistic movement that began in Italy in around 1909, art movement celebrating technology that was inspired by Cubism
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What were the Lumiere Brothers famous for?
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They were the first to show a film screening
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DW Griffith
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a pioneering film director, best known for film "Birth of the Nation" which ran for three hours and was very controversial, virtually invented film editing .
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Who is the composer of the emancipation of dissonance?
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Burj Dubai--marvels of architecture
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The Burj Al Arab's atrium is the world's tallest- measuring 600 feet.
Coated in Teflon, the sail-shaped building boasts a helipad and an underwater seafood restaurant. All rooms are luxury suites, tallest building in the world, highest publicly accessible observation deck, worlds fastest lift. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. 200 floors and costs 800 million. |
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Spansion
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architecture that stretches engineering to the limits of current building materials
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