Quiz 4 - Final Quiz

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World War I

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• 1914-1918
• First World War with Modern Technology
• Allies VS Central Powers
• Gave American soldiers new culture perspective
• Crippled German Society

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Dada

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• 1915
• Began in New York and Zurich
• Central Goal of Dadaists were to use new creative methods fostering a different view towards art
• Rejection of the logic, ideals, and reason of modern society
• Futurist Movement that believed enlightenment led to great war

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Hannah Hoch

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• Born 1889
• Berlin Dadaist, early feminist who perfected the photomontage or "collage"
• Helped redefine the roles of women
• explosive growth of mass media

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Marcel Duchamp

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• Born 1887
• French Artist
• One of the most influential Dadaists
• Art that mocked society
• Made the "Fountain" 1917

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Giorgio De Chirico

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• Born 1888
• Italian Writer and Surrealist Artist
• Dreamlike Artworks influence Salvador Dali
• "The Song of Love" 1914

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Rene Magritte

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• 1898
• Belgian Surrealist Painter
• Known for causing viewer to question reality
• Brings attention to the gap between language and meaning
• "The Treachery of Images" 1928

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Henri Mattise

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• Born 1869
• Dominant Figure of Fauvism
• Rejected Conventional Art
• Explored emotional response of color believing color to have meaning
• "Woman with the Hat" 1905

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German Expressionism

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• 1905-1930s
• Distortion of forms, ragges outlines, jumpy brushstrokes
• Kirchner focused on detrimental effects of industrialization
• Kandinsky was one of the first artist to explore complete abstraction

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Die Bruke

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• Formed in 1905
• First group of Expressionists lead by Kirchner
• Sought to be the bridge (Die Bruke) between old and new perfect age
• Influenced by Van Gogh and Edvard Munch

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Emil Nolde

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• Born 1867
• German-Danish Artist member of Die Bruke
• Painted with fingers
• "Masks", 1911

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Vasily Kandinsky

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• Born 1866
• Founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue rider)
• German Expressionist
• sought to convey emotion through contrasting color and spatial relationships
• "Yellow-Red-Blue", 1925

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Primitivism

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• Late 19th/Early 20th
• Movement that believed earlier cultures were superior than current society
• Sought to simplify life and get back to the basics and returning to nature
• Influence cubism, and picasso

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Pablo Picasso

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• Born 1881
• Known as one of the most influential artist of 20th century
• Worked with Braque and formed cubism
• Radical turning point in art history - unrealistic, fragmented, geometrical designs
• "The Ladies of Avignon", 1907

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Analystical Cubism (First Phase of Cubism)

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• 1908-1912 Art movement formulated by picasso and Braque
• Grid-like, but complicated geometric shapes, lines, and angles
• Shapes and details represent the whole object or person
• Painting objects as how "I think them, rather than how I see them"

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Synthetic Cubism (Second Phase of Cubism)

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• 1912-1914
• Drawings or paintings constructed from clippings and segments of different materials and sources
• Simpler shapes and lines, brighter colors too
• "Still Life Chair-Caning" 1912

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De Stijl

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• Meaning "The Style"
• Art movement founded in 1917 by Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam
• The Goal was to combine art and life
• Pure abstraction, reduction to form and color
• Usinging only black, grey, white, yellow, blue, and red with horizontal and vertical lines

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Walter Gropius

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• Born 1883
• German Architect
• Constructive elements include simplicity and lightness
• Interested in uniformity and its exploration with mass production of spaces like prison cells
• Founded the Bauhaus

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Le Corbusier

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• Born 1887
• Swiss-French Architect who helped pioneer modern architecture
• Worked with new technologies such as refined steel and reinforced concrete
• Juxtaposing of closed and open spaces
• Architect of the Savoye House, 1929

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William Van Alen

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• Born 1883
• American Architect and designer of the Chrysler Building, 1928
• Known for his Modernism
• Transitioned work into Art Deco

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Art Deco

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• Art movement extremely popular in the 1920s and 1930s
• Highly Decorative, luxurious
• Characterised by fine craftsmanship and rich materials like Ivory, Gold, Steel, and Glass

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Frank Lloyd Wrigth

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• Born 1867
• American Architect
• Natural and organic homes
• Unobtrusive lines and facades
• Bold Asymmetry
• Unity of structure and the site

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The American Musical in the 1950s

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• Decline of the American Musical
• Transition to Television
• Vera-Ellen- by 1959 musicals are all but gone and she has a final performance

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Characteristics of Sci fi and Horror Films in 50s

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• Fascination with Atomic Bomb/Radiation
• Archetypes of old science professor and his young lady assistant
• Science VS God
• Overlooking of acting for special effects and sound design
• "Them" 1954

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Battle between film and television

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• 1950s - Terrible Movies
  
• People can stay home and watch TV
• 3D Movies and Movies in Color
• Sex and Violence in films that you can't watch on TV

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Hammer Films

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• The classic 1930s horror films but with color, sex and violence showing what universal only hinted at
• Large quantities of fake blood
• More sex and violence led to quality suffering