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61 Cards in this Set
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The modern age was launched by 3 revolutions: |
1.) the Industrial Revolution
2.) the American Revolution 3.) the French Revolution |
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The term __________ refers to the emulation of classical Greek and Roman art.
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Neoclassicism
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Thomas Jefferson advocated the _________________ ___________ as an embodiment of the values of the new American republic where Roman civic virtues of courage and patriotism would be reborn. |
neoclassical style |
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Romantic artists believed that __________and __________are more valuable than reason. |
imagination and emotion |
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Delacroix’s brushstrokes in The Death of Saranapalusare loose and open, or ___________. |
painterly |
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_____________are tradition-minded works that follow overused formulas laid down by an academy or school, especially the French Academy of the nineteenth century. |
Academic art
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Realism describes a style of art that depicts ordinary existence without ___________, __________or ____________.
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idealism, exoticism or nostalgia.
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___________ was one of the first to finish his paintings outdoors.
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Courbet
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Henry Tanner’s works are _______ ________of African Americans.
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dignified portrayals
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Edouard Manet was the most important predecessor of _______________ in French art. |
Impressionism
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Impressionist artists sought to paint“__________” of what the eye actually sees rather than what the mind knows or interprets from a scene.
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impressions |
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1.) In The Thinker, Rodin projected the universal artist/poet as ___________. |
creator |
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Seurat developed a method of painting called___________or ___________. |
divisionism OR pointillism
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Through the application of tiny dots of color,Seurat achieved a vibrant surface based on ________ __________ ________. |
optical color mixture |
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Paul Gauguin desired to rejuvenate European art and civilization with insights from ______ ________ . |
non-Western traditions |
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________-_______ artists work in an experimental or innovative way often opposing mainstream standards. |
Avant-garde |
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_________is a style of painting characterize by areas of bright, contrasting color and simplified shapes. |
Fauvism
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The name Les Fauves means "____ ______ ______."
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“the wild beasts”
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_____________is a term for art that emphasizes inner feeling and emotions over objective depiction. |
Expressionism
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The Two types of German Expressionism are _______ and _________.
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The Bridge AND The Blue Rider
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Cubists’ painters emphasized_________ ________ over personal expression. |
pictorial composition
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Artists used pieces of newspaper, sheet music, wallpaper and similar items in _______ ________. |
Synthetic Cubism |
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The works of _________ ________ consisted mostly of abstraction based on nature. |
Georgia O’Keeffe |
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Architects like ________ ________ _______ challenged traditional concepts of form and space. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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___________ added a sense of speed, motion and a celebration of the machine to their art. |
Futurists |
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In Nude Descending a Staircase Marcel Duchamp was influenced by _________ _________. |
stroboscopic photography |
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________ began in protest against the horrors of World War I. |
Dada
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Marcel Duchamp’s _________ were assembled from mass-produced objects. |
readymades |
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______________ proclaimed the importance of the unconscious mind, dreams, fantasies and hallucinations. |
Surrealism
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Salvador Dali’s approach to his art has been called _______________ ____________. |
Representational Surrealism |
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______________ began in Russia. |
Constructivism
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The Dutch movement called __________ employed nonrepresentational geometric elementsin a group style. |
DeStijl (The Style)
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Picasso painted __________ as a response to the brutal bombing by Hitler of his native Spain. |
Guernica
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The ____________ adopted Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, even though her sources were closer to the folk artists of Mexico. |
Surrealists
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Edward Hopper’s Night Hawks portrays the _________ of much of American life. |
loneliness
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The title of Grant Wood’s American Gothic comes from the style of the _________. |
farmhouse |
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Jackson Pollock was the leading innovator of __________ _____________. |
Abstract Expressionism
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Most American architects at mid-century used the __________ style. |
International
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_________ ________ is a term for painting that consists of large areas of color with no obvious structure, central focus or dynamic balance. |
Color Field
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_____________ are a loose conglomeration of seemingly random objects. |
Assemblages
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Jasper Johns early paintings were based on ______ ________ _________. |
common graphic forms |
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_______ _________ use real objects or mass-produced techniques in their art. |
Pop artists
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Andy Warhol’s most common subjects were ________ ________ such as Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup. |
consumer products
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__________ art refers to nothing outside itself and tells no stories except for its own shapes and colors. |
Minimalists’
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The artist Christo is a leader in the ____________ movement. |
site-specific
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Artists today are left with ______ ______ ___ _______. |
few rules to break.
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Postmodernists thought that the unadorned functional purity of the _________ _______ made all buildings look the same. |
International Style
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The Postmodern style of Michael Graves uses _________ ___________ in knowing and humorous ways. |
classical architecture
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One of the first _______________ was Susan Rothenberg. |
Neo-Expressionists
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Although optimistic, Kerry Marshall’s ________ __________ __________ ___________ is not a merely optimistic scene. |
Better Homes Better Gardens |
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Cindy Sherman’s __________ of the late 1970’s were among the first to be called postmodern. |
photographs |
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_____-_____ ___________believe that if they limit their art to aesthetic matters, then their work will be only a distraction from pressing problems. |
Issue-oriented artists
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We form art and art forms us. |
From first test. |
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Jacques-Louis David.
The Oath of the Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas. |
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Gustave Courbet. The Stone Breakers.
1849 (destroyed in 1945) Oil on canvas. |
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Edouard Manet.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). 1863. Oil on canvas. |
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Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas. |
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Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon(Young Ladies of Avignon). Paris. 1907. Oil on canvas. |
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Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. 1912. Oil on canvas. |
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Salvador Dalí.
The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas. |
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Grant Wood.
American Gothic. 1930. Oil on beaverboard. |