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29 Cards in this Set
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What style did Angelica Kauffmann (Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures) paint in?
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Neoclassicism
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What painting by Claude Monet began the naming of the movement Impressionism?
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impression;sunrise
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Why was Edouard Manet considered the most controversial artist in Paris in the 1860s? What was revolutionary about the works of Manet?
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woman naked men with clothes no allegorical story to go along with it, he was breaking from traditions making things more flat relating back to japanese prints
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How did the invention of photography impact the art world in general and painting in particular?
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threatened more nervous of it taking away their work assesable photos
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What movement did Henri Matisse lead?
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fauvism
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What traditional objects inspired Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
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african masks
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What are some events that shook up the world at the beginning of the 20th century?
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wrights brothers industrial revolution scientific discoveries western views on reality were going through a big change
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What was unique about Picasso’s Guitar? Explain.
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influencing sculptural construction instead of carving or modeling
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Discuss the ideals of the Futurists. What innovations did they bring to art?
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brought motion to art
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What art style is Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.?
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dada
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Rene Magritte’s painting Portrait fits into which art movement?
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surrealism
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What contradictory concepts did Surrealism attempt to combine?
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dreams and reality
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Describe the rise of the Dada movement. What were its aims? What are some examples of its typical works? Do you think it succeeded in its goals? Why or why not?
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protest to the horrors of world war 1, felt that world was absurd and wanted to overturn traditional values that they felt brought the war on, thumbtacks on an iron name on a urinal
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Discuss the subject matter of most of Frida Kahlo’s paintings.
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mexican narrative folk painting, mixture of folk art motifs
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Jackson Pollock’s work fits into which category or style?
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abstract expressionism
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram is an example of what type of art?
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assemblage
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How does the work of Andy Warhol best express the characteristics of Pop Art?
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witty first person to do this type of art glamour, business mass produced
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What do you think of Frank Stella’s non-‐rectangular canvas? Is he blurring the distinction between painting and sculpture? Is he a Minimalist? Why or why not?
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List four Pop characteristics identified by Richard Hamilton.
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popular, expendable, low cost, mass produced
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Li Hua’s Take Him In! is similar to what Western style?
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realist
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Amrita Sher-‐Gil’s The Swing shows influences of what two things or styles?
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Identify the first Black African Modernist.
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gerard seketo
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What was the purpose of the Chinese League of Left-‐Wing Artists in the 1930s?
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to encourage inexpensive progressive easily duplicated art created woodcuts in social realist
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Why was the purchase of Gerard Sekoto’s painting Street Scene by the South African National Gallery made secret?
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the apartheid policy forbade purchases from black artists as well as the joint exhibition of work
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What styles are represented in The Public Services Building by Michael Graves?
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post modern looks back to classical details
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What style is Osiris and Isis by Anselm Kiefer?
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combines style of abstract expressionism and nostalgia for history and mythology
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What year did modern art end according to historians?
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late 70s early 80s
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What are some stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture?
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complexity, ambiguity, contradiction, nostalgia
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Briefly discuss the initial controversy over Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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people didn't like how modern and cold it was
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