Art History Test 4

Front 1

De Stijl

Back 1

A Dutch art movement advocating pure abstraction and simplicity- form reduced to the rectangle and other geometric shapes, and color to the primary colors, along with black and white.

Front 2

Bauhaus

Back 2

A very intellectual German school of art and design whose aesthetic was a fervent utopianism, based upon ideals of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism, and a belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses.

Front 3

Suprematism

Back 3

The supreme reality is in pure feeling that belongs to no singular object. Therefore, art must remain abstract.

Front 4

Constructivism/Productivism

Back 4

Abstract sculpture constructed from industrialized materials/ avant-garde sculpture in service of the Soviet state.

Front 5

Socialist Realism

Back 5

Official style in the arts in the Soviet Union from 1932 until the decline of Communism in the 1980s. The style was a conservative, figurative, and narrative one, meant to be accessible to all viewers, and never to deviate from the Party view.

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Functionalism

Back 6

total merger of art and industry

Front 7

Regionalism

Back 7

Distinctly American subject matter. Especially highlights the Midwest and a simple people who are independent and individual.

Front 8

Harlem Renaissance

Back 8

rebirth of black culture

Front 9

Social Realism

Back 9

art with a political/social motivation, evoke emotions to promote change and reform.

Front 10

Works Progress Administration

Back 10

New Deal program that hired artists to capture the Depression.