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What is the name of this picture? Who made this image, what type of artist is he, and what nationality? Where is it located? pg 396-397 |
The Scream. Edvard Munch, Modern Era artist, Norwegian; National Galleria Olso |
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How many versions of The Scream? How many are paintings? How many are pastels? Where is the sound coming from? |
105. 5 2 The landscape |
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What was the inspiration of The Scream from? |
Munch's real-life experience |
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How old was Munch when he painted The Scream? |
29 |
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What was known as the first Scream? |
Dispare |
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What influenced Munch while he was in Paris? |
An item from South America, A purevian Mummy |
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Would Munch prefer Impression or Expression? |
Expression |
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What changed Munch? |
Experienced Electroshock therapy |
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When was The Scream stolen? |
February 1994 |
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What is Expressionistic art? |
It involves the distortion of shape or color to achieve emotional intensification, express some strong emotion or heightened psychological state. |
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Expressionistic art fits into the broad style category of ...? |
Figurative (depictive, objective, representational) |
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Expressionistic art could also be considered a sub-category of...?
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Abstract |
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What is the name of this sculpture? Who made this sculpture? What type of artist and what Era? |
The State Hospital; Edward Kienholz; Modern Era; American Artist |
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What types of style categories would "The State Hospital" fit into? |
Objective, abstract, and expressionistic. |
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Other names for Nonobjective Art |
Nondepictive, nonrepresentational, non-figurative, pure abstraction. |
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What does art Nonobjective Art attempt to portray ? |
Art in this style category does not attempt to portray any real object or person. -There is no recognizable subject matter -There can be content (meaning) to some viewers |
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What you see is what you see |
Non-objective |
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What is the name of this? Who made this art? What type of artist was he? What was this made of? An example of ? Where is it located? pp. 64-65, 451-452 |
Titled Arc; Richard Serra; Contemporary American Artist; Cor-Ten steel; Minimalist Sculpture; New York City |
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What percent is used for art as commissioned by the Art-in-Architecture? |
Called the Percent rule but really is half a percent |
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What is site-specific? |
An art piece that is designed for the specific location, and not another venue |
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READ: Chapter 9 Sculpture - text pp. 148-167 |
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What is the name of this sculpture? Who made this? What type of artist is he? What was it made out of? Where is it located? pp.31-32, 74-75, 163, 287-289, 292 |
David; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Italian Renaissance; Marble; Accademia Galleria, Florence, Italy; |
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Who posed for the statue of David? |
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Palazzo Vecchio |
Statue of David Resided |
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What is Contrapposto? |
Gives a statue a sense of life-likeness by providing an S-curve at the torso. |
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What is Casting? |
Casting is an indirect method of sculpting. It involves substitution or replacement (of one material with another). With casting it is possible to make multiple identical sculptures. |
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What is solid casting? |
It involves a model, the making of a negative mold into which a molten material is poured and allowed to cool and harden. |
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What is lost wax cast objects? |
They have a 3/8-inch skin of metal and are hollow inside. |
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What is the name of this sculpture? Who made this? What type of artist is he? Where were the doors from? |
The Gates of Hell; Auguste Rodin; Modern Era French Sculpture; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris |
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What is the name of this sculpture? Who made this? What type of artist is he? Where is it located? pp. 118, 158-159, 382-383 |
The Thinker; Auguste Rodin; Modern Era French Sculpture; Outside of the Cleveland Museum of Art |
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How many enlarged versions of Rodin's The Thinker are there? |
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How many were cast and pastinated during the artist's lifetime |
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What is the name of this piece? Who made this? Where is it located? How long was it exhibited for? How many months to prepare? |
Running Fence; Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Located in Sonoma and Marin counties, CA; 2 Weeks; 42 Months |
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What is Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art? |
Refers to outdoor art works that are created from naturally occurring materials, but often other objects and materials are introduced |
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What are Installation sculptures? |
They transform the perception of an interior space through the arrangement of objects and images chosen for their evocative transformative qualities. |
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What are environmental sculptures? |
They are intended to involve or encompass the spectators rather than merely to face them. |
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What do Christo and Jeanne-Claude call themselves and how do they fund projects? |
Environmental Artists and entirely own funds |
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What is the name of this art? Who made it? What type of artist is he? Where is it located? When was it completed? |
Neukom Vivarium; Mark Dion; Contemporary American artist; Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA; 2006 |
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What is Avant-Garde? |
A term applied to military action, to the troops that led the advanced guard. Now refers to works or artists that are on the cutting edge, experimental and innovative. |
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What is the name of this ? Who made it? What type of artist was she? Where does she live? What was it made out of? |
United Nations - China Monument: Temple of Heaven; Wendu Gu; Chinese contemporary artist; New York City; Hair |
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What is the name of this? Who made it? What type of artist was she? What was it made out of? How many shops ? |
United Nations- Babel of the Millennium - San Francisco; Wendu Gu - Chinese contemporary artist; Hair; 325 Barber shops |
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What is special about the Wendu Gu art pieces? |
They are ilegible |
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The three primary qualities or (properties) of color are: |
Hue, value, and intensity (or saturation) |
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What is "White light"? |
All the colors of the spectrum are present, but are so balanced and perfectly blended |
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What is the name of color? |
Hue |
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What are the three primary colors? |
Red, yellow, and blue |
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Value refers to: |
the quality of lightness or darkness |
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What does achromatic mean? Which colors are they? What is the highest and what is the lowest? |
It means without chroma, without color, neutral. Black, white, and neutral grey. White is the highest and black is the lowest. |
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What does Chiaroscuro mean? |
In Italian it means light and dark |
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What does Low key refer to: |
Works of art in which dark values predominate. |
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What does High key refer to: |
Works of art in which light values predominate |
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Intensity or saturation refers to: |
To the relative purity or brilliance of a color. |
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What are complementary colors? |
They are directly opposite on the color wheel |
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What is simultaneous contrast of hues? |
When complementary or contrasting hues are used side by side. |
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What is an analogous color scheme? |
Hues that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel |
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What is the afterimage of a hue is: |
Its complementary hue |
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Chapter 5 Painting - text pp. 84-95 |
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What is the name of this art? Who made it? What type of artist is he? What type of painter? text pp. 35, 79-80, 387-392 |
The Potato Eaters; Vincent van Gogh; Dutch Modern Era artist; a Post-Impressionist painter |
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What is the name of this painting? Who made it? What type of artist is he (2)? Where was it painted? |
Sunflowers; Vincent van Gogh; Modern Era artist and a Post-Impressionist artist; Arles, France |
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What could have made Vincent crazy? Name at least 3: |
1) Vincent could have suffered from depression (ran in the family) 2) Could have had heavy metal poisoning 3) Could have been schizophrenic 4) Could have had epilepsy 5) Could have been an alcoholic
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What is the name of this art? Who made it? What type of artist is he (3)? Where was it painted? |
Spirit of the Dead Watching; Paul Gauguin; A Modern Era artist, Post-Impressionist artist, Symbolist artist; Tahiti |
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Local Color: |
The way the brain perceives an object to be |
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Open or broken color: |
Stimulates the sensation of light. |
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What is the name of this art piece? Who made it? What period was it during? How long did he paint for? |
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte; Georges Seurat; Post-Impressionist Period; 10 years |
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What technique did Georges Seurat invent? |
Pointillism or Divisionism or chromoluminarism |
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Seurat made at least _ preliminary studies for his painting? How many Conte Crayon drawings? How many small oil studies on panels? |
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What is the name of this art? Who made it? What type of artist is he? Where is he from? |
The Refusal of Time; William Kentridge; A contemporary artist; Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Describe The Refusal of Time |
A five screen, 30 minute mixed media installtion |
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How many people are in the "A Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte? How many Boats? How many Dogs? How many Monkeys? |
48 People, 3 Dogs, 8 Boats, 1 Monkey |
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How long did Seurat spend on the canvas for the Sunday drawing? |
10 Months |
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What part of Seurat's painting is not covered in dots? |
The little girl in the center in white looking back at the painting |
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What does Seurat's painting closely represent? |
Represents the Egyptian "The Lauv" |
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Who admired Seurat's painting ? |
Felix |
