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Jupiter and Thetis by Dominiques Ingres is a great example of what European style of painting? |
Neo Classism |
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What did Romanticism emphasize? |
Emotions, intuition, individual expression, and above all imagination |
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Who was the leading painter of the Romanticism movement? |
Eugene Delacroix |
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What subject matter did Realism seek to depict? |
Everyday people doing everyday things or tasks |
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What is the name and artist of this painting? |
A Burial at Ornans by Museé d’Orsay. Paris, 1849-50 |
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What is the name of this painting and who created it? |
Luncheon on the Grass by Manet |
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What was the Salon? |
A juried exhibition sponsored by the French government |
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Why was Luncheon on the Grass considered scandalous? |
The public thought Manet was making fun of classic artist like Titian and Raphael, but he wasn’t |
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What were the characteristics of Impressionist paintings? |
Emphasis on the visual affect of light |
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Who was seen as the leader of the Impressionist movement? |
Claude Monet |
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What was Claude Monet best known for? |
His water lily paintings |
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What kind of subject matter did Auguste Renoir paint? |
Dapple light, happy outdoor scenes, broken color and un blended brush strokes |
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Who was the most important female french Impressionist painter? |
Berthe Morisot |
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Who are the most important Post Impressionist painters? |
George Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézanne |
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Who was the most important American Impressionist painter and what was her subject matter? |
Mary Cassatt and her subject matter was scenes of daily life, especially domestic ones of moms and daughters |
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Who was the Missouri artist who became a famous American Romanticist painter and depicted the American frontier? |
George Caleb Bingham |
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What is the name of this painting and who is the artist? |
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham |
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Henry Osswa Tanner’s Banjo Lesson is an example of what style of painting? |
Realism |
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Who was the best known and revered American Realist painter? |
Thomas Enkins |
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What is the Avant Garde as it relates to art? |
Artists having goals and believing it was their duty to go further than the artists before them |
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What does the term Fauve mean? |
Wild beasts |
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Who was the most important Fauve artist? |
Heneri Matisee |
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Why is Heneri Matisee important to the history of modern art? |
His expressive use of color and the simplification of shape |
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What were the two groups of German Expressionism? |
Die Bruke, meaning The Bridge. Founder: Krichner Der Blau Rieter, meaning The Blue rider. Founder; Kandinsky |
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Why was the Blue Rider group important to the history of art? |
It was the first group to create non representational paintings |
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Why is Edvard Munch important? |
He pushed the limits of expression, emotion and personal space |
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What is the name of this painting and who is it by? What makes it recognized as a landmark painting in history? |
Ladies of Avignon by Picasso and it was the first cubist painting that lead the movement |
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What two artist found the Cubist movement? |
Pablo Picasso ans Georges Barque |
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Which Post Impressionist artist inspired Georges Barque in his cubist work? |
Cézanne |
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What was the Italian group of artists who combined Cubism ideas with appreciation and reverence for motion, energy and glory of mechanization? |
Futurism/Futurist |
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What was Dada about? |
Philosophy and protest art. It was first work that was considered anti establishment and anti everything |
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What was the Metaphysical School about? |
Believed that art only moved forward through experience of new objects and artists created imaginary scenes that combined images of the past with ambiguous objects |
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Who was the most important Surrealist painter? |
Salvador Dali |
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What is/was Surrealism about? |
They admired the dream work of Sigmund Freud dealing with the unconscious mind and dreams |
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What were the two different approaches to Surrealism paintings? |
1. Highly finished approach to the dream world 2. A child-like and whimsical approach to the dream world |
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What is the name of this painting and who created it? |
Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali |
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What was de Stijl (The Style) and who was it’s founder? |
De Stijl is art that should distilled into the most universal signs of human order. Vertical, horizontal lines and primary colors. It’s founder is Piet Mondrian |
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What were the main ideas of the Bauhaus as they applied to architecture and industrial design? |
It sought to build new guiding principles of design, household items were stripped of serial and everything is reduced to its simplistic form |
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What global situation led to the Postmodern world? |
Artists fled countries, WWI, WWII, atomic age and the cold war |
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What were the 3 African American experiences dealing with the Harlem Renaissance? |
1. The rich heritage and culture of Africa 2. The ugly slave history in USA 3. The realities of modern urban life in American |
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What were the style approaches of Abstract Expressionism? |
Action painting and color field |
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Name the two most important artists of the styles of Abstract Expressionism: |
Action painting: Pollock Color field: Marc Rothko |
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What were the style approaches of Abstract Expressionism? |
Action painting and color field |
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Name the two most important artists of the styles of Abstract Expressionism: |
Action painting: Pollock Color field: Marc Rothko |
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What is Jackson Pollock’s connection to Missouri? |
His teacher, Thomas Bentont, was born in Neosho, MO |
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What is the name of this painting and who is it by? |
Woman I by William de Kooning |
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What was Color Field painting about? |
Emphasizing large fields of color by painting them on a different background of color |
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Who is the most important artist of Color Field movement? |
Marc Rothko |
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Who established assemblage as an accepted sculpture technique? |
Louise Nevelson |
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What term was used to describe Robert Rauschenberg’s artwork of mixed objects? |
Combines |
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What were “Happenings”? |
The entire event became the artwork |
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What were the characteristics of Pop Art? |
Blurring boundaries between high and low art, the concept of no hierarchy in culture and emotionally removing one’s self |
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Who were the most important artists of the Art Pop movement? |
Andy Whorhal and Roy Lichtenstein |
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What was Hard Edge painting about? |
Creating extreme clear-edged, simply designed but organized compositions relating to geometric shapes |
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What is the process/characteristics of Photo Realism? |
Inspired by photography and its record of iconic images in mass media |
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What is the process/characteristics of Photo Realism? |
Inspired by photography and its record of iconic images in mass media |
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Who is the most famous Photo Realist painter? |
Chuck Close |
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What are 4 important qualities to know about art in the 70s, 80s and 90s? |
1. Moving away from traditional form 2. More about ideas and less about visual techniques 3. Technology plays a large role 4. Art is progressing more and is outspoken about society |
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What is Minimalism? |
An art movement that sought to rid art of representation and personal expression |
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What was Minimalism trying to accomplish in art? |
To let the viewers see the whole idea without confusion |
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What was Minimalism trying to accomplish in art? |
To let the viewers see the whole idea without confusion |
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What is Post Minimalism and what is it about? |
Post Minimalism came about as the reaction to Minimalism. It dramatically expanded in which ways art could be made |
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What is Process Art? |
Art that embraced what it was made from, how it was made, and what intended to change. It was temporary and phenomenal |
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What is Installation art and why is it unique? |
It is a space made into works of art and it is unique because it made the viewer aware of how their body interacted with the art |
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What is Performance art about? |
Humor, irony, the angst about it |
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Who was the main artist or Performance art, Imponderabilia done in 1977? |
Marina Abramovicz |
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What is Land/Earth art? |
Art that is somehow involved or intervening with the landscape |
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What is Conceptual art? |
Art where ideas are paramount and the form that it takes is secondary to the idea |
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Sol LeWitt is known for what kind of drawings? |
Wall drawings and having people draw them for him via instructions |
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What is Judy Chicago known for? |
Being an important feminist painter |
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What is Judy Chicago’s most famous piece of feminist artwork? What are it’s aspects? |
The Dinner Party, it has 33 place sittings and 999 signatures of women who helped create it |
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Why is the Pompidou Center of Art and culture important? |
It is seen as the first example of post modernism |
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What are 3 important qualities for post modernism? |
1. No such thing as progress 2. Can take many directions 3. Artists borrow ideas |
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What is Neo Expressionism and what is it known for? |
Intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials |
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Who is the most important Neo Expressionism painter? |
Kiefer |
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Who is America’s most important Neo Expressionist artist? |
Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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What is Jenny Holzer known for? |
The ‘Protect me from what I want’ signs |
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What was the first digital artwork done in 1996 and who created it? |
“My boyfriend came home from the war” by Olia Lialina |
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Who used high speed video cameras to create The Greeting in 1995? |
Bill Viola |
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Who used high speed video cameras to create The Greeting in 1995? |
Bill Viola |
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What are 4 important aspects of Contemporary art? |
1. Tech and computers 2. Globalization 3. Layers of meaning 4. Social Commentary |
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Who is Yinka Shonibare and what is the meaning/theme of his artwork Cake Man? |
A british-niegerian artists who’s work focuses on cultural identity, and cake man is about greed and having to carry wealth but never having enough |
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Where does the fabric used in Shonibare’s work communicate? |
Confusion of cultural identity |
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Who is Nermine Hammam and what is she known for? |
An egyptian artist and she’s known for her Upekkna series of soldiers |
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Sobodh Gupta is from where? |
India |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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Where is Sopheap Pich from? What materials does he use in his art? |
Cambodia, natural Cambodian materials |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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Where is Sopheap Pich from? What materials does he use in his art? |
Cambodia, natural Cambodian materials |
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Who is the artist who does ‘Pix’ animals and what is his native country? |
Kohei Nawwa, Japan |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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Where is Sopheap Pich from? What materials does he use in his art? |
Cambodia, natural Cambodian materials |
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Who is the artist who does ‘Pix’ animals and what is his native country? |
Kohei Nawwa, Japan |
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What installation piece is Damian Ortega known for? |
Disconstructed Volkswagon |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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Where is Sopheap Pich from? What materials does he use in his art? |
Cambodia, natural Cambodian materials |
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Who is the artist who does ‘Pix’ animals and what is his native country? |
Kohei Nawwa, Japan |
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What installation piece is Damian Ortega known for? |
Disconstructed Volkswagon |
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What does British painter Jenny Seville paint? |
Images of battered women |
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What does the stainless steel used in his sculptures relate to? |
India’s economic culture |
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What is the media used in Feng Mengbo’s The Long March? What’s it about? |
Digital video game, Chinese society |
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Where is Sopheap Pich from? What materials does he use in his art? |
Cambodia, natural Cambodian materials |
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Who is the artist who does ‘Pix’ animals and what is his native country? |
Kohei Nawwa, Japan |
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What installation piece is Damian Ortega known for? |
Disconstructed Volkswagon |
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What does British painter Jenny Seville paint? |
Images of battered women |
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What medium does Brazilian artist, Ernesto Neto, utilize? |
Nylon bags |
