Art 8 Chapter 20 – Flashcards

Surrealism began as a literary movement after World War I, and the group based their writings on the nonrational using a technique known as __________ writing.

Wassily Kandinsky, a major proponent of __________, is recognized as the first painter of __________.

Cubism was heavily influenced by Paul Cézanne in all but one of the following ways:

__________ shut down the Bauhaus in 1933, forcing many of its faculty, including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, to flee to the United States.

Which of the following statements does not set the Fauves apart from their 19th-century predecessors?

The representation of incredible images from the artist's mind is known as __________, and one of the most whimsical of these artists is __________.

Alexander Archipenko's Walking Woman displays an important innovation in Cubist sculpture: the use of __________.

In 1913, the groundbreaking __________ was held in New York City and dominated by avant-garde European artists who would heavily influence subsequent American art. The most scandalous work at the exhibition was Marcel Duchamp's __________, which was dismissed as a "pile of kindling wood."

In Wasily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII, all of the following elements are found except __________.

The Futurists' belief that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of a "dynamic sensation" is very evident in Giacomo Balla's constantly "moving" painting known as __________.

The term Cubism, coined by a hostile critic, is limiting because it is an inadequate description that ignores the movement's most significant contribution: a new treatment of pictorial space that __________.

The Die Brücke painter Emil Nolde painted Dance Around the Golden Calf, a lush, colorful, frenzied depiction of a(n) __________.

For works such as White Iris, Georgia O'Keeffe captured the essence of her subject utilizing all of the following techniques except __________.

In Constantin Brancusi's sculptures, such as Bird in Space, he reached for the essence of the subject by __________.

Of works such as the Red Room, Henri Matisse said it should be "a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest." This is because Matisse's primary concern was to __________.

Henri Matisse consolidated all of the following influences into his Fauvist canvases except __________.

__________ compositions, such as Picasso's The Bottle of Suze, use a technique known as __________ to emphasize the form of the object and its construction rather than its disintegration.

In Umberto Boccioni's Dynamism of a Soccer Player, we see the __________ obsession with illustrating images in perpetual motion.

"All painting is composed of line and color. Line and color are the essence of painting. Hence they must be freed from their bondage to the imitation of nature and allowed to exist for themselves." An example of a painting this artist is referring to is __________.

The American photographer __________ first supported the development of abstract art in America by exhibiting modern European works alongside American art in his __________.