Module 11 – Art Appreciation – Flashcards
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A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is
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Obeject by Meret Oppenheim
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The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is
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The Louvre in Paris
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Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freuds theories of the unconscious
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Surrealism
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In their painting, the Impressionists often focused on
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scense of leisue involving the middle class
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Eugene Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the ___ style
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Romantic
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A major influence upon European culture of the 19th century, one that gave rise to an expanding middle class, was the
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Industrial Revolution
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Henri Matisse was told by Gustave Moreau, his teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, "You were born to ___"
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simplify painting
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The manufacture of oil paint in tubes made it possible for 19th century European artist to make painting a portable activity. The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in works by ___ artist
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Impressinonist
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Which of the following is an American artist?
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All of these answers are correct
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Marcel Duchamp created a new art from in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art . He called this art form
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ready-mades
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How did Impressionism get its name?
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A critic used the term to degreade the movement after seeing the painting Impression: Sunrise and it caught ono
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Paul Cezannes emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of
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Cubism
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Romantic art stresses
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drama, unbridled emotions, and complex compositions
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Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he mistook an upside-down ___ of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty
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painting
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Which of the following artist was a Realist?
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Gustave Courbet
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The term Post-Impressionism refers to
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a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artist who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of Impressioism
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting le Dejeuner sur lherbe (Luncheon on the Grass) from
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Renaissance works of art
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Pointillism is a technique developed by who?
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Georges Seurant
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If Fauvisms mission was to liberate color from its descriptive role, Cubisms initial aim was
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all of these
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The first art movement to be born in the 19th century was ____ which arose as a reaction against Neoclassicism and Romanticism
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Realism
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After the Russian Revolution of 1917 many artist believed that only the most revolutionary art could bring about a new movement which was called ____
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Constuctuctivism
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____ who designed a famous armchair, was a student of the Bauhaus school of design in Germany
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Breur
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The term New York School refers to a postwar art movement that
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was a convenient way to lump together the Abstract Expressionists
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Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty is an example of :
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land art
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The term postmodern was first used in reference to a certain style in
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architecture
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The Women series of painting by Willem de Kooing caused a stir in the art world . They were seen as
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shocking and brutal
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The Guerrilla Girls use posters and on site appearances to bring attention to ___ inequalities in the art world
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gender
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Painting is the primary medium used by all of the following artist EXPECT
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Louise Bourgeois
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Jasper John chose familiar images for his subject matter so that he could then concentrate on all of the following EXPECT
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the psychological use of color
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One of the ideas behind Postmodernism is pluralism which proposes that art
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cab take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid
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The term action painting refers to the fact that this new type of painting did what?
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Traced the actions of the painter
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Minimalism, a trend that coexisted with Pop, emphasized a continuation of the exploration of nonrepresentation and the idea that a painting or sculpture is primarily a
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physical object
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Photorealism refers to a movement in painting that explores the way a ___ sees
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camera
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Early Conceptualist reacted to the burgeoning art market by doing what
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Attempting to eliminate the art object
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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat began as a ___ artist
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graffiti
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Anselm Kiefer was one of the most prominent Neo-Expressionists. His work dealt directly with the ___ of Germanys past
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trauma
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A Neo-Dada artist who made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form "combine paintings" is
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Robert Rauschenber
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with "happenings" His primary claim was that was most like ___ itself
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life
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Appropriation contends that the meaning of a work of art is
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unstable and communcal
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A new art form known as "installation" creates an environment for the viewer to
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enter and experience
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The artist recycling of exisiting images is an aspect of
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Postmodernism
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One of the names of most closely associated with Performance art is ___ who is known for the multimedia work Stories from the Nerve Bible
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Laurie Anderson
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Roy Lichtenstein often based his imagery of the
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comic book
