art ch. 20-21 – Flashcards
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A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is
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Object (Luncheon in Fur) 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 freud's 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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scene of leisure involving the middle class
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Eugene Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the
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romantic style
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A major influence upon European culture of the 19th century, one that gave rise to an expanding middle class, was
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the industrial revolution
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Henri Matisse was told by Gustave Moreau, his teacher at the cole 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 ______ artists
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impressionist
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Which of the following is an american artist?
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Bingham, Tanner, Cassatt, Eakins
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Marcek Duchamp created a new art form 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 describe the movement after seeing the painting impression sunrise and it caught on
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Paul Cezanne's 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
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mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectral beauty
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Which of the following artists was a realist?
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Gustave Courbet
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post-impressionism
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a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of impressionism
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbs (luncheon on the grass) from
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renaissance works of art
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pointillism is a technique developed by
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Georges Seurat
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If fauvisms mission was to liberate color from its descriptive role, cubism initial aim was
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a. to reduce the role of color to a minimum b. to invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface c. to find a way of representing the fact that human perception involves multiple viewpoints
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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 artists believed that only the most revolutionary art could bring about a new movement, which was called
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Constructivism
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________, who designed a famous armchair, was a student of the bauhaus school of design in Germany
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Breuer
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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 Smithton's 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 paintings by willem de kooning caused a stir in the art world. They were
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seen as shocking and brutal
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The Guerrilla Girls use posters and on-site appearances to
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bring attention to gender inequalities in the art world
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Painting is the primary medium used by all of the following EXCEPT
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Louise Bourgeois
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Jasper Johns chose familiar images for his subjects matter so that he could then concentrate on all of the following EXPCEPT
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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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can 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
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traced the actions of the painter
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Minimalism, a grand that coexisted with Pop, emphasized a continuation of the exploration of nonrepresentational and the idea that a painting or sculpture is primarily
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a physical object
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Photorealism refers to
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a movement in painting that explores the way a camera sees
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Early conceptualists reacted to the burgeoning art market by
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attempting to eliminate the art object
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Artist Jean-Michel basquiat
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began as a graffiti artist
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In joseph kosuth's one and three chairs, the viewer is presented with
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three ways of documenting an idea
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Anselm Kiefer was one of the most prominent neo-expressionists. his work
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dealt directly with the trauma of germany's past
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A neb-dada artist who made art from found materials and images and named his new art form coming paintings is
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with happenings. his primary claim was
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that art was most like life itself
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Appropriation contends that the meaning of a work of art
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is unstable and communal
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A new art form known as installation
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creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience
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The artistic recycling of existing images is an aspect of
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postmodernism
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One of the names 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 on the
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comic book
