21. Expressionism Flashcards
In what three shapes did Cezanne say that nature reveals itself?
Cone, sphere, cylinder
The Futurist Manifesto was written by _______________.
Marinetti
List two factors which occurred prior to 1860 that influenced the evolution towards abstraction on modern painting:
- Japanese prints
- Invention of camera
The primary objective of Cubist painting was _______________.
Destroy conventional single-view painting
What three shapes did Cubists painters employ in their paintings?
Circle, square, triangle
Name a Cubist painter:
Picasso
__________________ is the name given to a group of radical Italian designers who were prominent just prior to the start of WWI.
Futurists
The Futurist movement was centered in _________________.
Italy
What was one of the compositional goals of Cubist paintings?
Imply movement/time within the picture plane
“Concerning the Spiritual in Art” was written by _____________.
Kandinsky
The first Expressionist glass skyscraper was designed by _______________.
Mies
_______________ designed the Weimar government’s new research tower for Einstein.
Mendelssohn
______________ designed the second Goetheanum.
Steiner
List three buildings at the Werkbund’s 1914 Cologne exhibition that represented the three main movements in German architecture prior to the start of WWI.
- Glass pavilion
- Model factory
- Model theater
What was the ‘crystal chain?’
Group of underground expressionist artists in Germany
Did Mies extrude the lotlines of the site in both of his glass skyscraper proposals? Why?
No, crystallized floorplan to reflect light into the street
The designer of the German Glass Industry Pavilion at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition was _______________.
Taut
Give an example of a different German Expressionist architect who designed in each of the following materials:
glass, brick,and dynamism (concrete).
Glass: Taut
Brick: Poelzig
Dynamism (concrete): Berg
Why was the cathedral viewed as the ideal historic building type for the German Expressionists?
all arts came together (architecture, sculpture, painting)
________________ was the major building project that focused the energies of German expressionists immediately following the end of WWI.
Cathedral of Socialism
The Chilehaus in Hamburg was designed by ______________.
Höger
The author of “Glass Architecture” was ________________.
Scheerbart
The Cathedral of Socialism was the ultimate goal of what movement?
Expressionism
The Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin was designed by _______________.
Poelzig
