Art 2022 Midterm

Question 1

What is the renaissance? And what is an artist from the renaissance? (Spelled word for word)

Answer 1

The beginning of the modern world, a time of combining the best idea from the past with new discoveries in science, medicine and art. Images depicted religious and historical content in heroic and idealized realism.

Artist: MICHAELANGELO

Question 2

What is avant garde?

Answer 2

New, contemporary style of 20th century, cutting edge

Question 3

What is Abstraction?

Answer 3

Art which departs from the neutral appearance of things but is recognizable

Question 4

What is symbolism? (Word for word)

Answer 4

An image or subject which implies a meaning other than its outward appearance

Question 5

What is contemporary?

Answer 5

Art of today, methods, styles and techniques of living artist

Question 6

What is expressionism?

Answer 6

Art in which distortion of form and colour are used to communicate strong emotional effects to the viewer

Question 7

What is minimalism? (Word for word)

Answer 7

“Less is more”-art composed of simple shapes and colour are used to communicate strong emotional effects to the viewer.

Question 8

What is Romanticism?

Answer 8

Art which emphasizes the personal, emotional and dramatic, using inventive compositions and techniques. Eg. less blending of paint with clearly visible brush strokes, the subject matter was erotic, historical and literary.

Question 9

What is Futurism?

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Art which emphasizes the industrial, machine like qualities of modern times speed, energy.

Question 10

What is bauhaus?

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A German art school that stressed science, technology and modernism became the basis for design

Question 11

What is Dadaism? (Anti art)

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A rejection of all established rules in reaction to word war 1 total freedom of expression was rule.

Question 12

What is postmodernism?

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Art work that deals with doubt or loss of faith in science and technology, art made from garbage and refuse of modern industrial society (junk sculptures and assemblage artist)

Question 13

What is constructivism?

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A translation of cubism into 3 dimensional sculpture, using a variety of materials (wood, glass, steel) rather than modelling or subtraction of mass (clay) there was an addition of linear materials.

Question 14

What is non-objective (word for word)

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Art is unrecognizable as an object in the real word

Question 15

What is realism (word for word)

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Represents images and objects as they exist in the natural or real world, the composition and message may be of the artist of choosing

Question 16

What is surrealism? (Word for word)

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Realistic and abstract images in a dreamlike setting, a combination of normally unrelated objects and situations.

Question 17

What is cubism

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Art in which the subject is broken apart and reassembled in abstract form emphasizing geometric shapes, creating a fractured image

Question 18

What is hyper realism (photorealism)

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“More than normal realism” a the image are so clear that they look like a photograph, the size detail and complexity of the art leads the view to see reality as it exist, not as one think it exist, artist worked from photographs, a reaction against abstraction.

Question 19

What is Impressionism?

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A style of painting which depicts a candid glimpse of a subject, with an emphasizing geometric shapes creating a fractured image.

Question 20

What is earthworks? (Environmental sculpture)

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Design to envelop and overpower the viewer, who is invited to walk through the simple shapes, a modern answer to ancient monuments, eg. Stonehenge, a revolt against art being only commercial galleries.

Question 21

What is pop art? ( word for word)

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Elevated the everyday common elements of society eg. ( t.v, commercials, movies stars, supermarkets items, advertising) to the status of art,( soup cans, flags) reaction against art being only in art galleries to be seen by the affluent.

Artist jasper johns

Question 22

What is an artist?

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One who has studied and practices fine art, eg. Painter or sculptor etc

Question 23

What is an narrative? ( word for word)

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Story is told in an art work, eg painting - Pieter Bruegel of Flanders

Question 24

What is a kitch?

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Mass produced socially acceptable art, Elvis on black velvet, garden statues, eg gnomes may become collectible,

Question 25

What is iconography? ( word for word)

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Symbol in art work, eg candles, fish, etc

Question 26

What is idealize? (Word for word)

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Making proportions more perfect than they exist in reality (romanticized)

Question 27

What is allegory? ( word for word)

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Refers to a message or a story using imagery that has similarities to the message but is different from an accurate depiction of the story

Question 28

What is objective? (word for word)

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Dealing with actual facts, any can see the image and meaning, eg a photograph of a building

Question 29

What is aesthetic? (word for word)

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Formal principles of judging beauty, socially taught and accepted concept within a culture that changes over time, eg tattoos

Question 30

What is subjective?

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Dealing with the thinking and perceiving process, not everyone can see the image or meaning

Question 31

What is socially conscious? ( word for word)

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Comment on, message about, society and culture.

Question 32

What is satirical? (Word for word)

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Making fun of a person or situation. Eg political cartoons.

Question 33

What is Trompe i’oeil?

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Art word that is made to fool the eye, (eg parking lot painted on the side of a building)

Question 34

What is forgery?

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An exact copy of an original art work by a person other than the original artist

Question 35

What is chiaroscuro?

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Working from dark to light, using intense value, in order to make an image appear realistic.