Art History 102 UNL Exam 3 Flashcards
Dada
-anti-technological
-anti-rational
Armory show
An exhibition of modern art held at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory in February-March 1913. Showcased examples from recent European art movements.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (?-ism)
-draws from futurism and cubism
-got into the armory show
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, aka Man Walking (Futurism)
-showing movement
Futurism
early-20th-century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.
Synthetic Cubism (Collage Cubism)
phase color was reintroduced and collage elements, such as newspaper clippings, were pasted onto the surface. Picasso’s Still-Life with Chair Caning is one of the first examples of Synthetic cubism.
Pablo Picasso, Still-Life with Chair Caning (Cubism)
-synthetic cubism
Analytical Cubism
-monochromatic
-“analyzes” representation
-divides art into component parts or “signs” (e.g. tone, line)
-recombines them according to ideas based in “art” rather than “nature”
Pablo Picasso, Girl with Mandolin (Cubism)
-Analytical cubism
-Art has an intellectual, rational appeal via form
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Cubism)
-prostitutes
-“primitive”
Synaesthesia
when one sort of sensation (such as hearing a sound) produces another (such as seeing color)
Der Blaue Reiter
German artists in this group sought to create art that was spiritual, expressionist, and (in the case of Kandinsky) abstract.
die Brücke (movement)
The artists of Die Brücke rejected the sentimental realism which had dominated late 19th-century German painting in favor of an expressive art using bright, non-descriptive colors and forms derived from non-western as well as German medieval art, and processes such as woodcut.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden (Expressionism)
The artist expresses this through the use of jarring colors, simplified shapes and slashing brushmarks to depict the crowded city center
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation #28 (Expressionism)
-titled his paintings Improvisation, or Composition or Impression, followed by a number.
- In these early abstract pieces, there are still forms that suggest some of the elements in his earlier paintings: buildings, hills, (upper right), and a figure on horseback (upper left).
Henri Matisse on his art
-whole arrangement of the painting is expressive
-painting should enhance/ complete life and be a comfort
Henri Matisse, La Bonheur de Vivre (expressionism)
-uses color and composition to express sensual pleasure
Les Fauves
- Literally, “the wild beasts.” Term used by a critic to describe the paintings of Henri Matisse and other artists
- “Fauvism”is characterized by the use of bright, non-descriptive color and slashing brush strokes.
Symbolism
-primarily a literary movement: Manifesto published 1886
-rejection of everyday, contemporary world
-interest in trans-historical myth; interior states, the visionary
Primativism
- Paul Gauguin’s interest in Tahitian art is an example of primitivism, as is Ernst Kirchner’s interest in early German woodblock prints.
- more deeply spiritual and more sincerely expressive
- it was often based on false assumptions about the art and the cultures in which it was produced.
Japonisme
- French term used to describe the interest in Japanese arts and crafts
-Japanese woodblock prints by artists such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kiyonaga were of special interest to impressionist and post-impressionist artists
- use of vivid and unmodeled colors
Divisionism/Pointillism
- Terms used to describe Georges Seurat’s method of applying paint and the color theory behind it.
- if primary colors are set side by side on the canvas, they are blended by the eye into a secondary color that appears more intense
-color is placed next to its complement, the line where the two meet will display an intense contrast.
Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching (Post-Impressionism)
-shows a belief that the dead lingers on connected to the spirit of a living person
Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon (Post-Impressionism)
-red color chosen for expressiveness
-Gauguin took to the region because he saw it as “primitive”–uncorrupted and pure.
Vincent Van Gogh on color as expression
“Because instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily, in order to express myself forcibly”
Paul Gauguin on his art
The impressionists study color exclusively insofar as the decorative effect, but without freedom, retaining the shackles of verisimilitude.
Vincent Van Gogh, Night Cafe (Post-Impressionism)
-tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green
-color itself is expressive
Vincent Van Gogh, Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (Post-Impressionism)
-japonisme
-This work is a free copy of Ando Hiroshige’s Great Bridge,
Paul Cezanne, Mt. Ste.-Victoire (Post-Impressionism)
-made at least 70 images of Mont Saint-Victoire, near his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southeast France
Monet’s ideas
Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Paul Cezanne on his art
-We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.
- -color is used structurally to reveal solidity of objects
-painting is seen as a flat “map” of topography of objects in the world
- the solidity of objects, and their relation to each other, are empirically determined: seeks his realization
Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte (Post-Impressionism)
-divisionism/ pointillism
-geometry
Postmodernism emerged first in:
for gestural abstractionist like Jackson pollock, the most important aspect of a painting was:
the process by which it was created
minimal art attempts to:
encourage spectator interaction without any preconceived notions.
Cindy Sherman produced her Film Stills series in order to:
take control of her own image and identity.
Postmodernism in art is characterized by:
pluralism and eclecticism
Which of the following statements is NOT true? In works such as Surrounded Islands (1983), Christo was interested in:
imposing an artwork on land of its ecological impact
Duane Hanson’s Superrealist sculptures frequently:
depict stereotypical middle class people.
Appropriation involves:
borrowing images that already exist
Robert Barry’s Inert Gas Series (1969):
challenged the idea that art had to be visible
Based on style, match the unidentified artwork with the appropriate art movement:
environmental art
Gino Severini’s armoured train (1915) reflects the Futurist interested in:
glorifying war and military action
In an attempt to deal with the insanity and horror of World War I, the Surrealists:
depicted a world of fantasy and dreams
The Fauves focused on the expressive ability of:
color
The Surrealists embraced:
the subconscious
Emil Nolde painted religious scenes that are characterized by:
which is not a type of surrealism?
which following statements is not true?during his blue period, Pablo Picasso:
painted many people in each painting
the word “Dada”
a nonsensical world selected randomly
Guernica was originally exhibited
in the spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair
which of the following was NOT a response to World War I?
synthetic cubism
the development of impressionism was largely due to:
the rapid industrialization of France
Georges Seurat was interested in:
finding a formula for optical painting
Paul Cezanne rejected traditional perspectival systems and instead:
depicted his images from several simultaneous viewpoints
Three characteristics of a sketch are:
The primary colors of light are:
red, green, and blue
painting “en plein air” means paiting:
outdoor scenes
The impressionist movement got its name from the painting
impressionism: sunrise “by claude monet
why is millets gleaners an example of realism rather than falsism or idealism?
its gleaners look worn by labor rather than pretty
which of these is Not typical of Daumier’s style in Rue Transonain?
melodramatic, exaggerated contrasts between heroes and villains
like delacroix’s liberty leading the people, daumier’s subject is
burial at ornan shows
an insignificant moment at a funeral of no one important portrayed in epic scale
daumier’s rue transonain is a/an
lithograph
olympia different form traditional nudes by artist such as Titian because
stark contrast between lights and darks flatten her body, instead of gradually blending flesh tones into smoothly rounded forms
19th century realism be associated with?
all of these can be associated
manet’s execution of emperor maximilian is realist because
all of these are reason why
not true of millets winnower
the man is making a fire in his scuttle
characteristics of realism include
painting only real and existing things
constable painted outdoors from nature in order to
achieve a style of objective observations of weather in his finished paintings
the wanderer in Traveler above the fog is a positioned so that we a s viewers
sublime was associated with feeling of
awe mixed with terror
tumers salve ship
evokes the horrors and atrocities of slavery through the sublime
constable’s art
depicts the industrialized english countryside in a state of tranquility
fuseli’s nightmare and blake’s nebuchadnezzar both
in chausseur in the woods, the pine forest
no part of the claude lorrain
‘beautiful landscape”
the hungry and ragged poor
fuseli and blake were both
members of the royal academy in england
which of the following statements about turner’s Hannibal crossing the alps is true?
