Chapter 14 Flashcards
What is Modernism?
An artistic, literary, and cultural movement that rejected tradition in favor of experimentation and innovation.
Define Avant-Garde.
A term describing artists and writers who push the boundaries of traditional norms.
What is Futurism?
An early 20th-century artistic movement celebrating technology, speed, and industrial progress.
Who is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti?
The founder of Futurism, who published the Futurist Manifesto in 1909.
What does Dadaism emphasize?
An anti-art movement rejecting logic and tradition, emphasizing absurdity and randomness.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
A Dadaist artist known for Fountain, a readymade urinal that challenged art conventions.
What is Surrealism?
An artistic and literary movement exploring the unconscious and dream imagery.
Who is André Breton?
A French writer and the founder of Surrealism, author of The Surrealist Manifesto.
Name a famous work by Salvador Dalí.
The Persistence of Memory, featuring melting clocks.
What is Expressionism?
A movement emphasizing emotion and psychological depth over realism.
Who is Edvard Munch?
A Norwegian painter known for The Scream, an Expressionist depiction of anxiety.
What is Die Brücke?
A German Expressionist group that sought to express raw emotion through art.
What is Der Blaue Reiter?
A German Expressionist group emphasizing spiritual and symbolic content in art.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
An abstract painter and theorist who created Composition VII, pioneering non-representational art.
What is Cubism?
An art movement breaking objects into geometric shapes, pioneered by Picasso and Braque.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
A Modernist artist who co-founded Cubism, known for Guernica.
Who is Georges Braque?
A co-founder of Cubism, known for analytical and synthetic cubist works.
What is Abstract Art?
A movement that moved away from depicting reality, focusing on color, shape, and form.
Who is Piet Mondrian?
An abstract artist known for Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow.
What is Bauhaus?
A German school of design emphasizing functionalism, simplicity, and modern materials.
Who is Walter Gropius?
The founder of the Bauhaus, promoting integration of art, design, and industry.
Who is Le Corbusier?
A Modernist architect known for functionalist buildings and the phrase ‘a house is a machine for living.’
What is The International Style?
A Modernist architectural movement emphasizing simplicity and functionalism.
What characterizes Modernist Literature?
A literary movement focusing on fragmentation, stream of consciousness, and breaking traditional narrative structures.
Who is James Joyce?
A Modernist writer known for Ulysses, using stream-of-consciousness techniques.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
A Modernist writer known for Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
A poet known for The Waste Land, a fragmented work reflecting postwar disillusionment.
Who is Ezra Pound?
A poet and critic who played a major role in shaping Modernist poetry.
What is The Lost Generation?
A group of expatriate writers disillusioned by World War I, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A writer known for The Great Gatsby, critiquing the American Dream.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
A Modernist novelist known for his minimalist style in A Farewell to Arms.
Define Stream of Consciousness.
A narrative technique capturing characters’ thoughts in a continuous flow.
What is Modernist Music?
A movement breaking traditional harmonies and structures, featuring composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
A composer known for The Rite of Spring, which caused riots due to its avant-garde music.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
A composer who developed atonality and the twelve-tone system.
What is Minimalism?
A Modernist artistic movement focusing on simplicity and repetition, seen in music and visual art.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
A cultural movement celebrating African American art, music, and literature.
Who is Langston Hughes?
A poet of the Harlem Renaissance known for The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
An author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, exploring African American identity.
What is The Jazz Age?
A period of cultural change in the 1920s, marked by the rise of jazz music.
What is Modern Dance?
A movement breaking away from classical ballet, emphasizing freedom of movement.
Who is Martha Graham?
A pioneering Modernist choreographer who revolutionized dance.
What is The Atomic Age?
A period after World War II characterized by scientific advancement and existential reflection in art and literature.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
A philosopher and writer associated with existentialism, author of Being and Nothingness.
Define Existentialism.
A philosophical movement exploring individual freedom and the search for meaning in a meaningless world.
What impact did Modernism have on contemporary culture?
Modernist ideas continue to shape contemporary art, literature, and architecture, challenging conventions and embracing innovation.
