Chapter 19-20 (Test Review) Flashcards
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“The Kiss” was influenced by
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Art Nouveau
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Modern artists who separated from the Academy in Vienna Austria, was the
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Vienna Secession
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What was influenced by De Stijil & Surrealism?
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Dada
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What questioned art itself, not just artistic traditions?
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Dada
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Duchamp was originally a ____; but he was dissatisfied with the Direction of _____
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Painter; Dissatisfied with Cubism
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Duchamp thought that Cubism was too
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formal
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Which artist’s works often had a short sentence.
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- Duchamp
- Surrealism (Magritte)
- Conceptual Art
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Who was known for Dada collages?
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Schwitters
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During Surrealism, Dada artists became interested in the themes of the ____
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unconscious
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Surrealism contains strange ______ &_____
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juxtapositions & Dreams
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Who painted herself with facial hair?
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Frida Kahlo
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Who was the Spokesperson for Surrealism?
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Andre Breton
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Who did not consider themselves a Surrealist but is considered one by others.
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Frida Kahlo
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Why did Frida Kahlo wear long dresses to cover up?
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She had Polio
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Mexican Muralists featured_____
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non-European heroes
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Mexican Muralists typically had ____ themes and a social _____
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political & social
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What did Diego Rivera Study?
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- Renaissance Frescos
- Mural Painting
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In the work, “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” what is shown?
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The Three Eras of Mexican History (Left to Right)
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Alameda park had many different uses. What was it originally?
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An Aztec Marketplace
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“Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park” was controversial and some people protested. Why?
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It had an inscription that read “Dios no Existe”
21
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Why were buildings getting taller?
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- Rising Property Values
- Urbanization
- Elevators
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Cast-Iron technology allowed for what?
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More Windows
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What was used for architecture and steam engine cylinders?
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Cast-Iron Architecture
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The Chicago Fire (1871) prompted what?
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A Change in Building Materials
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"Marshall Field Wholesale Store" was influenced by what?
Romanesque architecture (NOT CLASSICAL)
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"Marshall Field Wholesale Store" (now demolished) was Cast-Iron wrapped in
Brick Masonry
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The "Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building"
The outside of the building reflects the ____
interior
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The "Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building" contains decorative details at street level. Which means?
It is not true modernism
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The "Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building"
What was used for decorative lines?
Terra Cotta
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What new technology made elevators possible?
Iron Steel Construction
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When was the the Birth of Modernism in Architecture?
1920s
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What is art Mass produced in natural forms?
Art Nouveau
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What was Inspired by Art Nouveau?
Art Deco
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In "Villa Savoye" what are pilotis?
The columns holding up the building
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Where was the Villa Savoye located?
Paris
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The Villa Savoye is an example of the
International Style
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What are the five points of architecture?
1. The Supports
2. Roof Gardens
3. Free designing of the ground-plan
4. Horizontal Window
5. Free design the of façade
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Who said "Form follows function"
Louis Sullivan
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Who said "Less is a bore"
Robert Venturi
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In Bauhaus, what is not important?
Historical Reference
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In Bauhaus, lack of ____ makes design accessible
ornamentation
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The original purpose of Bauhaus was?
Design school
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Bauhaus had an ______
asymmetrical design (Different wings had different purposes)
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"American Gothic" was a commentary of what?
Life in the Midwest
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The two people in "American Gothic" were who?
Father and unmarried daughter. Based of a Dentist and sister of the artist.
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"The Migration of the Negro" was part of a ____
series
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"The Migration of the Negro" its context was what?
The Migration of American Americans moving to the northern US to find better jobs
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Why were the Detroit Industry Murals controversial?
They included Lenin
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"Autumn Rhythm" consists of two types of paint...
House + oil paint
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In "Woman I" the color are _____ in no definite ____
layered in no definite order
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"Woman I" consists of _____ + ______
Image and Gesture
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An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.
Readymade
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A technique in which artists abandon the usual intellectual control over their brush or pencil. The aim is to allow the subconscious the create the work without rational interference.
Automatism
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Using broad gestures to drip or pour paint onto a pictorial surface. Associated with mid-twentieth Century American Abstract Expressionists (like Pollock)
Action Painting
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Type of Abstract Expressionist painting in the 50s and 60s characterized by broad abstract sweeps of solid color that emphasize the surface of the picture plane and de-emphasize gestural brushstrokes.
Color Field Painting
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The dots that make up letting and images. Often machine or computer generated, the dots are very small and closely spaced to give the effect of density and richness of tone.
Benday Dots
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An art form developed in the 1960s incorporating performance, theater, and visual images. A Happening was organized without a specific narrative or intent; with audience participation, the event proceeded according to chance and individual improvisation.
Happenings
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An artwork based on a live, sometimes theatrical performance by the artist.
Performance Art
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an adjective describing the state of having many valid contemporary styles available at the same time to artists.
Pluralism
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a style of abstract painting developed by Piet Mondrian, using only vertical and horizontal lines and rectangular shapes in black, white, gray, and primary colors.
Neoplasticism
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Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and most commonly reenforced concrete.
Ferroconcrete
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a style in architecture developed in the 1920s that uses modern materials (as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete), expresses structure directly, and eliminates nonstructural ornament----- True Modernism, 1932 Moma Exhibit
International Style
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Marcel Duchamp's fountain was a ____
readymade
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Duchamp submitted "Fountain" _______ to the first exhibition of the American Society of Independent Artists
anonymously
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When "Fountain" was NOT considered a work of art. What did Duchamp do?
He resigned from the Society
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In "Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue" Mondrian restricted the formal colors to the three _____ colors, the three _____, as well as ____ & ____ lines.
primary; neutrals; horizontal & vertical
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In "Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue" the linear directions are meant to symbolize ______. Such as ...
Opposites. Like Male vs Female, Individual vs Society
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de Stijl developed on both ______ & ______
architecture and painting
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The Villa Savoye is architectural _____
purism
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What was referred to as the "Machine for Living"
Villa Savoye
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Who said "Less is More"
Mies van der rohe
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In The Schroder House Rietveld applied the principle of _______ to the entire house
dynamic equilibrium
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"The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe" is a ______ work. What is it influenced by?
Surrealist work. Influenced by Freudian psychology
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"The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe" is a _____. This work recalls______a field Magritte had worked in.
paradox. Advertising
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Who was one of the few women invited to participate in the Surrealist movement?
Meret Oppenheim
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"Object (Luncheon in Fur)" was a _______. (Similar to Duchamp's).
Readymade
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Frida Kahlo's work shows these themes: Name Two
- Cultural Heritage
- Personal Biography
- Physical Pain
- Emotional Suffering
- Repression of Women
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"The Two Fridas" represented her identity split between what? Also her relationship with who?
Her German & Mexican ancestry. Also, her stormy relationship with Diego Relationship
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"The Two Fridas" her heart is broken. Why?
Diego had asked for a divorce.
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Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to integrate what with what, organically?
Architecture with Nature
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In "No. 61 (Rust and Blue)" Rothko thought of his shapes as fundamental ____
ideas
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"No. 61 (Rust and Blue)" is a _____
Color Field Painting
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"Marilyn Diptych" is a series of _____.
Diptychs
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The "Marilyn Diptych" recalls the convention of _____
religious art. Suggesting the Marilyn was a martyr in the pantheon of departed movie stars.
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In "Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks" the intended purpose was for what?
A Platform for Protests (AGAINST VIETNAM WAR)
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"Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks"
Where was it located?
Outside of the President's Office
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What is the earliest notorious Post-Modernist work?
AT&T Corporate Headquarters
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"Untitled" was a ____ work
Minimalist
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"Untitled" has no _____, only _____
supports only shapes
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In "One and Three Chairs" what is Kosuth trying to tell us?
He is trying to descirbe the impossibility of precise representation and communication of an idea.
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The New World Symphony Building by FRANK GEHRY is ____
Deconstrucctivism
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Dada was also known as...
anti-art
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Surrealism was influenced by
Dadaism
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Post-Modernism goes by the Philosophy ...
"Less is a bore"
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Peggy Guggenheim had a gallery... what was it called?
Art of the Century
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Who was the Art Critic who favored and accepted Abstract Expressionism?
Clement Greenberg
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Who advocated for Formalism?
Clement Greenberg
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"The Migration of the Negro" was influenced by ___
The Harlem Renaissance
