Chapter 21 Flashcards
In their paintings, the Impressionists often focused on
scenes of leisure involving the middle class.
Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form
Ready-mades
Eugène Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the
Romantic style.
Which art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of the unconscious?
Surrealism
The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is
the Louvre in Paris.
Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he
mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty.
Romantic art stresses
drama, unbridled emotions, and complex compositions.
How did Impressionism get its name?
A critic used the term to describe the movement after seeing the painting Impression: Sunrise, and it caught on. The painting looked too unrealistic; just an “impression.”
The term Post-Impressionism refers to
a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of Impressionism.
The first art movement to be born in the 19th century was ___________, which arose as a reaction against Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
Realism
