Chapters 13-17 Flashcards
Futurists launched their Italian movement by publishing the Manifesto of Futurism in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro.
True
With analytical cubism, Picasso and Braque invented forms that were signs rather than representations of subject matter; the essence of an object was depicted.
False
With its depictions of subjective emotions, expressionism influenced graphic art by emphasizing social and political activism.
True
The three characteristic elements of Plakatstil are below. Which does NOT belong?
concept
Lucian Bernhard’s work anticipated later forms of modernist art such as constructivism because of his emphasis on ________.
reduction
During their brief collaboration, James Pryde and William Nicholson, under the pseudonym The Beggerstaffs, developed a new technique that was later named _____________. Their 1895 poster for Harper’s Magazine is an example that uses this technique.
collage
During World War I, posters of the Central Powers countries (i.e., Germany and Austria-Hungary) differed from those of the Allied Powers countries (i.e., England and the United States). American posters, for example, tended to be more ________ than those from Germany.
illustrative
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that visual propaganda should appeal to the ________ members of society. The later work of Ludwig Hohlwein matched this style.
least intellectual
The three main principles of constructivism were tectonics, texture, and construction.
True
De Stijl artist Théo van Doesburg developed the theory of elementarism, in which he declared the diagonal line more dynamic than the horizontal and vertical construction.
True
Russian lectures by futurist F. T. Marinetti influenced the Russian avant-garde art styles suprematism and constructivism.
True
Kasimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky believed that art must remain a spiritual activity apart from the utilitarian needs of society.
True
Located in Weimar, Germany from 1919–1924, the __________ was the German design school where ideas from all the advanced art and design movements were explored, combined, and applied to problems of functional design and machine production.
Bauhaus
László Moholy-Nagy experimented in unifying letterforms with photographic images in order to communicate a message with immediacy. The resulting graphic communication form he called ________.
the typophoto
During the Dessau period the Bauhaus’s typography workshop, taught by __________ , solicited printing orders from local businesses and made typographic design innovations. This professor designed a universal type that reduced the alphabet to clear, simple, and rationally constructed forms.
Herbert Bayer
