Exam 6

Question 1

Mid 19th century artistic movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; the term is also used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way

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Realism

Question 2

Developed in France in the 19th century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and “on the spot” rather than in a studio from sketches. Main subjects were landscapes and scenes of every day life

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Impressionism

Question 3

Describes the changes in Impressionism from about 1886, the date of last Impressionist group show in Paris

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Post-Impressionism

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Refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist’s inner feelings of ideas

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Expressionism

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New approach to representing reality invented around 1907-08 by Pablo Picasso and George’s Braque. They brought different views of subjects together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted

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Cubism

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12th century philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.

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Surrealism

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Was man art movement during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by these artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

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Dada

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Is applied to artists working from the 1940s until the early 1960s whose approach to painting emphasized the physical act of painting as an essential part of the finished work.

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Action painters

Question 9

Were theatrical events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s

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Happenings

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An art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s

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Pop art

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Is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle

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Minimalism

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Term refers to where the process of its making art is not hidden but remains a prominent aspects of the completed work, so that a part or even the whole of its subject is the making of the work

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Process art

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Term is used to describe large scale, mixed media construction, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

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Installation art

Question 14

Can be seen as a reaction against the ideas and value of modernism, as well as a description of the period that followed modernism’s dominance in cultural theory and practice in the early and middle decades of the 20th century. It is associated with skepticism, irony and philosophical critiques of the concepts of universal truths and objective reality.

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Postmodernism

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Refers to the practice of artists using preexisting objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original

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Appropriation

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Is the idea of concept behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from in the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s

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Conceptual art