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Post Impressionism was basically a rehashing of old impressionist concepts

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False

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Mary Cassatt was instrumental in getting cutting edge French impressionist and post impressionist works into the hands of wealthy American collectors

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True

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Edgar degas became a bitter recluse late in life

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True

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Monet painted in a pronouncedly blurry way due exclusively to his failing eyesight

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False

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Paul Gauguin was a great artist and absolute rectum of a human being who abandoned his wife and family, infected countless young Tahitian girls with syphilis, and at the same time influenced and shaped many of the twentieth century’s great artists with his concepts and art

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True

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Edgar degas as well as being an great painter was also an accomplished and well respected pastel artist

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True

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George Seurat painted a large number of heroic sized canvases due to painting indoors rather than en plein aire throughout his long life span

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False

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Paul cezanne’s work will make a profound impact on Pablo Picasso and George braque’s revolutionary painting style known as cubism

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True

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Monet made some of his finest works as a result of the “crisis of Impressionism” of the late 1880’s and early 1890’s. It was during this time that he moved to giverny and started working in series

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True

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Eduardo Manet is considered to be by most art historians, “the father of modern art.”

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True

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James McNeil whistler named many of his paintings like musical composition titles

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True

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John singer Sargent was one of America’s best watercolorists

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True

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The people in Henry Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and drawings were always kind and happy scoundrels having a deviously good time

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False

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Broken color

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The artist’s use of two or more pistaches of color put side by side to blend in the viewers eye

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En plein aire

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A term that means to execute a painting outside in the open air

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Local color

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The color of an object in the verbal sense

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Optical color

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The color of an object as it would be created mixing it with paint

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Tube paints

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Artist paints that come in portable collapsible containers

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Paul Durand-Ruelle

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The name of the French art dealer who championed the impressionist and post-impressionist artists

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Post-Impressionism

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An art movement similar to Impressionism but taking on a broader ranging content concerns including spiritual, romantic, and expressionistic concepts

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Colorist

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A painting organizational technique that uses a three to two to one ratio of prioritization with the three primary colors

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Salon de refuse

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An art exhibition first sanctioned by Napoleon 3rd for artists whose work was not accepted into the French academy’s official salon exhibition

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Expressionism

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An art technique where the materials themselves are used in such a way as to carry a strong emotional content of the work

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Formalist

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An artistic technique where the artist’s arrangements of the elements and principles of the work are the main concern to express the content of the work

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Louis Leroy
The art critique who coined the term Impressionism
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Impressionism
An art movement begun in France in the late 19th century characterized by loose brush work, broken and optical color, painted almost exclusively outdoors, and with a sketchy finish
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Pointillism
A technique of drawing or painting where the artist creates the image using small dot s of painting or drawing material
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Monet wanted his students to learn from what
Nature
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What was the name of the man who was with Vincent van gogh when he died and what was their relationship
Theo they were brothers
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Edvard munch thought all women were what
Vampires
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Wassily kandinsky is usually credited with painting the first nonrepresentarional painting
True
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Macintosh is one of Scotland’s best early 20th century architects
True
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Picasso’s blue period stemmed from his love of the new synthetic color French ultramarine blue
False his friends suicide
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Henry Matisse was part of the Austrian secessionist’s movement
False- fauvism
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Art nouveau was a movement that encompassed the full design spectrum
True
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Synthetic cubism has to do with questioning content, layers, narratives, and collage
True
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Dear Blau rieter school of German expressionism was headed up by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
False
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Analytical cubism was postulated by the spiritual consideration of Kandinsky
False- it was started when Picasso and Braque were messing around with painting from multiple perspectives
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Die brucke was part of the Austrian secessionist movement
False German expressionism
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Egon shiele was a gentle family man with a soft attitude
False
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Gustave Klimt loved to use strong patterns of gold with the figure
True
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Dear Blau rieter group
A group of German expressionist artists headed up by the wassily Kandinsky and Franz marc. They sought more spiritual application to their painting
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Analytic cubism
The presentation of multiple points of view in a single painted two dimensional presentation of an art work that creates a faceted appearance
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Daniel Henry kahnwiellor
A German art dealer who paid Picasso and Braque to paint and then bought everything they created. He was forced to return to Germany after World War One broke out
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Die brucke
German for the bridge, a group of loosely aligned German artists from Dresden headed up by Ludwig Kirchner and Emile nolde. The movement lasted to about 1913
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Blue period
A term used to define works of art produced by Picasso in the very early twentieth century. The color of these works were inspired by a tragedy in Picasso’s life
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Fauvism
A movement in painting typified by vivid colors, free treatment o form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect. It is French for wild beasts
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Austrian secessionist movement
A movement begun in Vienna headed by such artists as Klimt, and shiele, that sought to present shockingly abrupt images with strong sexual overtones.
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Guernica
A small Spanish basque town bombed into ruins in 1937 or the painting of this event by Picasso
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Organic architectural movement
In architecture an irregular or natural fluid shape that might be mor prominent in nature than a geometric or mechanical one. It is sometimes referred to as an American art nouveau and includes european art nouveau
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Leo and Gertrude Stein
An American sibling pair active in parts of Paris who were two of the foremost patrons and collectors of the early twentieth century art
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What was the theosophy called that Kandinsky embraced
Theosophy
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What was the name of the book wassily Kandinsky wrote about art
Concerning the spiritual in art
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Art nouveau in America was called the American arts and crafts movement. Who was the artist in America who made the great stained glass windows in the movement?
Louis comford Tiffany
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The art critic Louis vauxcelles and henri Matisse said one of braque’s paintings in 1909 looked like what
It was made of a bunch of little cubes
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What other slam term did vauxcelles give to an art movement
Fauvism
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Dada began as a literary movement in Switzerland
True
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The bauhaus was a traditional German art academy in Weimar
False
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Italian futurism set the precedent for spaghetti western films
False- scuela metaphysics
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Initially Russian suprematism/constructivism was thought of a s a new art for a new Russian age
True
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Paul Klee was a masterful artist and art teacher who wrote pedagogical sketchbook
True
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The Italian futurists were extremely reactive to the violence of wwi and as a reaction destroyed most of their art work
False dada
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Des Stijl was a French variation of bauhaus inspired international style
False Dutch
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Marcel Duchamp was the inventor of the ready made
True
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Man ray was a dada artist took photography and film to a whole different level. He also invented the ray-o-graph
True
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Thomasso marinetti, wrote the Futurist manifesto that appeared to the French papal Le Figaro
True
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One of the founders of dear Blau rieter school of German expressionism, Franz marc, worked with the Russian suprematism/constructiviste in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, then later the bauhaus
False Kandinsky
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De Stijl
A Dutch word that means the style, it is also a movement in the Netherlands that insisted everything be at right angles and have primary colors
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International style
A type of architectural style that was begun by Walter Gropius and carried on by significant others it offered honesty to materials emphasizes interior exterior minimal design and caught on world wide
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Ray-o-graph
The exposure of light sensitive photo paper and objects to create a type of photograph
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Bauhaus
A design school in Germany prior to ww2 that sought to blur the line between fine art and craft
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Italian futurism
An art movement with cubist elements that focused on the dynamic interactions of subject matter with itself as it implied mobvemtn
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Ready made
A common everyday object elevated to an art object at the insistance of the artist
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Dada
A movement that began as a literary movement in Switzerland reacting against ww1 that expanded to include Paris, and New York. The movement emphasized absurdity, puns, sexual innuendos, and silliness in the name of art. Much of the art created at this time was destroyed by the artist’s.
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Scuela metaphysica
A movement that emphasized unsettling perspective, formal points of tension and used radical harsh contrasts of light
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Russian suprematism/constructivism
A movement inspired by Vladimir Tallin and Kashmir Malevich et al it created art to depict nonobjective and graphic and sculptural works that would be philosophically and spiritually supportive of the Bolshevik Revolution
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Sergei shushkin
A Russian avant Gard art collector that helped influence how early post-revolutionary Russian artists and their work would look
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Rrose seLavy
Marcel duchamp’s name for himself when he dressed in drag
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0,10 exhibition
A Russian art exhibition that had 10 artists none of which had worked using representational imagery
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Where did the bauhaus get replanted in the United States
Illinois tech
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What was the title to duchamp’s renowned urinal
Fountain

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