Final

Question 1

Odalisque

Answer 1

A chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.

Question 2

Daguerreotype

Answer 2

a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.

Question 3

Fin de Siecle

Answer 3

Relating to or characteristic of the end of a century, especially the 19th century.

Question 4

avant garde

Answer 4

New and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

Question 5

Der Blaue Reiter

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A number of avant-garde artists living in Munich had founded the Neue Kunstler Vereiningung, or New Artist Association (N.K.V.).

Question 6

Analytic/Synthetic

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“The analytic/synthetic distinction” refers to a distinction between two kinds of truth. Synthetic truths are true both because of what they mean and because of the way the world is, whereas analytic truths are true in virtue of meaning alone.

Question 7

Collage

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a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

Question 8

Readymade

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the works of art he made from manufactured objects. It has since often been applied more generally to artworks by other artists made in this way

Question 9

Biomorphic

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abstract forms or images that evoke naturally occurring forms such as plants, organisms, and body parts.

Question 10

De Stijl

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a circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals

Question 11

Mobile

Answer 11

a type of sculpture that is formed of delicate components which are suspended in the air and move in response to air currents or motor power.

Question 12

Action Painting

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a technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock

Question 13

Performance Art

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an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants

Question 14

The Sublime

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an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.

Question 15

En Plein Air

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The act of painting outdoors

Question 16

Arts and Crafts

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decorative design and handicraft.

Question 17

Fauvism

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is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterised by strong colours and fierce brushwork.

Question 18

Primitivism

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the fascination of early modern European artists with what was then called primitive art – including tribal art from Africa, the South Pacific and Indonesia, as well as prehistoric and very early European art, and European folk art

Question 19

Futurism

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emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.

Question 20

Armory Show

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shocked the country, changed our perception of beauty and had a profound effect on artists and collectors

Question 21

Automatism

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creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.

Question 22

Bauhaus

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The Bauhaus movement championed a geometric, abstract style featuring little sentiment or emotion and no historical nods, and its aesthetic continues to influence architects, designers and artists.

Question 23

Assemblage

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assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially

Question 24

Color Field Painting

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abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s which features large expanses of unmodulated color covering the greater part of the canvas.

Question 25

Deconstructivision

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an architectural movement or style influenced by deconstruction that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a building rather than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design elements (such as right angles or grids)

Question 26

Lithography

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a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them by, while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent.

Question 27

Die Brucke

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Both movements shared interests in primitivist art and in the expressing of extreme emotion through high-keyed colors that were very often non-naturalistic

Question 28

Cubism

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a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted

Question 29

Dada

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an art movement formed 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 dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

Question 30

Surrealism

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sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Question 31

Cantilever

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a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used in bridge construction.

Question 32

Regionalism

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included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression,

Question 33

Abstract Expressionism

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new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity

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Question 34

Site Specific

Answer 34

As a site-specific work of art is designed for a specific location, if removed from that location it loses all or a substantial part of its meaning

Question 35

Conceptual Art

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art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than its appearance or execution.