final exam

Question 1

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Metropolis (Germany 1926)

• The Schizophrenic Society- allegory of the German Depression
• Need to make workers and rich unite
• Workers are automatons- underground city of somnambulists in rhythmic movement
• Rich Tyrants- parallel Caligari
• Associated with evil and Expressionist-Cubist Medieval architecture
• Science and tyrants together can serve evil- Rotwang (Rudolph Klein-Rogge)
• Humans dehumanized- humans as parts of machine

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Expressionist-Cubist Medieval architecture

Question 3

Background of Metropolis

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Moloch- parallels to ancient Carthage and the TOPHET

Fritz Lang (190-1976)- Viennese director

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Kammerspiele

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The intimate Berlin theatre presided over by Max Reinhard in the early 20th century. It practiced the use of chiaroscuro lighting as well as expressionist movmemnt of actors and deliberately distored spcially clored sets to refelct the moods of the actors.

Question 5

Hitchcock, Alfred

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1899-1982

British and later Hollywood director of numerous classical films whose formula or dialectic for creating movies produced a parallel cinema universe with its own rules. begining in silent films and working als in Germany, he developed his style of pur cinema with the help of long-time partner Alma Reville

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Hitchcock dialectic

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themes such as blind justice, the inffectiveness and uselessnce of police, objects with almost magical abilities to affect the plot, the denial of the expected and the appearance of things as opposed to the way thing really are, the need to trust someone, lead characters with flaws, etc.

Question 7

Metropolise

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released in 1927.

classical german-american coproduced film set in the fture and dealing with problems of rich versus poor and the difficulty of maintianing urban life. Directed by Fritz Lang, and written by his then wife Thea Von Harbou

Question 8

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Gothic novels- term given to series of Romantic stories often with supernatural plots developed first by Horace Walpole with the Castel of Otranto and continuing the works such as Frankenstein and Dracula. 18th and 19th Century.

to the left is frekenstine book written by Mary Shelly

To the right is Dracula

Question 9

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Bert Williams- black monologist in blackface, first major star to cross color line to white stage (1874-1922)

Question 10

Vaudeville

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form of american live popular entertainment which featured

Tony Pastor- born in 1837, Bowery Theater owner popularizes vaudeville, discovers early stars

B.F. Keith- makes vaudeville a big monopoly business

Problems of Black Entertainers- Humor insulting “Negroes”- disparaging caricatures and characteristics

Question 11

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The nicholas Brothers with bob hope

Harold- 1921-2000

Fayard 1914-2006

Could not break through into the whilte dominated media-segmetns cut out

Flash Dancing, Acrobatics, Splits, Leaps, Slides on Bakelite Floors

Question 12

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Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

●Heir to Muthesius ideas

●Founded Bauhaus in Desau, Germany

○Influenced by both Mondrian and Le Corbusier

○Egalitarian artist colony- individual cells for artists

●Symbol of Bauhaus: Gothic Cathedral

○Working together for the greater good

●Lyonel Feininger designed cover for the publication of Bauhaus

“We’ll prepare the way for the future architect who will make gardens out of deserts and let

Question 13

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Deco sky scraper by William Van allan constructed in 1928

Chrysler Bldg

Deco Jewelery by Jean Fouquet

Stripped down and streamlined version of Art Nouveau - ahistorical art forms, vegetal elements

Cubism- Cubist artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque- used the look of lots of angularity in its forms

Paul Gauguin- incorporated his style of many strong colors covering large areas to juxtapose colors but Deco also featured paler colors of Art Nouveau

Question 14

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Clara Bow, The “It” Girl

1905-1965

high living silent film star who lived her real life and her film life outside of traditional boundaries for women and symbolized the roaring twenties. She had what cosmoplitan magazing editor refferd to as It, which meant someone young and attractive with a lot of style who knew how to smpke and drink and use cocktail shaker and liked to party

Question 15

Art deco

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poular jazz art moment 1920-1930s

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Radio City Music Hall

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NY city landmark theatre development in rockefeller center between 1929 and 1940. Transition between art deco and depression modern style, with its curvilinerar marquee and clear lettering being depression mondern

Question 19

Nicholas brothers developed

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Nicholas brothers developed a different approach ot tap dancing in the 1920s through the 1950s which other dancers began to call Flash Dancing

Question 20

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Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1982)numerous classical films whose formula or dialectic for creating movies produce a parallels unversi with its own rules.

Question 21

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Busby Berkely 1895-1976

Innovative director and choreographer of breoady way and musical film. The film is footlight praade 1933. the scene is an elaborate birthday cake type configuration, remarkable parts by means of over head shot.

experimented with cartoons, close-ups, and sets that moved and resembled themseves. Musical revivle by busby berkely

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Question 24

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The Caresses of the Sphinx

Classical influence- white body resembles greecian mable, someone intellecturally refined, classical mytholgicla creautre sphix

Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)- Belgian Symbolist artist popular in the later 19th century. His paintings featured dualistic visions such as collision of feeling and apparent paradoxes.

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Giorgio De Chirico, (1888-1978)- pioneer of the surrealist movment, who called his work metaphysical painting. Melancholy and mystery of a street 1914 quality of timeless, sizeless, and airless. Puts viewer in dream world Colors give other worldy apperance, uneasy feeling of disorder, vauge sense of menance, Hitchcock used for inspiration in north by norhtwest

Question 27

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Salvador dali-1904-1989 Most famous surrealist Influenced by the strange patterns of the cliffs of the coastal resort of Cadaques in eastern Spain during vacation. Influenced by Frued, Dada, symbolist art “paranoiac- critical method Persistence of memory 1931- timeless, sizeles, airless

Question 28

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Spirits watching over the dead- 1892 by Paul Guaguin (1848-1943) Developed synthetism – flat surface, saturated colors By 1891 was living in French Polynesia, known has Tahiti Often linked to symbolist movement

Question 29

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Joseph McCarthy 1908-1957 Became a senatro form Wisconsin toward the end of WWII in 1944. Held conservative values and sought to make a major issue of the communist conspiracy. "said to have a list of communist inflitrators. Ather his death, McCarthy chari wht became knwown as house UN-american ativities committe which sought to free out htose on McCarthy's big list of name, allthough the acutal list was ever reveald

Question 30

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Timothy Leary 1920-1996 A Havard professor of psychology wiht distinguished resume. Became interested in tests on hallucinogenic substances, lysergic acid made from a fungus of rye and cerearl grass. later known as LSD.

Question 31

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Allen Ginsberg- 1926-1997 Poet of 1950s and 1960s Protested many things, such as Vietnam war, commercial culture, atomic technology Developed passive, nonviolent protest later adopted by martin luther king

Question 32

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Master at hucksterism, pop art, and put-on, he became popular counterculture media figure and man of seemingly perverse mystery. Starting out in the advertisng industry selling products and esspecialy women’s shoes,. Invented the silk screen process, created silk-screen artworks of celeberties- mass produced and mocking aesthetic.

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Target with four faces- 1955 by Jasper Johns Post-painterly abstractionist, Guaguin’s colors with further simplified subjects, designed to stimulate the sense. Painting is of mixed pigment on canvas, newspaper and fabric dipped in hot was and solidified.

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Took a visual, flat, 1 dimensional surface and transformed it into a 3D image. LSD users Bridget Riley 1931, learder of the movement, oil on canvas painting inspired by Jackson Pollock Trompe l’oeil devieces (french call). Pointilllist or ben-day dot approach and the arranging of line and form onto a surface and seemed to dematerialize before our confused eyes. Victor Varsarely- Hungarian father of Op art, did commercial illustrations and later created confusing geometric paintings.

Question 36

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Decad of 1960-1970

Question 37

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Vera-ellen (1921-1981) Dramatic and light comedic actress ● Greatest all-around dancer of her generation ● Daughter of Martin and Alma Rohe ● Grew up in cincinnati ● Small and underdeveloped Alma got tired of her deadbeat husband and saw potential in Vera-ellen ● Petite and underdeveloped frame ● Strict diets to stay skinny ● Age 16: 4”6’ and 76 pounds ● 5”4’ by 21 due to stretching exercises ● Said to be born in 1926 but was actually born in 1921 ● Chief majorette of school band in elementary school ● Moved to New York in 1936 ● 1st marriage 1940 ● 24 when Goldwyn Casted her in wonder man ● 1945 wonder man: first screen appearance ● Late 1940’s MGM ● 1950 partnered with Fred Astaire ● 1955 - trying to bring elements of broadway to las vega film (MGM) ○ Gene Kelly ○ Fred Astaire ○ Kaye ● Stage ○ Rockette ○ Broadway ● Las vegas extravaganza

Question 38

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1957- Singer of world music who mixes electrically influences from the pre-raphaelites, sufis, pop music, animism, cletic, and roman history and even rock and roll.

Question 39

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The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893)- psychic anguish, existential loneliness, morbid, disorienting diagonal. Edvard Munch (1863-1944)Post-Impressionist, Pre-Expressionist 1. Influence of Van Gogh- primitive forces within all of us 2. Influence of Sigmund Freud- death wish, role of women, repression 3. Distortion, exaggeration, anguish- abandon natural imagery for greater impact 4. Neuroses, fear of women, social anxiety

Question 40

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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)- Pre-Expressionist, or Post-ImpressionistStarry Night 1889 The flip side of the industrial revolution, was an Admirer of Courbet. was moody and sickly all the time. The Night Cafe 1888 -The background is alive and is fertilized by the artist's emotions Intense emotional expression Flip side of Melies, Ingres, Bouguereau & Industrial Revolution -- man as victim

Question 41

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Mega-successful Liverpool rock group of the mid-1960s and after headed by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Rego Starr (drummer) George Harrison (guitarist) their music helped define the 1960s

Question 42

Astaire fred

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Astaire fred- 1899-1987, he and his most poular partner ginger rogers were major stars for RKO pictures. Developed a form of streamlined dancing which incorporated tap and traditional ball room dancing.

Question 43

Ben Day Dots

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Benjamin Day Jr (1838 - 1916) - 1879, invents the Ben-Day Dots. - Printed Pixels - Taken and used in art during the 1940s and 1950s - Used and became popular through comic books. - Used in paintings by Roy Lichtenstein

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symbolist

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The latter 19th century group searched for a higher realty than the mundane orddinary daily life of the masses and were influenced.

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surrealism

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as concieved by andre breton- in his surrealist manifesto. It was a psychic reales of unconscious.

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Paul Gauguin

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1848-1903 French artist who developed an artistic style known as synthetism which imbued his paintings with a flat surface look, hihgly saturated colors, a nearlly compelte ingoring of tradiontal prespective and lassical forms or color gradation and shading and a return to primitive subjects of remote islands and their natives

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Crisscrossing

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technique in the filsm of alfred hitchcock. This mean that hitchcock gives an important characteristic of one chracter or scene to another chracter in another scene

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Trophet

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A cemenerty site that contaied sacrificed infants found in carthage, tunisia 1924

Question 49

Frenkenstein

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Marry Shelly 1797-1851

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Dracula

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Bram Stoker 1847-1912

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Chrysler bulding in new york

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William Van Alen 1883-1954