Final Review Module 7

Question 1

Module 7: Early 20th Century Art Movements

Name of the photographer and the title ?

Answer 1

Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The Decisive Moment”

Question 2

Name of the photographer and the title ?

Answer 2

Eugene Atget

“The Magasin”

Was called a photographer’s photographers

Uses very simple techniques. There’s not a lot of flash and dash with photograph, but every time when you look at them, you can see a brand new aspect to it. There’s elements hidden within the photograph that pop out the more time you spend with them and more time when you look at them

Question 3

Name of the photographer ?

Answer 3

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Question 4

Name of the photographer ?

Answer 4

Paul Strand

focusing on pure elements of the design: lights, shadow, line, shape, form…They are formal photographs.

Question 5

Name of the photographer ?

Answer 5

John Heartfield

“As in the Middle Ages”

Question 6

Name of the photographer and the title ?

Answer 6

“Olly and Dolly Sisters”

by

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Question 7

Name of the photographer and the title ?

Answer 7

“The Constructor”

by

El Lissitzky

Question 8

Name of the photographer ?

Answer 8

Hannah Hoch

Question 9

Surrealism in Photography

Describe the process

Answer 9

Photogram or Ray-o-Graph

objects places directly on the sensitized paper and exposed to light.

The parts of the object that are opaque and appear white in creating a sort of opposite image. Objects that are transparent would become black and the objects that are lucent would be a different shade of gray depending on how translucent the objects are. He claim that this is his invention and name it as “Ray-o-Graph”

Question 10

Describe the process

Answer 10

Solarization

Image exposed to additional light that gives a metallic look to the subject

Question 11

How did global events affect how artists made their artwork?

Answer 11

In negative reaction to the horrors of the WW1, artists started creating images that rejects all principles in Western values (i.e religious and moral principles). They are often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

They were rejecting any sort of ideas that would have led to the war in the first place in wish that these atrocious war would never happen again.

Question 12

Review the different movements from the early 20th century that we studied (Surrealism, Dada, Constructivism, Straight)

Answer 12

Straight photography

• The images are less about the content
• The photographers are not trying to make a big story or there’s no historical connections that have been drawn by these photographs
• They are focusing on pure elements of the design: lights, shadow, line, shape, form

Dada

Considered to be Nihilistic form of art; it believes that life is meaningless and rejects all principles in Western values (i.e. religious and moral principle)

Surrealism

a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of WW1 in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.

Constructivism

The Constructivists believed that art had no place in the hermetic space of the artist’s studio. Rather, they thought that art should reflect the industrial world and that it should be used as a tool in the Communist revolution.

Constructivist art focused on industrial production. Constructivists used stripped down, geometric forms and modest materials. Their visual language existed of forms that they could draw with practical instruments like compasses and rulers