G10 Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism Flashcards

1
Q

art movement created as a protest
to the bourgeois culture that began
in Zurich, Switzerland

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Dadaism

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2
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they manipulate ready-made objects

and transform them into artworks.

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Dadaism

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3
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artists were focus on making works
that often upended bourgeois
sensibilities and that generated
difficult questions about society,
the role of the artist, and the
purpose of art.
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Dadaism

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4
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Dadaist artworks were

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irreverent ,

random and accidental,

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5
Q

origin of the word _ is still

uncertain

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Dada

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6
Q

Dadaist artworks were irreverent ,
random and accidental, the _
on the works show the wit and humor of the artists

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ironies

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7
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Dadaist artworks were irreverent ,
random and accidental, the _
on the works show the wit and humor of the artists

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ironies

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8
Q

first artists of the movement aimed
to stop the war and express
discontent

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Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball

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9
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Where? When? Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball

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in 1916 at their Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich

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10
Q

Dadaism in Germany started in _

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1917

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11
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Dadaism in Germany started in 1917,
artworks are _ and
_

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political and satirical

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12
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Other dadaists:

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Richard Huelsenbeck
Max Ernst
Johannes Theodor Baargeld
George Grosz
Raoul Hausmann
Johannes Baader
Hannah Höch
Hans Arp
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13
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Other dadaists:

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Louis Aragon
Andre Breton
Paul Eluard
Tristan Tzara
Marcel Duchamp
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14
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Marcel Duchamp works:

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LHOOQ, Fountain

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15
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Hannah Höch works:

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Cut wit a Kitchen Knife Dada
through the Last Weimar Beer
Belly

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16
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founded by French Andre Breton in

1924.

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Surrealism

17
Q

it aimed to liberate the human
thoughts, language, and experience
from rationalism.

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Surrealism

18
Q
"psychic automatism in its pure
state, by which one proposes to express
- verbally, by means of the written
word, or in any other manner - the
actual functioning of thought."
A

Surrealism

19
Q

sought to channel unconscious means

to unlock the power of imagination.

A

Surrealism

20
Q

Surrealists believed the rational
mind repressed the power of the
_, weighing it down with
taboos

A

imagination

21
Q

artist relied on their own
recurring motifs arisen through
their _ or/and _ _

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dreams or/and unconscious mind

22
Q

Andre Breton

Salvador Dali

Meret Oppenheim René Magritte

Yves Tanguy

Frida Kahlo Joan Miró

(Max Ernst)

A

Surrealists

23
Q

avant-garde:

A

techniques and ideas

24
Q

game in which each participant takes
turns writing or drawing on a sheet of
paper

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cadavre exquis or exquisite corpse

25
Q

Max Ernst work:

A

The Elephant Celebes

26
Q

developed in New York, 1940’s –

1950’s

A

Abstract Expressionism

27
Q

the artist is not trying to
recreate the look of things out here
in the ‘real world’

A

Abstract Expressionism

28
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-large brushes spontaneously to
make gestural marks
- characterized by a loose, rapid,
dynamic, or forceful handling of
paint in sweeping or slashing
brushstrokes
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Action Painters

29
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Action Painters/Abstract Expressionists

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Jackson Pollock

Franz Kline

Willem de Kooning

30
Q

examples of Action Paintings

A

Number 4, 1951
Flanders
Untitled (Head)

31
Q

used a single flat color to large
areas which were believed to produce
a meditational response

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Color Field

32
Q

Action Painters/Abstract Expressionists/Color Fielders

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Clyfford Still
Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko

33
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Action Paintng/Color Field Piece

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No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)
Untitled (Euclidian Abyss I)
1947-Y-No. 2