History quiz Flashcards
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What did impressionist art focus on?
Brush stroke and angles
Depiction of light
Who created “Impression Sunrise”
Monet
Which avant garde artist painted “the luncheon on the grass”
Eduard Manet
Who painted “the psyche mirror”?
Berthe Morisot
Who painted “the rehearsal of the ballet on stage”
Edgar Degas’s
What did post-impressionism reject?
Impressionist naturalism and the trivial subject matter
Which post-impressionist painted the “starry night”?
Van Gogh
Who painted the “ bedroom in Arles”
Van Gogh
What wa the focus of cubanist art?
Using more than one viewpoint/perspective
Who painted the “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” ?
Picaso
Who painted the “Nude decendong a staircase”?
Marchel Duchamp
What was the focus of Futurism?
Romanticize modernity and dismiss the burdens of the past.
What was the focus of Dadaism
Nothing- it was meant to be meaningless
“Dada Manifesto” was created by who?
Tristan Tzara
Who created “The Fountain”?
Duchamp
What was the focus of surrealism?
Reflected terrors and fears
Who was the most famous surrealist?
Dali
What were Dali’s two most famous peices?
“Soft construction with boiled beans”
“The persistence of memory”
Stream of consciousness
Allowance of a reader to get into the characters mind
Virginia Woolf wrote …..
“Jacob’s Room”
James Joyce wrote the disturbing novel titled….
“Ulysses”
T.S Elliot wrote…
” wasteland “
What was modern music meant to do?
Inspire anxiety
Who wrote the “Rite of Spring”
Igor Stravinsky
Who wrote “Wozzerk”
Alban Berg
Why was there a post-war economic boom?
Escapism
Accumulation of money during the war increased the amount of available spending money
Examples of household appliances include
Refrigerator
Electric ovens
Washing machines
How was the radio used as political propaganda?
Boost in popularity
Fireside chats
Intact with government Leaders.
What was the idea of D.W. Griffiths “Birth of a Nation”?
Racist tropes, social drawings, and arayanism
“Truimph of the Will”
Romanticized the Nazi’s
How was the department store a part of mass consumerism?
People became overwhelmed with their options
Why couldn’t women live up to the new “Modern Woman”?
Can’t live up to advertising
Based on stereotypes
Expensive to live life that way
Feel unfullfilled
What did the great economic boom eventually lead to?
The Great Depression
What was the first book Neitzsche wrote?
“Ultimately Meditations”
What did “Ultimately Meditations” focus on?
The west overemphasising rationality, stiffled passion
What was the book “Beyond Good and Evil” about?
Challegenging propriety and social norms of everything gendered.
What was the focus of “On the Geneaology of Morals” ?
Christianity teaches slave mentality
What were the ideas of irrationalism?
“God is dead”
Overman
What did Henri Bergson believe?
Truth = lifeforce
What’s the definition of lifeforce
Never fully perceived by the human mind
What were the ideas of logical positivism?
meaning in beliefs can be proven
Who wrote the “Essay on Logical Philosophy”
Wittgenstein
