Introduction to the Fine Arts: Exam 4 - Part One Flashcards
What was a popular “dance craze” in the 1920’s?
The Charleston
What was the “Maple Leaf Rag” and who wrote it?
It was a ragtime type of piano music written by Scott Joplin
What are some of Aaron Copland’s most significant works?
Appalation spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo
Who was Aaron Copland?
American, developed and american style by borrowing heavily from folk influences. He avoided pretension. Worked with Martha Graham.
What were some of Aaron’s Douglas’s most famous works?
Aspects of negro life & Aalta
Who was Aaron Douglas?
African american painter. Married to a woman named Aalta. Made many illustrations of cover designs for Harlem renaissance writers. One of the first artists of the Harlem renaissance.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
Art style characterized by: nonfictional brushwork and nonrepresentational subject matter.
Where did Abstract Expressionism originate?
In New York.
What style did Jason Pollack use?
Abstract expressionism.
What is abstraction?
Art which depicts the essence of a thing rather than its actual appearance. Relies of the core of mathematics.
What are the two types of directions abstraction takes?
Reduction of natural images to shapes suggested by them or pure color/form without representational reference.
Who was Adolph Meyer?
Led the Bauhaus school of art, applied arts, and architecture based on aesthetics.
Who designed the Fagus Shoe-Last Factory?
Adolph Meyer
What is Akhnaten?
A track in an opera written by Philip Glass.
Who was Alban Berg?
Austrian composer, member of the second viennese school, disciple of Schoenberg, used the expressionist style, drafted into the Austrian Army.
