midterm 1 part 2

Question 1

a) art concerned with either formalism OR expressionism b) belief in progressive innovations in art
• 2 directions of Post-Impressionism:
-dir 1: structure & order while using Impressionist’s light & colour
artists: Seurat & Cézanne
-dir 2: an emotional, spiritual response (van Gogh; Gauguin) a) colour, line, patterns used in an expressive way
b) symbolism—actual symbols or symbolic associations
they broke away from art styles, goals, and approaches that had
been dominant since the Renaissance

Answer 1

Modernism,

Question 2

• formal (compositional) aspects of art
• it includes colour, line, shape, texture (vs. Renaissance’s emphasis on realism, context, and content)
• the importance of Formalism: everything a viewer needs to know about the art is already present in the art

Answer 2

Formalism

Question 3

• rejects realism and naturalism; objective reality is not represented
• instead, it’s the artist’s subjective emotions, feelings– the artist’s personal response to the subject matter
• to represent these intense, personal responses, the distortion and exaggeration of the formal elements are used

Answer 3

expressionism

Question 4

(“stitch”) carefully placing small dots of pure colour next to each other,

Answer 4

Pointillism

Question 5

two slightly different visual perspectives used at the same time
binocular vision provides the viewer with a) depth perception
b) better understanding of spatial relationships

Answer 5

binocular vision,

Question 6

is a style of painting where bold & flat areas of colour are separated (outlined) by dark contours

Answer 6

Cloisonnism

Question 7

park full of people very pixelated with chill dude laying on the grass very informally

Answer 7

post-impressionism. Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886

Question 8

mountain and landscape all very smudged and unclear

Answer 8

post impressionism• Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves, 1904-06

Question 9

moon thick paint over a town

Answer 9

post- impressionism • van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

Question 10

1guy in bar behind a pool table with a weird viewpoint

Answer 10

post-impressionism • van Gogh, The Night Café, 1888

Question 11

bunch of nun looking ladies looking at a angel wrestle a sader

Answer 11

post impressionism• Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon; Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888

Question 12

characteristic of Modern art
a) art concerned with either formalism OR expressionism b) belief in progressive innovations in art
• 2 directions of Post-Impressionism:
-dir 1: structure & order while using Impressionist’s light & colour
artists: Seurat & Cézanne
-dir 2: an emotional, spiritual response (van Gogh; Gauguin) a) colour, line, patterns used in an expressive way
b) symbolism—actual symbols or symbolic associations

Answer 12

post impressionism

Question 13

artists sought to express meaning[3] or emotional experience rather than physical reality.[3][4]

Answer 13

Expressionism

Question 14

capital for the movement
was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas

Answer 14

Expressionism,

Question 15

medium consisting of egg yolk and water

Answer 15

tempera,

Question 16

characterized by the use of bright colours and simplified formsAn early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.

Answer 16

Fauves,

Question 17

was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter. was a movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with

Answer 17

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Question 18

is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin’s inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics. Borrowings from primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.

Answer 18

Primitivism

Question 19

was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905,
is sometimes compared to the Fauves. Both movements shared interests in primitivist art. Both shared an interest in the expressing of extreme emotion through high-keyed color that was very often non-naturalistic.

Answer 19

Die Brücke (The Bridge)

Question 20

uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

Answer 20

Abstract art

Question 21

guy screaming on a boardwalk

Answer 21

expressionism.. Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893

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Question 22

portrait of a lady with a green line down her face

Answer 22

expressionism,Portrait of Mdme Matisse/The Green Line, 1905

Question 23

weird lady with a bowl of fruit on her head hahaha

Answer 23

expressionism/ fauvism, Matisse, The Woman with the Hat, 1905

Question 24

street with rich assholes on it getting into a limo

Answer 24

Der brucke/expressionism, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin, 1913

Question 25

really colourful some musical notes in it they thought he saw sounds and tasted touch

Answer 25

abstract art/expressionism, vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913

Question 26

colourful with a couple cannons shooting but hard to tell whats going on

Answer 26

expressionism Kandinsky, Improvisation No. 30 (War-like Theme), 1913


Question 27

big horses and they are blue

Answer 27

expressionism, Franz Marc, The Large Blue Horses, 1911

Question 28

It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and has been said to be essentially anti-industrial.[4][5]

Answer 28

Arts & Crafts movement;

Question 29

line that looks like a whip

Answer 29

whiplash lines

Question 30

black and white drawing similar to comic book and a lady holding a severed head

Answer 30

art nouveau. Aubrey Beardsley, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Question 31

house with nice stairway and drawing of vines on the wall

Answer 31

• Victor Horta, Tassel House (stairwell)

Question 32

eiffel tower picture

Answer 32

• Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, 1889

Question 33

s an international philosophy[1] and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890–1910

Answer 33

Art Nouveau (French pronunciation: ​[aʁ nuvo], Anglicised to /ˈɑːrt nuːˈvoʊ/) i