Midterm

Question 0

What is the Nabi style?

Answer 0

Influenced by Japanese prints
Focus on individualism
They promote symbolism
Intimate interior scenes with high contrast

Question 1

Who are the nabis?

Answer 1

Students at the academe Julien who form a group

Question 2

Key Nabi artists?

Answer 2

Pierre Bonnard - la revue Blanche

Edouard Vuillard - texture, photographs, almost abstract

Question 3

Key ideas in symbolism?

Answer 3

Clothing the idea in a central form
Trying to invade the world of the psyche, get into dreams and fantasy
Very eclectic and individualistic

Question 4

Who are some key symbolist artists?

Answer 4

Ciurlionis - tempura on paper, based on folklore, sonata pieces
Gustave Moreau - Greek mythology pieces (Oedipus and the Sphinx)
Edvard munch - mental illness, “puberty”
Odilon redon - charcoal, black and white

Question 5

What are the five points of the symbolist manifesto?

Answer 5

1 Art should express an idea. 
2 Must be expressed in forms and signs. 
3 The forms and signs must be comprehensible. 
4 The object is not an object but idea. 
5 The art should be decorative

Question 6

What is Art Nouveau?

Answer 6

An artform that blurs the boundary between high art and art for everybody. it implies the idea that art can be functional

Question 7

What is Secession?

Answer 7

Austrian Art Nouveau

They are more geometric and do not believe in private galleries

Question 8

Who are key Art Nouveau artists?

Answer 8

Victor Horta - uses iron for decoration

Klimpt - Beethoven

Question 9

Who are key expressionist artists?

Answer 9

Edvard munch - the scream

Wilhelm lehmbruck - seated youth, all his friends died during wwi

Question 10

What is Die Brücke?

Answer 10

German expressionism

Includes Ernst Ludwig kircher and Emil Nolde

Question 11

What are the five points of Cubism?

Answer 11

1. Interrelationship between people and things,
2. primitivism - The freedom to distort, invent, and play with proportions
3. conceptual reality,
4. ambiguity in size and materials
5. time - shallow or flat dimensions were you look at everything simultaneously so the perception is a succession

Question 12

What is analytical Cubism?

Answer 12

Breaking shapes and forms up and recomposing them

Question 13

What is synthetic cubism?

Answer 13

The superposition of patterns, it is more constructive, it masks people and there is a jigsaw style with lots of color

Question 14

What is Afro luminism?

Answer 14

It is the chromatically subdued forms and compressed colors used in black humanism like with Aaron Douglas

Question 15

What is the concept of futurism?

Answer 15

It is imagination without any strings, and is influenced by Cubism. It also began as a literary movement.

Question 16

What did futurists love depicting?

Answer 16

Violence

Question 17

Where is De Stijl art from?

Answer 17

It’s comes out of Art Nouveau and sets precedents for the Bauhaus movement

Question 18

What are key concepts of the De Stijl style?

Answer 18

They have utopian thinking. They think that as society becomes more spiritual, Art will become part of daily life, and therefore there will be a better world. Art is not separated from real life

Question 19

The de Stijl movement and life

Answer 19

They collaborate with architects because this is the best place to merge art with life. Social divisions are dissolved and power is dispersed. material progress brings spiritual progress, and there is a lot of connection with outdoors

Question 20

Who are key De Stijl artists?

Answer 20

Mondrian - works towards abstraction, starts with trees then ends with blocks
Van Doesburg - wrote magazine, argued that yellow red and blue were the only colors