Midterm Flashcards
It was a joyful style of painting that delighted in using bold colors.
Fauvism
Fauvism was developed in France at the beginning of the ___by ___
20th century
Henri Matisse and André Derain.
The artists who painted in this style were known as ‘Les Fauves’.
Fauvism
___ believed that color should be used at its highest pitch to express the artist’s feelings about a subject, rather than simply to describe what it looks like.
Fauvism
Les Fauves
Fauvist paintings have two main characteristics:
extremely simplified drawing and intensely exaggerated color.
•The ‘self expression’ in the art of inspired Expressionist artists in the __.
Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch
20th century
It is a style of art that is charged with an emotional or spiritual vision of the world.
German Expressionism
It attempts to shift the focus to one or more of those elements so the viewer can witness those elements in a new and unusual way that the viewer hasn’t witnessed before.
Abstract arts
The word ‘__’ means to withdraw part of something in order to consider it separately.
Abstract
In Abstract art that ‘something’ is one or more of the visual elements of a subject: its __
line, shape, tone, pattern, texture, or form.
Example of Expressionism
Red Tower at Halle
Still from the 1929 film
Self portrait city horn
It was invented around 1907 in Paris by __
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
It was the first abstract style of modern art.
Cubism
It ignore the traditions of perspective drawing and show you many views of a subject at one time.
Cubist paintings
They believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and to revitalize their work, they drew on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, particularly African art.
Cubists
It was a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity.
Futurists
They adopted the visual vocabulary of Cubism to express their ideas - but with a slight twist.
Futurists
In a Cubist painting the artist records selected details of a subject as he moves around it, whereas in a ___ painting the subject itself seems to move around the artist.
Futurists
The main figures associated with the movement were the artists, __
Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, the musician Luigi Russolo and the architect Antonio Sant’Elia.
It was a Dutch ‘style’ of pure abstraction developed by Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg and Bart van der Leck.
De Stijl
It was the outstanding artist of the group.
Mondrian
De Stijl
He gradually refined the elements of his art to a grid of lines and primary colors.
Mondrian
He saw primary colors in a universal harmony way: yellow radiated the sun’s energy; blue receded as infinite space and red materialized where blue and yellow met.
Mondrian
It was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural establishment of the time which it held responsible for Europe’s descent into World War.
Dadaism
It was an ‘anti art’ stance as it was intent on destroying the artistic values of the past.
Dadaism
It weapons in the war against the art establishment were confrontation and provocation.
Dada’s
They confronted the artistic establishment with the irrationality of their collages and assemblages.
Dadaism
It was the positive response to Dada’s negativity.
Surrealism
Its aim was to liberate the artist’s imagination by tapping into the unconscious mind to discover a ‘superior’ reality - a ‘sur-reality’.
Surrealism
To achieve this the Surrealists drew upon the images of dreams, the effects of combining disassociated images, and the spontaneous form of drawing without the conscious control of the mind.
Surrealism
The most influential of the Surrealist artists were __
Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali and René Magritte.
It was fueled by the idea of the subconscious, to paint without thought was in full flow by 1946.
Surrealism
The pioneers of Abstract Expressionism were __
Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston.
___was the first American art style to exert an influence on a global scale.
The modern/contemporary art
It was also known as ‘Action Painting’, a title which implied that the physical act of painting was as important as the result itself.
Abstract Expressionism
It was hugely successful and became an icon of the 1960s.
Pop art
The champions of Pop Art were __.
Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann
It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by ___
Elvis and The Beatles.
It was brash, colorful, young, fun and hostile to the artistic establishment.
Pop art
The images of celebrity and consumerism by __
Andy Warhol and the comic book iconography of Roy Lichtenstein represent the style as we know it today.
It is short for ‘optical art’.
OP art
It was an abstract style that emerged in the 1960’s based on the illusionistic effects of line, shape, pattern and color.
OP Art
Op Artists such as __
Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley and Richard Anuszkiewicz popularized the movement.
It referred to the new wave as Op art and how it manipulated the eye.
Time magazine
It was very popular with the public and was quickly commercialized by the design and fashion industries
Op art
It was not only a reaction against the emotionally charged techniques of Abstract Expressionism but also a further refinement of pure abstraction.
Minimalism
It used hard-edged forms and geometric grid structures.
Minimalism
Color was used to define space or surface.
Minimalism
Ad Reinhardt, whose late paintings anticipate Minimalism, put it simply,
The more stuff in it, the busier the work of art, the worse it is. More is less. Less is more…’
__ were important contributors to Minimalism.
Frank Stella, Don Judd, Robert Morris, John McCracken and Sol LeWitt
It was a style which could be easily translated into architecture and furnishing and it was.
Minimalism
It , also called Super-realism, American art movement that began in the 1960s, taking photography as its inspiration.
Photo realism
They created highly illusionistic images that referred not to nature but to the reproduced image.
Photo-realist painters
Artists such as __attempted to reproduce what the camera could record.
Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Audrey Flack, Robert Bechtle, and Chuck Close
They typically projected a photographed image onto a canvas and then used an airbrush to reproduce the effect of a photo printed on glossy paper
Photo-realists
__ doesn’t matter
__ dies
Perfection
Message
Project image and character
Physical appearance
Communicate with what you have in your
Heart
Subconscious minds
Combination
Element
Methods
Principles
20th century modern art
Fauvism Expressionism Abstract Cubism Futurism De Stijl Dadaism Surrealism Symbolism Abstract expressionism Pop art Op art Minimalism Photo realism
Express feelings through the use of color, bringing out the positive feeling
Fauvism
Bold, bright shocking colors
Fauvism
Seen in office doing paperworks
Fauvism
Capitalizes spirit of color
Fauvism
Father of expressionism
Vincent Van Gogh
Singer of American pie, Vincent
Don McClean
Cannot judge based on what you see but the story begin the painting
Expressionism
As an outlet, release
Expressionism
Cannot understand
Abstract
Abstract expressionism and abstract alone
Abstract
Aesthetic reason displayed in commercial buildings, banks, restaurants, spas
Abstract expressionism
Move or separate away from reality
Abstract expressionism
Geometric achieve shapes wherein space and perspective on how you look closely
Abstract expressionism
Try to get out of the box
Abstract expressionism
Manifests reality based on what it is over your mind
Abstract expressionism
No perfect image, appreciate the idea
Cubism
Appreciate the idea
Cubism
Father of the Cubisn
Pablo Picasso
Modernism/ method is the texture
Futurism
Plays around earth and metallic colors
Futurism
