Modern and Contemporary Arts Flashcards
It is an art movement that originated in France in 1860s.
Impressionism
It centered on a group of artists who were labelled as Impressionists.
Impressionism
The name of the Impressionist movement was coined by critics from a painting by Claude Monet entitled:
Soleil Levant
Short, brisk, strokes of bright colours.
Impasto
An Italian word used to describe the thickness and texture that can be achieved with acrylic/oil paint.
Impasto
He was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perception before nature, especially
as applied to plein air landscape painting.
Claude Monet
He was a French artist, and was a leading painter of the Impressionist style.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
He was an artist best known for his pleasant paintings and love of the female figure.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Main subject of Renoir’s paintings.
Female figures
He was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.
Juan Luna
One of the first recognised Philippine artist.
Juan Luna
Juan Luna is known for this famous painting which won gold medal in Madrid, 1878.
Spoliarium
It is an art movement that has in its root in France and Germany around 1910.
Expressionism
It was first used as a term to describe a group of painters in Der Blaque Reiter in Germany.
Expressionism
It is an artistic style in which an artist attempts to portray not the objective reality but more on the subjective emotions and responses that objects, events, or situations arouse in him/her.
Expressionism
The artists rejected realism and instead distorted the images radically for emotional effect in order to evoke a mood or an idea.
Expressionism
They sought to arouse an emotional
response to their subjects, such as
alienated individuals in an urban
environment.
Expressionism
The best artwork that captures the Expressionist Style.
The Scream by Edward Munch
He was a Norwegian painter whose works reflected a morbid obsession with sickness and isolation.
Edward Munch
It depicts a man in a private
moment of anguished despair and anxiety,
while other people in the painting seem
blissfully unaware of his situation.
The Scream
He was a Russian artist pioneered abstract art in the 19th and early and 20th centuries.
Wassily Kandinsky
He was a Filipino painter who led the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns.
Victorio Edades
It is a group of artists who engaged their classical compatriots in a heated debate over the nature and function of art.
Thirteen Moderns
The Father of Philippine Modern Art.
Victorio Edades
He was a leading proponent of Expressionism in the Philippines.
Victorio Edades
It is an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionize European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music, literature, and architecture.
Cubism
This art movement was further developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first 20th century.
Cubism
It is a form of abstraction where objects are reduced to cubes and flattened into two-dimensional shapes.
Cubism
The first cubist work made by Picasso was named:
Les Demoiselle de Avignon
He was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer
and is considered one of the greatest and most
influential artists of the 20th century.
Pablo Picasso
He is universally renowned as one
of the most influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century.
Pablo Picasso
He is a French painter, collagist and sculptor. He is, along with Pablo Picasso, renowned as the co-founder of Cubism, which revolutionized 20th-century painting.
Georges Braque
He was a Filipino artist known for his
Cubist paintings and prints.
Vicente Manansala
He was the developer of transparent cubism.
Vicente Manansala
It is a revolt by painters and writers in France, Germany, Switzerland during the 20th century against the prevailing
standards in art.
Dadaism
The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by which artist around
1913 when he created his first
readymade, Dada?
Marcel Duchamp
This art movement reacted to the
illogical patriotism that resulted from
WWI.
Dadaism
He was a pioneer of Dada, a
movement that questioned long-held
assumptions about what art should be, and how it should be made.
Marcel Duchamp
He developed artworks called “Readymades” through the use of commercially available objects.
Marcel Duchamp
He was a prominent German avant-
garde artist who helped found both Dadaism and Surrealism.
Max Ernst
He was a Filipino graphic artist, print-
maker, avant-garde poet, social activist,
sculptor, satirist, and art professor.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
He was also credited by his peers and
art writers as the “Original Punk” of Philippine Arts.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
His subjects and compositions usually
embodied magical themes, amulets, animal
people, and subconscious wanderings.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
It aims to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams.
Surrealism
It is a style of art that
evolved from Dadaism and
developed in the 20th century.
Surrealism
He was an Italian artist and writer
born in Greece.
Giorgo de Chirico
In the years before World
War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art
movement, which profoundly influenced
the surrealists.
Giorgo de Chirico
He was acclaimed by the
surrealists as a forerunner of their
movement, founded the school of
metaphysical painting.
Giorgo de Chirico
He was a Spanish leading
proponent of Surrealism.
Salvador Dali
He was a Spanish leading proponent of Surrealism and he was called the “Epitome of Surrealism”.
Salvador Dali
He is a Filipino surrealist painter,
poet, philosopher, essayist, musician,
performance artist, and literary, art &
cultural critic from Mindanao.
Danny Sillada
He is known as “Contemporary Filipino
Renaissance man”.
Danny Sillada
It was an art movement that merged two
contradictory elements – abstract
and reality.
Abstract Realism
He was a Dutch American artist
known as one of the most renowned
abstract expressionists in the history of art.
Willem de Kooning
He is a modern American artist who
has achieved international recognition for his large-scale portraits.
Chuck Close
He was instrumental in
reviving the art of portraiture as a credible
subject matter at a time when figurative art
looked dead in the water.
Chuck Close
He was a Filipino painter best known for
his Abstract Expressionist works which utilized a variety of techniques, including controlled drips, impasto strokes, and transparent layering.
Jose Joya
He is a National Artist of the Philippines
awardee and founding father of abstract
expressionism in the Philippines.
Jose Joya
it is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts.
National Artist Award
It began in Britain in the mid-1950’s but became associated with America in the
late 1950s.
Pop Art
The term was derived from the “popular” because it was inspired by modern popular culture and mass media.
Pop Art
It was born out of Dadaism and Abstract
expressionism.
Pop Art
It is art movement that reacted against the dominance of abstract art.
Pop Art
Artists of this movement focused their interest on familiar images of popular
culture such as commercial art,
comic strips, posters, billboards,
among others.
Pop Art
He was an American painter and
designer, was best known as a pioneer of pop art.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American painter and was the pioneer of pop art. His notable public figure work was:
Elvis Presley
Marilyn Monroe
He was an American painter, graphic
artist, and sculptor, was also known as one of the proponents of pop art.
Roy Lichtenstein
He is a multi-awarded and critically acclaimed Filipino visual artist known for the stunning craftsmanship and meticulous design of his artworks that meditate on critiques of modernism and contemporary life.
Anton Del Castillo
It is an art movement that creates
an optical illusion.
Op art
Shorter name for optical art
Op art
He was a Hungarian-French artist,
who was widely accepted as a
“grandfather” and leader of the Op art
movement.
Victor Vasarely
She is a well-known British artist
celebrated since the mid-1960s for her
distinctive, optically vibrant paintings,
called “Op Art.”
Bridget Riley
He is a Filipino Asian Modern &
Contemporary painter who was born in
1947.
Jaime Roque
It breaks the conventional idea about what art is. This is an innovation in art that may
include theater, dance, music,
cinema, and, in some cases, the use of technology such as video,
computer, and robots.
Performance art
It is a term usually reserved to refer to a conceptual art which conveys a content-based meaning in a more drama-related sense, rather than being a simple performance for its own sake for entertainment purposes.
Performance art
It largely refers to a performance presented to an audience, but which does not seek to present a conventional theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not seek to
depict a set of fictitious characters in
formal scripted interactions.
Performance art
It refers to a participating art in which spectators, as well as artists were engaged. It is also regarded as “assemblage on the move,” bringing in the basic concepts of motion, time, and space.
Happenings
It is an organized assembly of a group of people who meet in public place for the purpose of doing unusual or entertaining activity for a temporary period of time then disperse.
Flash Mob
The first flash mobs were created in Manhattan in 2003 by:
Bill Wasik
It was an attempt to restore the artist’s connection to physical environment which was somehow lost or ignored during the period of Dadaism.
Abstract Realism
Op art typically employs abstract patterns composed with a stark contrast of foreground and background - often in ________ and ________ colors.
Black and White
The other term for color is
Hue
It refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.
Proportion
The main hero of the Impressionist painters was:
Light
It is an element of art that is enclosed space where the boundaries are defined by other elements of art.
Shapes
The word Dadaism came from the Latin word meaning :
Nothing
It is the appearance of smoothness or roughness in visual arts or the actual surface feel of a work of art or craft.
Texture
It refers to the idea of maintaining consistency of art elements in various areas in an artwork.
Balance
It is an important principle of design that gives the artwork a sense of cohesion or coherence.
Unity
It refers to the use of visual elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.
Emphasis
