MODERN ART (ARTS) Flashcards
The collective titles assigned to works of art that belong to a certain period of time and employ similar styles or techniques and guided by shared ideas.
Art movements
The first movement of modern art.
Realism
It aimed at the precise representation of human conditions, perspective and distance, and detailed effects of color.
Realism
It used source of lighting to recreate the natural lighting of a scene.
Realism
Who made the stone breakers?
Gustave Courbet
Realism’s subject matter was often ____________ scenes and ________ scenes of the lives of urban and rural working class.
street life, genre
The term impressionism was first used by art critic ______________ when he visited the pioneering exhibition of Impressionist paintings.
Louis Leroy
________________ rejected this fine finish and detailed images.
Impressionists
It attempted to objectively capture visual reality through the fleeting effects of color and light.
Impressionism
The name Post-Impressionism was coined by art critic _____________ referring to the works by painters.
Roger Fry
Who painted young girls by the sea?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Who painted Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grand Jatte?
George Seurat
Post-Impressionism focused on a more ___________________________.
ambitious expression
It was in a way an extension of the impressionist movement and also an abandonment of that artistic movement’s limitations.
Post-Impressionism
It acknowledge the pure and intense colors used by Impressionist painters, as well as the use of short strokes of broken color in defining form.
Post-Impressionism artists
The different styles in Post-Impressionism can be grouped into opposing stylistic traditions:
The geometric style and the nongeometric or expressive style
A highly fashionable artistic movement, succeeded the paintings of van Gogh, Gaugin, and other Post-Impressionism artists.
Fauvism
It can be considered the inspiration for Expressionism because Fauve artists used non-naturalistic and often brash colors.
Fauvism
They are actually known for their aggressive use of pure, brilliant colors boldly applied straight from paint tubes.
Fauvism
Fauvism placed great importance on _________________________.
individual expression
Art Nouveau was inspired by __________ and _____________ as it favored exotic details.
Japanese and Celtic art
This artistic movement represented one of the first major breaks with the aesthetic traditions that were very much valued in the past.
Fauvism
Art Nouveau was named after a shop in France, _____________________________________________________, which strongly supported and promoted new ideas in art.
La Maison de l’Art Nouveau (House of new art)
It attempted to put an end to the traditional view that fine arts were superior than decorative or functional arts.
Art Nouveau
It originated in Germany before World War I was response to the more passive styles and techniques of Impressionism.
Expressionism
_______________ artists sought not to record their observations of the objective reality, but to interpret the emotions and subjective responses aroused within a person.
Expressionist
They exaggerated and distorted representations, employed bold and intense colors and strong outlines, and incorporated primitivism and fantasy.
Expressionist artists
Critic _______________ first used the term Cubism when he described Braque’s painting ________________ as being composed of cubes.
Louis Vauxcelles, Houses at l’Estaque
It were initially influenced by the angular forms in the landscape paintings of Paul Cezanne and other Postimpressionist artists.
methods of cubism
It basically redefined the nature of art and its possibilities and signaled completely novel ways of portraying reality.
Cubism
It valued the depiction of the intellectual idea of an object, as well as how it was related to others.
Cubism
2 stages of cubism
Analytic and Synthetic
An avant-grade artistic movement that started in Italy with the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “The Manifesto of ____________.”
Futurism
It had a lukewarm reception in France.
Futurism
It basically brings to mind the sight, the noise, the heat, the smell, and even the “taste” of the city.
Futurist painting
Futurism was the only 2th century avant-grade artistic movement to be associated with _________________.
far-right politics
As artist ___________________ said, “Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”
Robert Delaunay
Who painted the Chatou Bridge?
Maurice de Vlaminck
Who painted The Kiss?
Gustav Klimt
Who painted Blick auf Davos
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Who painted Houses at l’Estaque?
George Braque
Who painted Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash?
Giacomo Balla
Who painted the Cyclist?
Natalia Goncharova
This is an artistic movement that believed that the function of an object dictates its form and not the other way around.
Art Nouveau
