Modern Art: Module 1

Question 1

The Guitar Player

Answer 1

• Oil
  -Manet
  -Impressionism
• Key themes: sharp contrast of light and dark against neutral background to define the form ( makes it a modern piece)
• somewhat naturalistic subject matter of everyday life

Question 2

Grainstacks, White Frost Effect

Answer 2

• oil
  -Monet
  -Impressionism
• depict landscape
  -capture light with accurate details
  -impasto strokes (layering of colors)
• pointillism

Question 3

Sara Handing a Toy to the Baby

Answer 3

• Oil
  -Cassatt
• Impressionism
  -contemporary scenes of life
  -gentle, delicate brushstrokes
  -transition of shadow and light
  -Japanese print inspired (cropped to create a snapshot view)
  -naturalistic render in the portrayal of figures

Question 4

The Stone Breakers

Answer 4

• Oil
  -Courbet
  -Realism
• Capture social realism and human condition, labor

Question 5

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Answer 5

• Oil
  -Seurat
• Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism)
• depicts modern life in Paris
  -showing different social classes
  -theme of socialization and relaxation

Question 6

Still Life with Basket of Apples

Answer 6

-oil
-Cezanne
-Post-Impressionism
- depicts geometric forms
-spatial relationship
-how objects appear in relation to one another

Question 7

Night Cafe at Arles

Answer 7

-Oil
-Van Gogh
-Post Impressionism
-convey intense emotions from cafe atmosphere
-psychological approach to light and color
-impasto technique

Question 8

Vision after the Sermon

Answer 8

-Oil
-Gauguin
-Post-Impressionism
- depict emotional & spiritual experience of the divine and earthly
-vibrant red (non-naturalistic)
-Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)

Question 9

Scream

Answer 9

-Tempra and Pastel
- Munch
-Symbolism
-encapsulate fear and anxiety
-emotional turmoil
-intense, dynamic color & brushstroke

Question 10

Angels Appearing Before the Shepherds

Answer 10

-Oil
- Tanner
- Symbolism
- a sense of divine and faith present
-naturalistic approach
-biblical moment of announcing the birth of Jesus
color blue & grey: tranquility of god’s grace

Question 11

The Kiss

Answer 11

-Oil
-Klimt
- Austrian
-explored love and intimacy ( which was new style)
- ethereal quality
-decorative forms and patterns
-geometric gender related patterns
-gold = timeless quality of work

Question 12

Entry of Christ into Brussels

Answer 12

• Ensor
  -Art Nouveau
• social commentary
• chaotic composition
• disgust with society
  -use of grotesque masks = hypocrisy of society

Question 13

The Wave

Answer 13

-watercolor, pencil, ink
- Smith ( interest in spirtuality)
- water forms into human forms, but wave-like
-ethereal female figures rising from the ocean
- Symbolism/ Art Nouveau
- explore fluidity and nature
- beauty of nature
- wave= emotion & change

Question 14

Boutique Foutique

Answer 14

• Mucha
• Art Nouveau style
• intricate decorative patterns
  -organic forms inspired by nature

Question 15

Bronze Age

Answer 15

• Bronze
  -Rodin
• Sculpture
  -Early Modern Sculpture (E.M.S)
• explore realism of human form
  -capture essence of humanity

Question 16

La Valse

Answer 16

-Bronze
-Claudel
- Early Modern Sculpture
- desire to explore emotional depth
- theme of passion
-complexities of human relationships

Question 17

Puddler

Answer 17

• Bronze
  -Early Modern Sculpture
• Meunier
• explores labor, industrialization
• struggles of working
• naturalism of everyday experiences of workers

Question 18

The Little 14 Year Old Dancer

Answer 18

• Bronze
• Early Sculpture
• Degas
  -explored the observation (immediacy of dance)
• explores movement & youth

Question 19

The Wretched

Answer 19

-Bronze
-Early Sculpture
-Fuller
- explores race & identity to African American experiences
- shows human condition
-deep empathy
- provoke awareness of suffering and shame