Modernism + Materialism

Question 1

Cubism

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shifting viewpoints, Angles and form.
-Conceptual approach, no distinctions between 3d forms, they are flattened into shapes which are multiplied across a canvas. Flat, highly patterned surfaces painted in subdued colors in which it can be difficult to distinguish objects. Uses collage.

Question 2

Surrealism

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-Paris, Exploration of everything irrational and subversive in art.
-More explicitly preoccupied with spiritualism.
-Aimed to create art which was ‘automatic’ meaning it had emerged directly from the unconscious without being shaped by reason, morality or aesthetic judgements. Unconscious was central.
-Strove to undermine most accepted truths and conventions.
-Explored dream imagery.

Question 3

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Van Gogh: Starry Night
Impressionism

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Seurat: Sunday Afternoon

Question 5

Post-impressionism

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The movement which came after the Impressionists and somewhat rejected those ideas.

Similar to the Impressionists, however, they stressed the artificiality of the picture.

They use vivid colors

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Manet: Dejeuner sur L’herbe
Impressionism and realism

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Rodin: The thinker
Paris

Question 8

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Dali: The Persistence of Memory
Surrealism

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Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon

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Picasso: Guernica

Question 11

Impressionism

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capture an impression of what the eyes sees at a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the object

Question 12

Kahlo, Frida

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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist.

Question 13

Freud

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Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, a theory of how the mind works and a method of helping people in mental distress.

Question 14

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.

Question 15

Darwin, Charles

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Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built.

Question 16

Marx, Karl

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Karl Marx was a German philosopher during the 19th century. He worked primarily in the realm of political philosophy and was a famous advocate for communism. He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital, which together formed the basis of Marxism.

Question 17

Realism

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realism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances.

Question 18

Debussy, Claude

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French composer Claude Debussy’s works were a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. He developed a highly original system of harmony and musical structure that expressed, in many respects, the ideals to which the Impressionist and Symbolist painters and writers of his time aspired.

Question 19

Beethoven

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Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Top dos top

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The Louvre

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Arc de Triomphe
French Neoclassicism

Question 22

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution, served as first consul of France and was the first emperor of France. Today Napoleon is widely considered one of the greatest military generals in history.

Question 23

Epic poem Don Juan by Lord Byron

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It is a satirical, epic poem which portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womanizer as the character is historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women.

Question 24

William Blake: The Tiger

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It consists entirely of questions about the nature of God and creation, particularly whether the same God that created vulnerable beings like the lamb could also have made the fearsome tiger. The tiger becomes a symbol for one of religion’s most difficult questions: why does God allow evil to exist?

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Ingres: Grande Odalisque

Question 26

Stravinsky, Igor: Polytonality

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When a chord has two simultaneous tonal centers. An example would be Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka,

Question 27

Armstrong, Louis

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Top do jazz

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Edvard Munch: The Scream
Example of expressionism

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Monet : Impression Sunrise

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Renoir: Le Moulin de la Galette

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Pollock: Autumn Rhythm

Question 32

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Pennsylvania