Module 1: The Birth of Contemporary Art

Question 1

Art came from the Latin word ____, meaning ________.

Answer 1

• ars
• “skill”

Question 2

It is a skill of using different materials or media to represent an idea or concept.

Answer 2

art

Question 3

According to _____________, art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.”

Answer 3

Oxford Dictionary

Question 4

It refers to understanding interdisciplinary art, art research, development, production, presentation, or artistic creation of work that fully uses two or more art discipline to make a work.

Answer 4

integrative art

Question 5

Contemporary art is the term used to represent the ___________.

Answer 5

“art of today”

Question 6

It means “belonging to the same time”.

Answer 6

contemporary

Question 7

Contemporary’s definition becomes problematic, especially in __________.

Answer 7

visual arts

Question 8

He is the founder of contemporary art.

Answer 8

Roger Eliot Fry

Question 9

He is an English art critic and artist, best known as the champion movement he termed Post-Impressionism.

Answer 9

Roger Eliot Fry

Question 10

The year Contemporary Art Society was found.

Answer 10

1910

Question 11

The main goal of the private society, Contemporary Art Society.

Answer 11

For artworks to be purchased in public museums.

Question 12

Throughout the ______, more institutions were founded using the term contemporary art.

Answer 12

1930s

Question 13

Some art historians considered the ______ as the birth of contemporary art with the emergence of pop art.

Answer 13

1960s

Question 14

An art movement that veered away from modernism.

Answer 14

pop art

Question 15

Modern art refers to artworks created from the _____________.

Answer 15

1880s to the 1970s

Question 16

Contemporary art may refer to artworks created starting from the ________________.

Answer 16

1930s to the present time

Question 17

In terms of art styles, this is considered as a radical departure from the art styles that preceded them.

Answer 17

modern art

Question 18

It rejected the traditional perspective and subject matter represented in artworks.

Answer 18

modern art

Question 19

Give a few various art movements of modern art.

Answer 19

impressionism, fauvism, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism

Question 20

The modern art movements were spearheaded by several artists who moved away from the “accurate” representation of the outside world. Give some examples.

Answer 20

Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, among others.

Question 21

The ____________________ was a considered a sort of turning point

Answer 21

late 1940s and early 1950s

Question 22

The emergence of abstract expressionism, spearheaded by ________________________.

Answer 22

Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning

Question 23

He is considered the Father of Modern Art.

Answer 23

Paul Cezanne

Question 24

According to ___________, a contemporary artist, “the most prominent feature of contemporary art is the fact that it has no distinct feature or single characteristic.”

Answer 24

Suzi Nassif

Question 25

The themes of modern art.

Answer 25

justices and experiences

Question 26

The themes of contemporary art.

Answer 26

freedom