Term

Question 1

Rosseau

Answer 1

• Book - Amile
  ○ In this book, he discusses the importance of mothers raising their children themselves
  
  • Strong message of girls to be dependent and submissive to husbands

Question 2

Evelyn Pickering De Morgan

Answer 2

• Her works are very similar to Burn Jones
  
  • Linked to the Pre-Raphaelites
  • Has the same elongated figures

Question 3

Spiritualism

Answer 3

○ A belief system where you would have a medium who served as a conduit for communication with Spirit world
○ Spirit world had ability to communicate with the living
○ By 1897 there were more than 8 million followers
○ Wasn’t formally organized
○ Primarily in English Speaking Countries
○ This is reflected in her later works

Question 4

Synesthesia

Answer 4

he idea of representing visually things like sound

Question 5

Precisionism

Answer 5

The Precisionist style, which first emerged after World War I and was at the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called “Cubist-Realism.”

Question 6

Photomontage

Answer 6

Similar to collage

Question 7

Personages

Answer 7

Humanoid forms created by bourgeois

Question 8

Target Paintings

Answer 8

Saint Phille. ○ Extension of her earlier work of target portraits where she replaced the dartboard with the head of her husband
Balloons of paint and shot

Question 9

Nana

Answer 9

○ Inspired by the pregnancy of a friend of hers
○ Considers archetypal female figures
○ The Nana was the “every woman”
○ Was the goddess of joy and empowerment
○ It was also a criticism of a male-dominated society
○ Celebration of the sisterhood of women

Question 10

Pattern and Decoration (P&D)

Answer 10

Movement in response to minimalism

	○ Collaborative
	○ Drawing from a lot of different sources
	○ Robert Kushner, Brad Davis, and Miriam Schapiro
		§ All friends, 
		§ All had exposure to liberation movements of the 70s
		§ Against the idea minimalism, wanted to find a new direction
		§ Interested in different cultures
			□ Especially cultures that use patterns

Question 11

Femmage

Answer 11

§ Refers to the female laborers hand sewn work, such as quilting, cross stitching, etc
§ Takes something that is small and sometimes considered inferior and makes it huge - puts it on the level of fine art

Question 12

Guerilla Girls

Answer 12

Feminist art group who wore gorilla mask and advocated for women’s rights in art
Anonymous
Used humor