Test 1

Question 1

Modernism in Art

Answer 1

Impressionism/ Post Impressionism, Expressionism, Abstraction, Cubism, Abstract expressionism (non objective, non representational? Surrealism, Op art, Minimalism

Question 2

Post Modernism in Art

Answer 2

Pop art, Neo-expressionism, Subject matter, appropriation, deconstruction, feminism, environmental, performance, installation

-looks at art from the past with satire.
re examining art

Question 3

Modernism:

Answer 3

started roughly in 1800
political revolution
industrial revolution
based on representing something
First movement in modern art: impressionism, formalism.
sought a universal truth
influenced by globalization(corporate control, mass media, consumerism

Question 4

Post Modernism (late modernism, conceptual)

Answer 4

rejected modernism
began with architecture (louvre, Art gallery ontario,las vegas)
architecture had lots of curves, diagonals, more active surfaces. Eclectic style
uncomfortable subject matter

Question 5

Greek Classicism

Answer 5

1100 BC-100 BC
huge impact on european culture
focus on depicting beauty, idealized, perfection, mathematically based, geometry
planned out/ rational
pictorial depth

Question 6

Byzantine

Answer 6

art style reflected religion
christ depicted always at the top
Gold behind figures, over walls
Icons

Question 7

Rococco

Answer 7

1750
flowing, artistic
elaborate carved forms
heavily decorative
pastels
light fluffy colours
use of gold

Question 8

Baroque

Answer 8

exaggerated motion
images are direct, obvious and dramatic
dramatic use of colour
extravagant settings
ornamentation
overlappings of figures and elements

Question 9

First Nations Terms:

Answer 9

Coast Salish-southcoast
Nuu Chah Nulth-west coast
Kwakwakawakw- mid coast
Haida-north coast

Question 10

Crusades

Answer 10

military expeditions to free Jerusalem

movement of fine products across europe/asia

Question 11

China

Answer 11

silk pantings
ink washes
porcelain
blue and white ming dynasty
ming comes in many different colours and styles

Question 12

Istanbul

Answer 12

mosque-islamic buildings covered in tiles
designs with flowers, vines
pointed arch
islamic architecture had huge impact on europe

Question 13

Chinoiserie

Answer 13

trying to mimic porcelain
“in the chinese fashion”
existed in fabrics, ceramics, wallpaper, paintings

Question 14

Japonism

Answer 14

study of japanese art and artistic talent. Japanese influence on western art, especially impressionism

Question 15

Japanese wood block prints

Answer 15

japan didn’t trade much with outside world
block prints- influence in western art
profound influence, europeans tired of conventions of western art

Question 16

primitive art

Answer 16

diverges from naturalism
expression of humanities, control supernatural world
seldom decorative, always has purpose
religious
african masks/tribal art

Question 17

primitivism

Answer 17

art that is influenced by types of art that were previously called primitive
art that refers to primitive art
example-demoiselles d’avignon-picasso/henry more statues
merge with culture