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Question 1

Tableau vivant means?

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Living picture

Question 2

Avant gardes means?

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Experimental art movements that reflect world views

Question 3

Modernism

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Cultural movement that represents rejection of classical art; associated with avant gardes

Question 4

Modernist paradigm

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Utilitarianism, belief in science, practical is beautiful

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Pastiche means

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Paste

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Characteristics postmodernity

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Loss of ideological systems (narratives), moral relativity, illusion of truth, art is DERIVATIVE, mixing high and lowbrow art

Question 7

Dada art was influenced by

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Cubism, futurism, constructivism, expressionism

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Constructivism

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Originated Russian, focused in geometrism and abstraction

Question 9

Dada is

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Nihilistic, mocking, anti-aesthetic

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Suprematism

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Pure geometric abstraction and feeling

Question 11

New objectivity was

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Movement directly out of WWI by German artists expressively showing anti-war and turmoil

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Degenerate art

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Modern art as described by nazi regime

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Surrealism is an extension of

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Dada

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Surrealism was influenced by

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Karl Marx, automatism, found objects, romanticism, unconscious mind

Question 15

Neoplasticism is about

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Ideas, not visual. Simple (primary colors and white and black)

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Modernism uses

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Shapes, color, symbolism

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Harlem renaissance

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Racially conscious art

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Precision is

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Portrays man made environments, celebrated industrial US

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Regionalism is

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Portrayal of rural life in realist style and those affected by great depression

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Social realism is

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Rural vernacular architecture, urban paintings, despair and bleakness and poverty

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Fauvism is

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Scrubby paint strokes

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Abstract expressionism had two branches

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Color field painting and action painting

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Similationists/appropriationists are

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Commodity critics and reject authenticity; use brand names as narrative. Blurs high and low brow art

Question 24

Junk aesthetic is called what in the USA, Italy, and France?

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Neo-dada, arte povera, nouveau realisme

Question 25

Neo-minimalism rejects

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Originality, creativity, authenticity

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Non objective art is a response to

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Science and a rejection of material values and industrialization

Question 27

Two types of abstraction

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Geometric and organic

Question 28

Formalism removes

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Narrative, representation, subject, psychology, spirituality

Question 29

Minimalism rejects ____ and exists in the same space as the viewer

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Autonomy,

Question 30

Post minimalism uses everyday objects and simple materials to achieve a ___ aesthetic. Creating non representational objects while achieving ___ and ___ qualities

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Formalist, expressive, emotional