Unit 4 Art Notes - Chapter 1

Question 1

1. Explain the term ‘Abstract’ in relation to the art from Post-Impressionism and Fauves styles and artists.

Answer 1

The relations in between Post-Impressionism and Fauves styles and artists with the term ‘Abstract’ were very simplified as a non-objective art, which does not have an accurate representation of a visual reality, but emphasizing forms, colors, shapes, textures, patterns, and gesture marks to achieve its greater effect arbitrarily, not accurately, without becoming too abstract.

Question 2

2. How does Post-Impressionism differ from Impressionism?

Answer 2

The Post-Impressionists rejected Impressionism’s concern for imagination, emotion, or anything related to the past for subject matter, so instead, they favored freedom to choose the subject and color palette that reflected their personal interests and artistic concepts.

Question 3

3. Where was van Gogh from? Why was he fluent in English?

Answer 3

Van Gogh was from Netherlands.

Van Gogh was fluent in English when he came to England because he want to understanding the social reform, and the idea to create a ‘art for the people’ or a figure that haunted his drawings and paintings for the entirety of his career.

Question 4

4. How was Cezanne’s painting technique different from any previous artist’s technique? Explain how cool vs warm colors create depth.

Answer 4

Cezanne’s painting technique looks very different from the way any previous artist did by using new ways of representing space and order rather than randomness and emphasized color, line, and form to bring shape back to art.

A fantastic trick for cool vs warm colors to create depth is make cool color recede to the
background while warm colors come forward.

Question 5

5. How is the style of Fauves similar and different from Post-Impressionism?

Answer 5

The similarity bewteen the style of Fauvism and Post-Impressionism is a subject matter varied with scenes of family, friends and the outdoors.

However, the difference bewteen two pieces is their approach to use arbitrary, random colors to be intentionally jarring and expressive like nothing before.

Question 6

6. Explain how Matisse’s art is a combination of childlike design and traditional subjects and
   techniques.

Answer 6

Matisse’s art techniques mixed with a combination of childlike design and traditional subjects by using a three-dimensional space, a flat, vertical image, the intense colorism, the simplification of shapes, and some happy subject on the abstract line and disortion.

Question 7

7. Explain the reasons why Dalí and Frida painted Surrealist works of art. How are they similar and different in style and subject matter?

Answer 7

Dalí and Frida did painted Surrealist works of art due to the dreamlike scenes and symbolic images because they want to revolutionize their human experience of Surrealism.

Both Frida and Dalí were painting in style to make it look very personal, and merges fantasy with reality creating the super-realism that was her life.

However, Frida painted many self portraits & many of her paintings with identity, the human body, and death, although based on reality displayed dream like imagery while Dali painted self portraits containing dream like imagery around his childhood sexual desires and on the study of the unconscious mind.