unit 9 Flashcards
To Matisse, it was all about the ________ of colors.
emotions
T or F - O’Keeffe painted in an almost Cubist fashion.
False
The Fiddler
Chagall
As the rules of art changed, artists were more interested in producing a less realistic and more _____ piece of art.
reflective
Dali painted the image titled ______.
Persistence of Memory
The Sleeping Gypsy
Rousseau
O’Keeffe painted several pictures of the _____ landscape.
New Mexico
_______ experimented with the idea of taking colors and making them be the emotions, since emotions are abstract and intangible.
Kandinsky
Rodin’s most famous work is ______.
The Thinker
_____ was “discovered” by Picasso when his painting was bought in a junk shop by the Cubist painter.
Rousseau
Since the colors Picasso chose to use during this time were that of cool blues and indigo, and the subjects were that of hungry beggars and the outcasts, this period of his art has been labeled the _______.
Blue Period
The main goal of ________ was to protest the war through its very unconventional approaches.
Dadaism
The Twittering Machine
Klee
Matisse’s quest to find a sign or symbol that would represent _________ which can appear almost simplistic at first, but in depth represents much more, ended up being his legacy.
truth
Chagall’s mural inspired the 1964 Broadway musical _______.
Fiddler on the Roof
Chagall escaped the Nazis by moving from France to ________.
New York
Dali was inspired by watching _____ soften to create one of his most famous works.
cheese
Artists who considered themselves ______ were solely concerned about painting images from a subjective view that shows pure, deep emotion.
Expressionists
Picasso is considered to be the father of _______.
Cubism
Composition VII
Kandinsky
Instead of painting scenes of Parisian crowds or countryside, Rousseau painted ______.
jungles
Surrealism means to go beyond the real, which usually results in some bizarre thoughts, images, and truths that have been hidden behind _______.
logic
Kandinsky experimented with very consciously arranging _____ shapes on his canvas to get a certain impact.
geometric
Rodin is commonly called the father of modern _______ due to his innovative ways of creating art.
sculpture
Magritte was not as interested in the subconscious as he was in testing how our ______ view reality.
minds
The flower paintings of O’Keeffe could almost be considered _____ art.
Abstract
Magritte wanted to paint art that was about _____ and not just aesthetics.
ideas
Dali had a precision and exact nature to his technique, and used those skills to portray his surreal dreams in such a way that the images often turn out ______.
haunting
Most of Munch’s women are shown as either very gentle and breakable or as ______.
vampires
In his later years, ______ started using bright paper collages as an artistic medium.
Matisse
Blue and Green Music
O’Keeffe
Munch created a painting that has become the universal symbol of ______.
distress and anguish
Duchamp liked to use ______ and create art out of them.
“readymades”
The Old Guitarist
Picasso
The Scream
Munch
Picasso stayed an integral part of the art world until he was ____.
91
Matisse’s biggest critics called him a wild beast, which later became the art movement of _________ because of his use of super bright colors that defied nature and the way he took forms and made them his own.
Fauvism
_______ artist Munch had the biggest influence on the German Expressionist movement.
Norwegian
Picasso went from painting the starving and blind beggars to the acrobats and circus performers during his sentimental ______.
Rose Period
Nude Descending a Staircase
Duchamp
Guemica
Picasso
Portrait of Madame Matisse
Matisse
In ______, the images are first deconstructed or broken down and then put back together in various geometric forms.
Cubism
Rousseau went to the _____ to acquire inspiration for his paintings.
Parisian botanical gardens
Even though Munch had suicidal thoughts during this time, he was able to channel his pain into powerful ______.
art
Klee took time to examine ______ markings and hieroglyphics because of his interest in paring down his art to give a more primitive, less affected art.
cave
During his teen years, Picasso was already mastering the technique of recreating an image with ________ accuracy.
photographic
Magritte painted the image titled \_\_\_\_\_\_. The Discovery of Fire The Red Studio Son of Man Persistence of Memory
Son of Man
Who is the correct artist for the piece of art?
The Thinker
Rodin
