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Visual Arts Flashcards

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What style were Monet, Renoir, and Degas famous for?

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Impressionism

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What style were Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne, and Seurat famous for?

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Post-Impressionism

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What style were Picasso and Braque famous for?

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Cubism

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What style was Duchamp famous for?

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Dada

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What colors are found in the De Stijl style?

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red, yellow, blue, black, and white

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What style were Pollock and Dekooning known for?

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Abstract expressionism

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What style of art was Andy Warhol famous for?

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Pop art

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What style of art was Weiwei famous for?

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Conceptual

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What style of art was Beuys famous for?

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performance art

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What are the themes of romanticism?

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  • Historical Themes
  • Exotic Places
  • Heroic Stories
  • Romanticized view of the world
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When did Romanticism take place?

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1800 -1850

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When did modernism or modern art take place?

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1860 - 1970

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What did Clement Greenburg say about modernism?

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The essence of Modernism lies…in the
use of characteristic methods of a
discipline to criticize the discipline itself -
not in order to subvert it, but to
entrench it more firmly in its area of
competence.
Realistic, illusionistic art had dissembled
(disguised) the medium, using art to
conceal art. Modernism used art to call
attention to art.
The two major modernist art
movements of the latter nineteenth
century were realism and impressionism.
Clement Greenberg

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When did realism take place?

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1848 - 1880

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What is Realism?

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Realist artist sought to depict the everyday and
ordinary rather than the historic, the heroic, or the
exotic. They were more interested in the present
than the past. They were more interested in here
than there

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When was the Impressionism movement?

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1870 - 1890

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What is Impressionism?

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Artists were not aiming for perfection, but to
capture an impression.They didn’t want to portray
a landscape, but to portray the sensation of a
landscape. Impressionists captured real light,
often on-site. Their subjects matter was
landscape, urban life, culture, etc.

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what are the characteristics of Impressionism?

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  • Study of light and color on subject matter
  • Fleeting moment in time
  • Paint on location (en plein air)
  • Subjects: Landscape, urban life (leisure time)
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Who went on the Paris Art Mission?

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John Hafen, Lorus Pratt, and John Fairbanks. They were later joined by Edwin Evans and Herman Haggs.

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What and Where did the Paris Art Mission study?

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  • Studied at the Académie Julian
  • Studied figure drawing from casts and nude
    models of all ages and genders.
  • Would have seen impressionist-styled art and artists and that influences their work.
  • In 1893 the missionaries collaborated to complete murals in the Salt Lake Temple
21
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When did Post- Impressionism take place?

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1890- 1905

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What is Post- Impressionism?

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This is less a movement and more the group of artists who came after the Impressionists. Most were
interested in the work of the Impressionists, but they reacted in different ways to its perceived shortcomings.

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What is Avant Garde?

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New or cutting-edge cultural manifestation.
French term meaning “front guard.”
-Artists who explore new ways of creating,
disregarding public views, or traditional
styles.
-These artist create their own exclusive
group.

24
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When did fauvism take place?

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1905 - 1908

25
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What is Fauvism?

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Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a group of early 20th-century artists who emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over representational or realistic values. In Fauvism, color was freed from its supporting role in describing objects to become a fully independent expressive element.

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When did Expressionism take place?

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1910 - 1940

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What is Expressionism?

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Expressionism describes any style where the artist’s
subjective feelings take precedence over objective
observation.

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When did Cubism Take Place?

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1900 - 1920

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What is cubism?

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  • Cubists were exploring the idea of representing form in space
  • Analytical Cubism – multiple views (show front and back on a 2-D surface
  • Synthetic Cubism – Flat abstracted shapes, collages or painted to look like a collage.
30
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When did Dada (bicycle sculpture) take place?

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1916 - 1922

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What is Dadaism?

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In 1914 World War I Begins. Technology reveals its dark side (poison gas, bombs, aviation, machine
guns, submarines etc.). Technology, which many
thought would save society, was destroying it. In 1916, a group of artists waiting out the war in
Switzerland, banded together and formed the protest group Dada.
Artists protest everything. Dada was anti art, anti
middle-class society, anti politicians, anti good
manners, anti all that brought about the war.
Artists are mad at a society that would allow World
War I to happen. They reject western concepts of
beauty…

32
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What is a readymade?

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see powerpoint

33
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When did surrealism take place?

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1920 -1940

34
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What is Surrealism?

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Surrealism’s aim was to “resolve the previously
contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an
absolute reality, a super-reality”
-Andre Robert Breton
Artists exploring the subconscious.

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When did De Stijl, the Bauhaus, etc. take place?

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1910 -1940

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What is De Stijl?

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Advocated pure abstraction by a reduction to the essentials of form and color. Simplified visual
compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only
black, white, and primary colors.

36
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What is Bauhaus?

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German school of design founded in 1919. Their education was designed to break down the traditional divisions between painters, sculptors, architects, craft artists, graphic designers, and industrial designers. Structures, rooms, furniture, and everyday house-hold objects were stripped of superficial embellishment and pared down to clean lines.

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When did abstract expressionism take place?

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1940 -1960

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What is Abstract Expressionism?

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  • Action Painting
  • Paintings about the painting process
  • Paintings about art elements and principles (Line, Shape, Value Texture, Color, Repetition, Variety,
    Movement, etc.)
39
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Avant Garde =
Kitsch =

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high culture = high art
pop culture = low art

40
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What are Characteristics of modernism?

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Emphasis on formal elements and principles over subject matter
* Use of traditional methods and media
* Emphasis on creativity and originality
* Art for Art’s sake

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What are the characteristics of post-modernism?

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Art for social change: Art has an influence on people
and society.
* Art that addresses social issues
* Acceptance of alternative media: Installation, video,
performance, land art, non museum art, fabric, text,
computer, etc.
* Everything has been done before
* Copies of images and other art works are acceptable

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When did Pop Art take place?

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1960 - 1970

43
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What is Pop Art?

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*Portrayal of popular visual culture (pop culture
icons, comic books, every day objects portrayed
as art)
* Comments on consumerism (Warhol soup cans)
or other social commentary

44
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When did minimal art take place?

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coexisting with Pop art in the 1960s

45
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What is minimal art?

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Known for oversimplified forms (basic shapes) and
use of industrial materials (sculpture). The portrayal of various basic shapes in the painting. Sought to get rid of of representation all together and make “specific objects” that could be understood as nothing but themselves.

46
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When and what is Op Art?

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1965 – 1975 A.D.
Think optical illusion
considered part of pop art

47
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When was conceptual art?

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1970 - present?

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What is conceptual art?

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“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most
important aspect of the work. When an artist
uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all
the planning and decisions are made beforehand
and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The
idea becomes the machine that makes the art.”
- Sol LeWitt

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