ART 120 Ch. 21

____________ , painted by Eugène Delacroix, shows the passionate and freer approach in Romantic art.

The Women of Algiers

____________ describes any style or art where the artist's subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation.

Expressionism

Berthe Morisot

- About this painter, a critic wrote "No one represents Impressionism with a more refined talent or with more authority." - Summer's Day

What characteristics are associated with this image?

- American Romanticism - Power of nature - Thomas Cole

What qualities of this image point to its Romantic style?

- Awe-inspiring landscape - Blurred contours

What characteristics are associated with this image?

- Colored shadows - Fluid brushwork - Sense of movement

What characteristics are associated with this work, by Vasily Kandinsky?

- Der Blaue Reiter - Expressionism - Nonrepresentational

What characteristics are associated with this image and the style of Paul Gauguin?

- Flattened forms - High-key colors - Tertiary color harmonies - Strong outlines

Impression

- Flickering strokes of paint - Less vibrant landscape painting - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Outdoor Painting

What qualities apply to this work, The Third-Class Carriage?

- Focus on everyday people - Realist style - Social truthfulness

Dada

- Fountain - Ready-made works - Artistic response to WWI - Marcel Duchamp - Provocative and absurd

Realism

- Gustav Courbet - Everyday, ordinary events and people

Vincent Van Gogh

- Known for high-key colors, agitated brushwork, and emotional intesity- evident in works such as Wheat Field and Cypress Trees - Stayed in Paris for two years, then settles in Arles, a small, rural town in the south of France

Cubism

- Pablo Picasso - Merging of figure and ground - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Reducing a subject to its simplest geometric forms - Georges Braque

Post-Impressionism

- Pointillism - More vibrant landscape painting - Georges Seurat - Painting of people

Surrealism

- The Persistence of Memory - Portrayed the logic of dreams and irrational subjects - Inspired by the theories of Sigmund Freud - Salvador Dali - Joan Miró

Expressionism

- The artist's feelings take precedence over objective observation - Developed in Germany in the early 20th century - Vasili Kandinsky - Use of intense, vibrant colors

Claude Monet

- The critic Castagnary used his painting to coin the word Impressionism for the movement - The critic Castagnary used his painting to coin the word Impressionism for the movement

Paul Gaugin

- Traveled to the South Pacific to get away from "the disease of civilization." - This painter's work showed a taste for the exotic, an aura of mystery, and a quest for the "primitive."

Futurism

- Umberto Boccioni - Focus on motion and energy

Hitler considered what type of art to be "degenerate?"

Avant-garde

Henry Matisse was a leader of ____________ , a term coined to describe "wild" tendencies in early-20th-century painting.

Fauvism

Salvador Dali's work embraced ____________ , a style that portrayed the illogical and incongruous nature of the dream world and the subconscious.

Surrealism

Why did Hitler organize an exhibition of modernist art?

To show the purported danger and immorality of modern art.

The ____________ school emphasized simple building designs that were compatible with 20th-century technology.

Bauhaus

Realist painting sought to depict the everyday and the ordinary, a quality that can be seen in Gustave Courbet's ____________ .

Burial at Ornans

Developed by Picasso and Braque, ____________ depicted the world in geometric terms and with simultaneous multiple perspectives.

Cubism

Piet Mondrian was associated with the ____________ movement, which emphasized horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors.

De Stijl

Originating in Italy, ____________ sought to depict the motion and energy of life of new 20th-century machinery.

Futurism

New York City was home to the ____________ movement, which merged African heritage, the legacy of slavery, and modern urban life.

Harlem Renaissance

A Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres believed history was the best subject for art, a preference that can be seen in his work ____________ .

Jupiter and Thetis