Exam 3

What is abstract expressionism? Describe an example in art.

An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion ad feelings through abstract images ad colors, lines and shapes. An example of abstract expressionism is Green on Blue by Mark Rothko.

Which of the following artists is most closely associated with a series of paintings of Campbell's Soup cans?

Andy Warhol

During the 1960s, which of the following U.S. cities was considered the center of the civil rights movement?

Birmingham, Alabama

How do we define "contemporary art"? How does that term differ from modern art? Provide an example of contemporary art and describe it in detail.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Modern art is that which was created sometime between the 1860s and the late 1960s. Art made thereafter is considered contemporary. An example of a piece of contemporary artwork would be Portrait (Futago). This is a good example because Morimura challenges the Japaese male identity by crossdressing and uncross dressing the male figure.

What is cubism? Who founded it? Describe a work of cubism and what makes it "cubist."

Cubism is a highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. A work of cubism is Picassos Gertrude Stein. It represents cubism because Picassos did not rely of the visual presence of the sitter before him. He painted his idea of her rather than his view.

What is dada? What is it responding to? Describe a work of art as an example of the dada mission.

Dada was a movement created by many writers and artist who openly opposed and vigorously protested the social order that had brought about what seemed to them nothing short of genocide. An example of a work of art of the dada mission would be Flower Hammer.

With whom did Pablo Picasso develop Cubism?

Georges Braque

Which phrase was the basic premise of John-Paul Sartre's existentialism?

Existence precedes essence.

What is existentialism? Why does it arise?

Existentialism arises with the collapse of the idea that pilosophy can provide substantive norms for existing, ones that specify particular ways of life. Nevertheless, there remains the distinction between what I do as myself and as anyone so in this sense existing is something at which I can succeed or fail.

What is futurism? What is this style responding to? Provide an example.

Futurism rejected the political and artistic traditions of the past and called for a new art. Futurism is born out of a high speed automobile crash in the "maternal ditch" of modernity's industrial sludge, an intentionally ironic image of rebirth and regeneration. An example of a futurism piece would be Unique forms of Continuity in Space.

Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Giacomo Balla were among the artists who collectively developed a new style known as

Futurism.

What events led to the "Harlem Renaissance"? What's an example of art produced in this period?

In New York, the Great Migration inspired a cultural community so robust, and so new, that the era has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance. An example of art produced in this period is In the North The Negro Had Better Educational Facilities by Jacob Lawrence.

Which painter is most associated with "action painting"?

Jackson Pollock

Who was instrumental in introducing graffiti to the art world?

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Among the following, who was a trumpeter that formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and The Hot Seven, and recorded Hotter Than That, which features "scat"?

Louis Armstrong

Who painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and also created "ready-mades"?

Marcel Duchamp

Among the following, who is most closely associated with color-field paintings?

Mark Rothko

What is modernism as it relates to the arts?

Modernism in the arts refers to the rejection of the Victorian era's traditions and the exploration of industrial age, real life issues, and combines a rejection of the past with experimentation, sometimes for political purposes.

Which of the following painters was greatly influenced by travels to Tahiti?

Paul Gauguin

Why was Picasso's work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon called " an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been known"?

Picasso shows one object or figure from two different points of view, the compressed and concentrated space of Les Demoiselles. Picassos subject matter and ambiguous space were disturbing to viewers. Les Demoiselles was an act of liberation, an exorcism of past traditions, perhaps even of painting itself.

What is pop art? What is it responding to in society? Explain an example.

Pop art is an art movement that began in the early 1950's, most predominantly in London, England. An example of pop art would be Supermarket Shopper because it is a hyperrealistic sculpture that shows the proliferation of new goods and products inside of her shopping cart.

What is postmodernism? Characterize the ways in which pluralism and diversity are reflected in postmodern art and literature.

Post modernism is a philosophical, literary, architectural and art movement that began in the 1960's. In art, postmodernism manifested as a rejection of the minimalist aesthetic of the modern era. Postmodernism favors pluralism and diversity of style and subject matter. Post modern art styles include the following: Neo-Expressionism, Installation Art, Video, Feminist Art, and Digital Art.

Define the art movement "post-impressionism" and describe an example.

Post-Impressionism is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, which was from the last Impressionist exhibition up to the birth of Fauvism. The movement emerged as a reaction against Impressionism and its concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. An example of Post Impressionism is The Starry Night by Van Gogh.

Which of the following artists is most closely associated with Ben Day dots, which he used to create enlarged comic strips?

Roy Lichenstein

Who created Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dalí

With which of the following are the terms "id," "ego," and "superego" most closely associated?

Sigmund Freud

How does Sigmund Freud relate to Surrealism? Describe a work of surrealist art that incorporates some aspect of Freud's ideas.

Surrealists believed in engaging the unconscious aspects of the mind and creativity just as Freud believed it was the job of the psychoanalyst to make the patient aware of their unconscious issues. A work of surrealist art could be The Master's Bedroom, It's Worth Spending a Night There by Max Ernst.

Examine the role politics played in the art and literature of the 1960s and 1970s. Provide an example as evidence for your response.

The civil rights movement was just one manifestation of a growing dissatisfaction in America- and elsewhere- with the status quo, especially among a younger generation that had not experienced the hardships of the Great Depression and the horrors of World War II. By the fall of 1969, many artists had organized in opposition to the war. The museums embodied the establishment politics that had led to the war in the first place. An example would be Q. And Babies? A. And Babies. because it is a photo of dead men, women, children, and babies who were killed during the war.

Who wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" and was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918?

Wilfred Owen

The Beat generation is best described as

a generation rebelling against the conformity of the postwar American status quo.

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was notoriously known as

an assault on the idea of painting as it had always been understood.

The term "Pop Art" came to refer to art that reflects

consumer culture as its theme.

Sartre's existential perspective includes only one certainty:

death

In which style did Georges Seurat paint A Sunday on La Grand Jatte?

pointillism