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In art, __________ refers to an object's shape and structure.

form

Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

Dada had no fixed ideas

abstraction

nonrepresentational

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

18th century Japanese woodblock prints

impressionism

19th century art movement that sought to capture It a fleeting moment, thereby conveying elusiveness and impermanence of conveying images and conditions

Cubism

20th C movement, rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world.

Regionalism

20th C, American, portrayed American rural life in a realist style

DADA

20th C, prompted by revolution

symbolism

A late 19th C movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed that facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact

pointilism

A system of painting devised by the 19th C French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots. The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewers eyes optically blend the dots/

Fauvism

An early 20th C art movement led by Matisse. Color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning.

German Expressionism

An early 20th century regional expressionist movement

" . . . I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by ____.

Andre Breton

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

Cezanne

Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?

Cezanne

What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Cubism

Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?

Dorothea Lange

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?

Frida Kahlo

One aspect of Rodin's work that ties him to Impressionism is ____.

His concern for light on sculpted surfaces

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul.

en plein air

Impressionists, artist sketches outdoors- a quick impression

haboku

Japanese art, rapidly executed painting style in which the ink seems to have been Applied by swinging or splashing it onto the paper

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

Japanese prints

ukiyo-e

Japanese, pictures of the floating world. During the Edo period, Woodcut prints brothels popular entertainment and beautiful women

avant-garde

Late 19th/20th C artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work

Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?

Marc Chagall

Although many artists dealt with the theme of war or other societal ills, ____ believed above all in the expressive use of color, saying that the whole arrangement of his pictures were expressive.

Matisse

A painting that was done in reaction to WW1 was __________.

Max Beckmann's Night

Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?

Mondrian

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

Redon

Who is the Surrealist?

Salvador Dali

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?

Symbolists

Japonisme

The French fascination with all things Japanese. Second half of the 19th C

post impressionism

The term used to describe stylistically heterogeneous Book of the late 19th century pictures of France including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cezanne, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color than the impressionists did

In The Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?

Through use of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

The counterculture of the Edo Period produced works whose subject matter depicted which of the following?

Yoshiwara brothels

readymade

an object elevated to the status of art merely through the choice of the artist

local color

an objects true color in white light

The goal of Dali's "paranoiac-critical method was to ______.

create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality

Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?

different times of the day

Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?

domestic scenes

A nonobjective work refers to work that ________.

has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world

A broken-ink picture often hovers at the edge of legibility. Which of the following describes this style?

rapid brush strokes, sometimes even dripping the ink onto the paper

Surrealism

successor to DADA, exploration of ways to express art

What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?

the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure

Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

the social history of Missouri

Art historians may reconstruct distorted picture of the past if they do not understand the cultural _______.

traditions language priorities economy

During Japan's Edo period, this style of woodcut prints depicted brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women.

ukiyo-e

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . . ."?

van Gogh

Which of the following ideas did Vincent Van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?

vastness of the universe


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