art 100 chapter 21

Fauves means what in English?

"Wild beasts"

Which characteristics best describe Cubism?

Objects were depicted as if view from several viewpoints simultaneously. Depictions of objects are broken down to simple geometric shapes.

What did artists in the Realism movement find most inspiring?

Ordinary people and the events of present-day life

Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation and created what would become an iconic symbol of the Dada movement by drawing a ____________ on a postcard of the Mona Lisa.

mustache

What was a lingering effect of the Fauvist movement?

Artists were free to use color without feeling bound to nature.

Against what were the Dada artists protesting?

Business as usual The middle class

The Impressionist painters were most concerned with what aspect in their works?

Capturing light and recording optical sensations

Which artist created the painting, Impression: Sunrise, which was in part, responsible for the coining of the term Impressionism?

Claude Monet

The Netherlands-based movement that believed art created from basic geometric shape and primary colors would promote intellectual calmness, came from a group known as ______.

De Stijl

Giorgio de Chirico believed that for art to enter the realm of dreams, what must the art exclude?

Recognizable material

Which characteristics or themes are found in Romantic paintings?

Emotion Mystery

True or false: When the French painter Daumier, printed a lithograph of a family who had been needlessly shot to death by the French military, the king gave him a medal.

False

Which artist painted many images of people from Tahiti, whom he believed were spiritually inspiring, as well as beautiful physically?

Gauguin

Which elements did Mondrian use most prominently in his art?

Geometric shapes Primary colors

What school of artists was named for a review of their groundbreaking 1874 exhibition as the Anonymous Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, and so on?

Impressionists

Look at this image. How does Eugène Delacroix's The Women of Algiersexemplify the Romantic movement?

It features figures in a exotic setting.

Piet Mondrian was a prominent member of the De Stijl group, who prized streamlined order and geometry in art. What did he believe about nature?

It is full of irrationality and could lead to things like war.

Look at this image. Why is Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) an example of American Romanticism?

It shows majestic representations of nature.

Look at this image. With its hidden brushstrokes and subject matter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis follows what artistic style?

Neoclassicism

The Impressionists were among the first artists to do what activity?

Paint outdoors rather than in the studio

Based off of his interest in color theory, Georges Seurat developed a technique of painting involving small dots of color placed close together and blended by the eye. What was the name of this technique?

Pointillism

What were some of the modern technological devices that shocked the world with their destruction during World War I?

Poison gas Submarines Machine guns

What were the inspirations of Surrealist works?

Sigmund Freud Dreams Sexual drive

What aspects, in part, inspired the Futurists to create art?

Speed and energy Modern machinery

Romanticism was largely a reaction to what previous age?

The Age of Reason

What inspired the group of artists called the Futurists?

The idea of describing motion as was newly experienced by way of modern machinery

Where did American artists find their inspiration for Romanticism?

The landscape

Which are characteristics of early Cubism?

The merging figure and ground where forms blend and intersect with the background The inclusion of nontraditional elements such as "primitive" African and Iberian art The fragmentation of figures as if seen from multiple perspectives

What were Picasso and Braque prepared to give up in their search for originality in their art?

Their personal artistic style

True or false: The phrase "avant-garde" is a French military term for the first group of soldiers that go into battle.

True

Experimentation with ______ and ______ defined the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century.

color; form

Innovators such as Giorgio de Chirico believed that art would evolve only through what means?

exploring new subjects