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Critic Lawrence Alloway may have named Pop art after

A Tootsie Pop

A development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act ( e.g., action painting). leading figures were Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning

Abstract Expressionism

Which photographer believed in making only "straight, unmanipulated" photographic processes, without resorting to techniques such as doubled-exposure or double-printing that would add information absent in the subject when he released the shutter?

Alfred Stieglitz

The text explains that Minimalist art is best understood when considered

Alongside the artists' manifestoes

Eero Saarinen wanted to evoke the excitement of air travel in his expressive and swooping design for

An airport terminal

Also called style modern, movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s?

Art Deco

Surrealist painters' variety of techniques were known collectively as

Automatism

Ana Mendieta's "Flowers on Body," the work speaks to the issues of

Birth and death, the female experience of childbirth, and the human connection to the earth

Which artist based his painting of the late 1960s and early 1970s on photographs, and his main goal was to translate photographic information into painted information?

Chuck close

The art of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg questioned the influential ideas of

Clement Greenberg

Which of the following is a term that comes from the French word meaning "to glue" and describes an important aspect of Synthetic Cubism?

Collage

Art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one

Conceptual Art

AN early 20th century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and later collage

Cubism

Was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

Dada

Dutch, "the style" An early 20th century art movement (and magazine), founded by piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, whose members promoted utoplan ideals and developed a simplified geometric style is?

De Stijl

Karl marx, together with Friedrich Engels, wrote the communist manifesto which called for the working class to overthrow the capitalists system. Marx believed scientific, rational law governed nature and, indeed, all of human history. Marx coined a term where - those who controlled the means of production conflicted with those whose labor they exploited for their own enrichment, which he called.

Dialectical materialism

Which artist conceptualized the readymade?

Duchamp

One of the most exciting developments In postwar art and architecture has been sometimes called earthworks

Environmental art

Polish fiber Artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz gained fame with

Experimental freestanding figural works expressing the stoic, everyday toughness of the human spirit

A style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

Fauvism

What term, which is based on the French word for "wild beast," was the name of an art movement that included Henri Matisse?

Fauvism

Women arts played a significant role in the feminist movement, which sought equal rights for women in contemporary society and focused attention on the subservient place of women in societies throughout history.

Feminist Art

One of the most striking personalities in the development of modern architecture on either side of the Atlantic was?

Frank Loyd Wright

Was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century, It emphasized speed, technology, youth, and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.

Futurism

Is a cultural movement that is challenging to define as it is not distinguished by a singular style or method of creation,, but rather is better described by both mindset of the artist creating the work and the generation he or she lived in.

German Expression

What is the term for artists' were trying to suggest the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of everyday life; such as chance, actions, movements, and gestures of their own bodies?

Happenings

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

Impressionism

How did Picasso's treatment o space in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon dramatically change the practice of painting in the West?

It was an alternative to traditional systems of perspective

The French fascination with all things Japanese, which emerged in the second half of the 19th century.

Japonisme

In this one person event, the artist coated his head with honey and gold leaf and spoke to the dead hare, Assuming, the role of shaman, e used stylized actions to evoke a sense of mystery and sacred ritual

Joseph Beuys. How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965

The best-known artist to emerge from the Harlem Community Art Center was

Lawrence

The art of Josef Kosuth examined the conceptual relationships between visual images and

Linguists (language)

An objects color in white light - becomes modified by the quality of the light shining on it, by reflections from other objects, and by the effects juxtaposed colors produce. Shadows have colors.

Local color

Who was the architect many architectural historians call the first truly modern architect, arrived at a synthesis of industrial structure and ornamentation that perfectly expressed the spirit of late 19th century.

Louis Henry Sullivan

The leading sculptural movement of this period was

Minimalism

A movement in Western art that developed in the second half of the 19th century and sought to capture the images and sensibilities of the age. Modernist art goes beyond simple dealing with the present and involves the artist's critical examination of the premises of art itself.

Modernism

Is a philosophical movement that along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and 20th centuries

Modernism

When compared to paintings by Diego Rivera, those of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are considered

More personal

The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's theory of "pure plastic art," an ideal balance between the universal and the individual, using an abstract formal vocabulary is?

Neoplasticism

Understand the interest in aesthetic functional objects and the preference for high- quality artisanship and honest labor.

Objects and Décor of the arts & crafts

Short for optical art, is a sytle of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and white.

Op Art

An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance

Performance Art

An outstanding example of postmodernist design that creates a dialogue between the past and the present is

Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans

An approach to painting very popular among the impressionists, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color

Plein Air

A system of paintings devised by the 19th century French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points). The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewer's eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism

Pointillism

An art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid to late 1950s, the movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.

Pop Art

The tem used to describe the stylistically heterogeneous work of the group of the late 19th century painters in 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

Post-Impressionism

A late 20 century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notions of "art"

Postmodernism

Which movement inspired Paula Modersohn-Becker's painting?

Primitivism

The architects fully exposed the anatomy of this six-level building, as in the century earlier Crystal Palace, and color coded the internal parts according to function, as in a factory.

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, Centre Gorges Pompidou, Paris, France 1977

The Architect, asserted that form should be separated from function and structure

Robert Venturi

Louise Nevelson arrived at works such as Sky Cathedral after

Stacking boxes of discarded objects

Also known as Hyper-realism, is an art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which the paintings, or sculptures, resemble a high resolution photograph

Superrealism

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

Symbolism

What served as an incubator for fascism and communism in Europe during the early twentieth century?

The Great Depression

Which Dadaist idea would have a radical influence on art of the later twentieth century?

The notion that art was not precious but could exist as conceptual ideas and actions.

How does Synthetic Cubism Reference the real world?

The suggestions are of discernible subjects

How did Walter Gropius's design for the Bauhaus building convey the dynamism of modern life

The three large cubic areas had a balanced asymmetry

Why did the US government hire Dorothea Lange and other photographers during the Great Depression?

They hoped to build public support for federal assistance for rural America

What motivated Picasso to create his large-scale painting Guernica for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1938 Paris Exposition?

it was a response to the German bombing of a small Basque town, sponsored by Spanish Nationalists

Who exhibited with the surrealists but never formally joined the movement embracing, instead, biomorphic abstraction?

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