Living With Art

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What were the artistic elements that made a critic declare a group of artists fauves or 'wild beasts' in a 1905 art show in Paris?

Arbitrary color and an emphasis on design

Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation by drawing a mustache on a postcard of a famous painting called the

Blank 1: Mona Blank 2: Lisa

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

Capturing light and recording optical sensations

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

Exploring new subjects

What notorious painting by Edouard Manet was exhibited at the Salon des Refusés?

Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe)

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

Speed and energy Modern machinery

What subjects inspired the artists in the Surrealist movement?

Subconscious desires Dreams

Paul Gauguin is known for which techniques?

Tertiary color harmonies Flattened forms and broad color areas A strong outline

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

mustache

Fauves means what in English?

"Wild beasts"

Expressionism largely developed in what century and country?

20th-century Germany

Merit Oppenhiem created a Surrealist work titled Object, an example of incongruence. What are the two things that she melded together to create a sense of unease by their incompatibility?

A teacup and rabbit fur

What was a lingering effect of the Fauvist movement?

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

Max Ernst claimed that a . Blank 1 Blank 1 ., Incorrect Unavailable inspired his work Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.

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

Claude Monet

In Fauvist paintings, which element is considered to be a fully independent expressive element?

Color

In the early 20th century, which group of artists founded an art movement that protested the status quo and prized creativity?

Dada

What inspired the Surrealists to create?

Dreams and the subconscious

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

Gauguin

What revelation did the artist Vasili Kandinsky have that changed his painting style?

He realized that subject matter is incidental to a painting's impact.

How does Berthe Morisot's Summer's Day exemplify the Impressionist style?

It has short, color-laden brush strokes that capture the light.

Why was the Dada artistic movement important to future artists?

It questioned the status quo of everything, including who decides what is art.

Why was Marcel Duchamp's Fountain a controversial piece of art?

It was a urinal turned on its side and signed.

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

Machine guns Poison gas Submarines

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.

Which artists are credited with founding Cubism?

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Which artist influenced both Picasso and Georges Braque in the development of the Cubist style?

Paul Cezanne

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 was one of the lasting legacies of Dadaism?

Questioning of the very nature of art

What is a work of art that is created out of "found" components such as a bicycle wheel or a shovel called?

Ready-made

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

Recognizable material

Which early 20th-century figure highly influenced the Surrealist artists?

Sigmund Freud

What were the inspirations of Surrealist works?

Sigmund Freud Dreams Sexual drive

Which idea and theme did Dada and Surrealism most embrace?

Silliness

What group of artists focused their compositions on the exploration of the mechanical motion?

The Futurists

Which work did Salvador Dali create from a dream, considered to be the most famous Surrealist work?

The Persistence of Memory

What substance did Umberto Boccioni believe that the artist must infuse into each work of art?

The energy that surrounds us, to give life to the work.

Which are characteristics of early Cubism?

The fragmentation of figures as if seen from multiple perspectives 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

Against what were the Dada artists protesting?

The middle class Business as usual

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

Their personal artistic style

How does Pablo Picasso portray the women of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

They are flat and angular with hints of primitivism.

How did artists in the Dada movement feel that an artist should create art work?

They felt artists should be free to create however and whatever they wanted.

To whom are the women of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon advertising their services?

To us, the viewers of the painting

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

True

Members of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group, like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created compositions that included which characteristics?

Wavering contours Intense arbitrary colors

Matisse valued ______ and ______ over the accurate depiction of a subject.

color; design

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

color; form

The ______ intensity of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night is a defining element of the painter's work, inspiring generations of artists to come.

emotional

The movement in art that describes any style where the artist's subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation is called ______.

expressionism

The primary element being conveyed in Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is ______, which is highly representative of the Futurist style.

motion

A work of art that is created from an existing item such as a table, or a printed poster, which an artist alters in some way and then calls his own, is an example of ______ art.

ready-made


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