Exam 2 study guide

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

jackson pollock

What is the subject matter of most Impressionist paintings?

light

For Kandinsky the primary subject of his paintings was what?

music

Romanticism was a revolutionary movement that rose up as a reaction against which other movement?

neoclassicism

Which Post-Impressionist artist rejected modern society and painted images of "primitive" island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?

paul gauguin

What is the name for intimate, fashionable, and intellectual gatherings hosted by accomplished, educated Frenchwomen of the upper class?

salons

Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?

the accurate depiction of everyday life.

Of all of the Impressionists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was __________________________________, as seen in his Le Moulin de la Galette

the most significant figure painter

The term Fauves is another word for "Wild Beasts"

true

Which artist worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism?

georges braque

How did Picasso's treatment of space in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Fig. 32-6) dramatically change the practice of painting in the West?

he compressed the space and the dimensionality of the space

Because of the immense size, Claude Monet's paintings "Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Musée de l'Orangerie are considered to be

immersive and temporal

Which artists work is described as autobiographical because of her many self-portrait? In these portraits he gives the viewer a glimpse into herself and suffering.

Frida Kahlo

"Nude Descending a Staircase" is an artwork created by which of the following artists?

Marcel Duchamp

The artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on bands of color was?

Mark Rothko

Non-Objective can be easily identified because of what characteristics?

No reference to the real world

Which style of art is based on dreams and unconscious thoughts?

Surrealism

The Abstract Expressionist painters were greatly influenced by which of the following, who described a collective unconscious of universal archetypes shared by all humans?

Carl Jung

The best known of the Fauves who believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning.

Henry Matisse

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear

cooler and less distinct

Which of the following movements was considered "anti-art"?

dada

What does Fragonard's The Swing tell us about the artist's aristocratic clientele?

erotic interests

What common denominator unifies the artists who are considered Post-Impressionists?

experimented with the form and expansion with impressionism