Living with Art - The Modern World: 1800-1945

The Dada art movement shared what defining characteristics?

A refusal to make sense

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

Impressionists

The _______ was the first national museum open to the public.

Louvre

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

Luncheon on the Grass

Which characteristics best describe cubism?

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

Paul Gauguin is known for which of the following techniques?

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

Which of the following 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.

Members of the Die Brucke group, like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created compositions what including which characteristics? More than one answer may be correct.

-Wavering contours -Intense arbitrary colors

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette serves as a good example of Impressionism because of the

-dappled sunlight that shines and dances through the leaves -subject matter, which depicts the outdoors

Expressionism largely developed in what century and country?

20th-century Germany

Founded by Walter Gropius, the ________ was a school of design that focused on the stripping down of the embellishments and the paring down to clean lines.

Bauhaus

Banned by the Soviet government in 1922, Constructivism went on to influence which European artistic movement?

De Stijl

What artist used a technique of he called "little sensations of nature," structuring his paintings with a geometric pattern of hundreds of small vivid patches of color?

Paul Cezanne

What 19th-century invention revolutionized the way artists were able to create images?

Photography

According to the artist __________ _________, if people could be surrounded by the type of regimented rational beauty his paintings represented, they would become more balanced and humane.

Piet Mondrian

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

Pointillism

The first art movement to be born during the 19th century was what?

Realism

What artist is credited with adapting the conventions of Realism from its original European context to create a distinctly American Realist style?

Thomas Eakins

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

True

In Fauvist paintings, _________ is considered to be a fully independent expressive element.

color