art chapter 23
In Matisse's Joy of Life the artist is emphasizing ________.
a leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing
a. artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
action painting
at the height of his career, when he was inspired by his mistress
africa
A dreamlike environment is created in Giorgio De Chirico's "The Melancholy and Mystery of the Street" by:
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Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because:
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An everyday object presented as a work of art.
readymade
Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel is an example of ________.
readymade
Objects found or already existing outside of the context of art, which are used as component parts in a work or to create an entire sculpture, are called ________.
readymades
Artwork made of three-dimensional materials, including found objects, as well as technique of creating artworks that challenged traditional art practice.
assemblage
Pablo Picasso made "Girl before a Mirror" ________.
at the height of his career, when he was inspired by his mistress
Kazimir Malevich was part of which movement?
suprematism
e. a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
conceptual art
Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque is part of which movement?
cubism
Most of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist works look like paintings, but they are actually Cubist collages.
false
Piet Mondrian wanted to make artwork that appealed to ________.
the mind
"Wild Beasts": early 20th century movement emphasizing bold, exaggerated colors and simplified forms to favor creation expression over accuracy.
fauvism
b. impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
happenings
Like Dada, Surrealism was also opposed to rationality and convention.
true
Pablo Picasso challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by emphasizing underlying geometric form and the construction of pictorial space.
true
Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.
true
c. artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
installation
How does Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque relate to the scene it represents?
it is an abstraction based on nature
d. an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
performance art
A single photographic image that combines several separate images.
photomontage
Expressionism focuses on:
what is felt rather than what is seen
The degree to which an image is altered from an easily recognizable subject
abstraction
How does Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space distill the vital qualities of a bird?
b. by reminding us of bird or feather shapes or the soaring quality of flight
A work of art assembled by gluing materials, often paper, onto a surface. From the French for "to glue"
collage
Representation of a subject from multiple viewpoints at one time
composite view
Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?
de stijl
An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.
false
An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.
false
Cubist paintings are completely non-objective and do not contain any recognizable objects.
false
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was shocking because of the nudity it contained.
false