Arts 111- The art experience

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modernism was built on ____________________

"traditional" forms of art, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life had become outdated

Hudson river school

- mid 19th venture group of American painters -romanticized the American landscape as an idealistic place where human beings and nature peacefully coexist -realistic, detailed, and idealized portrayal of nature, the works are purposefully theatrical

fauvism

-began in early 20th century -artists painted in a flat simplified manner -it's artists used spontaneous, brilliant and arbitrary colors

composition

-element of design wherein objects are placed on the page in a relational or non-relational way -design should be pleasing or expressive

neo impressionism

-founded by georges seurat -same thing as pointillism -somewhat scientific in it's approach to painting

true with dadaism

-included poetry, theater, literature and art -anti art -politically motivated

modernism

-late 19th century in western Europe

applicable to surrealism

-provides a key to the process of automatism -some paintings are realistic through irrational and dreamlike -deceptive and banal expressions are important and must be open to the full range of the imagination -some paintings depend upon automatism to create an abstract style

Cubism

-reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts to reconcile 3D parts w/ 2D picture plane - how is it that we perceive objects know and understand their physicality? -different angles and viewpoints are interwoven through a series of overlapping planes

applicable to synthetic cubism

-sometimes makes use of multiple materials -pushes shapes and objects together in the picture plane -usually colorful

impressionist paintings

-trying to recreate the sensation of light -often applied wet paint directly to other wet paint on the canvas -used pure and unmixed colors

Robert Hughes, the narrator/host of the "American Visions" video you watched is _______________________

Australian-born and was a critic for Time magazine

bstract Expressionist painting falls into which two styles?

Color Field painting and Action painting

history of art is like ______

a river

Automatism a) eliminates conscious control in the artistic creation process b) is creation via dream interpretation c) is driven by social needs and norms d) is precise in depicting its imagery

a) eliminates conscious control in the artistic creation process

Exponents of conceptual art said that the art object is not an end in itself; artistic production should serve artistic knowledge a) true b) false

a) true

In Chapter 4, Barrett says all art is _______________________ because nothing can be rendered in its full reality."

abstract

in Chapter 4 Barrett states: "An ________ ______ is a basic requirement for appreciating any work of art. An __________ _________ is one of openness to new sensory experiences"

aesthetic attitude

regionalism and social realism

at it's height in the early 1930's

atmospheric haze aka

atmospheric perspective

Which is the most correct statement? a) Artworks frequently ignore the world into which they were born b) It is the artwork we interpret, not the artists c) Artworks are always about the artist d) I know art when I see it

b) It is the artwork we interpret, not the artists

Works such as the Pop artist Andy Warhol's use of Campbell soup cans as imagery involves the post modern key term a) parody b) appropriation c) hybridization d) irony

b) appropriation

Conceptual art accepts the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture as a precious commodity a) true b) false

b) false

With the advent of Abstract Expressionism the "center of the art world" became ____________ a) rome b) new york c) paris d) moscow

b) new york

Of the artists below, which is considered to be a very important dadaist and as well as the creator of the "ready-made" a) Hans Richter b) Man Ray c) Marcel Duchamp d) Andy Warhol e) Jeff Koons

c) Marcel Duchamp

Installation art... (choose all that apply) a) are almost always outside b) are all permanent c) are preseved for posterity by documenation d) is art made for a specific space e) exploits certain qualities of a space

c) are preseved for posterity by documenation d) is art made for a specific space e) exploits certain qualities of a space

Expressionism. . . (choose all that apply) a) is carefully formulated b) is specific only to French and German Art c) is a quality of inner experience where the artist emotions are communicated through emphasis and distortion d) is only seen in surrealism and dadaist works e) can be found in works of any period

c) is a quality of inner experience where the artist emotions are communicated through emphasis and distortion e) can be found in works of any period

Post modernists use popular culture to erase a) religion in art b) anything associated with Modernism c) the boundary between high art and low art d) boring imagery

c) the boundary between high art and low art

cannon

certain set of tentative judgements about what has importance and quality -"such judgements are subject to revision and constantly being revised"

how does using light and dark in an arbitrary manner be effective

create a dramatic event or design tool

the pinging the bar at the folles-bergere was created by: a) Van Gogh b) Gaugin c) Magritte d) Manet

d) Manet

what was anti-art

dada

western cannon

denotes a body of books, more broadly, music and art that have been traditionally accepted by western scholars as the most important and influential in shaping western culture

leaders of fauve movement

derain and matisse

value

describe light and dark

complimentary colors

directly across from each other on the color wheel

impressionists often worked

en plein air

Art interpretation over time becomes final

false

Artist always know and determine what the final interpretation of their work will be

false

Artwork is about the artist

false

In art interpretation there is no difference between preferences and values

false

art interpretation over a period of time becomes final

false

artwork is about the artist

false

dada was very concerned with subconscious thought

false

there are only correct or incorrect interpretations of artwork

false

standard rule of composition

golden mean

what does the western cannon include?

greatest works of artistic merit

two artists belong to the ashcan school

henri and bellows

"What you see is what you see." describes

minimalism

western cannon debate

philosophical debate occurs over the nature and status of the canon since 1960's, rooted in critical theory, feminism, critical race theory, and marxist attacks against capitalism and classical liberal principles

impressionism in some ways parallels the invention of

photography

cubism inventors

picasso and braque

light comes from ______ and ______

point source and reflected form adjacent forms

what does modernism affirm?

power to create, improve and reshape the human environment and is characterized by a deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression

framing edge of the picture plane

primary concern when determining the efficacy of a visual two-dimensional design scheme

golden mean

proportion between the 2 dimensions of a plane figure or two divisions of a line, in which the ratio of the smaller to the larger is the same as the ratio of the larger to the whole (0.618 to 1.0)

regionalism

provides reassuring images of rural life

lighter forms are seen

receding into the background in landscape

neo- impressionist paintings typically

render the subject matter as a collection of paint dots

neo impressionist artists

seurat and signac

form

shape of positive space and it's 3 dimensionality is best determined using elements of value

Chiaroscuro

system of tonal values corresponding to light and shadow in an effort to define perception of 3D form

Judging

telling how good one thinks it is

Theorizing

telling what counts as art

describing

telling what one sees

interpreting

telling what one thinks it means

western cannon importance

the theory of educational perennials and the development of "high culture"

An aspect of installation art is the difficulty with which __________________

they can be commodified

All art is in part about the world in which it emerged

true

Interpretation is central to controversy

true

Multiple interpretations are more desirable than a single interpretation

true

Multiple interpretations of a piece of controversial art can lend rationality to a controversy.

true

Politics affect interpretations

true

early cubist works are nearly monochromatic

true

interpretation of art is subjective

true

multiple interpretations are more desirable than a single interpretation

true

picasso and braque initiated the movement when they followed the advice of Cézanne, who said artists should treat nature "in the terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone"

true

the western cannon opens a debate on the question of authority

true

what was modernism concerned with?

uncovering a fundamental truth that lies beyond what we consider to be "reality" and changing what holds back progress to make it better and more progressive

post impressionist artists

van gogh and gauguin

the bright work of the fauve movement's artist helped provide it's name which means

wild beast


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