Arts 111- The art experience
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"traditional" forms of art, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life had become outdated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