Week 10 Quiz

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Conceptualism

Abandoned beauty, rarity, and skill as measures of art

Minimalism

An approach to art - principally sculptural - which stressed anonymous, industrial manufacturing and austere, geometric forms.

True

Appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. Select one: True False

Conceptualism

Art need not look like a traditional work of art, or even take any physical form at all

True

Avant-garde: new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them Select one: True False

Minimalism

Born when a loosely affiliated group of New York-based artists began to question the boundaries between multiple media and to express the basic materiality of art objects

Futurism

Celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity. Its members wished to destroy older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life - of the machine, speed, violence and change

False

Conceptual art is composed of its basic elements: color, line, composition, and texture. These elements constitute the fundamental language used by art critics to examine and analyze works of art. Select one: True False

Expressionism

Developed a powerful mode of social criticism in their serpentine figural renderings and bold colors. Their representations of the modern city included alienated individuals - a psychological by-product of recent urbanization - as well as prostitutes, who were used to comment on capitalism's role in the emotional distancing of individuals within cities

Pop art

During the post-WWII American consumer commodity boom

Expressionism

Employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world

Cubism

Explored open form, piercing figures and objects by letting the space flow through them, blending background into foreground, and showing objects from various angles. Some historians have argued that these innovations represent a response to the changing experience of space, movement, and time in the modern world.

False

Formalism is the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. Select one: True False

Surrealism

Hoped to access powerful ideas by going beyond conscious thought.

Dada

Intent on incorporating chance into the creation of works of art. This went against all norms of traditional art production whereby a work was meticulously planned and completed

Abstract Expressionism

Monumental in scale, romantic in mood, and expressive of individual freedom

True

Readymade: ordinary manufactured objects that the artist Marcel Duchamp selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". Select one: True False

Surrealism

Shared Dada's anarchic rejection of bourgeois values, and called for a revolution of the mind. Influenced by Freudian theories on the unconscious, dreams, desire, and repression André Breton called on artists to bypass reason by accessing their unconscious via automatism or dreams

Cubism

The artists abandoned perspective, which had been used to depict space since the Renaissance, and they also turned away from the realistic modeling of figures.

Dada

The first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art

Futurism

The most important Italian avant-garde art movement of the twentieth century arising from interactions with French Cubist ideas and a general desire for progress

Abstract Expressionism

The most influential movement in post-war abstract painting, this movement flourished in New York, establishing America over Paris as the post-war leader of modern art.

Earth Art

The movement introduced site-specificity to the art world using natural spaces and materials such as stones, water, gravel, and soil. Influenced by prehistoric artworks such as Stonehenge.

Earth Art

The movement originated from the rise of environmental awareness and the Conceptual and Minimalist ideas in postmodernism.

Pop art

Visual vocabulary merged high art and popular culture, blending and elevating advertising, celebrity, and cartoons to the status of art


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