Art 100 (Ch.21) The Modern World

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_______, painted by Eugène Delacroix, shows the passionate and freer approach in Romantic art.

The Woman of Algiers

Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form:

ready-mades

_______ describes any style or art where the artist's subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation.

Expressionism

Realist painting sought to depict the everyday and the ordinary, a quality that can be seen in Gustave Courbet's _______.

Burial at Ornans.

Developed by Picasso and Braque, _______ depicted the world in geometric terms and with simultaneous multiple perspectives.

Cubism

Paul Cézanne's emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of:

Cubism

Henry Matisse was a leader of _______, a term coined to describe "wild" tendencies in early-20th-century painting.

Fauvism

Originating in Italy, _______ sought to depict the motion and energy of life of new 20th-century machinery.

Futurism

The manufacture of oil paint in tubes made it possible for 19th-century European artists to make painting a portable activity. The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in works by ________ artists.

Impressionist

A Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres believed history was the best subject for art, a preference that can be seen in his work _______.

Jupiter and Thetis

Salvador Dali's work embraced _______, a style that portrayed the illogical and incongruous nature of the dream world and the subconscious.

Surrealism

In their paintings, the Impressionists often focused on:

scenes of leisure involving the middle class

The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is:

the Louvre in Paris


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