Chapter 14

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What did Frank Lloyd Wright design

"Fallingwater" 1936

What did president Harry S. Truman call Eleanor?

"First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Another thing Macel made

"Nude Decending a Staircase" "The Fountain" 1917

Example of cubism

"Nude descending a staircase" -Marcel Duchamp- follower of Picasso and Braque

What were both Joyce and Virginia Woolf known for?

"Stream of consciousness" style of writing.

The American architect Louis Sullivan was among the first to Craig buildings that were open and airy and do to steel construction, were able to reach greater heights. This is exemplified by his building called the ___in St. Louis Missouri.

"Wainwright Building"

What did Jacob Lawrence's create?

- "Migration of the Negro" series - "They also found discrimination"

Who is George Gershwin?

- "Rhapsody in Blue" - Takes American sound and makes it jazz - "Porgy and Bess" Gershwin - Riff- phrase

Who was Jacob Lawrence?

-"Migration of the Negro" series -"They also found discrimination" Panel 49 - In the north the negro had better educational facilities, panel 58 fig 14.22

What was Avant Garde?

-Any group, including artists, on the cutting edge -new

Who was Thomas Hart Benton

-Wanted to turn the city into a renaissance look Educated man -He was working on his last painting when he died -Modern artist -"Missouri Mural" 1936 -His painting was painted at the missouri state capitol -Would make clay models that he would base his painting off of

Who was Joan Miro

A practitioner of an approach to surrealism called automatism. drawing "painting 1933"

Who was the leading visual artist in Harlem, N.Y. in the 1920's.

Aaron Douglas

What type of painting was Picasso's HOuses on a hill?

Analytical cubism

What is Art Nouveau? 1890-1910

Architecture and the decorative arts that was characterized by decoration, especially curvilinear patterns, based on the forms in nature.

Style of architecture popular in Europe and America from the 1890s to the early 1900s that was characterized by decoration, especially curvilinear patterns, based on the forms of nature was called___?

Art Nouveau

Joan Miró was a practitioner of an approach to surrealism called ___Which in drawing and painting liberated the artist from any necessary of plan, therefore the paining, and someways, painted itself, nearly automatically.

Automatism

Who was Gravrilo Princip?

Bosnian Serb whos assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, June 28 1914.

Picasso's famous Lea Demoiselles d'Avignon Was a turning point in the history of painting and is usually considered the beginning of what movement in the 20th century art?

Cubism

Where is Diego Rivera's "The Detroit Industry Mural"

DIA 1932-33

What did Walter Gropius do

Directed the Bauhaus art school in Dessau, Germany and designed its chief buildings.

Who created the Migrant Mother (1936)

Dorothea Lange

Who created "NIghthawks" 1942

Edward Hopper

Who was the first longest- serving first lady of the U.S?

Eleanor Roosevelt

When talking about the painter Gaugin and his Tahitian paintings, the French word "primitif" means high born, sophisticated, and Rich. T or F

False

Henri matisse perfectly encapsulates the tenets of____And his woman with a hat by using the rock contrast of pure color in flat plains which was considered by critics to be the work of wild beasts.

Fauvism

Example of DADA art

Fleur Marteau (Flower Hammer) by Jean Arp, 1916

President__Establish the new deal with the Social Security act in attempt to close the economic gap between the very rich and the poor in 1935.

Franklin D Roosevelt

What kind of art was the sculpture "Umberto Boccioni?"

Futurism

Mahana no Atua (1894) was created by whom?

Gauguin

Who created "A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte"?

Georges Seurat, 1884-86

Example of the avant garde favism

Henri Matisse "Woman with a hat" 1905

____ it's considered the most influential composer of the modern art era. The most spectacular of his early ballet scores was the ring of spring of 1913. This belly broke new ground, filled with harmonic shifts, rhythmic surprises and melody at irregularities.

Igor Stravinsky

To viewers at the time, when looking at a painting by van Gogh, the dashes of thickly painted color, and effect known as___ seems thrown onto the campus as a haphazard and unrefined mess;Yet we know he intended to use the Fickley applied paint to_the texture and even direction of the brush strokes.

Impasto

Who was one of the most important and influential pioneers of American Modern Dance

Martha Graham

The leading painter of the De Stiji school was he painter____ whose paintings consist of a surface grid A horizontal and vertical lines with rectangles and squares often painted in bold colors of red, blue, yellow, and black.

Mondrian

Where is Thomas Hart Benton's mural (1936)

On the walls of the Missouri State Capitol

Perhaps one of the most important of the Post-Impressionist artists was_____ who observed that everything he painted, whether mountains or Still-Lifes were made up of "LIttle Planets."

Paul Cezanne

Who created the "Still life with plaster cast?" 1894

Paul Cezanne

Who referred to themselves as "Monsieur Sauvage"

Paul Gauguin

Who began the cubist movement?

Picasso

What was the introduction of collage

Picasso's "Guitar, Sheet Music and Wine Glass"

In his painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the isle of La Grande Jatte," Georges Seurant employed a technique called ____ which is almost a mathmatical application of paint to the canvas in small dots or points of uniform size.

Pointillism

What does Impasto mean?

Refers to thickly applied paint on canvas that, to Van Gogh, actually works as a textual component that conveys rhythm and movement in a nearly 3-dimensional way.

The movement that eventually resulted in granting women in the US the right to vote is called woman's what?

Suffrage

What was igors most spectacular of his early ballet scores?

The rite of spring (1913)

The American regionalist painter __Painted the walls of the Missouri State Capitol with themes drawn from the social history of the state Missouri.

Thomas Hart Benton

Both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony were suffragettes who worked for women's rights. T or F

True

Both Emil Nolde and Vassily Kandinsky were German Expressionists? T or F

True

Both authors Virginia Woolf and James Joyce wrote in a literary style known as stream of consciousness. T or F

True

Marcel Duchamp's "fountain" is considered a Dada artwork. T or F

True

True or false: the bauhaus In Germany attempted to blend all forms of art science and technology.

True

What was Aaron Copland's two best known works

Two of his best-known ballet compositions were Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.

Example of Futurism

Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Who made "The Night Cafe" 1888, and "The starry Night?"

Van Gogh

Who never achieved fame in is lifetime and never made a living by selling his paintings.

Van Gogh

Who designed the staircase?

Victor Horta

June 28, 1914 A Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Habsburg archduke,Francis Ferdinand and his wife, which brought on the beginning of what?

World War One

Who was Igor Stravinski?

considered the most influential composer of the modern era.

What was Aaron Copland determined to do?

determined to compose music with a distinctively American style that would appeal to a wide audience.

In the 20th century modern art moved from "painting what one sees' to "_____" in other words, from the literal to the the conceptusl.

imaginative construct

What was Benito Mussolini responsible for

invention of the political movement known as Fascism, which was first established in italy.

The Futurists repudiated static art and sought to render what they thought of as what

the defining characteristic of modern urban life- namely speed?!

What did Franklin D. Roosevelt establish in 1935.

the new deal with the social security act in attempt to close the economic gap between the very rich and poor


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