HW #3

Kandinsky's Improvisation 27

(Garden of Love II) is an Expressionist work

Expressionism

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

Cubism

developed by Picasso and Braque and depicted the world in geometric shapes and from simultaneous multiple perspectives.

Woman Bathing (La Toilette), by Mary Cassatt

is an example of the Realist style.

Composition

painted by Piet Mondrian and is an example of the De Stijl style

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

by Umberto Boccioni, is a Futurist sculpture.

Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent Van Gogh, by selecting appropriate principles of art and design descriptions that apply to this work.

- Emphasis is created through the use of proportion. - Rhythm keeps our eyes moving for engagement with the art. - Rhythm is shown through the patterns and brushstrokes used in the sky.

Hitler considered what type of art to be "degenerate?"

Avant-garde Hitler decried the avant-garde art of the early-twentieth century, calling most works of Modernism "degenerate." Simultaneously, he promoted art that displayed a naturalistic style based on Classical principles. Genre scenes of German life filled with idealized men and women matched the Nazi propaganda promoting family, home, and Church.

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot was praised: "No one represents Impressionism with a more refined talent or with more authority." One of her works is Summer's Day.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet produced Impression, Sunrise to capture the visual experience of a hazy sunrise. This work was the inspiration for Castagnary's term Impressionism

In his work Starry Night, what element does Van Gogh use to avoid too much unity?

Complementary colors The use of blue's complement-yellow/orange- helps to add just enough variety to the work.

Paul Gauguin

Gauguin fled from France and traveled to the South Pacific islands to try and escape civilization. His work showed a taste for the exotic, an aura of mystery, and a quest for the "primitive."

Fauvism

Henry Matisse's work was an example of Fauvism, a term coined to describe "wild" tendencies in early-20th-century painting.

The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors—made possible with portable oil colors—is evident in works by ________ artists.

Impressionist Thanks to the new availability of portable oil colors in tubes (as they are still manufactured today), many of the Impressionists took their canvases, brushes, and paints outside to be part of the shifting light they wanted to depict.

Impression

Impressionist painters often preferred to work outdoors to capture the shifting light with flickering strokes of paint. Renoir is considered an Impressionist.

From where did Edouard Manet get inspiration for his painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)?

Renaissance works of art Manet incorporated the iconography of Renaissance images in his painting, including that of Titian's Fete Champêtre and Raphael's Judgment of Paris.

What term is used to describe the size of a form in an artwork when compared with its real world counterpart?

Scale Scale is the size in relation to some "normal" or constant size.

What was the subject matter of much Impressionist art?

Scenes of leisure involving the middle class Renoir, Morisot, Cassatt, and other Impressionist artists found inspiration in depicting the everyday lives of people.

Seurat's Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Seurat's Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Realism

The Realist style features everyday, ordinary events and people. Courbet was a Realist painter. Claude Monet's Poppy Fields near Argenteuil is an Impressionist work.

What element of Manet's A Bar at Folies-Bergère is NOT in subordination?

The barmaid The barmaid is the central figure in this work of art, not a subordinated element.

Where is the emphasis in Francisco de Goya's Executions of the Third of May, 1808?

The man in the white shirt Goya uses strong contrasts in value to highlight and emphasize a section of the painting.

Why did Hitler organize an exhibition of modernist art?

To show the purported danger and immorality of modern art. Hitler organized a 1937 exhibition of modernist art, which he called "degenerate." The exhibition was organized to convince visitors of the danger of the art and its artists. Text painted on the walls explained the danger and misguided nature of the works. The objects were organized into rooms dedicated to art by the insane, art by Jewish artists, objects that insulted religion, and works by Communists.

Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh studied the artistic styles of Paris for two years, then settled in Arles, a small, rural town in the south of France. He is known for high-key colors, agitated brushwork, and emotional intensity—evident in works such as Wheat Field and Cypress Trees.

Post-Impressionism

Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses is a Post-Impressionist work, as is Gauguin's The Siesta. Seurat is considered a Post-Impressionist painter. The technique of Pointillism is Post-Impressionist.

Surrealism

as practiced by Dali, portrayed the illogical and incongruous nature of the dream world and the subconscious

Futurism

sought to capture the motion and energy of the new 20th-century machines and technology