Section 5 test

Andre Breton

"...I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by_______.

rapid brush strokes, sometimes even dripping the ink onto the paper

A broken-ink picture often hovers at the edge of legibility, Which of the following describes this style?

Max Beckmann's Night

A painting that was done in reaction to World War I was ______.

Pointillism

A stem of painting devised by the 19th century French painter Georges Seurat. The artists separates color into its component parts and ten applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots.

Matisse

Although many artists dealt with the theme of war or other societal ills, ______ believed above all in the expressive use of color, saying the whole arrangement of his pictures were expressive

economy, language, traditions, priorities

Art historians may reconstruct distorted picture of the past if they do not understand the cultural________.

domestic scenes

Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?

Readymade

By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the Found object became art.

Japanese prints

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

ukiyo-e

During Japan's Edo period, this style of woodcut prints depicted brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women.

Symbolists

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?

Salon des Refuses

French for "exhibition of rejects" is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon

Avant-garde

French, "advance guard". Late 19th and 20th century artist who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul.

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

Frida Kahlo

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?

Through use of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

In The Night Cafe, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?

form

In art, ____________ refers to an object's shape and structure.

ukiyo-e

Japanese, "pictures of the floating world." During the Edo period, woodcut prints depicting brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women

different times o the day

Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which o the following?

His concern for light on sculpted surfaces

One aspect of Rodin's work that ties him to Impressionism is _____.

Marc Chagall

Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?

Yoshiwara brothels

The counterculture of the Edo Period produced works whose subject matter depicted which of the following?

create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality

The goal of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ______.

the social history of Missouri

Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

Dorothea Lange

Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?

the reflection of the subdivision of the interior space in the outer structure

What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?

cubism

What style is described as compositions of shapes abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Mondrain

Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?

Cezanne

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

Redon

Which of the following artists is categorized aa a Symbolist?

18th century Japanese woodblock prints

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

Dada had no fixed ideas

Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

Dynamism of Dog on a Leash

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?

Salvador Dali

Who is the Surrealist?

Cezanne

Who said: "I want to make of Impression something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?

van Gogh

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly...I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green..."?

Impressionism

a late 19th century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions

Symbolism

a late 19th century movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact

has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world

a nonobjective work refers to work that______.

en plein air

an approach to painting very popular among the impressionists, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color

local color

an object's true color in white light

non-objective

another way to refer to Abstract art or nonrepresentational art. Essentially, the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place or thing in the natural world

haboku

in Japanese art, a loose and rapidly executed painting style in which the ink seems to have been applied by flinging or splashing it onto the paper

Abstraction

nonrepresentational; forms and colors arranged without reference to the depiction of an object.

representation

references objects, or events in the real world

armory show

refers to the International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913, the first large exhibition of modern art in America.

Japonism

the French fascination with all things Japanese. Japonisme emerged in the second half of the 19th century

post impressionism

the term used to describe the stylistically heterogeneous work of the group of late 19th century painters in France, including van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne.

vastness of the universe

which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?