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Grade 12 U Final Art Exam
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12th Grade
01/23/2011

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Expressionism
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late 19th century to early 20th century art movement in which artists tried to communicate their strong emotional feelings through art works
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Expressionists expressed...
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emotional states as well as stresses brought on by modern life
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Some artists tried to show...
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the bleakness of contemporary urban life
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Other artists tried to show...
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the world as viewed throught the yes of the people in anguish
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Edvard Munch
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Norwegian artists considered one of the forerunners in Expressionism
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Edvard Munch subject matter
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death, dying, anxiety, loss, abandonment, and loneliness
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Edvard Munch techniques
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borrowed from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Pablo Picasso
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one of the first few artists to be grouped in early expressionism
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Blue Period
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moved to Paris and was affected by the tragic mood of urban society. painted beggars, derelicts, and poor families
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Henri Rousseau
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gave up his government job at middle age to take up painting
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Henri Rousseau's goal
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to paint the world around him with absolute realism. instead presents enchanted worlds of forests and tropical jungles
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Henri Rousseau admired for...
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his naive spirit and innocence of technique
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Early Expressionism
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Munch, Rousseau, Picasso
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Fauvism
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bold distortion, violent colour and vigorous brushstrokes
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Mexican Expressionism
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spurred on by the fall of dictator Porfirio Diaz. new freedom expression developed into style "of the people"
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Henri Matisse
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Fauvism artist. used intense colours and simplified complex subjects. became spokesperson for the Fauvist group.
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Kathe Kollwitz
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one of the most powerfully emotional artist of this century. worked in Berlin most of her life and evacuated in the bombing of 1943
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Kathe Kollwitz
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etchings, lithographs, and drawings express her feelings about old age, hard work, war, motherhood, death
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Wassily Kandinsky
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considered one of the founders of pure abstract art. credited with painting the first 'non-objective' painting around 1910
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Amadeo Modigliani
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gradually developed a style based on elongated distortion of African sculpture. addicted to alcohol and drugs eventually drank himself to death. womans man
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Diego Rivera
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influenced by Gauguin, Mayan, and Aztec sculpture. Political and social turmoil served as inspiration. famous muralist
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Frida Kohlo
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self taught artist, married Diego Rivera, works were psychologically mysterious, many works were self-portraits
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Fantasy Art
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evolved from Greek mythology, demons and monsters of Middle Ages, imaginary world, dream-like images, nightmarish illusions, personal symbolism
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Marc Chagall
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style based somewhat on Cubism with gractured planes, but concepts and presentation purely personal
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Giorgio de Chirico
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oridyced serues if dustyrbing cityscapes which are crisp, clean and strange
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Paul Klee
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interested in children's art and developed style combined personal wit with child-like vision of mysteries of life
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Works of happy nature
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Paul Klee
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early 20th century art movement that ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms
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Dada
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Biomorphic
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resembling or suggesting forms of living things
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Assemblages
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three-dimensional collage, gathering of scraps, junk, odds and ends
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Protest which took the form of nonsense poetry
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Dadaism
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Dada
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artists used personal styles to create spur of the moment works
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Marcel DuChamp
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made "readymade" art
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Jean Arp
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made collages by cutting bits of paper and letting them float to the floor
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Man Ray
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modified objects by taking away natural function, best known for his avate garde photography
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Surrealism
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an increasingly more psychological fantasy art
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Developed from Fantasy Art and the Dada Movement
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surrealism
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Meaning of Surrealism
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'beneath the realistic surface of life'
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Salvador Dali
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one of most famous Surrealist artists, used exact Realism and fused it with a mastery of 3-D space
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Joan Miro
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used mix of impossible animals and people, lines and flat shapes
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This artists shapes sometimes suggest people
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Joan Miro
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Rene Magritte
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Belgian Surrealist developed own style based on absurd combinations of realistically painted objects
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Abstract Art
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mainly concerned with design on the canvas and how the various parts related to each other
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Cubism, Futurism and De Stijl
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three important directions that abstract art took in the first half of 20th century
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Joseph Stella
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came from Italy to U.S returned to his homeland when Futurism was in its developmental stages
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A branch of abstract art emphasized the lines of force or dynamism of each object
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Futurism
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Piet Mondrian
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coldly intellectual approach to design, led in the development of a nonrepresentational style
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Restricted design to vertical and horizontal black lines
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Piet Mondrian
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Restricted design to three primary colours plus black, white and gray
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Piet Mondrian
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