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Art History
Graduate
12/08/2010

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What word was first used to describe art that was wild and imaginative during the Mannerist period?
Definition
modern
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What were Enlightenment values?
Definition
scientists\ mathematicians who attempted to unlock secrets of the universe
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What was the Romantic Movement in art?
Definition
romanticism
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What was the Neoclassical style?
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A visual expression of the ideals of the enlightenment
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What was David’s painting The Oath of the Horatii about?
Definition
Its about a legend in the earl years of the roman public when romans were going to war with the Albans
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What is the style and narrative of Goya’s Third of May?
Definition
It was about napoleons army, and it was brutal realism and passionate romanticism
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What artists of this period rejected the logic and order of Neoclassicism?
Definition
Caspar davied fredrich
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What is the message and narrative of J.M.W. Turner’s Slaveship?
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England was the center of a strong antislavery movement
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Who was the founder of the Hudson River School?
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Thomas cole
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Who was Gustave Courbet?
Definition
An artist who was not content simply to caricature society but who actively set out to offend it
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What is the significance of A Burial at Ornans, by Gustave Courbet?
Definition
It had no significance or importance
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What was the Salon des Refuses?
Definition
art exhibitions
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Who was Edouard Manet and why is he significant in the history of French painting?
Definition
French painter that painted the naked woman in the park, called first example of modern art
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What was the subject and style of Claude Monet’s, Impression: Sunrise?
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view of french port le havre with sun just visible over horizon
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What was Monet attempting to convey in the painting Grainstacks (End of Summer)?
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the nature world, a quality of light and atmosphere
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What was Pierre-August Renior concerned with even more than the other Impressionists?
Definition
human interactions and moods
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What artist sued the famous art critic John Ruskin?
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Whistler
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What gave the art of Edgar Degas power?
Definition
A fusion of ingres line, the solid form and composition of the great renaissance masters
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What were the favorite subjects of American Impressionist Mary Cassatt?
Definition
woman and children shown in unguarded moments
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What method of painting did George Seurat create?
Definition
Pointillism
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What does the term Ukiyo-e refer to, and what is its significance?
Definition
Pictures of the floating world. has to do with japanese
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Be familiar with the work of Paul Cezanne and its impact on modern art?
Definition
postimpressionist
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What was the aim of the Expressionists?
Definition
making inner feelings visible
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What was Die Brucke?
Definition
group formed by kirchner dedicated to renewal of German art
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The word fauve means?
Definition
wild beast
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What French artist did Picasso refer to as the “father of us all”?
Definition
Cezanne
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What are the style, content, and significance of Picasso’s paintings Les Demoiselles d’ Avingnon and Guernica?
Definition
cubism
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What work was the first Cubist Collage?
Definition
les demoiselles d avignon
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Who did sculptor Constantin Brancusi apprentice with in France?
Definition
Rodin
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What was the Futurist Manifesto?
Definition
futurism was credo of those who did not look backand celebratd the age of the machine.
Term
Who were the Dada artists?
Definition
MArcel Duchamp
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What is the significance of Marcel Duchamp’s, Fountain?
Definition
Duchamp claimed anything could be art, including a jackstrap cup
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What does the term Surrealism mean?
Definition
more real than reality
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What did Surrealist artist Rene Magritte want to make the viewer conscious of?
Definition
limitations of signs, labeling, and language
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Who inspired Vasily Kandinsky to further explore color over subject matter?
Definition
Claude monet
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What is a non-representational picture?
Definition
pictures in which lines, shapes, and colors are independent elements and no longer refer to real world
Term
What was Piet Mondrian trying to convey in his painting Broadway Boogie Woogie?
Definition
the tones of modern metropolis
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Who was the founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau Germany?
Definition
Walter Gropius
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Who was the first non-representational artist?
Definition
Kandinsky
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What was the term used for Jackson Pollock’s style of Abstract Expressionism?
Definition
action painting
Term
Who invented the mobile?
Definition
Alexander Calder
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What architect built a glass house for himself?
Definition
Johnson
Term
What did the term “combine” mean to artist Robert Rauschenberg?
Definition
the medium of colage
Term
Who was the most influential Pop Artist?
Definition
Andy Warhol
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What was a Happening, and who founded them?
Definition
Founded by claes oldenburg and they were materials and locations used as art
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What artist installed a forty-five foot Clothespin in Philadelphia?
Definition
Claes Oldenburg
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What is Minimalism?
Definition
high minded and refined art
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What is an art space?
Definition
An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum
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How is Superrealism like Minimalism?
Definition
Superrealism was a amovement that recreated in two dimensions the look of photographs and in 3d used casting to achieve the utmost fidelity to reality
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Who was the artist Duane Hanson, and what was he all about?
Definition
making realistic pieces of art
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What style is the painter Anselm Keifer associated with because of his vigorous paint handling and emotion-laden imagery?
Definition
post modern art
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What are the chief characteristics of Post-Modernism?
Definition
its a movement that prefers improvisation and spontaneity to perfection, instead of one style theres many combined into one
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