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| How did Cubist artists seek to depict figures and objects in their work? |
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Reduce figures and objects to flat, angular shapes (abstraction) unifying figure and ground- no depth
Depiction of form in space |
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| 2 most important artists involved in the Cubist movement |
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Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque |
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| What artist was the source of inspiration for the Cubist movement? |
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| Identify 2 works (Cubist): |
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon=Picasso
Le Portugaus (The emigrant)=Braque |
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| Main source of inspiration for Futurist artists? |
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| Speed, technology, and machines like cars |
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| Identify the work (Futurist): |
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Umberto Boccioni
- Unique forms of continuity in space |
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everything and anything that was established
Art, Middle-class society, politicians, and good manners |
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| What type of art appealed to the DADA artists? |
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| No specific type, but it did encourage spontaneity, silliness, and the absurd |
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What was so important about Marcel Duchamp's Fountain?
(DADA) |
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Challenged the idea of what art is
Introduced the concept of "ready made" objects as art |
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| What influenced Surrealist artists? |
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Influenced by the imagery found in dreams, the unconscious, the subconscious, bizarre, and the irrational
(Anything not reality) |
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| Identify the 2 works (Surrealist): |
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Salvador Dali- The persistence of memory
Meret Oppenheim- Object (Luncheon in Fur) |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What world event signaled a change in the art world? Why was this so? |
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| World War II; Shift from Europe to New York City |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What is the New York School? |
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| Group of painters called Abstract Expressionist |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What characterized the work of Abstract Expressionist artists? |
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Surrealism
- Emphasis on the creative powers of the unconscious
- Technique of automation
- Large size works |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
Who epitomized the Abstract Expressionist Movement? |
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Jackson Pollock
Willem De Kooning |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
Identify the works below: |
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Jackson Pollock- November 1, 1949
Willem De Kooning- Woman IV (fourth) |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What is an assemblage? |
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| Combined paintings with other "found" objects |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
Identify the 2 works: |
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Robert Rauschenberg- Factum II
Jasper Johns- Target with four faces |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What are "Happenings"? |
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Staged events that were organized by an artist-- performance art
ex: flash mobs |
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| What are the influences of the pop art movement? |
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| Mass produced objects, images and media found in popular culture |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
Why was Andy Warhol important to this movement? |
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| First to become famous by "elevating" everyday objects and images to "fine art" level |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What is minimal art? |
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No specific object
No trace of artists "hand or touch"
Work is generally not displayed on a pedestal |
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Modern to Post-Modern (Surrealism)
What do Conceptual artist consider to be the most important thing in a work of art? |
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| Ideas or Concepts= most important part of creating art |
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