CPAR L2

These flashcards cover the major concepts and styles introduced in the contemporary art lecture, focusing on movements like expressionism, optic art, kinetic art, and more, providing a comprehensive study resource.

Expressionism

Which movement in literature and arts reflects societal problems and emotional experiences by often depicting themes of human emotion?

Optical art

What art style uses repeated lines or images to create optical illusions?

Kinetic art

What is the term for a sculpture that can be moved by wind, machines, or electricity?

Performance arts

Which type of art combines various media and the human body to create artistic expressions in front of a live audience?

Environmental art

What involves creating or manipulating space in forms like landscape or architectural design to engage its audience?

Feminist art

What movement emerged from female artists expressing issues of identity, sexuality, gender roles, and equality?

Minimalist art

Which art style has a prefabricated appearance, often with flat surfaces, and expresses content without detailed features?

Video art

What consists of images recorded through video technology and viewed on screens?

Graffiti art

What is a hastily created drawing or inscription done on public surfaces?

Post-modern art

Which type of art practices push styles to extremes and often use mixed materials like found objects welded together?

Body art

What art form uses the human body as a medium and includes practices like tattooing and piercing?

Digital art

What is created using computers to produce images or designs that can be printed on various mediums?

Cubism art

Which style combines basic geometric shapes and can display multiple viewpoints similar to fractured glass?

Surrealism art

What art movement, stemming from Dada, is characterized by dream-like fantasies and is known as 'super realism'?

Fauvism

Which style is known for its emphasis on spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors?

German Expressionist movement

Which movement influenced a new generation to explore societal criticism, subjective experiences, and human emotions?

Cubism art

Combination of basic geometric shapes

Super realism

Surrealism a.k.a. ?

The wild beast

Fauvism art - Les Fauves “?”

Surrealism art

Offshoot or child of dada.

Bits & bytes

Digital Art - composed of what ?

Feminist art

Emerged from concerns of female artists expressed throughart.

Abstract expressionism

Is an art style in which the artist applies paint, for example, in manner that expresses emotions and feelings in a spontaneous way.

Abstract expressionism

The figures may be heavy in lines and color without solid mass.