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The movement known as _________________ marked the first total artistic revolution since the Renaissance.
Impressionism
______________________ shattered tradition by painting female nudes as contemporary human beings, not idealized goddesses
Manet
The original cast of Impressionists included the artists: Manet, ______________, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, and Cassatt.
Monte
The artist ________________ is often called the father of Modern Art.
Edouard Manet
The _______________ was an annual art show established in 1667 by the French Academy.
Salon
Edgar Degas' eccentric compositions reflect the influence of _____________________ prints, which placed figures informally off-center, sometimes cropped by the edges of the frame.
Japanese
_____________ was the father figure and peacemaker of the Impressionist group.
Camille Pissarro
In the 1860s Japanese color woodblock prints, known as ___________________ prints, were first imported into France, where they became an important influence away from the European tradition of painting.
Ukiyo-e
___________________ singlehandedly revived sculpture as a medium worthy of an original artist and by 1900 was acknowledged as the world's greatest living sculptor.
Auguste Rodin
Post-Impressionism, like Impressionism, was a _______________ phenomenon.
French
George Seurat developed a quasi-scientific method of painting known as ______________.
Pointillism
The artist Toulouse-Lautrec's most original contribution was in the realm of the ______________, for he singlehandedly made the new form of lithography and the poster respectable media for major art.
Graphic Arts
it was obvious from the beginning Gaugin’s life would be extraordinary. As an extremely gifted child always carving wood, a neighbor had predicted of him that he would be a great ________
Sculptor
Edvard Munch was always an outsider, brooding and melancholy, who called his paintings his ______
Children
the forerunner of Surrealism, __________ was an artistic and literary movement that thrived in the last decade of the nineteenth century
Symbolism
The American Symbolist painter _________ was another fan of Edgar Allen Poe, who, like Redon, painted pictures from his imagination and used simplified forms and yellowish light to create works of haunting intensity
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American midwestern architect Louis Sullivan’s credo of _________ became the rallying cry of the day
Form Follows Function
It was somehow fitting that the first new school of architecture to emerge in centuries was born in _____
Chicago
During the first half of the twentieth century, the School of _______ reigned supreme
Paris
_______-century art provided the sharpest break with the past in the whole evolution of Western art
Twentieth
_______ was the first major avant-grade art movement of the twentieth century
Fauvism
the artist Andre Derain was regarded as the quintessential ________
Fauve
the artist __________ lifelong concern was to redeem humanity through exposing evil
Rouault’s
the artist Pablo Picasso once said, “I painted what I _________, not what I see.”
know
the _______ straddled the borderline between abstraction and representation. They simplified forms to an extreme of spare geometry, using clean-edge rectangles to indicate soaring skyscrapers and factories.
Perfectionists
the painter ______ is an example of how Expressionists borrowed form tribal and oceanic art to revitalize decadent Western culture
Emil Nolde
the major contribution of the Expressionists was a revival of the graphic arts especially _________
The Woodcut
from 1917 to 1931, Dutch group of Modernists led by Piet Mondrian tried to eliminate ________ from art
emotion
in his art, the artist _______ exploited the irrational
Arp
the most significant art show in American history, called the _________ Show, because it took place in New York’s 69th Regiment Armory building, bust the bubble of American provincialism in 1913
Armory
French photographer _________ began as a Cubist painter before turning to photography in 1932
Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘Guts! Guts! Life! Life! That’s my technique!” said painter George Luks. “I can paint with a ________ dipped in pitch and lard.”
Shoestring
the artist ________, leader of the American Scene, believed hometown reality should inspire art.
Thomas Hart Benton
also called “action painting” and the New York School, __________ stressed energy, action, kineticism, and freneticism.
Abstract Expressionism
the artist Arshile Gorky pioneered _________ painting in the U.S.
Automatic
the hands-down winner among all-star art schools was the experimental __________ College in North Carolina
Black Mountain
_________ Art, or work outside the mainstream of professional art, is produced by self-taught, inwardly driven artists
Outsider
a man of ________ is how painter Howard Finster signed his work
Vision
the most important sculptor associated with the ________ School was David Smith
New York
More than a brush, the tools of the Hard Edge painter’s trade are quick-drying acrylic paint and ______ for clear, crisp outlines
masking tape
__________ art made icons of the crassest consumer items like hamburgers, toilets, lawnmowers, lipstick tubes, mounds of orange-colored spaghetti, and celebrities like Elvis Presley.
Pop
The staged event involving the artist talking, singing, dancing, etc. Requires artists to use their bodies in front of an audience
Performance Art
what is clear about Post-Modern architecture is its __________
Pluralism
A Post-Modern American architect for whom color was a central component was ______________
Michael Graves
the most provocative post-modern architect working today is indisputably __________
Frank O. Gehry
rather than a single trend or movement, the most important trait of contemporary photography is ________
Diversity
Called by art critic Robert Hughes 'the best painter of his generation on either side of the Atlantic,' Anselm Kiefer became an '80s star due to the new taste for ___________________.
Narrative
American artist _________ specializes in fabricated self-portraits in which she dresses up like Hollywood or Old Master stereotypes and photographs herself
Cindy Sherman
Art in the 80’s saw the rebirth of the painting as an accessible form of ___________
storytelling
the first professionally trained artist to use the graffiti style was New Yorker ___________
Keith Haring
__________ paints pop images like tools, robes, and hearts
Jim Dime
__________ combines mechanical parts in feminist instillations
Rebecca Horn
Nam June Paik is regarded as the _______ of video art
Father
In the 1990’s _________ art emerged as a major movement
Instillation
The first time period
The Ancient Period
The second time period
The Medieval Period
The third time period
The Renaissance
The fourth time period
Baroque to Romanticism
the fifth time period
The Modern Age and beyond
The Doric Order
Style: simple and grandiose (weighty and massiveness);associated with the male body (derived from the proportions of a man). 2) Features: the column has no base & 20 flutes (vertical grooves in the column; the grooves meet at a sharp angle), the capital: convex disc (One of the best preserved Doric temples of ancient Greece: The second Temple of Hera at Paestum, Campania, Italy; 460-450 BC).
The Ionic Order
Style: graceful and more elaborate (lightness and delicacy; associated with the female body [derived from the proportions of a woman]). 2) Features: the column rises from a tiered base & has 24 flutes(separated by narrow bands), the capital: pair of spirals (volutes).
The Corinthian Order
Developed as an elaborate substitute for the Ionic (late 5thcentury B.C.). 2) The Capital: covered in shoots and leaves of an acanthus plant(a common Mediterranean plant); Note: many ancient cultures used floral elements in their capital designs, e.g., the ancient Egyptians.
Note 
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