art 210 exam 2

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

1) 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

1) 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

1) 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.