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A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is |
Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim |
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The first national art museum opened in 1793. This museum, still in operation today, is |
the louvre in paris |
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Which art movement was directly influenced by sigmund freud’s theories of the unconscious? |
Surrealism |
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In their painting, the impressionists often focused on |
scene of leisure involving the middle class |
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Eugene Delacroix was a leading practitioner of the |
romantic style |
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A major influence upon European culture of the 19th century, one that gave rise to an expanding middle class, was |
the industrial revolution |
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Henri Matisse was told by Gustave Moreau, his teacher at the cole des beaux-arts, you were born to_______ |
simplify painting |
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The manufacture of oil paint in tubes made it possible for 19th-century european artist to make painting a portable activity. the spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in works by ______ artists |
impressionist |
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Which of the following is an american artist? |
Bingham, Tanner, Cassatt, Eakins |
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Marcek Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form |
ready-mades |
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How did impressionism get its name? |
a critic used the term to describe the movement after seeing the painting impression sunrise and it caught on |
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Paul Cezanne’s emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of |
cubism |
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romantic art stresses |
drama, unbridled emotions, and complex compositions |
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Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he |
mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectral beauty |
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Which of the following artists was a realist? |
Gustave Courbet |
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post-impressionism |
a neutral term describing the varied directions of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of impressionism |
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Dejeuner sur l’herbs (luncheon on the grass) from |
renaissance works of art |
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pointillism is a technique developed by |
Georges Seurat |
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If fauvisms mission was to liberate color from its descriptive role, cubism initial aim was |
a. to reduce the role of color to a minimum b. to invent a new system for depicting form and space on a flat surface c. to find a way of representing the fact that human perception involves multiple viewpoints |
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The first art movement to be born in the 19th century was _____, which arose as a reaction against neoclassicism and romanticism |
realism |
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After the russian revolution of 1917 many artists believed that only the most revolutionary art could bring about a new movement, which was called |
Constructivism |
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________, who designed a famous armchair, was a student of the bauhaus school of design in Germany |
Breuer |
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The term New York school refers to a postwar art movement that |
was a convenient way to lump together the abstract expressionists |
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Robert Smithton’s Spiral Jetty is an example of |
land art |
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The term postmodern was first used in reference to a certain style in |
architecture |
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The women series of paintings by willem de kooning caused a stir in the art world. They were |
seen as shocking and brutal |
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The Guerrilla Girls use posters and on-site appearances to |
bring attention to gender inequalities in the art world |
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Painting is the primary medium used by all of the following EXCEPT |
Louise Bourgeois |
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Jasper Johns chose familiar images for his subjects matter so that he could then concentrate on all of the following EXPCEPT |
the psychological use of color |
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One of the ideas behind Postmodernism is pluralism, which proposes that art |
can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid |
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The term action painting refers to the fact that this new type of painting |
traced the actions of the painter |
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Minimalism, a grand that coexisted with Pop, emphasized a continuation of the exploration of nonrepresentational and the idea that a painting or sculpture is primarily |
a physical object |
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Photorealism refers to |
a movement in painting that explores the way a camera sees |
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Early conceptualists reacted to the burgeoning art market by |
attempting to eliminate the art object |
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Artist Jean-Michel basquiat |
began as a graffiti artist |
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In joseph kosuth’s one and three chairs, the viewer is presented with |
three ways of documenting an idea |
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Anselm Kiefer was one of the most prominent neo-expressionists. his work |
dealt directly with the trauma of germany’s past |
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A neb-dada artist who made art from found materials and images and named his new art form coming paintings is |
Robert Rauschenberg |
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with happenings. his primary claim was |
that art was most like life itself |
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Appropriation contends that the meaning of a work of art |
is unstable and communal |
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A new art form known as installation |
creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience |
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The artistic recycling of existing images is an aspect of |
postmodernism |
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One of the names most closely associated with performance art is _______, who is known for the multimedia work stories from the nerve bible |
Laurie Anderson |
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Roy Lichtenstein often based his imagery on the |
comic book |
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