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An expanding middle class was brought on by what major 19th century revolution? |
The industrial revolution |
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What museum was the first national art museum? |
The Louvre in Paris |
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With which art movement was Eugène Delacroix associated? |
Romantic style |
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What are typical themes, attitudes, and characteristics of Romantic art? |
Revolve around drama, unblinded emotion, complex composition |
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Which artist was looked on as a champion of 19th century Realism? |
Courbet |
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What was the first art movement to be born in the 19th century? What was it a reaction to? |
Realism, against neoclassicism and romanticism |
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Edouard Manet "borrowed" the composition of his painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the |
Titan and Raphael |
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How did Impressionism get its name? |
after painting impression sunrise |
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What was the typical subject matter for the Impressionists? |
scenes of leisure involving middle class |
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The spontaneity and directness of painting outdoors is evident in the work of artists in what 19th |
Impression |
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What is the term for the group of a few artists who both accepted and rejected some of the aims of |
post impressionism |
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What technique was developed by Seurat? How is this technique accomplished? |
Pointillism a technique that uses dots of pure color next to each other |
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Which of the artists from this chapter were American artists? |
1. Henry Ossawa Tanner 2. Thomas Eakins 3.Mary cassalt 4.George Caleb Bingham |
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How did Fauvism change the use of color in painting? |
freed color from replication the real colors of the natural world |
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What statement was said to have been made to Henri Matisse by Gustave Moreau? What did he mean? |
"you were born to simplify painting. to concentrate on one element of art, color |
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What minor event in Vasili Kandinsky’s life convinced him that art should be free of representational |
Mistook an upside down painting of his for an unfamilar work |
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Paul Cézanne’s emphasis on structure in painting was a direct influence in the development of what |
cubism |
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Who created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art? |
Duchamp called it ready made aided |
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What art movement was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of the unconscious? |
Surrealism |
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What is a Surrealist poetic object? What specific object (work of art) does the author use as an |
An object, Lucheon in fur by oppenheim |
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After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many artists believed that only the most revolutionary art could |
contructivism |
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Who designed a famous chrome-plated tubular steel armchair? |
Breuer Bauhaus |
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The term New York School was used in reference to what group of artists? |
Expressionists |
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What "action" is reference in the term action paintings? |
actions of the painters |
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The author states that the Women paintings by Willem de Kooning have the power to do what? |
to be disturbing |
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What two artists were given as examples of artists who work with assemblage? |
Raushcenberg and Jones |
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What is assemblage? Who was the artist that called them "combine paintings? What did critics call |
art from found materials and images, "combine paintings" |
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with what art form? |
happening |
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What decade is closely associated with Minimalism? With Pop art? |
60s |
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What was the source of Roy Lichtenstein’s imagery? |
comic book |
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What is Photorealism? |
explores photographic realism |
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What is Minimalism art about? |
does not depict or represent anything other than what it is |
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What is "Installation" art? |
provides and environment for the viewer to enter and experience |
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The artistic recycling of existing images is primarily associated with what art period? |
post-modernism |
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Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is an example of what type of art? What are the two names for this art? |
land art/earth art |
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What is the primary concern of the Conceptual artist? |
to engage with an idea |
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Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #122 is an example of what type of art? Why? |
conceptual art |
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What is the primary motivation for the Guerrilla Girls? |
bring attention to gender inequality in the art world |
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The term postmodern was first used in reference to what type of art? |
architecture |
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How does pluralism relate to post-modernism? |
it can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid |
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With what movement is Anselm Kiefer associated? What was often the subject of his art? |
most prominent neo-expressionists works directly with trauma of Germany’s past |
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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is know for what type of art? |
Graffiti |
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What inspired Nermine Hammam’s Cairo Year One: Upekkha ? |
Egyptian revolution |
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By what was Imran Qureshi’s work influenced? |
traditional mughal miniture painting |
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To what aspect of Hinduism did Subodh Gupta refer in his work Dada? |
yakshi sculptures |
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Which type of technology had a profound effect on Feng Mengbo’s Long March: Restart? |
video games |
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In Fertile Land, who is the artist and what is his nationality? |
cambodia |
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. What subject does Damián Ortega’s Harvest explore? |
language |
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Which global event inspired Thomas Demand’s Control Room? |
the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown |
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Which artist did the work Rosetta 2? |
Jenny Saville |
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Which type of interior would artist Ernesto Neto most like to create a work for? |
A cave |
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Where was Ernesto Neto’s Leviathan Thot temporary installed? |
Paris Panteon |
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In Neto’s Leviathan Thot, to which other art does he compare his work, another art having gravity, grace, |
Dance |
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