Midterm Flashcards
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It was a joyful style of painting that delighted in using bold colors.
Fauvism
Fauvism was developed in France at the beginning of the ___by ___
20th century
Henri Matisse and André Derain.
The artists who painted in this style were known as ‘Les Fauves’.
Fauvism
___ believed that color should be used at its highest pitch to express the artist’s feelings about a subject, rather than simply to describe what it looks like.
Fauvism
Les Fauves
Fauvist paintings have two main characteristics:
extremely simplified drawing and intensely exaggerated color.
•The ‘self expression’ in the art of inspired Expressionist artists in the __.
Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch
20th century
It is a style of art that is charged with an emotional or spiritual vision of the world.
German Expressionism
It attempts to shift the focus to one or more of those elements so the viewer can witness those elements in a new and unusual way that the viewer hasn’t witnessed before.
Abstract arts
The word ‘__’ means to withdraw part of something in order to consider it separately.
Abstract
In Abstract art that ‘something’ is one or more of the visual elements of a subject: its __
line, shape, tone, pattern, texture, or form.
Example of Expressionism
Red Tower at Halle
Still from the 1929 film
Self portrait city horn
It was invented around 1907 in Paris by __
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
It was the first abstract style of modern art.
Cubism
It ignore the traditions of perspective drawing and show you many views of a subject at one time.
Cubist paintings
They believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and to revitalize their work, they drew on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, particularly African art.
Cubists
It was a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity.
Futurists
They adopted the visual vocabulary of Cubism to express their ideas - but with a slight twist.
Futurists
In a Cubist painting the artist records selected details of a subject as he moves around it, whereas in a ___ painting the subject itself seems to move around the artist.
Futurists
The main figures associated with the movement were the artists, __
Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, the musician Luigi Russolo and the architect Antonio Sant’Elia.
It was a Dutch ‘style’ of pure abstraction developed by Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg and Bart van der Leck.
De Stijl
It was the outstanding artist of the group.
Mondrian
De Stijl
He gradually refined the elements of his art to a grid of lines and primary colors.
Mondrian
He saw primary colors in a universal harmony way: yellow radiated the sun’s energy; blue receded as infinite space and red materialized where blue and yellow met.
Mondrian
It was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural establishment of the time which it held responsible for Europe’s descent into World War.
Dadaism