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It is an art movement that originated in France in 1860s.

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Impressionism

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It centered on a group of artists who were labelled as Impressionists.

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Impressionism

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The name of the Impressionist movement was coined by critics from a painting by Claude Monet entitled:

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Soleil Levant

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Short, brisk, strokes of bright colours.

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Impasto

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An Italian word used to describe the thickness and texture that can be achieved with acrylic/oil paint.

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Impasto

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He was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perception before nature, especially
as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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Claude Monet

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He was a French artist, and was a leading painter of the Impressionist style.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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He was an artist best known for his pleasant paintings and love of the female figure.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Main subject of Renoir’s paintings.

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Female figures

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He was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.

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Juan Luna

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One of the first recognised Philippine artist.

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Juan Luna

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Juan Luna is known for this famous painting which won gold medal in Madrid, 1878.

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Spoliarium

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It is an art movement that has in its root in France and Germany around 1910.

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Expressionism

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It was first used as a term to describe a group of painters in Der Blaque Reiter in Germany.

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Expressionism

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It is an artistic style in which an artist
attempts to portray not the
objective reality but more on the
subjective emotions and responses
that objects, events, or situations
arouse in him/her.
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Expressionism

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The artists rejected realism and instead distorted the images radically for emotional effect in order to evoke a mood or an idea.

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Expressionism

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They sought to arouse an emotional
response to their subjects, such as
alienated individuals in an urban
environment.

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Expressionism

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The best artwork that captures the Expressionist Style.

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The Scream by Edward Munch

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He was a Norwegian painter whose works reflected a morbid obsession with sickness and isolation.

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Edward Munch

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It depicts a man in a private
moment of anguished despair and anxiety,
while other people in the painting seem
blissfully unaware of his situation.

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The Scream

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He was a Russian artist pioneered abstract art in the 19th and early and 20th centuries.

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Wassily Kandinsky

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He was a Filipino painter who led the revolutionary Thirteen Moderns.

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Victorio Edades

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It is a group of artists who engaged their classical compatriots in a heated debate over the nature and function of art.

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Thirteen Moderns

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The Father of Philippine Modern Art.

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Victorio Edades

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He was a leading proponent of Expressionism in the Philippines.
Victorio Edades
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It is an early 20th century avant-garde art movement that revolutionize European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music, literature, and architecture.
Cubism
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This art movement was further developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first 20th century.
Cubism
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It is a form of abstraction where objects are reduced to cubes and flattened into two-dimensional shapes.
Cubism
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The first cubist work made by Picasso was named:
Les Demoiselle de Avignon
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He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer and is considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.
Pablo Picasso
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He is universally renowned as one | of the most influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century.
Pablo Picasso
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``` He is a French painter, collagist and sculptor. He is, along with Pablo Picasso, renowned as the co-founder of Cubism, which revolutionized 20th-century painting. ```
Georges Braque
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He was a Filipino artist known for his | Cubist paintings and prints.
Vicente Manansala
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He was the developer of transparent cubism.
Vicente Manansala
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It is a revolt by painters and writers in France, Germany, Switzerland during the 20th century against the prevailing standards in art.
Dadaism
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The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by which artist around 1913 when he created his first readymade, Dada?
Marcel Duchamp
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This art movement reacted to the illogical patriotism that resulted from WWI.
Dadaism
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He was a pioneer of Dada, a movement that questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be, and how it should be made.
Marcel Duchamp
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He developed artworks called “Readymades” through the use of commercially available objects.
Marcel Duchamp
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He was a prominent German avant- | garde artist who helped found both Dadaism and Surrealism.
Max Ernst
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He was a Filipino graphic artist, print- maker, avant-garde poet, social activist, sculptor, satirist, and art professor.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
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He was also credited by his peers and | art writers as the "Original Punk" of Philippine Arts.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
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His subjects and compositions usually embodied magical themes, amulets, animal people, and subconscious wanderings.
Manolito Tolentino Mayo
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It aims to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams.
Surrealism
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It is a style of art that evolved from Dadaism and developed in the 20th century.
Surrealism
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He was an Italian artist and writer | born in Greece.
Giorgo de Chirico
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In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists.
Giorgo de Chirico
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He was acclaimed by the surrealists as a forerunner of their movement, founded the school of metaphysical painting.
Giorgo de Chirico
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He was a Spanish leading | proponent of Surrealism.
Salvador Dali
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He was a Spanish leading proponent of Surrealism and he was called the "Epitome of Surrealism".
Salvador Dali
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He is a Filipino surrealist painter, poet, philosopher, essayist, musician, performance artist, and literary, art & cultural critic from Mindanao.
Danny Sillada
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He is known as “Contemporary Filipino | Renaissance man”.
Danny Sillada
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It was an art movement that merged two contradictory elements – abstract and reality.
Abstract Realism
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He was a Dutch American artist known as one of the most renowned abstract expressionists in the history of art.
Willem de Kooning
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He is a modern American artist who | has achieved international recognition for his large-scale portraits.
Chuck Close
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He was instrumental in reviving the art of portraiture as a credible subject matter at a time when figurative art looked dead in the water.
Chuck Close
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He was a Filipino painter best known for his Abstract Expressionist works which utilized a variety of techniques, including controlled drips, impasto strokes, and transparent layering.
Jose Joya
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He is a National Artist of the Philippines awardee and founding father of abstract expressionism in the Philippines.
Jose Joya
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it is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts.
National Artist Award
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It began in Britain in the mid-1950’s but became associated with America in the late 1950s.
Pop Art
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The term was derived from the “popular” because it was inspired by modern popular culture and mass media.
Pop Art
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It was born out of Dadaism and Abstract | expressionism.
Pop Art
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It is art movement that reacted against the dominance of abstract art.
Pop Art
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Artists of this movement focused their interest on familiar images of popular culture such as commercial art, comic strips, posters, billboards, among others.
Pop Art
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He was an American painter and | designer, was best known as a pioneer of pop art.
Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was an American painter and was the pioneer of pop art. His notable public figure work was:
Elvis Presley | Marilyn Monroe
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He was an American painter, graphic | artist, and sculptor, was also known as one of the proponents of pop art.
Roy Lichtenstein
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``` He is a multi-awarded and critically acclaimed Filipino visual artist known for the stunning craftsmanship and meticulous design of his artworks that meditate on critiques of modernism and contemporary life. ```
Anton Del Castillo
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It is an art movement that creates | an optical illusion.
Op art
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Shorter name for optical art
Op art
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He was a Hungarian-French artist, who was widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
Victor Vasarely
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She is a well-known British artist celebrated since the mid-1960s for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings, called “Op Art.”
Bridget Riley
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He is a Filipino Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1947.
Jaime Roque
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It breaks the conventional idea about what art is. This is an innovation in art that may include theater, dance, music, cinema, and, in some cases, the use of technology such as video, computer, and robots.
Performance art
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``` It is a term usually reserved to refer to a conceptual art which conveys a content-based meaning in a more drama-related sense, rather than being a simple performance for its own sake for entertainment purposes. ```
Performance art
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It largely refers to a performance presented to an audience, but which does not seek to present a conventional theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not seek to depict a set of fictitious characters in formal scripted interactions.
Performance art
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``` It refers to a participating art in which spectators, as well as artists were engaged. It is also regarded as “assemblage on the move,” bringing in the basic concepts of motion, time, and space. ```
Happenings
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``` It is an organized assembly of a group of people who meet in public place for the purpose of doing unusual or entertaining activity for a temporary period of time then disperse. ```
Flash Mob
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The first flash mobs were created in Manhattan in 2003 by:
Bill Wasik
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It was an attempt to restore the artist’s connection to physical environment which was somehow lost or ignored during the period of Dadaism.
Abstract Realism
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Op art typically employs abstract patterns composed with a stark contrast of foreground and background - often in ________ and ________ colors.
Black and White
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The other term for color is
Hue
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It refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other.
Proportion
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The main hero of the Impressionist painters was:
Light
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It is an element of art that is enclosed space where the boundaries are defined by other elements of art.
Shapes
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The word Dadaism came from the Latin word meaning :
Nothing
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It is the appearance of smoothness or roughness in visual arts or the actual surface feel of a work of art or craft.
Texture
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It refers to the idea of maintaining consistency of art elements in various areas in an artwork.
Balance
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It is an important principle of design that gives the artwork a sense of cohesion or coherence.
Unity
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It refers to the use of visual elements to draw attention to a certain area, usually a focal point, in an artwork.
Emphasis

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