MODERN ART (ARTS) Flashcards
(44 cards)
The collective titles assigned to works of art that belong to a certain period of time and employ similar styles or techniques and guided by shared ideas.
Art movements
The first movement of modern art.
Realism
It aimed at the precise representation of human conditions, perspective and distance, and detailed effects of color.
Realism
It used source of lighting to recreate the natural lighting of a scene.
Realism
Who made the stone breakers?
Gustave Courbet
Realism’s subject matter was often ____________ scenes and ________ scenes of the lives of urban and rural working class.
street life, genre
The term impressionism was first used by art critic ______________ when he visited the pioneering exhibition of Impressionist paintings.
Louis Leroy
________________ rejected this fine finish and detailed images.
Impressionists
It attempted to objectively capture visual reality through the fleeting effects of color and light.
Impressionism
The name Post-Impressionism was coined by art critic _____________ referring to the works by painters.
Roger Fry
Who painted young girls by the sea?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Who painted Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grand Jatte?
George Seurat
Post-Impressionism focused on a more ___________________________.
ambitious expression
It was in a way an extension of the impressionist movement and also an abandonment of that artistic movement’s limitations.
Post-Impressionism
It acknowledge the pure and intense colors used by Impressionist painters, as well as the use of short strokes of broken color in defining form.
Post-Impressionism artists
The different styles in Post-Impressionism can be grouped into opposing stylistic traditions:
The geometric style and the nongeometric or expressive style
A highly fashionable artistic movement, succeeded the paintings of van Gogh, Gaugin, and other Post-Impressionism artists.
Fauvism
It can be considered the inspiration for Expressionism because Fauve artists used non-naturalistic and often brash colors.
Fauvism
They are actually known for their aggressive use of pure, brilliant colors boldly applied straight from paint tubes.
Fauvism
Fauvism placed great importance on _________________________.
individual expression
Art Nouveau was inspired by __________ and _____________ as it favored exotic details.
Japanese and Celtic art
This artistic movement represented one of the first major breaks with the aesthetic traditions that were very much valued in the past.
Fauvism
Art Nouveau was named after a shop in France, _____________________________________________________, which strongly supported and promoted new ideas in art.
La Maison de l’Art Nouveau (House of new art)
It attempted to put an end to the traditional view that fine arts were superior than decorative or functional arts.
Art Nouveau
