Module 1: The Birth of Contemporary Art Flashcards
(26 cards)
Art came from the Latin word ____, meaning ________.
- ars
- “skill”
It is a skill of using different materials or media to represent an idea or concept.
art
According to _____________, art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.”
Oxford Dictionary
It refers to understanding interdisciplinary art, art research, development, production, presentation, or artistic creation of work that fully uses two or more art discipline to make a work.
integrative art
Contemporary art is the term used to represent the ___________.
“art of today”
It means “belonging to the same time”.
contemporary
Contemporary’s definition becomes problematic, especially in __________.
visual arts
He is the founder of contemporary art.
Roger Eliot Fry
He is an English art critic and artist, best known as the champion movement he termed Post-Impressionism.
Roger Eliot Fry
The year Contemporary Art Society was found.
1910
The main goal of the private society, Contemporary Art Society.
For artworks to be purchased in public museums.
Throughout the ______, more institutions were founded using the term contemporary art.
1930s
Some art historians considered the ______ as the birth of contemporary art with the emergence of pop art.
1960s
An art movement that veered away from modernism.
pop art
Modern art refers to artworks created from the _____________.
1880s to the 1970s
Contemporary art may refer to artworks created starting from the ________________.
1930s to the present time
In terms of art styles, this is considered as a radical departure from the art styles that preceded them.
modern art
It rejected the traditional perspective and subject matter represented in artworks.
modern art
Give a few various art movements of modern art.
impressionism, fauvism, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism
The modern art movements were spearheaded by several artists who moved away from the “accurate” representation of the outside world. Give some examples.
Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, among others.
The ____________________ was a considered a sort of turning point
late 1940s and early 1950s
The emergence of abstract expressionism, spearheaded by ________________________.
Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning
He is considered the Father of Modern Art.
Paul Cezanne
According to ___________, a contemporary artist, “the most prominent feature of contemporary art is the fact that it has no distinct feature or single characteristic.”
Suzi Nassif
