Vocab for Final

Question 1

daguerreotype

Answer 1

an early photographic process that makes a positive print on a light-sensitized copperplate

Question 2

en plein air

Answer 2

french term meaning “in the open air”, describing the Impressionists practice of painting outdoors so that artists could have direct access to the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere while working.

Question 3

avant grande

Answer 3

term derived from the French military word meaning “before the group”, denotes those artists
or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or
radical nature for their time.

Question 4

expressionism

Answer 4

artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or elicit a rational response.

Question 5

cubism

Answer 5

reduced paintings to little cubes. Some qualities are flattened pictorial space, fractured forms, multiple perspectives in one picture, mostly neutral tans/greys/browns/blacks

Question 6

futurism

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art that celebrates technology and speed. Futurist artists intended to rid the world of old culture & old art and to replace it with the new.

Question 7

dadaism

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Dada artists opposed war & the hypocrisy of society and created subversive works for shock value.

Question 8

surrealism

Answer 8

Surrealism is considered the “intellectual successor” to Dada. It was inspired by Sigmund Freud, sought to free humans beings from the constraints of reason.

Question 9

readymade

Answer 9

object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by an artist

Question 10

biomorphic

Answer 10

denoting the biologically or organically inspired shapes and forms that were routinely included in abstracted Modern art in the early twentieth century.

Question 11

action painting

Answer 11

using broad gestures to drip or pour paint onto a pictorial surface.

Question 12

color field painting

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a style of American abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s which features large expanses of unmodulated color covering the greater part of the canvas. Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko were considered its chief exponents.

Question 13

site-specific

Answer 13

commissioned/designed for particular location

Question 14

pluralism

Answer 14

In an art context, pluralism refers to the late 1960s and 1970s when art, politics and culture merged as artists began to believe in a more socially and politically responsive form of art. Has to do with diversity.