AH II Final Exam
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- What was important about Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon?
- Shockingly ugly, urbane, vulgar, not considered fine art.
- Which artist best spoke for the French Revolution
- David
- Synthetism
- Synthetism emphasized two-dimensional flat patterns, thus differing from impressionist art and theory.
- World's Fair
- Eiffel Tower
- David's painting, Oath of the Horatii, exemplifies what?
- Civitas, duty to the fatherland
- Pointillism
- Seurat, type of impressionism
- Chevruel
- Invented color wheel
- What was the impact of Karl Marx
- Communist Manifesto - Realism
- When David painted the death of Marat, he was identifying with what kind of politics?
- Revolutionary
- What were the main ideas of Surrealism?
- The group aimed to revolutionize human experience, including its personal, cultural, social, and political aspects, by freeing people from what they saw as false rationality, and restrictive customs and structures.
- Readymade
- Duchamp - taking from one culture to another
- Manet's Olympia is unusual because
- She looks back at the viewer; no longer an object.
- Arles
- Favorite destination of Van Gogh; where he painted "The Night Cafe" and "Starry Night"
- Chance operations
- Dada, removing hand from art
- Picasso was influenced by African art in what ways
- African art highly emotive, less concerned with true representation, more abstract
- What is the synthetic cubist style?
- Synthetic cubism is more of a pushing of several objects together.
- How did industrialization affect urbanization in the nineteenth century?
- Overcrowding, disease, pollution (impression: sunrise)
- Japanese prints were influential because?
- Of their composition
- What is the analytic cubist style?
- Analytic Cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane.
- Courbet painted scenes of
- Everyday life
- Van Gogh used color how?
- Emotionally
- The Eiffel Tower, done in 1889 was made for what reasons? What is special about it?
- Created for the World's Fair. Designed by engineer, not architect.
- Chromoluminarism
- The technique involves breaking color into its basic elements, painting in very small and regular dots.
- Japonisme
- French - obsession with Japanese culture
- Pauline Borghese was a relative of Napoleon who lived where?
- Rome
- Why would the subject of train stations be important?
- Represented modernity, technology, speed.
- Primitivism
- Non-western art types