Art Final Exam
79 Questions
FInal Art Exam
Questions and Answers
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18th century European emphasis on the minds power to reason, in contrast to the minds yearning for religious faith. Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error.
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Arose in 16th-century Europe in response to the Protestant Reformation. ed by conservative forces whose aim was both to reform the church and to secure the its traditions against the innovations of Protestant theology and against the more liberalizing effects of the Renaissance. Chief aims of the _______ were to increase faith among church members, end many of the abuses to which the leaders of the Reformation objected, and affirm some of the principles rejected by the Protestant churches, such as veneration of the saints and acceptance of the authority of the pope
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Baroque Age drawing appealed to the mind and was superior to color, which they believed appealed to the senses. They were opposed by the Rubénistes who believed that color, not drawing, was superior. Challenged the notions of the Renaissance when only the educated were believed to appreciate art.
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Baroque Age 1720’s Handel composed these. They are a sacred opera sung without costume and without acting because it is forbidden to present biblical characters in a public theater. Employed many forms of opera such as arias (solo songs)
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Artistic and literary movement during and just after world war I that rejected tradition and championed the irrational and absurd
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Associated with the formulation of the mature Rococo style and its dissemination throughout Europe. Among the most prolific of his generation, he worked in virtually every medium and every genre, creating a personal idiom that found wide reproduction in print form. He was highly adept at marketing his work, providing designs for all manner of decorative arts, from porcelain to tapestry. _____ insistence on a painterly surface and adoption of a high-toned palette favoring blues and pinks was well suited to Rococo interiors. Bath of Diana
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Was a leading composer of the Classical period, called the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'. Instrumental music, especially the symphonies and string quartets, essentially founded and brought to first mature realization the formal and structural principles of the classical style.
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- style of art associated with a group of 19th-century artists who were fond of depicting harem girls, sheikhs and Middle-Eastern scenery. Limitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings. In particular,______ Orientalist painting, depicting more specifically "the Middle East including North Africa",[1] was one of the many specialisms of 19th century Academic art.
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French caricaturist, painter and sculptor. He began work as a graphic artist, having learnt lithography techniques in 1830, and been employed on Charivari and La Caricature (1830-35) until the latter's suppression by the government. He was imprisoned in 1832 for his anti-monarchical satire of Louis Philippe as Gargantua and during the course of his life he produced over 4,000 lithographs of political and social comment, including large-scale works
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Emphasized he rebellious nature of the superman. _____ divided art into Apollonian and Dionysian. He found that the Dionysian state depended on emotional or orgiastic intoxication. He perceived that the ecstasy in this state was largely of a sexual character. As he boldly put it, "The desire for art and beauty is an indirect longing for the ecstasy of sexual desire, which gets communicated to the brain
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Was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said _____ is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. Dance at the Moulin De Le Galetta.
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In Paris at beginning of impressionist phenomenon. Reacting against the loose and unconstructed quality on impressionist art, _______ greatest interest was in order, stability, and permanence. He wanted to make impressionism something solid and durable like the art in the museums. This revolutionist style of painting would lead to the innovative ideas of the early twentieth century. First artist to profoundly redirect painting.
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Was world famous for his epic novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” He was an important figure politically within Russia and around the world for his outright condemnation of the tsarist regime, the Russian Orthodox Church, the double standards of society, the treatment of the poor and was above all an outspoken pacifist. The majority of his life’s work was actually devoted to treatises on society.
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One of the most important Dadaists who worked as a painter before the war. Saw Dada as a form of anti art. Took something mundane and by reframing it revealed its aesthetic dimension. Engaged in many other demonstrations and traditional attacks on aesthetics. Retouched the Mona Lisa.
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Born in Wyoming but later moved to New York. Began developing bodies of work referred to as drip paintings. ______ style of painting became known as action painting because it conveys the artist’s physical activity. Unroll huge canvas on the floor and throw, drip, and splatter paint onto it as he moved around.
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Large Scale Wrapping or draping places temporarily in fabric is the hallmark of this husband and wife team. Central Park Gates created by these two. They said it was a gift to the city of Manhattan. Works are funded through the sales of their prints and preparatory drawings. Obstacles to be part of their controversial installations.
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An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
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General to the major religious changes that swept across Europe during the 1500s, transforming worship, politics, society, and basic cultural patterns. One key dimension was the _______ the movement that began in 1517 with Martin Luther's critique of doctrinal principles and church actions in Germany and that led to the establishment of new official churches—the Lutheran, the Reformed or Calvinist, and the Anglican.
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- Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets. A deeply religious man, working in Counter Reformation Rome. _____i was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture
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______ argued that color should rule the day. The _______ adored the vibrant colors and aggressive brushstrokes of the more recent Baroque artists.
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Is an incomplete work[1] by Johann Sebastian Bach It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 _____and 2 canons, Bach's second version was published in 1751 after his death. It contains 14 _____ and 4 canons. "The governing idea of the work", as the eminent Bach specialist Christoph Wolff put it, is "an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject."
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- A style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 18th century and is marked by Pastoral Scenes, Pastoral Colors and arabesques, volutes, naturalistic plant forms
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The term also describes the musical form which accompanied the dance, and subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer structure, Means 2 people, Introduced by Jean Lilly.
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- the representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form. 19th century French movement
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Was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Theodore Gericault and Eugene Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists.
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- was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the style is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, _____, soleil levant. Characteristics of _____ paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open composition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles.
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- - Impressionist painter. Impressionism started in France in the 1860s. ____Degas is best known for his pictures of ballet dancers, the romantic Paris nightlife and horse racing scenes. He often used charcoal and colored chalk to create his artworks.
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Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
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An artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovski
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A 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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Was an American artist. He gained popularity, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist. ______ paintings continue to influence modern day artists and command high prices
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Was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who were a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, _____l became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.
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Uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.[1] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality
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Was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.[1][2] _________ meaning [3] or emotional experience rather than physical reality
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- is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. One such movement was dominant in Europe from the mid-18th to the 19th centuries.
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Period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
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Was a Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
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A French rococo artist whose charming and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet, _________ is probably best known for his fetes galantes. These romantic and idealized scenes depict elaborately costumed ladies and gentlemen at play in fanciful outdoor settings.
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English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
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Was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers
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Was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate. The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support.
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Was often based on the ethnocentric belief that the morals and values of the ______ were superior to those of the ; some observers link such beliefs to racism and pseudo-scientific theories dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. In the western world, this led to a form of proto-social Darwinism that placed white people at the top of the animal kingdom, "naturally" in charge of dominating non-European indigenous populations
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Term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.
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Was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions.[3]________ is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the 20th century
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Was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.[2] His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often-discomfiting examination of the relationship between artist and model.
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Was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary and philosophical existentialism.
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Term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as
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An art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.[1] challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of ___culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. ___ removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation
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Abduction of Proserpina
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Arms of Piazza of Saint Peters
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