Final art

Question 1

Eduard Manet

Answer 1

• Bar woman painting
• not quite impressionist but getting there
• more detailed in front and much more impressionist in the back
• not mythological

Question 2

Monet

Answer 2

• Color
• wide brushstrokes and color
• waterlillies
• glowing colors
• captures a moment in time

Question 3

Renoir

Answer 3

• painted happy people
• scenes of city life
• social scenes- women having conversation, middle class people in calm settings
• play of light on surface of people and objects

Question 4

Degas

Answer 4

• always practicing never in performance
• ballerinas
• floor boards
• subjects seem to be unaware

Question 5

Mary Cassatt

Answer 5

• brought impressionism to America

- mothers and children

Question 6

Georges Seurat

Answer 6

• The Circus

- pointillism

Question 7

Paul Gaugin

Answer 7

• Tahiti
• religious scenes
• bright colors
• flatness

Question 8

Cezanne

Answer 8

• very geometric
• sacrifice realism for art
• still life

Question 9

Van Gogh

Answer 9

• juxtaposition of bright complementary colors
• short nervous brushstrokes
• depressed, torments
• thick layers of paint typically

Question 10

Matisse

Answer 10

• fauvism- wild beast; broke with traditional color and form
• bright colors
• red room paintings
• more leisurely and happy

Question 11

Munch

Answer 11

• the scream
• German expressionist
• tortured and kinda eerie

Question 12

Picasso

Answer 12

• cubism
• intellectual reality
• strange angles and planes
• shapes and figures distorted

Question 13

Mondrian

Answer 13

• geometric line and primary color
• landscape but in squares and lines
• intersections
• primary colors

Question 14

Chagall

Answer 14

• Russian Jew
• used both kinds of cubism
• fairtale quality
• green fiddler

Question 15

Dali

Answer 15

• interested in morphing things
• used symbolism
• each element is photorealistic
• if you can’t tell entirely what it is it’s probably him
• melting clocks

Question 16

Magritte

Answer 16

• liked to play mind tricks

- lots of blue sky and clouds

Question 17

Kahlo

Answer 17

• not surrealist-painted her own reality

- self-portraits

Question 18

Duchamp

Answer 18

• dada movement (if it looks like graffiti or is making fun of art or is just an ordinary object)
• trying to take art off it’s pedestal

Question 19

Hopper

Answer 19

• themes of light and dark

- nighthawks

Question 20

O’Keefe

Answer 20

-up close and personal with flower

Question 21

Pollock

Answer 21

-duh

Question 22

Motherwell

Answer 22

shapes

Question 23

Frankenthaler

Answer 23

-thinned paint to get washes of color

Question 24

Rothko

Answer 24

• rectangular and square fields of color
• lazy rectangular figures of color
• hazy, blurry edges

Question 25

Johns

Answer 25

-flag

Question 26

Rauschenberg

Answer 26

-dead animals

Question 27

Warhol

Answer 27

soup and soda cans - famous people - very iconic

Question 28

Hockney

Answer 28

- british pop art | - minimalist- lots of flat colors

Question 29

Rodin

Answer 29

- sculptor - things come out of their materials - rough texture - human figure - odd placement - assymetrical

Question 30

Smith

Answer 30

- minimalist of sculpture - metal geometric shapes - shiny metal

Question 31

Calder

Answer 31

-mobiles

Question 32

Oldenburg

Answer 32

-soft and oversized everyday objects

Question 33

Moore

Answer 33

- reclining figures | - influenced by Meso-American art

Question 34

Lin

Answer 34

- earth sculptor | - Vietnam war memorial

Question 35

Cristo and Jeanne-Claude

Answer 35

-wrapped things in fabric

Question 36

Nevelson

Answer 36

wood, recognizable objects,

Question 37

Wright

Answer 37

- naturalistic style | - integration of building and site

Question 38

Mies van der Rohe

Answer 38

- no ornamentation - steel and glass - can see the framwork

Question 39

Gehry

Answer 39

- deconstructionist - metallic - curivlinear shapes - looks like it melted in the microwave