Final exam

Question 1

Realism

Answer 1

• Naturalistic
• Detail
• Earthy Colour Palette
• Absence of Idealism or Allegory
• Social Commentary
• Subdued Lighting
• Paintings can still be posed, but made seem like they are not.
  “Il faut être de son temps”
  A Burial At Ornans

Question 2

Romanticism

Answer 2

• Follow your own genius, individualistic
• Emotion, intuition, unrestrained creative genius.
• Children & the exotic a popular subject.

Question 3

Impressionism

Answer 3

• Art should engage with reality, not escape it.
• Captures a fleeting moment
• Rejects traditional ideas: randomized compositions and colours.
• Leasurely activities instead of politics.
• Impressionists such as Manet challenged the idea that paintings should mirror reality.

Question 4

Post-Impressionism

Answer 4

• Van Gogh, Cezanne, eurat, Gauguin.
• More deliberate than Impressionism, but also shows the artist’s presence: brushstrokes.

Question 5

Fauvism

Answer 5

• Colour main focus
• No spirituality (difference with symbolism)
• Ignores traditional rules to emphasize timelessness.
• Distracts the viewer from modern times and takes them back to the simpler times.
• Subject matter can be real, imaginary or both.

Question 6

Surrealism

Answer 6

• Overthrow rationality in society.
• Subconcious (emotions hidden emotions), automatic paintings
• Dream-like
• Drawing from within themselves

Question 7

Dadaism

Answer 7

• Duchamp, Hugo Ball
• All kinds of media
• Poking fun at high art
• Didn’t want to be art
• Use of humor to challenge notions of what art is

Question 8

Post-modernism

Answer 8

• Pluralistic (media & practitioners)
• Marginalized voices: feminism, racism
• Death of painting
• Anything goes
• Performance art becomes more mainstream