Unit 9 Flashcards

(28 cards)

1
Q

Picasso stayed an integral part of the art world until he was ____.

A

91

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2
Q

Instead of painting scenes of Parisian crowds or countryside, Rousseau painted ______.

A

jungles

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3
Q

Rodin’s most famous work is ______.

A

The Thinker

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4
Q

Kandinsky experimented with the idea of taking colors and making them be the emotions, since emotions are ______ and ________

A

abstract and intangible

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5
Q

During his teen years, Picasso was already mastering the technique of recreating an image with ________ accuracy.

A

photographic

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6
Q

_____ was “discovered” by Picasso when his painting was bought in a junk shop by the Cubist painter.

A

Rousseau

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7
Q

Most of Munch’s women are shown as either very gentle and breakable or as ______.

A

vampires

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8
Q

_________ liked to use “readymades” and create art out of them.

A

Duchamp

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9
Q

In ______, the images are first deconstructed or broken down and then put back together in various geometric forms.

A

Cubism

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10
Q

__________ took time to examine cave markings and hieroglyphics because of his interest in paring down his art to give a more primitive, less affected art.

A

Klee

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11
Q

________ was inspired by watching cheese soften to create one of his most famous works.

A

Dali

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12
Q

As the rules of art changed, artists were more interested in producing a less realistic and more _____ piece of art.

A

reflective

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13
Q

___________ painted several pictures of the New Mexico landscape.

A

O’Keeffe

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14
Q

____________ was not as interested in the subconscious as he was in testing how our minds view reality.

A

Magritte

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15
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_________ wanted to paint art that was about ideas and not just aesthetics.

A

Magritte

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16
Q

Artists who considered themselves ______ were solely concerned about painting images from a subjective view that shows pure, deep emotion.

A

Expressionists

17
Q

Matisse’s biggest critics called him a wild beast, which later became the art movement of _________ because of his use of super bright colors that defied nature and the way he took forms and made them his own.

18
Q

Surrealism means to go beyond the real, which usually results in some bizarre thoughts, images, and truths that have been hidden behind _______.

19
Q

____________ quest to find a sign or symbol that would represent truth which can appear almost simplistic at first, but in depth represents much more, ended up being his legacy.

20
Q

In his later years, ______ started using bright paper collages as an artistic medium.

21
Q

__________ experimented with very consciously arranging geometric shapes on his canvas to get a certain impact.

22
Q

Rodin is commonly called the father of modern _______ due to his innovative ways of creating art.

23
Q

________ had the biggest influence on the German Expressionist movement.

24
Q

Munch created a painting that has become the universal symbol of ______.

A

distress and anguish

25
__________ escaped the Nazis by moving from France to New York.
Chagall
26
_______ had a precision and exact nature to his technique, and used those skills to portray his surreal dreams in such a way that the images often turn out haunting.
Dali
27
To Matisse, it was all about the ________ of colors.
emotions
28
The flower paintings of O’Keeffe could almost be considered _____ art.
abstract