Vocab
Independent thinkers and artists who broke away from the academy and the norms of society.
Movement that arose in the mid-twentieth-century as a reaction to the explosion in visual culture fueled by the growing mass media. It incorporated images from advertising and popular culture in a form of societal critique.
What is Pop Art?
Famous Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism and painted Les Demoiselles D'avignon.
Who is Picasso?
This group of artworks use the Earth as their medium.
What are Earthworks?
This painting of a prostitute by Manet was shocking to its viewers for many reasons.
What is Olympia?
The borrowing of subjects or forms, usually from non-European or prehistoric sources by Western artists, in an attempt to infuse their work with the expressive qualities they attributed to other cultures.
What is Primitivism?
This group of painters were known as "wild beasts." They took the French tradition of color and strong brushwork to new heights of intensity and expressive power.
What are the Fauves? (or Fauvists)
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Seurat all fit into this movement.
What are post-impressionists?
One example might be "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" by Richard Hamilton.
What is Collage?
A work of art that consisted of a Urinal placed on its side, reportedly by Marcel Duchamp.
What is the Fountain?
The Industrial Revolution and increased work created by factories lured the poor away from the countryside to the cities.
What is Urbanization?
Instead of challenging social commentary, these artists painted pretty pictures of the upper middle class at leisure in the countryside and in the city.
What is Impressionism?
He was an Abstract Impressionist famous for his "drip paintings."
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This movement embraced the use of modern industrial materials and drew inspiration from nature, especially vines, snakes, flowers, and winged insects.
What is Art Nouveau?
This is a mutimedia work by Kara Walker that projects color onto silhouettes.
Darkytown Rebellion
Art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one.
What is Conceptual Art?
A group of artists who were heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud and employed a variety of techniques, including automatism - releasing the subconscious to create the work of art without rational intervention.
What is Surrealism?
A painter whose works are the epitome of Academic Art in the nineteenth century.
Who is Cabanel?
An early photographic process that makes a positive print on a light-sensitized copperplate; invented and marketed in 1839 by Daguerre.
What is a Daguerrotype?
This work by David exemplifies Neoclassicism and became a symbol for the French Revolution.
What is Oath of the Horatii?
Tensions around issues of identity and unequal treatment based on gender, sexual orientation, race, or class erupted in battles over freedom of speech in the 1980s.
What are the Culture Wars?
Art movement known for its lack of representational subject matter and references to techniques of mass production. These artists rejected Abstract Expressionism and sought to reduce artistic subjectivity and expressionism.
What is Minimalism?
Architect of the Opera house in Paris.
Who is Garnier?
Andy Warhol famously used this process in creating his Pop Art Works.
What is screen printing?
This mural by Aaron Douglas was painted for the New York Public Library’s 135th Street branch in 1934.
What is Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction?