Art
Dubbed "action painting" by one critic, this was energetic and spontaneous style of art
What is Abstract Expressionism?
Things like amusement parks, movie theaters, and concerts are a direct result of pop culture and they can be classified as...
What is Industries of Leisure
The philosophy developed in the 20th century that is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
What is Feminism?
The college Oftedal Graduated from
What is Westmont?
An artistic movement that sought a reality beyond the material sensible world and found it in the world of the unconscious through the portrayal of fantasies, dreams, or nightmares.
What is Surrealism?
The United states has been the most influential force in shaping popular culture in the west through movies, advertising, and television. This phenomenon is known as:
What is Americanization?
A form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, and anti-communism in the German state.
What is Nazism?
Where did Oftedal grow up?
What is New Jersey?
This attempted to enshrine the purposelessness of life with "anti-art" and the "great rebellion of artistic movements"
Whats is Dadaism or the DADA movement?
This new style consisted of bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, rejection of materialism, and ripped jeans and flannels.
What is Grunge
Death of God meant that humans had no preordained destiny and were utterly alone in the Universe, with no future and no hope, this ideology emerged to cope with these things.
What is Existentialism
Oftedal is always gone because...
What is his daughter is sick?
Postwar was a time of disillusionment with ideological beliefs in politics and religion, so in response to this in the 50's this unrealistic and meaningless drama was born.
What is Absurdity or the Theater of the Absurd?
This musical form that originated from African American musicians in the 1920s led to a cultural boom known as...
What is the Jazz Age?
A tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen; a lack of hope or confidence in the future.
What is Pessimism?
Name both of Oftedals children's name
Avery and Emery
The man who used splash paintings to display emotions, explosion, and movement in his art, that he painted on the floor.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
A society in which social norms become increasingly liberal, especially with regard to sexual freedom.
What is a permissive society?
The philosophy rejects the modern Western belief in objective truth and instead focuses in the relative nature of reality and knowledge.
What is Postmodernism?
State Oftedals famous quote to switch topics.
What is "Well that's neither here nor there"?