Post-Impressionism
Expressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Futurism
100
It was the expressive, or non-geometric branch of post-impressionist painting.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
100
The decade Expressionism began
What is the 1910's?
100
They were a loosely allied group of French painters with shared interests. We know them as the fauves.
Who are the "Wild Beasts"?
100
The thing cubists abandoned which had been used to depict space since the Renaissance.
What is perspective?
100
Futurism started in 1909 and ended in this decade.
What are the 1920's?
200
He painted a painting which depicts a revelatory vision of Jacob wrestling with an angel, clearly delineating reality and spiritual manifestation through aesthetic form.
Who is Paul Gauguin?
200
It was the country where expressionism originated before spreading through Europe.
What is Germany?
200
He emerged as the leader of the original group of Fauves whose members shared the use of intense color as a vehicle for describing light and space, and who redefined pure color and form as means of communicating the artist's emotional state.
Who is Matisse?
200
The first phase of Cubism which sought to allow space to flow through figures, blended background into foreground, and showed objects from various angles. Some historians say these innovations represent a response to the changing experience of space, movement, and time in the modern world.
What is Analytic Cubism?
200
Futurism was the most important Italian avant-garde art movement of this century
What is the 20th century?
300
This impressionist radically altered the path of painting, ushering in a revolutionary mode of visual expression in which artists responded to their modern surroundings paving the way for post-impressionism. This was illustrated in the painting Impression, Sunrise (1872)
Who is Claude Monet?
300
The roots of expressionism could be described as a psychological by-product of this recent change in living conditions and population density.
What is urbanization?
300
This painting of of merry-making figures in a pastoral setting is possibly Matisse's best-known Fauvist work. It was created in response to the negative critical reactions that followed Matisse's contributions to the 1905 Salon d'Automne.
What is The Joy of Life?
300
These artists explored the use of non-art materials as abstract signs. Their use of newspaper and other objects led historians to argue that, instead of being concerned with form above all else, the artists were also aware of and commenting on current events, particularly WWI.
What are Synthetic Cubists?
300
Committed to the new, its members looked to destroy older forms of culture and demonstrate its beauty.
What is modern life?
400
He revered the work of the Impressionist Edgar Degas and fellow Post-Impressionist Henri Rousseau, he was skeptical of Cezanne's rigorously ordered style.
Who is van Gogh?
400
This artist focused on scenes of death, agony, and anxiety in distorted and emotionally charged portraits. One famous example is titled, The Scream.
Who is Edvard Munch?
400
Picasso's 1907 painting of nude women which was shocking to even his closest friends for its content and formal experimentation. The influence of non-Western art is evident in the faces of three women which are rendered as mask-like.
What is Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon?
400
In 1920s, and, several of Futurism's members went on to embrace this, making Futurism the only twentieth century avant-garde to have embraced far right politics.
What is Fascism?
500
The city unquestionably the center of Post-Impressionism
What is Paris?
500
This was the movement in the 1980's which was influenced by the earlier expressionist movement.
What is Neo-Expressionisim?
500
these are key elements of Fauvism (name two)
What is: emotional response to nature simplified forms saturated colors separating color from its descriptive, representational purpose and allowing it to exist on the canvas as an independent element.
500
Cubism paved the way for non-representational art by putting new emphasis on the unity between a depicted scene and this.
What is the surface of the canvas?
500
Futurists were fascinated by the problems of representing this, and strived to have their paintings evoke all kinds of sensations.
What is modern experience?
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