Visual Arts
This art movement emphasized the future and the moving into the future
What is Futurism?
The 4 major architecture movements in the 20th century.
What is Bauhaus, Art Deco, Modernism, Post-Modernism?
Name two new instruments created during the 20th century that advanced music.
What is an electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizer, or theremin?
Literary movement that had an emphasis on the absurdity and meaninglessness of life. Writers of the time focused on a combination of realistic and unrealistic themes with multiple perspectives.
What is Postmodernism?
The design style known for gleaming lacquered or veneered surfaces, geometric forms, and far-flung influences from Egypt to antiquity.
What is Art Deco?
The art movement led by Pablo Picasso that depicted object in an abstract manner and used geometry
Art Movement in the 1920's 30's. It's characteristics are being abstract, angular, and geometric, with little ornamentation.
What was Bauhaus?
This musical movement included a broad range of new music (including expressionism) that strayed from tradition and used new techniques, such as atonalism and polytonalism.
What is modernism?
The most influential 20th century writer who combined realism with themes of fantasy and the supernatural. His most famous work was "Metamorphosis".
Who was Franz Kafka?
The architectural movement that utilized bright colors, whimsical buildings, eye catchings, classical motifs, and a variety of materials and shapes and came AFTER modernism.
What is postmodern architecture (postmodernism)?
Name one popular expressionist artist.
Who was Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele and Wassily Kandinsky?
Name two famous modernist buildings.
What are Sydney Opera House and Guggenheim Museum?
The musical style that tried to convey intense emotions through unusual-sounding melodies, harmonies, and dynamics.
This author wrote "Ulysses" and was a major leader of the avant-garde literary movement.
Who was James Joyce?
Name 3 materials used for Art Deco.
What is stucco, chrome, steel, decorative glass, terra-cotta, or aluminum?
Name two popular cubist artists.
Who were Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne?
Characteristics of Post-Modernism architecture.
What are bright colors, whimsical buildings, eye catchings, classical motifs, and a variety of materials and shapes?
It is the musical style that emerged in the southern US in the early 1900's and was a way for Americans and Europeans alike to bring joy into their lives and cope with grief post-world wars.
What is Jazz?
This global event sparked post-modernism in literature due its psychological, physical, and emotional effects on millions of people.
What is World War II?
The name of the element of Modernism in which ornament and excess was rejected, and utility was focused on.
What is minimalism?
This is an element of many expressionist and modern art works that means that they don't quite look like reality, but are rather interpretive and subjective.
Name 2 Characteristics of Art Deco.
What are geometric shapes and volumes?
This was an invention that played records, which had pre-recorded music on them that could be played using the machine's vibrations and gave families easy access to music.
What is a gramophone?
Name 2 tenants of postmodernist literature?
Name 3 Bauhaus architects.
Who were Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, or Paul Klee?