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Painters of Modern Life
New York, New York
The Avant-Garde
MOMA who??
100
Warhol's studio, emphasizing machine-like art production

What is the Factory?

100

A painting that played on Renaissance nudes, but instead portrayed the 19th c. Parisian world of brothels and prostitution. 

What is Manet's Olympia (1863)?
100

In the 1980s, this graffiti artist in the punk scene became friends with Warhol and started creating street art-inspired canvases

Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?

100

This phase of cubism was all about bringing together different materials and experimenting with collage.

What is synthetic cubism? 

100

Feminist art was part of a broader women's rights movement in the 1970s, known as this:

What is Second-Wave Feminism?

200

Painters in late 19th c. Paris who wander around outside the studio and experience their modern world

What is a flaneur?

200

This art movement emphasized the portrayal of a fleeting moment and the plays of light and shapes upon one's eyes

What is impressionism?

200
In the 1950s, MOMA put together a large exhibition on the new hero of the avant-garde, this abstract expressionist macho artist

Who is Jackson Pollock?

200

This artist was one of the first to create abstract paintings, using only form and color to express his messages.

Who is Kandinsky?

200
Warhol's work blurred the lines between high and low art, categorizing him as part of this art movement:

What is Pop Art?

300
This painter needed a large studio or barn to work in, so he could move around each side of the canvas, flinging paint

Who is Jackson Pollock?

300
When the Academy's Salon would no longer do, Manet and other painters exhibited instead in this alternative space.

What is the Salon des Refuses (or Salon of Rejects)?

300

This artist ran the New York art scene in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, but it was more about satire, celebrity, and pop than the serious ideals of modernism.

Who is Andy Warhol?

300
Picasso's The Guitarist from 1910 is an example of this artistic style.

What is analytic cubism?

300

This artist rejected the machismo of the modernist art world and even created a feminist art program in California.

Who is Judy Chicago?

400
Monet's approach to painting, always outside 
What is plein air painting?
400

A personal, intimate style of painting that emphasized the expressive potential of form and color, associated with Van Gogh

What is Post-Impressionism?

400

This painting, purchased by MOMA in NYC in the 1930s, was considered then to be one of the most important modernist works of the 20th century.

What is Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?

400

Pollock's paintings were a record of gesture and movement, so one critic dubbed them as this: 

What are 'action paintings'?

400
Postmodern critics have taken issue with modernist artists' appropriation of 'tribal' art, known as this: 

What is primitivism?

500

An artist, as well as an anti-war and gay rights activist, who turned the subway into his studio space in 1980s NYC

Who is Keith Haring?

500

This French 'wildman' went to French Polynesia (and married a teenager) in order to push the limits of his art, of Western representation

Who is Gauguin?

500

This painter, though she was a successful artist and trained at Hans Hoffman's NYC art school, was defined by her marriage to Jackson Pollock more than anything else.

Who is Lee Krasner?

500

This museum's 1984 exhibition on primitivism was widely criticized for simply reinforcing the dominance of Western modernism:

What is MOMA?

500

Warhol playfully (or insultingly?) created large abstract mural paintings in a Pollock style, but made from this bodily fluid: 

What is urine?