Surrealism
This art style probed the subconscious world of dreams for ideas
What is Surrealism?
Who was Barbara Hepworth?
Art style in which paint was freely applied to huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions
What is Abstract Expressionism
An environment constructed in a gallery or museum specifically for a particular exhibition.
What is an Installation?
Alternate name for Abstract Expressionists
What are Action Painters
This Greek-Born artist inspired the surrealist movement, though he was not part of the movement himself.
Who is Giorgio de Chirico?
This sculptor is recognized as one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century. He worked with both abstract and nonobjective bronze sculpture
Who is Henry Moore?
This artist placed huge canvases on the floor walking onto them to drip, pour, and splatter paint.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This is art in which parts of a work are set into motion by an energy source
What is Kinetic Art?
The realistic treatment of ordinary images taken form the modern environment
What is Super-Realism
This surrealist painter would often create fantasy worlds that lacked realism and challenged reason
Who is Joan Miro?
This is a three dimensional scaled down study of a larger planned sculpture.
What is a Maquette?
This movement focuses on calling attention to social, economic, and political problems of the day
What is Social Protest Art/Painting?
This environmental artist pair is know for their work titled The Gates a collection of 7,500 vinyl frames with cloth panels in central park
Who is Christo and Jeanne-Claude?
DAILY DOUBLE
This Swiss born artist uses Fantasy and Humor as Key elements in his work. This artist based his work on images from his mind's eye. He was Not a Surrealist.
Who is Paul Klee
This American surrealist created works with strange architectural forms in cool light?
Who was Kay Sage?
Popularized by Alexander Calder this type of sculpture is made from carefully balanced shapes suspended in wire arms to move freely in space
What is a Mobile?
Created by Nam June Paik in 1996, This sculpture is made from 13 video screens that plays endless loops of scenes from stage, screen and fine art adaptations of William Shakespeare's play
What is Hamlet Robot?
This artist would take found objects and wood scraps to create a abstract sculpture before painting is a single color.
Who is Louise Nevelson?
Once a Photo-realism artist this artist now creates portraits by painting nonobjective sections of colors and shapes that when viewed from a distance creates a face.
Who is Chuck Close?
DAILY DOUBLE - Artist Trivia Question
This surrealist painter is know for his melting clock painting titled The Persistence of Memory also worked with Walt Disney to create a short film titled Destino
Who is Salvador Dali?
Italian Sculptor famous for the bronze sculpture titled Horse and Rider. The work was inspired by the images of people escaping air raids during World War II on horseback
Who is Marino Marini?
This artist couple creates larger than life everyday objects
Who are Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen?
The process in which an installation set up photographed as if it was a scene for a movie. An example from the text is Sandy Skoglund's Raining Popcorn.
What is Staged Photography
This Abstract Expressionist painter Influenced by the surrealists uses free flowing lines and organic shapes to create landscapes of color
Who is Arshile Gorky