History, Period
"ism" that was inspired by the past, the irrational, nature and the exotic.
What was Romanticism?
Fauvist works like Matisse's Woman with the Hat explored the effects colors have on these.
What are emotions?
Monumental steel-skeleton structure that is the icon of Paris.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
His Realist paintings were highly controversial to the Mid 19th C public
Who was Edouard Manet?
Technique that used dramatic or exaggerated contrast of light and shadow
What is tenebrism?
This artistic movement got its name from the sketch-like quality of its imagery.
What was Impressionism?
Manet makes use of this psychological device in the nude figure of Olympia.
What is Direct Gaze?
Post-impressionistic artwork created with the technique of pointillism?
What is Sunday on la Grande Jatte?
This Die Brucke leader created a jarring and disquieting scene with his distortion of figures and color choices in Street Dresden.
Who is Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner?
Spiritual awe mixed with terror is chief characteristic of this Romantic notion both in literature and visual arts.
What is the sublime?
The Enlightenment and the Grand Tour gave rise to this "ism" of the late 18th C.
What was Neoclassicism?
The pattering, use of gold, and sensuous imagery of The Kiss captured this spirit of the late 18th C. & Early 19th C.
What is Fin-de siecle?
Der Blaue Reiter artist Fran Marc's apocalyptic scene in a forest.
What is the Fate of Animals?
His painting, Armored Train, captured Futurists passion for speed and belief in the cleansing action of war.
Who was Gino Severini?
Picasso emphasized the severity and human grief in Guernica by limiting this.
What is color?
Early 20th Century "ism" influenced by Freud and Dada.
What was Surrealism?
Salvado Dali makes the irrational concrete in Persistence of Memory through his use of this style of depiction.
What is precise detail (realistic or naturalism)
Romantic painting that depicts an atocity by French occupational forces in Spain.
What is the 3rd of May?
He championed "Straight Photography" and was instrumental in photography becoming a fine art form.
Who was Alfred Stieglitz?
Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space uses this technique to capture the essence of natural objects and forms.
What is abstraction?
"ism" that completely rejected the pictorial illusionism that had dominated Western art since the Renaissance.
What was Cubism?
Marcel Duchamp's Ready-made that was a direct challenge to artistic conventions and gave rise to Conceptual art of the later 20th C.
What is Fountain?
An unusual group portrait by Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt.
What is The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp?
He created a new American domestic architecture he called organic.
Who was Frank Llyod Wright
American Gothic by Grant Wood is a rejection of avant-garde styles and urbanization in favor of these.
What are realist style and rural American life