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In Dutch it means "the style"; this movement favored an abstract, economical style.
What is De Stijl.
100
A work of art made by grouping found or unrelated objects; a pastiche or sculptural collage.
What is assemblage.
100
This artist is perhaps most famously known for his extensive forays into divisionism/pointillism, and his emphasis on color theory in painting.
Who is Georges Seurat.
100
An artistic movement that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918.
What is Futurism.
100
This exhibition was held in Paris and ordered by Napoleon III in 1863 to display pictures rejected by the Salon. The artists represented included Manet, Cézanne, Pissarro, and Whistler.
What is Salon des Refusés.
200
The technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art. The rubbing is elaborated upon by the artist.
What is frottage.
200
The avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.
What is automatism.
200
A female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the sultan of Turkey.
What is an odalisque.
200
This short-lived -ism sought an art that floated beyond abstraction and outside of time and space. It broke barriers between the artistic and the public. They derived the name from the use of dynamic streams of contrasting color.
What is Rayonism.
200
An interest in ukiyo-e prints, which in visual arts refers to the assimilation of stylistic approaches and design principles as well as copying motifs and subjects such as asymmetrical compositional arrangements and oblique viewpoints and cropping. The result is an apparent lack of modeling and flattening of surface/dimensionality, flat color, and a simplification of form.
What is Japonisme.
300
This term does not have an exact definition, though the artist who coined it stated that it was the locus between painting and architecture. They often appear like installations, engaging both the wall and the space the viewer occupies.
What is a proun.
300
Scratching or scraping across the painted surface of the canvas with to make it more tactile, and forming the basis of a work of art.
What is grattage.
300
This artist was friends with the poet Baudelaire, was indebted to painting modern life, and had many works rejected from the annual Salon.
Who is Manet.
300
This Russian abstract art movement is characterized by simple geometric shapes and associated with ideas of spiritual purity.
What is Suprematism.
300
This Minimalist artist often had his geometric forms fabricated for him from industrial materials.
Who is Donald Judd.
400
An early 20th-century style and movement in art - manifested often in collage - in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes; the distilled notion of an object was identified by a single component or element.
What is Synthetic Cubism.
400
This term describes an early phase of the style characterized by a fragmentary appearance of multiple viewpoints and overlapping planes. Paintings appear fractured.
What is Analytic Cubism.
400
This artist was one of the few women who was allowed to exhibit with the Surrealists.
Who is Meret Oppenheim.
400
A development of art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act.
What is Abstract Expressionism.
400
This artist was the first to answer intellectual and philosophy professor - Alain Locke's - call for black artists to seek their artistic roots in the traditional arts of Africa rather than in the art of white America or Europe.
Who is Aaron Douglas.
500
A belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature. Unsophisticated behavior that is unaffected by objective reasoning and thus more directly reflects the artistic condition.
What is Primitivism.
500
Dubuffet developed a distinct form of Expressionism inspired by “raw art” - the work of children and the insane - which he considered uncontaminated by Western culture.
What is art brut.
500
This artist's sister died of AIDS; as a result, her work explores the body and its fragility.
Who is Kiki Smith.
500
A style or movement in which assorted modern materials are combined into abstract structural forms. The movement originated in Russia in the 1920s and has influenced many aspects of modern architecture and design.
What is Constructivism
500
This group served as a gathering place for “all revolutionary and surging elements” who opposed Germany’s “pale, overbred, and decadent society”. They drew on van Gogh and Munch, and adopted traditional northern media, such as woodcuts. Hallmarks of the art created by these artists included: intense, brutal, expressionistic images of alienation, in response to Germany’s fast, intensive, and brutal urbanization as well as the natural world and the nude body.
What is Die Brücke or “The Bridge”