Master Modern Art Movements: 60 Flashcards from Manet to Neo-Expressionism
Study 60 real flashcards on modern art: Cubism, Fauvism, Dada, Pop Art and 30 movement rosters, plus two fixes that make the deck actually stick.
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The deck is called History of Art: Renaissance to Modern (deck code NT3402, 60 cards), but read the cards and you will not find a single one on the Renaissance. No Botticelli, no Caravaggio, no Vermeer, no David. The earliest name in the deck is Goya, and the first date is 1863. What you actually get is a tight, well-built map of modern art from Manet to neo-expressionism — a good deck under a misleading label. Study it as such and it works beautifully.
Study this deck: History of Art: Renaissance to Modern
1 / 10What time period does modern art cover?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Ten cards from the deck
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What is commonly identified as the birth of modern art as a movement? | 1863, when Manet showed Le déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris |
| Who is considered the Father of Modern Painting? | Francisco Goya, without being a Modernist himself |
| What did Picasso base his Cubist paintings on? | Cézanne's idea that all nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere, cone |
| Who jointly developed Analytic Cubism? | Picasso and Braque, from about 1908 through 1912 |
| When was Die Brücke formed? | 1905, by four German artists led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Dresden |
| When was Der Blaue Reiter formed? | 1911 in Munich, by Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and August Macke |
| What did Futurism celebrate? | Technology, speed, and all things new |
| Who painted Song of Love (1914)? | Giorgio de Chirico — surrealist in style ten years before Breton founded Surrealism in 1924 |
| Who did Clement Greenberg call the first real Modernist? | Immanuel Kant |
| What is the Armory Show? | The 1913 exhibition that introduced modern art to the United States |
What the 60 cards actually cover
Cards 1 to 27 are a chronology: the post-impressionist pioneers (van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec), plein-air Impressionist theory, Japanese printmaking as an influence, Fauvism, Analytic then Synthetic Cubism with papier collé, German Expressionism 1905–1911, Futurism and Marinetti's manifesto, Dada in Zürich and Berlin as an anti-art response to the war, the Armory Show, the post-1945 shift to the United States, and the 1980s return to painting after Douglas Crimp's 1981 essay on the end of painting.
Cards 28 to 59 are something else entirely: 32 roster cards, one per movement, each asking Who are key X artists? — Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, abstract pioneers (including Hilma af Klint), Suprematism, De Stijl, New Objectivity, Constructivism, Bauhaus, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Pop Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Photorealism, Land Art, Feminist Art, Fluxus, Video Art and more.
Two fixes that make the deck usable
Reverse the roster cards. Who are key Cubism artists? expects seven names. You will never produce all seven and you will mark yourself wrong forever. Rewrite those 32 cards as artist → movement: Kees van Dongen → Fauvism, Hannah Höch → Dada, Agnes Martin → Minimal Art. El Lissitzky appears on both the Suprematism and Constructivism cards, which the reversed direction handles gracefully. That is also how museum labels and exam questions are phrased.
Anchor everything on five dates: 1863 (Manet), 1905 (Die Brücke), 1911 (Der Blaue Reiter), 1913 (Armory Show), 1924 (Breton's manifesto). Every other card in the deck hangs off one of them. One housekeeping note: the Armory Show appears twice, on card 22 and card 60 — suspend one before your first session.
Pair it with the companion deck for the periods this one skips: Ancient Art Study Guide. Between them the Renaissance and Baroque are still missing, so add those cards yourself.
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