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History of Art: Renaissance to Modern

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Art movements from the Renaissance through the modern era.

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What time period does modern art cover?

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  1. 1What time period does modern art cover?
    Roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, denoting styles and philosophies of art produced during that era
  2. 2What is characteristic of much modern art?
    A tendency away from narrative (characteristic of traditional arts) toward abstraction
  3. 3Who are the post-impressionist painters essential to modern art's development?
    Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  4. 4What was Fauvism?
    An early 20th century movement with 'wild,' multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain and others
  5. 5What did Picasso base his Cubist paintings on?
    Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere, and cone
  6. 6What painting dramatically created Picasso's new Cubist invention?
    A raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes reminiscent of African tribal masks (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon)
  7. 7When did German Expressionism emerge?
    Between 1905 and 1911 in Dresden and Munich
  8. 8Who jointly developed Analytic Cubism?
    Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, from about 1908 through 1912
  9. 9What characterizes Synthetic Cubism?
    Introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé, and a large variety of merged subject matter
  10. 10Who is considered the Father of Modern Painting?
    Francisco Goya, without being a Modernist himself
  11. 11What is commonly identified as the birth of modern art as a movement?
    1863, when Édouard Manet showed 'Le déjeuner sur l'herbe' in the Salon des Refusés in Paris
  12. 12Who did Clement Greenberg call 'the first real Modernist'?
    Immanuel Kant, noting 'The Enlightenment criticized from the outside... Modernism criticizes from the inside'
  13. 13What were the pioneers of modern art?
    Romantics, Realists, and Impressionists
  14. 14What influenced late 19th century art movements?
    Exposure to Eastern decorative arts (particularly Japanese printmaking), coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix, and search for more realism
  15. 15What did Impressionists argue about painting?
    People see only the light objects reflect, not the objects themselves, so painters should paint in natural light (en plein air)
  16. 16When was Die Brücke (The Bridge) formed?
    1905, by four German artists led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Dresden - founding organization for German Expressionist movement
  17. 17When was Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) formed?
    1911 in Munich by Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, and August Macke
  18. 18When did Futurism take off in Italy?
    A couple years before World War I, with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto
  19. 19What did Futurism celebrate?
    Technology, speed, and all things new
  20. 20Who painted 'Song of Love' (1914)?
    Giorgio de Chirico - an early example of surrealist style, painted ten years before Surrealism was 'founded' by André Breton in 1924
  21. 21What did World War I bring to art?
    An end to pre-war movements and the beginning of anti-art movements like Dada in Zürich and Berlin
  22. 22When was modern art introduced to the United States?
    With the Armory Show in 1913 and through European artists who moved during World War I
  23. 23When did the U.S. become the focal point of new artistic movements?
    Only after World War II
  24. 24What movements emerged in the 1950s and 1960s?
    Abstract Expressionism, Color field painting, Conceptual art, Pop art, Op art, Hard-edge painting, Minimal art, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Happening, video art
  25. 25What became widespread in late 1960s-1970s?
    Land art, performance art, conceptual art, and larger installations and performances
  26. 26When did cultural critics speak of 'the end of painting'?
    By the end of the 1970s (Douglas Crimp's provocative 1981 essay)
  27. 27What assumed renewed importance in the 1980s and 1990s?
    Painting, evidenced by the rise of neo-expressionism and revival of figurative painting
  28. 28Who are key Romanticism artists?
    Francisco de Goya, J.M.W. Turner, Eugène Delacroix
  29. 29Who are key Realism artists?
    Gustave Courbet, Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Rosa Bonheur
  30. 30Who are key Impressionism artists?
    Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot

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