Part-A: Please circle the correct answer (either “True” or “False”) for the questions (5 points possible) Part-B: Please circle the most correct answer from among those offered for each question (5 points possible) Part-C: For the listed questions, please fill in the blank with the appropriate name, art term, or word (10 points possible) Bonus: […]
Image Source: MoMA & Wikipedia Pop Art is an art movement in 1950s-1970s in Britain and the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined […]
About the final examination, please review all art movements (~isms) I mentioned and posted on the blog (http://pxstudio.us/blog/?cat=54). The questionnaire will focus on artists, their artwork, and related art movements. Please make sure to review those movements and the key figures of each movement. The answer of every question is available in each post I […]
Title: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil war) (1936) | Salvador Dali Artwork Description and Analysis: This painting is an allegorical response to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, but it is also a garish and gruesome depiction of a body destroying itself. Dali painted this work prior to General Franco’s invasion, yet […]
Expressionism was a modern artistic movement, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. […]
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.” — Theo van Doesburg De Stijl (1917 – 1931), also known as Neo-plasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement and school of painting established by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam. Proponents […]
What is Dada? Is it an art movement? A way of thinking? Or is it all just strange words and quirky images? Actually, Dada was an art movement and school founded and begun by a group of avant-garde artists in Zurich in the early 20th century who were dissatisfied about art, the war, and the […]
Symbolism was a 19th-century art movement rejecting Realism. It expresses ideas over realistic descriptions of the natural world. Symbolism initially developed as a French literary movement in the late 19th century, and it was soon identified with the artwork of a younger generation of painters who were similarly rejecting the conventions of Naturalism. Unlike the […]
Hello Class: In tomorrow’s class, your task is going to write your second WAA paper. Although some of you have already submitted your second paper, you still have time to reedit it further. If so, I will return your paper tomorrow. If you don’t want to make any further changes on your paper, please work […]
Image Source: National Gallery of Art | Devianrart | Wikipedia Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890–1910. English uses the French name Art nouveau (“new art”), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of […]
