Assemblage
Across
- 2. A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art. This can be created through strategic use of the elements of art.
- 4. This was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war
- 6. In the late 1950s, this artist began to make reliefs by stacking wooden boxes and crates, each of which would contain an arrangement of found objects. She then painted them in one color.
- 8. Is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially.
- 9. This artist's relief constructions, which he began making in 1912–13, extended traditional still life painting into three-dimensional space.
- 10. This assemblage piece by Kurt Shwitters takes on forms of collage that combined the discarded items of everyday life such as bus tickets and labels with other materials, coining the nonsense term Merz to describe his technique.
Down
- 1. Was a key figure in the Dada movement. His work, "Dadaville"(1924)reflected the temporary, but resilient, nature of the Dada movement.
- 3. An art movement started by French writer Andre Breton in the 1920's. Artists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte are known within this movement for their dreamlike, absurd art.
- 5. This artist features the Mammy caricature of Aunt Jemima in revolt of Jim Crow-era racism through assemblage art.
- 7. This art movement was one of the most influential styles of the twentieth century. It is generally agreed to have begun around 1907 with Picasso’s celebrated painting Demoiselles D’Avignon which is known for its 'geometric outlines' and 'cubes’. Many perspectives are explored simultaneously in this style.