CTXT-122 Test 3

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Across
  1. 4. Aimed to capture the dynamism and energy of the modern world glorified speed technology war, and violence
  2. 8. An art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war that's often satirical and nonsensical in nature
  3. 9. Art Movement in the 50s-60s influenced by popular culture and consumerism
  4. 10. Reaction against modernism- its ‘unruly child’. Distrust of purity and originality, integrates art and life blurring the lines of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ art
  5. 12. French for “wild beasts” characterized by its vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic arbitrary use of form and color.
  6. 13. A style in which forms are broken down into parts or “cubes”
  7. 14. Dutch for “The style,” this movement was led by Piet Mondrian. It promoted a style based on strict geometry and universal beauty.
  8. 17. A “found,” ordinary manufactured object from popular or material culture transformed into an artwork simply through the selection of the artist.
  9. 18. From the original French term Cadavre exquis, a surrealist method by which a collection of images is assembled
  10. 19. MASK FROM THE SHERBRO DISTRICT
  11. 21. Also called “Process Art” or “Eccentric Abstraction” A reaction to minimalism and it’s insistence on closed, rigid, geometric forms by using soft, organic materials and focusing on the creation process.
  12. 22. Emphasized the artist's inner feelings or ideas over replicating reality
  13. 23. An art movement from the 60s-70s using very large-scale, outdoor artwork that is produce by altering the natural environment.
Down
  1. 1. Mid-20th-Century American formalist art critic
  2. 2. An American Realist Art Movement that depicted realistic scenes of rural and small-town America.
  3. 3. Dots that make up lettering and images in printing and typesetting,
  4. 5. Postmodern art that emerged in the late 1970s US characterized by intense subjectivity, rough handling of materials, and recognizable subject matter.
  5. 6. Art movement from 1940s-50s “The New York School” Characterized by large-scale, abstract paintings with spontaneous brush strokes. (Action and Color-Field Painters)
  6. 7. Mid-20th-Century art critic who supported Action Painting
  7. 11. 1960s Art of Extreme formal reduction using industrial materials with an emphasis on geometric structures.
  8. 15. A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the unconscious mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.
  9. 16. The borrowing of subjects or forms usually from non-European or prehistoric sources by Western artists
  10. 20. Refers to the practice of artists borrowing pre-existing objects or images and recontextualizing them in their own art to create new meaning.