SP2026 Vocabulary Test #6
Across
- 2. a style of painting introduced in Paris in the early 20th century characterized by areas of bright, contrasting color, and simplified shapes
- 4. a style of painting executed outdoors, aiming to capture the light and mood of a particular moment and the transitory effects of light and color
- 8. an art style developed in Paris by Picasso and Braque, beginning in 1908 based on the simultaneous presentation of multiple views, disintegration, and geometric reconstructions of subjects in flattened, ambiguous, pictorial space
- 12. a movement that began in the 1990s in which artists create situations that depend on viewer presence or interaction for their form
- 14. an attitude or trend of the late 1970s, 80s, and 90s, characterized in architecture by a move away from the International style in favor of an imaginative, eclectic approach, and in other visual arts by influence from all periods and styles and a willingness to combine elements of all
- 15. a style of painting and sculpture that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Britain and the US, using mass production techniques, such as silkscreen, or real objects in works that are generally more polished and ironic than assemblages
- 16. a dutch purist art movement that began during WWI by Mondrian and others, involved painters, sculptors, designers, and architects whose ideas were expressed in the magazine; Dutch for “the style,” was aimed at creating a universal language of form that would be independent of visual emotion, visual form was pared down to primary hues, plus black and white, and rectangular shapes.
- 18. action without conscious control as employed by surrealist writers and artists to allow unconscious ideas and feelings to be expressed
- 20. a work made by gluing various materials, such as paper scraps, photographs, and cloth, on a flat surface
- 22. a movement in post-WWII architecture characterized by prominent use of unpainted exterior concrete, often cast into curving shapes.
- 24. the process of combining parts of various photographs in one photograph.
- 25. a technique in which a canvas is laid over a textured surface and rubbed with crayons and pencils
Down
- 1. in art, a movement among artists, critics, and art historians that began in an organized fashion in the 1970s; seeking to validate a promote artforms that express the unique experience of women, and to redress oppression by men
- 3. a socially and politically committed form of art that became common in many countries between the two world wars and which included a retreat from the radical innovations of modern art and the desire to communicate more readily with the public about social causes and issues.
- 5. an official art exhibition in France, judged by members of the official French Academy
- 6. a group movement originating in Italy in 1909 that celebrated both natural and mechanical motion and speed
- 7. art movement that originated in Russia at the time of the Soviet Revolution of 1917 which emphasized abstract art, modern materials, and useful arts such as set design, furniture, and graphics
- 9. a movement in literature and the visual arts that developed in the mid-1920s, based on revealing the unconscious mind in dream images and the fantastic
- 10. a concept pioneered by Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, in which a common manufactured object is signed by an artist and thereby turned into an art object
- 11. a movement in the late 1970s and 1980s in America and Europe that revived expressive, personal styles, partly in response to the impersonality of movements such as Conceptual art and Minimalism
- 13. refers to individual and group styles originating in Europe in the 19th to early 20th century
- 17. a movement in art and literature, founded in Switzerland in the early 20th century which ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art
- 19. a usually unrehearsed event conceived by artists and performed by artists and others, may include viewers
- 21. a sculptural form made from earth, rocks, or sometimes plants often in a vast scale and often in a remote location
- 23. an art movement defined by a pair of art critics for an exhibition of that name first shown in Beijing in 2014; works may or may not use the internet itself, but they show awareness of, or comment on, the Internet and social media