Vocabulary Quiz #5
Across
- 1. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 7. a style of painting introduced in Paris in the early 20th century characterized by areas of bright, contrasting color, and simplified shapes
- 9. action without conscious control as employed by surrealist writers and artists to allow unconscious ideas and feelings to be expressed
- 11. refers to individual and group styles originating in Europe in the 19th to early 20th century
- 13. 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
- 15. a usually unrehearsed event conceived by artists and performed by artists and others, may include viewers
- 16. an official art exhibition in France, judged by members of the official French Academy
- 17. 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
- 18. a group movement originating in Italy in 1909 that celebrated both natural and mechanical motion and speed
- 19. a technique in which a canvas is laid over a textured surface and rubbed with crayons and pencils
Down
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. a movement that began in the 1990s in which artists create situations that depend on viewer presence or interaction for their form
- 6. a movement in art and literature, founded in Switzerland in the early 20th century which ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art
- 8. 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
- 10. sculpture made by assembling found or cast-off objects that may or may not contribute their original identities to the total content of the work
- 12. 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
- 14. a work made by gluing various materials, such as paper scraps, photographs, and cloth, on a flat surface