Review for the Final Test
Information Age/Information Explosion
M. Pei and Associates (postmodern architects)
Yves Klein (Performance Art)
Chuck Close and Duane Hansen (New Realism/Photorealism)
Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenberg (Pop Art)
Identity and Liberation
Gender and Art Virginia Woolf/Simone de Beauvoir (writers)
Niki de Saint Phalle, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger
Sexual Identity/Robert Mapplethorpe
African Americans and Art Robert Colescott, Beye Saar, Jacob and Gwen Lawrence (painters)
Langston Huges and Gwendolyn Brooks (poets of the Harlem Renaissance)
Alienation and Existentialism
John-Paul Sartre (philosopher)
Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas (writers)
Georges Segal and Giacometti (sculptors)
Francis Bacon and Edward Hopper (painters)
Abstract Expressionism Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko/Helen Frankenthaler (colour field painters)
Modernist architecture/Mies van der Rohe
World War II and Totalitarianism Lee Miller (photojournalist), Picasso's Guernica, Eli Weisel, Randall Jarrell(writers)
Great Depression Dorothea Lange (documentary photographer), Thomas Hart Benton (muralist)
World War I Wilfred Owen (poet), George Grosz (artist), Erich Maria Remarque (writer)
Freud/the subconscious/id/ego/superego
Proust, Kafka, ee cummings (writers)
Expressionism/Edvard Munch
Fantasy/Metaphysical Art (painting what is NOT there)/de Chirico and Chagall
Surrealism (accessing the subconscious)
Klee, Miro, Dali, Kahlo, René Magritte and sometimes Picasso (surrealist painters) O'Keefe, Meret Oppenheim, Hannah Höch (female surrealists)
Dada/Marcel Duchamp, ready-mades, exquisite corpse
Modernism
Imagist Poetry (Ezra Pound), Lyric Poetry (Robert Frost)
Cubism (Picasso)
Futurism (Boccioni and Balla, and sometimes Duchamp)
Fauvism (Matisse)
Early 20th C Music (Schoenberg, Stravinsky)
Dance (Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun)
Post Impressionism Van Gogh and Gauguin sharing their own subjective responses to the world and Seurat and Cezanne
Impressionism Monet, Renoir, Degas (painters) effects of light
Sculpture Degas and Rodin capture lifelike movement and effects of light
*Influence of Japanese woodblock prints
Debussy (music) , Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec (painters)
Art Nouveau (décor)
Late 19th C Architecture (iron, then steel, then elevators) Eiffel Tower, first skyscrapers
Realism--response to industrialism and social issues such as class (Karl Marx) or gender (John Stuart Mill) inequality
Realist Literature Dickens, Twain, Flaubert, Kate Chopin
Birth of Photography Annan, Brady (realists) and Cameron (romantic)
Realist Painting Courbet, Daumier, Manet, Eakins, Harnett, Tanner, Homer
M. Pei and Associates (postmodern architects)
Yves Klein (Performance Art)
Chuck Close and Duane Hansen (New Realism/Photorealism)
Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenberg (Pop Art)
Identity and Liberation
Gender and Art Virginia Woolf/Simone de Beauvoir (writers)
Niki de Saint Phalle, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger
Sexual Identity/Robert Mapplethorpe
African Americans and Art Robert Colescott, Beye Saar, Jacob and Gwen Lawrence (painters)
Langston Huges and Gwendolyn Brooks (poets of the Harlem Renaissance)
Alienation and Existentialism
John-Paul Sartre (philosopher)
Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas (writers)
Georges Segal and Giacometti (sculptors)
Francis Bacon and Edward Hopper (painters)
Abstract Expressionism Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko/Helen Frankenthaler (colour field painters)
Modernist architecture/Mies van der Rohe
World War II and Totalitarianism Lee Miller (photojournalist), Picasso's Guernica, Eli Weisel, Randall Jarrell(writers)
Great Depression Dorothea Lange (documentary photographer), Thomas Hart Benton (muralist)
World War I Wilfred Owen (poet), George Grosz (artist), Erich Maria Remarque (writer)
Freud/the subconscious/id/ego/superego
Proust, Kafka, ee cummings (writers)
Expressionism/Edvard Munch
Fantasy/Metaphysical Art (painting what is NOT there)/de Chirico and Chagall
Surrealism (accessing the subconscious)
Klee, Miro, Dali, Kahlo, René Magritte and sometimes Picasso (surrealist painters) O'Keefe, Meret Oppenheim, Hannah Höch (female surrealists)
Dada/Marcel Duchamp, ready-mades, exquisite corpse
Modernism
Imagist Poetry (Ezra Pound), Lyric Poetry (Robert Frost)
Cubism (Picasso)
Futurism (Boccioni and Balla, and sometimes Duchamp)
Fauvism (Matisse)
Early 20th C Music (Schoenberg, Stravinsky)
Dance (Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun)
Post Impressionism Van Gogh and Gauguin sharing their own subjective responses to the world and Seurat and Cezanne
Impressionism Monet, Renoir, Degas (painters) effects of light
Sculpture Degas and Rodin capture lifelike movement and effects of light
*Influence of Japanese woodblock prints
Debussy (music) , Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec (painters)
Art Nouveau (décor)
Late 19th C Architecture (iron, then steel, then elevators) Eiffel Tower, first skyscrapers
Realism--response to industrialism and social issues such as class (Karl Marx) or gender (John Stuart Mill) inequality
Realist Literature Dickens, Twain, Flaubert, Kate Chopin
Birth of Photography Annan, Brady (realists) and Cameron (romantic)
Realist Painting Courbet, Daumier, Manet, Eakins, Harnett, Tanner, Homer
Review for the Second Test in UA3
Describe Freud's theories
How did they influence the birth of expressionism, dada and surrealism?
How did Freud's theories affect literature?
What happens in Franz Kafka's story Metamorphosis?
Who was ee cummings (or Proust or Joyce)?
How did Freud's theories affect art?
What is Edvard Munch's most famous painting?
What do Chagall and di Chirico have in common? How are they different?
Describe some Dada-ist art works. What was Dada a response to?
Who are some famous surrealist artists?
How can you tell a surrealist painting?
Who were some women surrealists?
Was there surrealist photography?
What were some responses to World War I in literature and poetry?
What visual style is associated with the Russian Revolution?
What artworks are associated with the Great Depression?
What were some artistic and literary responses to the Second World War?
What is totalitarianism? Where was it exercised? How did it influence the arts?
What is Jean Paul Sartre's most important idea? How do we see its influence in literature?
Abstract Expressionism is a new style of painting which appears in the United States.
Who are some famous Abstract Expressionist painters? What elements of other art movements influenced them? What are the characteristics of their paintings?
How can you identify a colour field painting?
Some artists in mid-century still paint recognizable human figures. (figurative art) Name two. Explain how they differ.
Explain how existential anxiety influences sculpture.
Was all mid-Century sculpture figurative? What were the concerns of non-figurative sculpture?
How can you tell the difference between international style architecture (van der Rohe) and the subjective, romantic or biomorphic styles of Saarinen or Wright?
How did they influence the birth of expressionism, dada and surrealism?
How did Freud's theories affect literature?
What happens in Franz Kafka's story Metamorphosis?
Who was ee cummings (or Proust or Joyce)?
How did Freud's theories affect art?
What is Edvard Munch's most famous painting?
What do Chagall and di Chirico have in common? How are they different?
Describe some Dada-ist art works. What was Dada a response to?
Who are some famous surrealist artists?
How can you tell a surrealist painting?
Who were some women surrealists?
Was there surrealist photography?
What were some responses to World War I in literature and poetry?
What visual style is associated with the Russian Revolution?
What artworks are associated with the Great Depression?
What were some artistic and literary responses to the Second World War?
What is totalitarianism? Where was it exercised? How did it influence the arts?
What is Jean Paul Sartre's most important idea? How do we see its influence in literature?
Abstract Expressionism is a new style of painting which appears in the United States.
Who are some famous Abstract Expressionist painters? What elements of other art movements influenced them? What are the characteristics of their paintings?
How can you identify a colour field painting?
Some artists in mid-century still paint recognizable human figures. (figurative art) Name two. Explain how they differ.
Explain how existential anxiety influences sculpture.
Was all mid-Century sculpture figurative? What were the concerns of non-figurative sculpture?
How can you tell the difference between international style architecture (van der Rohe) and the subjective, romantic or biomorphic styles of Saarinen or Wright?