Day 131 Test 14
Spring Break Road Trip Name: _ __________
Worth 50 points and 30 points for the flash cards.
This set of questions and the flash cards are due the Tuesday after Easter
The Art of Oceania Read Gardner’s pp. 921-930
:
1. How do the Iatmul reinforce male dominance in their art and culture?
2. Explain the relationship of art and warfare for the Asmats
3. Explain the purpose, preparation, use, and ritual destruction of hevehe masks.
4. What are the roles of the Dilukai figures?
5. Define these terms:
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
Yams
Bisj Poles
Hevehe
Eravo
Malanggan
Tatanua masks
Bai
Dilukai
The Art of Oceania Read Gardner’s pp. 930-939
1. What is the purpose and process of barkcloth?
2. Explain the significance of tattoos in Polynesian culture.
3. How did Oceanic art enhance power and prestige?
4. Explain Dreamings and X-ray like figures in the aboriginal art of Australia.
5. Define these terms:
Mana
Ahu, autea, aute, kapa, hiapo, siapo, masi, tapa, ngatu,
Manulua
Tiki
Tatau, tatu, moko, tattoo
Poupou
Koru
Ahu ula
Hriau
Tukutuku
Pou tokomanawa
Moai
Pukao
19th and 20th century African Arts Read Gardner’s pp. 941- 948
1. Explain the stylized figures of the Fang and Kota reliquaries and the materials used.
2. Explain the practical and ritual purposes of the sculpted Power figures of the Kongo Peoples.
3. Compare and contrast the styles of the Dogon and Baule ancestral couple figures.
4. Describe the purpose and ritual behind an akua’ba sculpture.
5.Define these terms:
Mbulu-ngulu
Genetrix
Nkisi n’kondi
Asye usu
19th and 20th century African Arts Read Gardner’s pp. 948-959
1. What are the forms and functions of traditional masks, costume making and masquerades and contemporary adaptations in the arts of Africa?
2. Explain the art and rituals surrounding Mamy Wata. Why might you want to pay her a little homage in the next couple of months? (or not)
3. How has modern culture affected the African arts?
4. Explain the symbolism of “Homage to Steve Biko.”
5.Define these terms:
Masquerade
Mwashamboy
Bwoom
Ngady Amwaash
Mbari house
Togu na
apartheid
Test 14
Day 132 Modernist Art Read Gardner’s pp. 961-969
Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 133:
1. What about Matisse’s paintings demonstrate his leadership of the Fauves?
2. How does the composition Kirchner’s “Street Dresden” express the ideals of Die Brucke?
3. What enlightenment do you find in Kandinsky’s “Improvisation 28?”
4. What was Marc attempting to express in “Fate of Animals” and how did it reflect the political context of his day?
5. Define these terms:
Expressionism
Fauvism (fauves)
Die Burcke
Der Blaue Reiter
Day 133 Modernist Art Read Gardner’s pp. 970-980`Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 134:
1. Explain the rejection of Illusion and the development of early Cubism.
2. Explain the forms and concepts of analytic and synthetic Cubism?
3. How do the materials and forms of Cubist sculpture differ from sculpture we have viewed thus far?.
4. What was the sociopolitical agenda of the Futurists? How was this agenda depicted in their art?
5.Define these terms:
Abstraction
Cubism
Analytic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism
JOU
Collage
Papier colle
Faux bois
Purism
Futurism
Day 134 The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 980-990
Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 135:
1. Explain the emphases of the DADA movement.
2. How did the Armory Show influence American Art?
3. Who were the leading artists of the Harlem Renaissance and in what directions did they take art?
4. How has photography evolved as an art form?
5.Define these terms:
Found objects
Photomontage
Matronage
Ashcan School
Day 135The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 990-996 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 136:
Who were the Precisionists and why were Americans considered the leaders of this art movement?
2. Who were the Neue Sachlichkeit artists and what were they trying to depict?
3. Compare and contrast Kollwitz’s Woman with Dead Child with the Pieta and Lamentation depictions of Mary and Jesus we have seen in this course. (p.531 and 554)
4. How were the war memorial statues of Barlach and Lehmbruck different than typical war memorials of their time?
5.Define these terms:
Neue Sachlichkeit
Day 136 The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 996-1002
Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 137:
1. What influences contributed to the development of Surrealism?
2. What was the subject matter and purpose of surrealism?
3.Explain the symbolism (both autobiographical and political) of Kahlo’s The Two Fridas.
4. How did primitive cultures affect early 20th century Western Art?
5.Define these terms:
Automatism
Pittura Metafisica
Frottage
Paranoiac-critical approach to painting
Trompe l’oeil
Day 137 The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 1003-1011Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 138:
1. How did the art movements of the early 20th century espouse utopian notions?
2. What is pure plastic art?
3. What were the 3 goals of Walter Gropius in training students at the Bauhaus?
4. How were the tubular chair and the glass skyscraper examples of Bauhaus’ philosophy of “Less is More?”
5.Define these terms:
Utopian ideals
Suprematism
Constructivism
Productivism
De Stijl
Neoplasticism
Day 138 The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 1012-1020
Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 139:
1. What was Degenerate Art? How did the Nazi’s deal with degenerate artists?
2. What was the International Style of the 20th century? How did Villa Savoye express the basic principles of the International Style?
3. What was Art Deco?
4. Who was Frank Lloyd Wright and how did he emphasize the organic in his architecture?
5.Define these terms:
Prairie Style (House)
Kinetic sculptures (mobiles)
Day 139 The Early 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 1020-1029 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 140:
1. Explain the context and symbolism of Picasso’s Guernica.
2. How did the Great Depression affect artists in America?
How did artists like Lange, Hopper and Lawrence capture the events of the Depression in their art?
3. What was the purpose and subject matter of Regionalist art?
4. Explain the purpose and power of the Mexican Muralists.
5. Define these terms:
Day 140 The Early 20th Century
Prepare flash cards and focus questions for grading
Day 141 Modern Art Day: Jackson PollackRead Gardner’s pp. 1031 - 1040
Prepare to discuss on Day 142:
1. Compare and contrast modernism and post-modernism.
2. Explain how the philosophy of existentialism was expressed in Francis Bacon’s “Painting.”
3. Why was Jackson Pollack the ultimate Gestural abstract artist?
4. What emotions do you feel after looking at Mark Rothko’s No. 14?
5.Define these terms:
Installation
Impasto
Art Brut
Abstract expressionism (New York School)
Gestural abstraction (Action painting)
Chromatic Abstraction
Day 142 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 1040 - 1049
Prepare to discuss on Day 143:
1. How does Post-Painterly Abstraction differ from Abstract Expressionism?
2. How do Minimalists try to create pure art?
3. Explain the philosophy behind Performance art.
4. How is art created by machines art? Or not?
5.Define these terms:
Hard-Edge Painting
Color field painting
Minimal Art:
Performance Art:
Happenings
Events
Day 143 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 1049 - 1056Prepare to discuss on Day 144:
1. Explain the development of Conceptual Art and the elimination of the object and the idea itself as a work of art.
2. How did Pop Artists like Lichtenstien and Warhol combine traditional art and consumerism?
3. What statement was Claes Oldenburg making about consumerism by creating his sculptures?
4. How is superrealism more than just a technical exercise?
5.Define these terms:
Conceptual Art
Pop Art
Assemblage
Benday dots
Superrealism/Photorealism
Day 144 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th CenturyRead Gardner’s pp. 1057 - 1066
Prepare to discuss on Day 145:
1. How is the development of Environmental and Site Specific Art an outgrowth of ecological and environmental concerns?
2. Explain the use of organic and fluid forms in modernist architecture.
3. How does Postmodern architecture differ from Modernist architecture?
4. What is deconstructivist architecture?
5.Define these terms:
Environmental art/Earth Art/Earthworks
Day 145 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th CenturyRead Gardner’s pp. 1066 - 1074
Prepare to discuss on Day 146:
1. How was Post Modernism a critique of Modernism?
2. Explain the controversies in modern American art, especially The Holy Virgin Mary and Rudy Giuliani.
3. Explain the complex symbolism of The Dinner Party.
4. What is the “male gaze” and how did feminine artists challenge it through their artwork?
5.Define these terms:
Neo-Expressionism
Day 146 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th CenturyRead Gardner’s pp. 1074 - 1082
Prepare to discuss on Day 147:
1. How is the human figure a political statement in Post Modern art?
2. How did artists combat racism in the Post Modern Era?
3. Explain the symbolism and message from “Trade.”
4. How did artists publicize the plights of the homeless and AIDS victims?
5. Define these terms:
Day 148 Ch. 34 Art in the Later 20th CenturyRead Gardner’s pp. 1082 - 1091Prepare to discuss on Day 149:
1. Explain the expressive use of video and digital technologies by Postmodern artists.
2. How is Mark Tansey’s “A Short History of Modernist Painting” a short history of modernist painting?
3. How are artists becoming the conscience of the art world?
4. What is the future of art?
5. Define these terms: