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KAAC A&H
Arts and humanities questions for KAAC governor's cup test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract expressionism | Art movement from 40s + 50s, paint applied in large amounts for expression, doesn't focus on a subject (Pollock, Kandinsky, Rosco) |
| Academy of art - art schools | 1st - Academy of Design in Florence (1563) Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (1648, Paris) Royal Academy of arts (London 1768) |
| Acrylic paint | Water-based w polymer binder |
| Arabesque (art style) | uses intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs (flowing lines) originally included birds in nature – essential element of Islamic art |
| Armature | The frame for clay to be placed on |
| Baroque | Period from 1600-1750, started in Rome, from Portuguese meaning "misshapen" or "broken" pearl. Baroque artists: Caravaggio, Van Dyck Baroque composers: Bach, |
| Batik | Method of dying cloth, comes from Indonesia, uses waxed fabric |
| Byzantine art | Art style from middle ages, (500-1450), Eastern Roman Empire, rich colors, Christian icons |
| Capital | Top of a column, determines type of Greek column (Doric = Ionic = Corinthian = ) |
| Classicism | Imitation of ancient Greek and Roman art - beauty, restraint, harmony, balance |
| Contemporary | Mid 1900s - now, experimental |
| Cubism | 1910s - 1920s, all 3 dimensions in flat plane, subjects are disassembled and reassembled, Picasso and Braque - 2 types (analytical, synthetic) |
| Digital art | 1st piece in 1952, Oscillion 40, Laposky |
| Dome | 1st was Pantheon in 126 AD |
| Emotionalism | Expresses expressive qualities - communication of moods, feelings, ideas - The Scream (Munch) |
| Encaustic | Painting technique using pigments dissolved in hot wax |
| Figurative art/figurativism | Artwork w people, animals, or other forms (weeping woman - Picasso) |
| Formalism | Response to post-impressionism, focused on the technical, or formal, elements of art |
| Genre painting | Realistic paintings of scenes from everyday life |
| Imitationalism | Realistic artwork with recognizable real things |
| Impasto | Thick paint strokes to create texture |
| Impressionism | Late 1860s, visible brush strokes, emphasis on light (Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet) |
| Minimalism | Response to Abstract Expressionism, 1960s, first was Frank Stella |
| Modernism | Umbrella term for movements late 1800s - early 1970s that focused on expression rather than realism. impressionism, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism |
| Naturalism | 1800s - realistic depiction of objects in their natural settings (Cole, Constable, Millet) |
| Op art | 20th century - optical illusions |
| Painterly | Forms are created without rigid lines (Van Gogh, Monet) |
| Pop art | Mid 1950s |
| Postimpressionism | 1890s, French - response to impressionism with more form and structure (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat) |
| Realism | 1840s (Millet, Wyeth) |
| Romanticism | Late 1700s - early 1800s, emotion + artistic freedom (Goya, Constable) |
| Surrealism | 1920s - dreams and fantasy as subject matter (Main was Breton, also Dali, Arp, Ernst) |
| Strophic form | AAA (verse, verse, verse) (wheels on the bus) |
| Through-composed | ABCDE... (Bohemian Rhapsody) - common during 17th-20th centuries |
| Binary | AB (Minuet in G) |
| Ternary | ABA (think triangle lowkey) theme, changes, returns to theme |
| Rondo | ABACA or ABACABA (found in 5 or 7 parts) After each section, it returns to the refrain |
| Sonata form | Exposition, development, recapitulation Widely used by Mozart and Haydn |
| Theme and variations | Like Beethoven 5 |
| Anacrusis | Pickup |
| Faske book | Cheat sheet for jazz musicians - lead sheet |
| Jitterbug | 1940s and 50s improvised dance to syncopated music |
| Libretto | text/script/lyrics for things like opera, cantata, musical, masque |
| Polytonality | 2 keys at once |
| Prima donna | Principal female singer in an opera |
| Primo uomo | Principal male singer in an opera |
| Sonata | Piece with 3-4 movements with different keys, forms (Vivaldi sonata in e minor) |
| Sprechstimme | combined song and speech |
| Tessitura | Written vocal range |
| Berlioz | French Romantic Composer Symphonie Fantastique, Romeo et Juliette (dedicated to Paganini) |
| Bartok | Hungarian Concerto for orchestra, Duke Bluebeard's castle |
| Debussy | 24 preludes |
| John williams | Film scores Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter films 25 GRAMMYS, 5 Academy Awards but 52 nominations (2nd to Disney) |
| Bernstein | West Side Story |
| Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue, An American In Paris Jazz |
| BASTE | Body, Action, Space, Time, Energy |
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