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Art section V
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simplification of visually recognizable forms, drove artistic developments in the 19th and 20th centurys. | Abstraction |
| Le havre, Normandy is what? (hint hint fish) | An important port |
| Monet did Military service in 1861-1862 where? | French Colony of Algeria |
| After Monet did military service, he went to paris to study art under who? | Charles Gleyre |
| En plein air (Monet was known for this) | Painting outdoors |
| 1874, Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Edger Degas formed a societe anonyme, what is that that a term for? | Corporation owned by stockholders (their first group exhibition was also in 1874) |
| In response to the 1874 art exhibit where Monet showed "Impression, Sunrise", who called the group impressionists? (a title that stuck for 150+ yrs) | Louis Leroy |
| Printemps department store (1865), and the Opera (1875), were constructed after a period of revolution. What did they contribute? | Contributed to leisure, consumption, entertainment |
| Through 1900 how many railway stations were built to connect regions of france to the capital? | 7 stations (Gare Saint-Lazare was the first of these stations, connected to the capital first then the northwest suburbs, followed by normandy) |
| The coastal region in northwest france where monet grew up | Normandy |
| Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare was made by Monet in what year? | 1877 |
| Printmaker who produced cartoons for the humor periodical "Le Charivari", including satirical series "On the train" (published 1850s, stand alone print in 1864) | Honoré Daumier |
| Who painted "the Railway" (1873), which shows a governess and young child looking through railings onto a train line suffused with fluffy white steam. | Edouard Manet (focused on clouds of steam from train in this painting) |
| Whose painting showed the iron truss bridge that spanned the tracks of Saint-Lazare train station in "Le Pont De L'europe" In 1876 | Caillebotte |
| Who painted a portrait of Claude Monet in 1872? (hint- it was one of the two who pushed him towards abstract paintings) | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| What was the northwestern suburb of paris, directly on the line from Saint-Lazare? | Argenteuil |
| Who painted the "Pont Neuf", paris in 1872? | Auguste Renoir |
| How many of monet’s Saint-Lazare paintings, including Arrival of the Normandy Train, were shown at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877, alongside Caillebotte’s Le Pont de l’Europe? | 7 |
| When was impressionism finally being seen as an important step in modernist experimentation? | mid 20th century. |
| An innovation of this was to break down reliance of 3 dimensional spaces. instead they opted to embrace the flatness of the canvas | Cubism |
| Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were leaders of what movement? | Cubism |
| Orphism was named after the Greek legend of the musician orpheus by who? | The poet Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Which three artists did Guillaume Apollinaire group together as the other members of Orphism aside from the delaunays? | • Fernand Léger (The mechanic-1920, showed as masculine) • Francis Picabia • Marcel Duchamp (hes lowk dada now tho) |
| Hommes-oiseaux translates to? (wyndham lewis complaining about french) | Bird Men |
| Which early 20th-century artists simultaneously used fragmentation and multiple perspectives to represent flying airplanes in their work? | • Robert Delaunay • Edward Wadsworth (A Short Flight, 1914) • Kazimir Malevich (Airplane Flying, 1914–15) • Natalia Goncharova (Airplane Flying Over Train, 1913) • Gino Severini (Flying over Rheims, 1915) |
| The earliest image of a flashy car driving through a city, by John Sloan. | Gray and Brass 1907 |
| Tamara de Lempicka studied in paris under which cubist painter? | André Lhote |
| where and when was Lempicka's first major exhibition? | Bottega di Poesia gallery in Milan, Italy 1925 |
| What two movements/styles did Lempicka use in her art works? | Art Deco and Cubism |
| When and what was the Art Deco movement? | 1924-1930 Brilliant colors, angular shapes, expensive materials, and motifs relating to modern life |
| In 1929, a picture by Therese Bonney showed Tamara working on "Portrait of a man". Who was the man in the portrait? | Tadeusz Lempicki (her now ex man at the time bro) |
| When were internal combustion engine powered vehicles first developed and how long did they stay a luxery item? | Germany 1885, 15-20 years. 20th c. ownership began spreading (1900s) |
| By 1927 how many people had cars in france? | 1 in every 44 people |
| Who dominated european car production in the inter war period? What car dominated? | France dominated with the Bugatti (Originally based in Alsace, formally in germany) (Racing cars=Bugatti) |
| Italian Futurists paintings showing the feeling of a fast car (in a masc. way) | Speeding automobile (1912)- Giacomo Balla Dynamism of an automobile- Luigi russolo |
| Who worked for Die Dame (the lady), german magazine. (Target woman was modern career woman) | Tamara de Lempicka Hannah Höch (German dada artist) |
| What years did Die Dame published, and how many copies per issue were there? | 1912-1943, 60,000 copies per issue |
| What car did Tamara drive in the Die Dame version? | A small yellow Renault (economy car) |
| Clärenore Stinnes with her fiance Carl Axel Söderström, finished the 27 month long tour, arriving in berlin in what year? | 1926. (she was one of the first people to circumnavigate the world by car) |
| Who produced the first "star" airline terminal? | Eero Saarinen |
| Where was Eero Saarinen born? | suburb of Helsinki, Finland 1910 (Hvittrask) |
| who were the 3 architects who designed Hvittrask? | Eliel Saarinen, Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren (Built in a romantic nationalist style) |
| Who built the central train station, in Helsinki? | Eliel Saarinen (opened 1919), combined romantic nationalist elements with modern tech. |
| TWA terminal was completed in what year? | 1962 |
| TWA (not the terminal) was founded what year? | 1930 |
| What years did annual air passengers increase from 7 million to 17 million? | 1945-1950 TWA also increased all global market share 25% during these yrs |
| What year was the TWA renovated? | 2015 |
| When did TWA go out of business? | 2001 |
| When did the TWA terminal get reopened at part of a hotel complex? (attached to JFK terminal 5) | 2019 |
| Where is electronic superhighway located? | Smithsonian american art museum in washington D.C. |
| The father of video art | Nam Jun Paik |