Avant garde - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris[1] that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of threedimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne, which were displayed i...

Architectural Theory - ARCH 577, Questions and answers, rated A+ What is theory - (a looking, viewing or beholding (NOT creating, making or doing) an explanation) a building is not a theory Theory - Proposed explanation of empirical phenomena, made in a way consistent with the scientific method Theory - proposed explanation of empirical phenomena Ontology - the study of the nature of being or reality Epistomology - the study of knowledge Positive Theory - Descriptive - assertions abou...

soc185s final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass A Russian exile from the Revolution of 1917 who preferred Nazis and fascists to Russian communists. - Answer- Ivan Ilyin The proto-fascist, anti-Semitic, pro-Tsar group that was outlawed after the Russian Revolution but has recently been revived. - Answer- the Black Hundreds The belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed" - Answ...

Appeasement (and how the British used this policy between WWI and WWII) - correct answer Great Britain practiced this towards Germany, policy was based on belief that if European states satisfied the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers, the dissatisfied powers would be content, and stability and peace would be achieved in Europe. Balfour Declaration - correct answer made Palestine a national Jewish homeland, declared in 1948 Blitzkrieg - correct answer lightning war, Hitl...

Implicit Meaning - CORRECT ANSWER lies beneath the surface of a movie's story & presentation Explicit Meaning - CORRECT ANSWER available on the surface of the movie Form - CORRECT ANSWER means by which the subject is expressed and experienced (how it is presented). Form sets up audience expectation. Form supplies the methods & techniques necessary to present it to the audience. Content - CORRECT ANSWER The subject of an artwork (what it is about). Content provides something to...

PostmodernismModernism - correct answer A movement post WWI-WWII that sought to fill the void that the lost generation and the shattering of Enlightenment ideals created. Modernists were earnest as they tried to both create a new way of interpreting the world around them, make people feel better (not Neitzsche obviously), and create CHANGE. Postmodernism - correct answer ... Neitzsche's Superman - correct answer He argued that life is a meaningless, chaotic storm in which Enlightenment id...

Sprechstimme "white" tone quarter tones - Answer In his madrigals, George Crumb explores which of the following? tone clusters and plucking of the piano strings - Answer Composer Henry Cowell's innovations include avant garde - Answer George Crumb is considered to be a(n) ______ composer. true - Answer (t/f) Henry Cowell is known for combining Asian instruments with traditional Western ensembles. phrases end in a downward melodic line - Answer How does Crumb dep...

How do movies use the elements of time and space? - correct answer they manipulate time and space How can patterns be broken for dramatic and expressive purposes? - correct answer close ups and wide angle shots two interrelated aspects of the entire formal system of a work of art - correct answer form and content Narrative films - correct answer fiction Documentary films - correct answer Nonfiction Experimental films - correct answer avant-garde Freeze-frame - correct answer st...

AP Art History 15- Postmodernism performance art - correct answer an American avant-garde art trend of the 1960's that made time an integral element of art happenings - correct answer a term coined by American artist Allan Kaprow in the 1960's to describe loosely structured performances, whose creators were truing to suggest the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of everyday life; as actions, rather than objects Earthwork/Site Specific/environmental art - correct answer transforming some s...

Traditionalist - Using the style of today, and combining the style of the pervious 200 years Modernist - A name givien to music which was more cutting edge Avant-Garde - Ahead of the times, especially in the arts Impressoinism - lack of detail, haziness Claude Debussy - Father of 20th century music, modernist Prelude to the afternoon of a faun - -Ground breaking piece -Complicated rythems -Quiet dynamics Maurice Ravel - -Studied piano -Meticulous composer -Impressionism Orchestration ...