Avant garde - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Thea 1 Final Exam (All Units) Latest Update Graded A+ 240 BCE Roman Theatre begins in what year? 3 Greek play competitions included ___ tragedies and 1 satire 476 This period of theatre began with the fall of Rome in ________ AD Absurdist ___________ Theatre is Avant-garde theatre that argues that all life is meaningless. Characters speak and act at random with no societal (or theatrical) rules. Actor Edwin Booth was considered to be America's greatest ______________ in the l...

ART 305 Exam Questions with Complete Solutions The ideas embodied in Edward Said's theory of Orientalism can be seen in artworks such as: - Answer-Gerome's "Slave Market" which depicts slave traders in Islamic Egypt. Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque" which depicts a voluptuous nude woman posed as a harem girl. Matisse's odalisques from the 1920s, which reflect European cultural attitudes about dominance and submission. French Impressionist Claude Monet insisted that the ba...

SAT STUDY GUIDE EXAM. feckless (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER useless, lacking skill, incompetent, futile, indifferent, lazy quiescent (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER dormant, quiet, inactive, motionless halcyon (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER happy, perfect, idyllic, prosperous, carefree onerous (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER burdensome assiduousness (n) - CORRECT ANSWER diligently working affability (n) - CORRECT ANSWER friendliness; the quality of being affable; geniality belie (v) - CORRECT ANSWER to c...

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 expe-rienced (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 pro...

De Stijl : The Russian Avant-Garde

UPDATED* Praxis II - Art Content Knowledge Exam | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 | Graded A+ embossing - Answer -Form of RELIEF in which image is raised from the backside (called repoussé in metalworking); in printing, image is raised on paper from the reverse side John Marin () - Answer -American Modernist ARTIST known for his abstract landscapes & watercolors; often credited w/ influencing Abstract Expressionists; mastered a type of watercolor where he achi...

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...

Abstract Expressionism CORRECT ANSWER First major American avant-garde movement; emerged 1940s in NYC; artists focused on automatism and revealing their subconscious through automatism artmaking; broad gestural strokes on huge canvases Amarna Style CORRECT ANSWER Based on newly introduced monotheism, this style rejected traditional artistic conventions; utilized elongated forms, androgynous bodies and scenes of daily life Ancient Egypt CORRECT ANSWER Aimed to evoke timelessness and traditi...

Describe the studio contract system of the 1930s and 1940s? Which guild was the strongest? Why? Name two other important Hollywood guilds. correct answers The 7 year contracts: actors, writers, producers, directors, etc... were all under contract and assigned pictures. IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees), SAG, DGA, & WGA. Stronger SAG union members assist below-the-line film workers' unions. The 7-year contract system was a system where studios would pick up a st...

Lecture notes from all the lectures of the blurring boundaries in art course given by R. Vellemans in period 4, 2023/2023. Modern art and all art movements of the 20th century.