Art theory practice quiz

Heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination. A departure from classicism and rebellion against established social rules.

• Romanticism

• Neoclassicism

• De Stijl

• Realism

Draws from classical art and culture of ancient Rome and Greece. Coincided with the height of enlightenment.

• Romanticism

• Neoclassicism

• Realism

• Impressionism

Inspired by cubism and began to look at art not so much as about the object, but devoted to the relations between objects and evenutally just to the relations (such as vertical vs. horizontal) A utopian vision of art, utilizing precise geometric forms--straight lines, squares and primary colors.

• Cubism

• Futurism

• De Stijl

• Constructivism

Characterized by small, thin, visible brush strokes, open composition and emphasis on light and its changing qualities; ordinary subject matter.

• Cubism

• Impressionism

• Neoclassicism

• Romanticism

Art movement which sought to glorify modernity and liberate Italy from its past. It emphasized speed, technology, youth, and objects like cars, airplanes, motorcycles and industrial cities.

• Futurism

• De Stijl

• Realism

• Constructivism

Produced shattered block-like faucets, reduced everything (places, faces, structures) into geometric schema, to cubes. Give us the sensible essence of objects, reducing them to a limited set of marks, capturing the object in its many planes of existence. A way of 'how to look' rather than a focus on 'what' the artist was looking at.

• Impressionism

• Constructivism

• Futureims

• Cubism

Avant garde movement with artists who rejected logic, reason and aesthetics of modern capitalist society by expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest through ready-mades, collage, sound poetry, and sculpture using found objects.

• Dada

• Surrealism

• Realism

• De Stijl

Looking to mobilize the imagination and non-rational resources of the mind, this artwork captures a reconciliation between dreams and reality, taps into the unconscious thoughts arriving at surprising and unlikely juxtapositions.

• Dada

• Realism

• Surrealism

• Constructivism

Borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism, and Futurism, it was a new approach to making objects. A focus on construction over composition, to express experiences of modern life using modern materials.

• Cubism

• Realism

• Constructivism

• Futurism

Sometimes called naturalism, the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully--nothing exotic or supernatural. Avoidance of stabilization, accurate depiction of life forms, perspective, details of light and color, usually depicting mundane, ugly or sordid.

• Impressionism

• Constructivism

• Realism

• Cubism