Exam 15: Historical Styles in Western Art

The work Dreaming in Color by Leni Schwendinger has been called __________ because a machine creates the art,with the artist one step removed.

Jan van Eyck's painting The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami illustrates the possibilities of rendering color and detail using the new medium of __________.

Characteristics of the work of Jackson Pollock include __________.

In the early twentieth century,the two movements that characterized the split between depiction of emotion and a focus on form were __________.

Archaeologists have found a lot of evidence of prehistoric societies and can give a detailed interpretation of the art.

The main interest of the Impressionist painters was to __________.

The three greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy were __________.

In his painting The Oath of the Horatii ,Jacques-Louis David __________.

At first,art movements lasted a long time because __________.

In the mid-nineteenth century,the painter Gustave Courbet sought to __________.

One of the main points important to an understanding of Baroque art is that __________.

During the Gothic period,Abbot Suger's design for churches stressed __________.

Marcel Duchamp asserted that anything was art because it is simply the act of the artist's choice that establishes something as art.

The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio illustrates a new concept for religious art which was __________.

An example of how the Romantic painters departed from Neoclassical austerity is __________.

Some of the oldest art ever discovered is(are)__________.

During the Golden Age of Athens,known as the Classical period,Greek art,such as the sculpture the Spear Bearer or the Acropolis and Parthenon of Athens,emphasized __________.

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are representatives of __________.

In the late Gothic Period of the fourteenth century Giotto's painting The Lamentation illustrates a new approach to representation by showing __________.

The term "postmodernism" refers to __________.