CST VISUAL ARTS EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

CST VISUAL ARTS EXAM (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS AND

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Post-Impressionism -A late style that relies on the Impressionist use of color and spontaneous brushwork but that employs these elements as expressive devices -Rainbow bright color patches -Wanted art to be more substantial

-Group was split into two: 1) Seurat (dot theory aka pointillism)

& Cezanne (color planes) concentrated on formal, near scientific design 2) Gaugui, Van Gogh, & Lautrec emphasized expressing their emotions and sensations through color and light -See chart on pg. 113

Expressionism -Munch -Portrayed emotions through distorting form and color -Revival of graphic arts -Art should express the artist's feelings rather than images of the real world

-2 groups: Die Brucke- means "bridge", members believed

their work would be a bridge to the future, produced intense 1 / 4

anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms and clashing colors (Kirchner, Nolde)

Der Blaue Reiter: means "blue rider", (Kadinsky, Kleep), color

could convey emotion irrespective of content, shape and color not subject are the expressive factors, pure abstraction

Symbolism -Discarded the visible world of surface appearances for the inner world of fantasy -Forerunner of Surrealism -Rousseau, Redon, Ryder

Modern Architecture -Designed structures that have never existed before such as suspension bridges, grain elevators, train sheds, factories, warehouses, and high-rise office buildings -"Form follows function" -New designs were to express a building's commercial purpose, without any overlay of historical ornament -Sullivan (virtually invented the skyscraper)

Modern Art 2 / 4

-Art concerned itself less with exterior visual reality and more with interior vision -Portrayed contemporary life rather than historical events -Declared all subjects fair game and liberated form (cubism) from traditional rules and freed color (Fauvism) from accurately representing an object -Relentless quest for radical freedom of expression -Artists stressed private concerns, experiences, and imagination as the sole sources of art

Fauvism -Use of color without reference to actual appearance, exaggerated vibrant color. Used color as a way to express feelings -Experimenting with new ways to express their emotional response to a scene (generally landscapes or seascapes painted outdoors) -Clashing colors and bold distortions of form and perspective, vigorous brushstrokes, flat linear patterns, used the bare canvas as part of overall design -Freer, more individual ways of communication emotion -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Rouault, Braque

20th Century Sculpture 3 / 4

-Brancusi -Shaved away detail almost to the vanishing point

-Saw reality in terms of a few basic, universal shapes: the egg,

the smooth pebble, and the blade of grass

Cubism -Broke up forms to recombine them in new ways -Delivers a multi-faceted fly's eye view of reality

-Analytic Cubism: Analyzed the form of objects by shattering

them into fragments spread out on the canvas. Worked in nearly a monochrome palette, using only brown, green, and later gray in order to analyze form without the distraction of bright colors

-Synthetic Cubism: Employs strong colors and decorative

shapes. Incorporated stenciled lettering and paper scrapes into paintings -Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger

Futurism -Kinetic Art -Challenged artists to show "courage, audacity, and revolt" and to celebrate "a new beauty, the beauty of speed" -Took place in Italy -The key was movement.

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