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Tarek Safadi Ch 24 review Dadaism: art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Modernism: philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fauvism: a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Avant-garde: are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art German Expressionism: consisted of a number of related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s. Primitivism: a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature. Cubism: were interested in the simplification of forms to their geometric essentials: the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. Futurism: an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. Supremacism: an art movement focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. Constructivism: an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin. This was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. Surrealism: a cultural movement that started in 1917,and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. De Stijl: Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. 1.) Which movements were influenced by World War I in Europe? modernism 2.) Explain how Matisse’s work was radically different in his approach to painting? His paintings had nude bodies of women and men in a landscape drenched with vivid color 3.) What did the Die Brucke artists protest? The group sought an authenticity of expression that its members felt had been lost with the innovations of modern life. 4.) Which artists of German Expressionism where influenced by Fauvism Henri Matisse 5.) Kandinsky was one of the first artists to explore what? abstract art 6.) Explain Picasso’s primitivism in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon? Picasso painted this composition in a style inspired by Iberian sculpture, but repainted the faces of the two figures on the right after being powerfully impressed by African artefacts he saw in June 1907 in the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro 7.) What interested the futurists? every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, urban design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture, and even cooking

8.) Which artist put a mustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa? Duchamp 9.) What are the differences between Supremacism and Constructivism? Constructivism is concerned with utilitarian strategies of adapting art to the principles of functional organization. Suprematism, in sharp contrast to Constructivism, embodies a profoundly antimaterialist, anti-utilitarian philosophy. 10.)What is the differences between Dadaism and Surrealism Dadaism arose due to the horrors of WW1 in Europe. It originally dealt more with poetry than fine art. Surrealism's mission was quite different from Dada. They took their art seriously and didn't aspire to have it be anti-art. 11.)Diego and Frida created images that depicted which cultural heritage in the modern era? Mexican culture...