Henri Matisse

1. What nationality is Matisse?

French
2. Matisse is sometimes referred to the master of what?

Master of colour
3. What did Matisse’s mum and dad do for a living?

seed merchants
4. When was Matisse born?

1869 on the 31st of December.
5. What did his mum give him when he was a child and was ill with depression?

Henri’s mum got him an art box.
6. What year did Matisse travel to the South of France?

age 36 in 1905
7. What did Matisse decide to ignore?

light, shadow, perspective and brushwork.
8. What boundaries did Matisse push?

colour, form and principle of the colour wheel.
9. What did Matisse try to portray in these paintings?

an emotional response to reality
10. Who was the person who started buying Matisse’s work in bulk?

Sergei Shchukin
11. What happened to most of Shchukin’s Matisse collection?

The collection he bought ended up in Hermitage Museum located in St. Petersburg
12. What was the reaction to the paintings ‘Music’ and ‘Dance’ from 1910?

There was backlash for the use of colour on the people in the picture this was mocked and seen as a violation.
13. What did the Communist dictator Stalin do to all the paintings? 

Stalin confiscated the paintings and ultimately banned them
14. Who is Albert Irvin?

He is an English abstract artist who is a specialist is Expressionism abstract.
15. What was always at the core of Matisse’s work?

Black and white.
16. Matisse tried to join the army for the First World War but was rejected because he was?

He was deemed to old too fight.
17. What year did Matisse move to the city of Nice in the South of France?

age 48 in 1917
18. What subject did he mainly paint?

Semi nude women.
19. What year did Matisse first visit New York City?

in 1930
20. How old was he?

age 61
21. Which American Abstract Expressionist did Matisse’s Red Studio painting inspire?22. Who was Lydia Delectorskaya?

An assistant that first helped him with his mural but was rumoured to become his lover.
23. In 1940 was a bad year for Matisse, what two things occurred?

He was almost killed by a Nazi in ww2 which led to life threatening surgery. He was also diagnosed with Bowel cancer.
24. Who came to visit Matisse and couldn’t believe that the villa was where Matisse lived?

Pablo Picasso
25. In 1947 Matisse invented a new technique?

The paper cut out technique.
26. What did this technique allowed Matisse to do?

it allowed you tocut out coloured material to directly apply colour.
27. Why were the cut outs produced?

to help him to continue working.

Salvador Dali

1. What year was Salvador Dali born?

1904 11th of May
2. What nationality was Dali?

Spanish.
3. What age does he go to Madrid to study Fine Art?

age 18 in 1922.
4. Did he complete his studies?

he didn’t complete his studies due to expulsion.
5. Discovering what changed Dali’s life?

surrealism
6. Who started the art movement that Dali is associated with?

Andre Breton
7. What was the movement a response to?

it was a response to the devastation of the World War
8. What are the main themes of surrealism?9. What themes were on the 23-year-old Dali’s mind?

death and sexual related
10. What is the paranoiac critical method?

its said to allow the exploration of the subconscious mind.
11. What film did Dali make in 1929 with Luis Buñuel?

An Andalusian Dog
12. What year did Dali meet his wife?

1929
13. Who was the British patron of Dali and surrealism?

Edward James
14. What year was The Persistence of memory painting first shown in New York?

1932
15. How much was it originally bought for?

$250 dollars
16. When did the artist Jeff Koons meet Dali?

1973
17. How much was the skull sculpture (For the Love of God) by Damien Hirst on sale for?

£50,000,000
18. After being dismissed by the Surrealists where did Dali head for?

Hollywood
19. What year did Dali work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound?

1944
20. What sequence did he design?21. Who else did Dali work with?

Disney
22. What lollypop did Dali design the logo for?

chupa chips
23. What year did Dalí Theatre and Museum open?

1974
24. What year did Dali die?

1989 23rd January.

Andy Warhol

1. How much did one of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe works of art sell for?

28,000,000
2. How many versions are there?3. What prediction did he make about being famous in the future?

everyone would become famous for 15 minutes.
4. Where was he born?

Pitsburg, Pennsylvania.
5. What year was he born?

1928 August 6th.
6. How did Warhol describe his childhood home?

The most terrible place he had ever been in.
7. What were the two childhood passions of Andy Warhol?

Catholic religion and movie stars in magazines.
8. What age did Warhol move to New York City?

age 21
9. How much money did he have?10. How much did he sale his first illustrations for?

$25
11. What did people call him?

Raggedy Andy
12. What was Andy Warhol obsessed with when he looked around?

50’s consumer revolution
13. What art movement is Warhol associated with?

Pop art movement
14. When did Warhol finally break into the fine art world with an exhibition?

1962
15. What was the name of his studio?16. What industrial technique did Warhol discover in the early 1960’s?

Silk screen printing
17. What were Warhol’s favourite themes?

death, money and celebrities
18. Warhol said that shopping stores would become the new what?

shopping malls would be the new museum
19. What phrase did Warhol invent to describe very famous people?

Superstars
20. What happened to Warhol in June 1968?

He bought his first video camera used to create Green Car Crash
21. What does SCUM stand for?

Society of Cutting Up
22. How much did Warhol’s Green Car Crash work of art sell for?

71.7 million dollars.
23. How did Warhol describe good business?

The best art
24. What age did Warhol die?

58
25. What did he die of?

Cardiac arrhythmia

Genius of British Art

1. The start of British Modern Art started where?

started in Cornwall west coast during post war in Britain.

2. What did one critic describe Patrick Heron’s work as?

One critic called Patrick Herons work “Absurd”.

3. What did Patrick Heron think art should do?

he felt art should lift the human spirit.

4. What did Francis Bacon think life was full of?

Pain and suffering

5. What did Francis Bacon’s artwork deliberately set out to do?
6. What did Peter Blake’s work celebrate?

Americas culture of denim clothing and Elvis

7. Who is the father of British Pop Art?

Richard Hamilton

8. What does Transient mean?

When something is impermanent/easy to fade away.

9. What happened to the UK economy during the 1970’s?

struggled in a downturn – led to 3 3 day working weeks, miners strikes, and IRA bombing

10. Gilbert and George describe themselves as?

pure, weird and normal.

11. What was the new spirit for 80’s Britain?

money, greed and ambition

12. Who is the world’s richest living artist today?

Damien Hirst

13. Who is Charles Saatchi?

co founder of advertising agency ” Saatchi & Saatchi”.

14. At the end of the 80’s boom, how much did Hirst sell his work at Sotheby’s auction for?

£95,000,000

15. What was Tracy Emin’s unique selling point?

self obsession

Art Movements

Art Deco

 

Art deco is a design style from the 1920s and 1930s in furniture, decorative arts and architecture characterised by its geometric character. The art deco style, which above all reflected modern technology, was characterized by smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms and bright, sometimes garish colours.Image result for art deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. it features curving forms and smooth, polished surfaces. Art Deco is one of the first truly international styles, but its dominance ended with the beginning of World War II and the rise of the strictly functional and unadorned styles of modern architecture and the International Style of architecture that followed.

 

Expressionism

 

Expressionist art tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality. Each artist had their own unique way of “expressing” their emotions in their art. In order to express emotion, the subjects are often distorted or exaggerated. At the same time colours are often vivid and shocking. Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

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Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War.

 

Futurism

 

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Futurism, Italian Futurismo, Russian Futurizm, early 20th-century artistic movement centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life.

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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Futurism is an avant-garde movement founded in Milan in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Russian Futurism was a movement of literature and the visual arts. The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was a prominent member of the movement.

 

Dada

 

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire; New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

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Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war. Dada emerged from a period of artistic and literary movements like Futurism, Cubism and Expressionism; centered mainly in Italy, France and Germany respectively, in those years. However, unlike the earlier movements Dada was able to establish a broad base of support, giving rise to a movement that was international in scope.

 

Cubism

 

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionised European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterised chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organisation of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.

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Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s.

 

Surrealism

 

Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in 1917, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects and unexpected juxtapositions.

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Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in 1917 , and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality”.

 

Modernism

 

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modernism, in the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I. ModernismLearn about Modernism in art and design.

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Modernism is both a 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. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions of horror to World War I.

 

Abstract Expressionism

 

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.

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Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term “abstract expressionism” was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919.

 

Pop Art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. The subject matter became far from traditional “high art” themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art.

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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

 

Post Modernism

 

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism. The term has been more generally applied to the historical era following modernity and the tendencies of this era. Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.

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Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. Postmodernism describes movements which both arise from, and react against or reject, trends in modernism. General citations for specific trends of modernism are formal purity, medium specificity, art for art’s sake, authenticity, universality, originality and revolutionary or reactionary tendency.

 

1990’s Brit Art (YBA)

 

The first use of the term ‘young British artists’ to describe the work of Hirst and these other young artists was by Michael Corris in Artforum, May 1992. The acronym ‘YBA’ was coined later in 1996 in ArtMonthly magazine. The consolidation of the artists’ status began in 1995 with a large-scale group exhibition Brilliant! held at the Walker Art Center a respected art museum in Minneapolis, USA. The term YBA was already used in 1994 and later used by Simon Ford in a feature Myth Making in March 1996 in Art Monthly magazine.

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