Gardner's ART THROUGH THE AGES 15th EDITION Ch. 30 Modernism and Postmodernism on Europe and America, 1945 to /2024

Gardner's ART THROUGH THE AGES 15th EDITION Ch. 30 Modernism and Postmodernism on Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 Postmodernism - correct answer A reaction against modernist formalism, seen as elitist. Far more encompassing and accepting than the more rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism offers something for everyone by accommodating a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionistic scenes. Postmodern art often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of the processes of art making or the workings of the art world. Exedra - correct answer A semicircular open area, with or without a roof, providing a continuous seat. Flying Buttress - correct answer A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch. Formalism - correct answer An emphasis on an artwork's visual elements rather than its subjects. Action Painting - correct answer A technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock, and formed part of the more general movement of abstract expressionism. Neo-Expressionism - correct answer An art movement that emerged in the 1970s and that reflects the artists' interest in the expressive capability of art, seen earlier in German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism. Post-Painterly Abstraction - correct answer 1960s American art movement named by the art critic Clement Greenburg. Tight pictorial control of solid colors in sharp-edged shapes. An umbrella term for specific movements: minimalism, hard-edge painting, lyrical abstraction and color field painting. Color-Field Painting - correct answer A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas. Newman, Rothko, and Frankenthaler painted in this manner. Pop Art - correct answer Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. Encaustic - correct answer A painting technique in which pigment is mixed with wax and applied to the surface while hot. Assemblages - correct answer Artworks constructed from already existing objects. Silk-Screen Printing - correct answer A printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing. Superrealism/ Photorealism - correct answer A school of painting and sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized producing artworks based on scrupulous fidelity to optical fact. Airbrush - correct answer A device originally designed as a photo-retouching tool that sprays paint with compressed air. Vanitas - correct answer A theme in still life painting that stresses the brevity of life and the folly of human vanity. Femmages - correct answer The name American artist Miriam Schapiro gave to her sewn collages, assembled from fabrics, quilts, buttons, sequins, lace trim, and rickrack collected at antique shows and fairs. Ogival - correct answer The diagonal rib of a Gothic vault; a pointed, or Gothic, arch. Mullions - correct answer A vertical member that divides a window or that separates one window from another.