AP Art History: Styles questions with correct answers

Abstract Expressionism CORRECT ANSWER First major American avant-garde movement; emerged 1940s in NYC; artists focused on automatism and revealing their subconscious through automatism artmaking; broad gestural strokes on huge canvases Amarna Style CORRECT ANSWER Based on newly introduced monotheism, this style rejected traditional artistic conventions; utilized elongated forms, androgynous bodies and scenes of daily life Ancient Egypt CORRECT ANSWER Aimed to evoke timelessness and tradition through conventional images of power and rulership; frequently funerary; utilized twisted perspective and hierarchical scale; bodies based on a canon of proportion Archaic Greek CORRECT ANSWER Artwork is typically funerary or for ritual; male figures are nude, while female figures are clothed; bodies are idealized, with little negative space and no contrapposto Art Nouveau CORRECT ANSWER An ornamental style of art that flourished between 1880 and 1910; characterized by organic, twisting decorative natural motifs; a decorative arts movement as well as a fine arts movement Austrian Secession CORRECT ANSWER Characterized by decadence, a breakdown of light, decorative patterning; a reaction to the traditional Viennese art community Byzantine CORRECT ANSWER Focused on formal religious imagery with figures who were often flattened and fro