Modernism vs. Postmodernism questions & answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Modernism vs. PostmodernismBricolage - correct answer construction or something constructed by using whatever materials happen to be available. Pastiche - correct answer a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work Appropriation - correct answer to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work High Art - correct answer Italian painting and sculpture dating from roughly 1490 to 1527, characterized by classicism, with a particular emphasis on form and balance. The three undisputed masters of the High Renaissance are Leonardo da Vinci (), Raphael (), and Michelangelo (). Eg. the "Last Supper"; the "School of Athens"; and the "David." Low Art - correct answer can be appreciated by almost everybody Pluralism - correct answer condition when many cultures coexist in one society Modernism - correct answer The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the 20th century. Post-Modernism - correct answer genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism Expressionism - correct answer an early twentieth-century art movement that emphasized the artist's personal, subjective expression of inner experiences Fauvism - correct answer Identify this art movement which emphasized strong colors over detail Cubism - correct answer A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes Futurism - correct answer an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age Dada - correct answer a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century Abstraction - correct answer a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples Surrealism - correct answer a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams Abstract Expressionism - correct answer first major American avant-garde movement, paintings were abstract but expressed the artist's state of mind; focused on inner reality and used Surrealist techniques Pop Art - correct answer an American school of the 1950s that imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media