Which is a key aspect of abstract expressionism style?

Spontaneous, subconscious, automatic

Which best describes when and where Abstract Expressionism developed?

A post WWII movement developed in New York

Which best describes 'action painting'?

Treating the canvas as an arena in which to act

Based on feelings rather than facts or proof.

Creating art without conscious thought, accessing the unconscious mind.

Which artists can be most attributed to 'colour field' painting?

Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko

Which Artists can be most attributed to Action painting

Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Morris Louis

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1
Why did many modernists artists flee to America during WWII?
European art scene was less interesting that US
Painting was banned during the war
Communist threat on Europe
Nazi Persecution
2
Abstraction
Uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect
Is where forms have been simplified or modified.
Is all of the above
Is art that does not represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality
3
Which is a key aspect of abstract expressionism style?
Thoughtful, careful, detailed ,
satirical, humerus, controversial
Spontaneous, subconscious, automatic
classic, traditional, historical
4
Which best describes when and where Abstract Expressionism developed?
A post WWII movement developed in New York
An art movement developed in New York in the 1970's
A pre WWI movement developed in New York
A Post WWII movement developed in Europe
5
Which best describes 'action painting'?
Painting people who running around
Treating the canvas as an arena in which to act
6
Expression in Art is how Artists use line, colour, shape, movement and scale to express big ideas, like life and death.
True
False
7
Intuitive is
A formal way of making an Abstract Expressionism painting
A type of Art made in response to Nazi war atrocities
Based on feelings rather than facts or proof.
Something that goes against common sense
8
Psychedelia in Art is the application of marks in free sweeping gestures with a brush, pencil or mark making tool.
False
True
9
Automatism is
A non realistic artwork
Expressive marks on the canvases force the viewer’s eyes to move
Creating art without conscious thought, accessing the unconscious mind.
Saying what you think or showing how you feel using words or actions.
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Which artists can be most attributed to 'colour field' painting?
Goya, Vincent Van Gough
Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchel
Franz Kline
Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko
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Expression is the process of how emotions and thoughts are shown.
True
False
12
Which Artists can be most attributed to Action painting
Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Morris Louis
Lee Krasner , Anita Bath
Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchel
Goya, Vincent Van Gough
13
Abstract Expressionist Artists often listened to Punk Music when they painted
False
True
14
Which of the following art movements had the most influence on Abstract Expressionism?
Pop Art
Impressionism
Surrealism
Dada
15
Who stated that using household paint was "a natural growth out of a need"?
Jackson Pollock
Lee Kranser
Pablo Picasso
Mark Rothko

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