Modernism - Western Art Movements

Movement (Russia) - wanted to create a new aesthetic for a modern Communist society

Which group searched for the 'zero degree' of painting, the point before ceasing to be art?

Movement example - in what style is this memorial created ? (geometric shapes & clear lines)

Movement (Italy) - explored movement, sensation, technology and celebrated urban modernity

Movement - 'The Blood of the Poet' by Jean Cocteau is an example of Surrealist film

Movement - reduced the material presence of the work to an absolute minimum even without form

Movement - explored colour and technique to create subjectivity and impart symbolic meaning

Cut Piece was part of a movement that aimed to destroy any boundary between art and life

Artwork - name the artist & seminal artwork

Movement 1964 > - explored perceptual effects & how to integrate art into modern society

Movement - The Fauvres roughly translates as

Movement - style of art & design of flowing, natural forms with more angular contours

Dada - name the key artist & seminal artwork

Impressionism through its loose brush strokes and lightened colour palettes explored

Movement - celebrated commercial & commonplace objects and people of everyday life

Movement - art from within the artist, rather than from a depiction of the external world

Movement (USA) - reflected post-war mood of anxiety and trauma, grounded in personal experience

What is the approximately start and end of the Modernist period?

Surrealist developed automatism techniques to explore the

Post-Impressionists technique that placed dabs of colour next to each other to create form

Movement - separated colour from representational purpose to express mood and structure

Artwork - translate the phrase in this artwork

Movement - attempted to devise an abstract modern, mythic art

Movement - favoured fabricated materials to remove biography and metaphor / cool & geometric

A statement that outlines an artistic group's and and objectives is called?

Movement 1919-33 - aimed to reconnect art & creativity to manufacturing / art as research

Movement - abandoned perspective, opened and pierced form, showed objects from various angles

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Movement focus - abstract, simple aesthetic e.g. geometric shapes & primary colours

Movement - 'poor art' used commonplace materials often juxtaposing old and new

Dada aimed to

Movement - Championed that everyday life and the modern world were suitable subjects for art

Movement - considered the first Modernist movement