17/19 17. Art Between World Wars and After 1945 Free Online FlashCards

What was Dada’s central attitude?

Dada was an anti-art movement that used contradiction, chance, humor, nonsense, and institutional criticism in response to World War I and the crisis of faith in rational progress.

What is a readymade?

A readymade is an ordinary manufactured object selected and presented as art. Its meaning depends on artistic choice, context, and presentation rather than handcrafted uniqueness.

What did Surrealism seek to release?

Surrealism sought to release imagination from rational control through dreams, psychoanalysis, chance, desire, and techniques such as automatism.

What social role did Constructivists assign to art?

Russian Constructivism treated art as a tool for building a new society, emphasizing design, industry, mass communication, engineering, and social use over autonomous luxury objects.

What did the Bauhaus seek to unite?

The Bauhaus aimed to unite art, craft, architecture, and industrial production through workshops, material experimentation, functional design, and the relationship between form and use.

How does *Guernica* convey the experience of war?

*Guernica* communicates terror and civilian suffering through fractured bodies, screaming mouths, a glaring lamp, and a restricted black, white, and gray palette rather than realistic narration.

What characterized Abstract Expressionism?

Abstract Expressionism emphasized large-scale abstraction, physical process, and intense subjective expression. Its major tendencies included Action Painting and Color Field painting.

How did Pollock make *Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)*?

Pollock made *Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)* by pouring, dripping, and flinging paint across a canvas on the floor. The result records bodily movement while also reflecting control of viscosity, rhythm, scale, and paint distribution.

What imagery did Pop Art appropriate?

Pop Art borrowed imagery from advertising, comics, newspapers, television, consumer products, celebrities, and popular entertainment, often using repetition and commercial techniques.

What were Allan Kaprow’s Happenings?

Happenings used loosely structured events, movement, sound, and ordinary objects to blur the distinction between art and life.

How did Fluxus challenge the art object?

Fluxus challenged the precious art object through inexpensive, reproducible, participatory, and often humorous combinations of music, poetry, theater, instructions, games, and performance.

What did Conceptual Art prioritize?

Conceptual Art emphasized ideas, systems, language, instructions, and processes over unique physical objects, questioning authorship, originality, execution, and artistic value.