Exam 4 Study Guide You are responsible for knowing everything contained in your textbook about the following images, terms, people, and topics.
Eight of the images below will be on the exam; you are responsible for being able to identify which artistic movement (such as abstract, dada, surrealism, or Harlem Renaissance) the artwork belongs to. 3 1
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Images (who is the artist, what culture is it from, what is significant about it?): Picasso’s Guernica; Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase; Duchamp’s LHOOQ; Dali’s The Persistence of Memory; Hopper’s Night Hawks; Wright’s Fallingwater house;
Terms (what does it mean, what/who is it associated with, what culture is it from?): lost generation; stream of consciousness; Harlem Renaissance, Literary Modernism, Surrealism, Unconscious, Dada, Bauhaus, the Unconscious, Ragtime, Abstract Art, figurative art, jazz.
People (who are they, where and when did they live, what did they think and do?): Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf, Picasso, Freud, Duchamp, Dali, Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Eisenstein, Riefenstahl, Frank Lloyd Wright
Reading selections: Rosenberg’s “Dead Man’s Dump”; Yeats’s “The Second Coming”; Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams; Hughes, “I, Too”
In general, you should be able to discuss the significance of the First World War, the revolution in art after the First World War, and music in the jazz age.
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Images (who is the artist, what culture is it from, what is significant about it?): Pollock’s One: Number 31; Rothko’s Magenta, Black, Green on Orange; Stella’s Mas o Menos; Kruger’s Untitled/Money; Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Christo and Jean Claude’s The Gates; Warhol’s Green Coca‐Cola Bottles; Johns’s Three Flags; Oldenberg’s Soft Toilet; Bearden’s The Dove; Smith’s Cubi XIX; Calder’s The Star; Nevelson’s Royal Tide IV; Wright’s Guggenheim Museum; van der Rohe’s Seagram Building; Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim
Terms (what does it mean, what/who is it associated with, what culture is it from?): Existentialism, The Beats, Abstract Expressionism, action painting, color‐field painting, minimalism, conceptual art, site‐specific art, land art, pop art, photorealism, mobiles, modern architecture, postmodern architecture, musical structuralism, electronic music, aleatoric music, rock opera, deconstructivism, green building.
People (who are they, where and when did they live, what did they think and do?): Sartre, Camus, Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Gehry, John Cage, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Reading selections: Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism”;
In general , you should be able to discuss new trends in the arts and music since 1945 and the rise of postmodernism.
You should come to the exam especially prepared to answer the following questions: 1. Duke Ellington composed… 2. Jean Paul Sartre is… 3. Allen Ginsberg is… 4. Sigmund Freud is… 5. T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, features… 6. The Harlem Renaissance is… 7. Jackson Pollock is… 8. The Bauhaus is… 9. “People are condemned to be free,” wrote… 10. Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe and Frank Gehry are all… 11. John Cage believed that…. 12. The Beats are… 13. Who is associated with literary modernism? 14. Romare Bearden is an… 15. Jazz is… 16. What happened to the arts after the First World War? 17. Who is associated with the Harlem Renaissance? 18. The theory of the Unconscious is associated with which figure? 19. Andy Warhol is… 20. Edward Hopper painted… 21. Pablo Picasso painted… 22. Frank Lloyd Wright designed…