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HTC: 18
Expressionism
30
History
Undergraduate 2
05/11/2009

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Term

Who wrote the Futurist Manifesto?

 

Definition

Marinetti

 

 

Term

What are two factors which occurred prior to 1860 that influenced the evolution towards abstraction on modern painting?

 

Definition

1. Color and Perception Theory

2. Invention of photography

3. Japanese Prints

 

Term

What was the primary objective of Cubist painting?

 

Definition

Show movement and time

 

Term

What three shapes did Cubists painters employ in their paintings?

 

Definition

circle, square, and triangle

 

Term

What is one Cubist painter?

 

Definition

Picasso

 

Term

What is the name given to a group of radical Italian designers who were prominent just prior to the start of WWI?

Definition

Futurists

Term

Where was the Futurist movement centered? 

Definition

Italy

Term

Who designed Centennial Hall in Breslau? 

Definition

Berg 

Term

What is Hugo Haring's design methodology as manifested in the Gut Garkau cowshed?

Definition

He designs the cowpens so that all the cows could see the bull and expresses the different functions of the building in form

Term

Who designed the Weimar government's new research tower for Einstein?

Definition

Mendelsohn

Term

Who designed the first Goetheanum?

Definition

Steiner

Term

What are three buildings at the Werkbundʼs 1914 Cologne exhibition that represented the three main movements in German architecture prior to the start of WWI?

Definition

Glass Pavilion, Model Theater, Model Factory

Term

Who was the architect of the Luckenwalde Hat Factory and Dyeworks?

Definition

Behrens

Term

Did Mies extrude the lotlines of the site in both of his glass skyscraper proposals?  Why?

Definition

No. He made a crystallized floor plan to reflect light into the street.

Term

Who designed the German Glass Industry Pavilion at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition?

Definition

Taut

Term

Which German Expressionist architect designed with glass?

Definition

Taut

Term

Which German Expressionist architect designed with brick?

Definition

Hoeger

Term

Which German Expressionist architect designed with concrete?

Definition

Mendelsohn

Term

Why was the cathedral viewed as the ideal historic building type for the German Expressionists? 

Definition

The cathedrals tried to get a lot of light into the building and employed colored glass. They were communal too.

Term

What was the major building project that focused the energies of German expressionists immediately following the end of WWI?

Definition

Grosses Schauspielhaus

Term
Which architect designed the Chilehaus in Hamburg? 
Definition

Fritz Hoeger

Term

Who was the author of "Glass Architecture"?

Definition

Paul Scheerbart

Term

The Cathedral of Socialism was the ultimate goal of what movement?

 

Definition
German Expressionist
Term

The Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin was designed by which architect?

Definition

Poelzig

Term

What was the 'crystal chain?' 

 

Definition

a group of underground artists in Germany

 

Term

Who designed the first Expressionist glass skyscraper? 

Definition

Ludwig Mies

Term

Who wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art ?

 

Definition

Kandinsky

 

Term

Who founded anthroposophy?

 

Definition

Steiner

 

Term

In what three shapes did Cezanne say that nature reveals itself? 

Definition

Cylinder, Sphere and Cone

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