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Modern Art Reading Comprehension Exercises

The document provides information about several modern art movements through brief descriptions of Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. It includes blanks to fill in with relevant artists and terms. Cubism was developed by Picasso and Braque from 1907-1908 and led to more abstract styles. Fauvism referred to Matisse and others from 1905-1910 who used bright, simplified colors. Surrealism launched in 1924 in Paris aimed to reveal the unconscious, exemplified by Dali and Magritte. Abstract Expressionism developed in New York City in the 1940s-1950s using emotive, abstract styles like Pollock's poured paintings

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Modern Art Reading Comprehension Exercises

The document provides information about several modern art movements through brief descriptions of Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. It includes blanks to fill in with relevant artists and terms. Cubism was developed by Picasso and Braque from 1907-1908 and led to more abstract styles. Fauvism referred to Matisse and others from 1905-1910 who used bright, simplified colors. Surrealism launched in 1924 in Paris aimed to reveal the unconscious, exemplified by Dali and Magritte. Abstract Expressionism developed in New York City in the 1940s-1950s using emotive, abstract styles like Pollock's poured paintings

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MODERN ART READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box and discover modern art artists.

Cubism : 1907–8 / Picasso / Neo-Plasticism /

Cubism was a new way of representing reality in art invented by Picasso.....................and


……… Braque …………………….. from 1907–8....Cubism was the starting point for much abstract art
including Constructivism and …… Neo-Plasticism ………………………………... It also however, opened
up almost infinite new possibilities for the treatment of reality in art.

Fauvism: 1910 / Matisse / strident / the wild beasts /abstract /

Name given to the painting of ………… Matisse ………., and his circle from 1905.................to
about…1910…………………. They were called les fauves – the wild beasts.....................because of
their use of …… strident ………………………….. colour and apparently wild brushwork. Their
subjects were highly simplified so their work was also quite abstract ……………………………..

Surrealism: André Breton / unconscious / Paris / Dalí / Sigmund Freud /

Movement launched in ……………1924………… in …………… Paris …… by French poet


……… André Breton …………………………………….. with publication of his Manifesto of Surrealism.
Breton was strongly influenced by the theories of …… Dalí ……………………………………………………,
the founder of psychoanalysis.
The aim of Surrealism was to reveal the unconscious.................and reconcile it with rational life.
There was no single style of Surrealist art but two broad types can be seen. These are the
oneiric (dream-like) work of Sigmund Freud And Magritte and the automatism of later
Ernst.

Abstract Expressionism :

1950s / canvas / abstract art /expressive / New York City

Term applied to new forms of New York City.....................developed by American painters in the
1940s and …1950s …….. The Abstract Expressionists were mostly based in
………… abstract art ……………….. and also became known as the New York School. The name
evokes their aim to make art that while abstract was also expressive. .or emotional in its effect.
Pollock famously placed his … canvas ……………….. on the ground and danced around it pouring
paint direct from the can.

Pop art : pop music /1960s / movies / uncritical / Lichtenstein /


Name given to British and American versions of art that drew inspiration from sources in
popular and ………………… pop music ………. culture. These sources included Hollywood
commercial.......................................................................................................................................,
advertising, packaging, movies......................and comic books.
Pop began in the mid 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s..............Critics were horrified by
the Pop artists' use of such low subject matter and by their apparently …… uncritical …
treatment of it. In fact Pop both took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new
ways of presenting it in art. Chief artists in America were, Lichtenstein......................., Oldenburg
and Warhol.

Minimalism: reality / the USA / Frank Stella /idea / three-dimensional /the

or Minimal art is an extreme form of abstract art that developed in the USA...........in the second
half of ……………… the 1960s ……. . It can be seen as extending the abstract three-dimensional
that art should have its own reality......................and not be an imitation of some other thing.
Minimal art was mostly …… idea ……………………. but the painter Frank Stella
was an important Minimalist.

2. Now can you match the artists with their art form.

Matisse 

Ernst 

Picasso   Fauvism

Lichtenstein   Surrealism

Braque   Pop art

Dali   Cubism

Pollock   Minimal art

Stella   Abstract expressionism

Warhol 

Magritte 

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