Acoustic instruments.
Simple chord progressions such as C-F-G or Am-G.
Simple time signatures such as 3/4 or 4/4.
"Sharp" or natural keys such as C, D, E, G or A.
Simple scales such as pentatonic minor (blues), pentatonic major, major, melodic minor and mixolydian.
During the Renaissance, science became based more on observation than faith.
1. performing a task unconsciously = <u>automatism</u>: it means that you don't think about what you are creating, you just create - like brainstorming
2. Surrealists believed that artists needed to escape the oppressive control of = <u>reason</u>: surrealists created art which was not realistic, but something surreal, as their name would suggest
3. the first truly public museum = <u>the Louvre</u>, opened in 1793
4. Joan Miro used the poetic technique of = <u>Action painting;</u><u /> it means that the images are created spontaneously, smeared or splashed onto the canvas
5. Miro’s paintings seem to have no structure; they are = <u>a free flow of images;</u><u /> it means that the artist didn't have a specific idea in mind
6. Gertrude Stein had to flee Paris because she was = <u>Jewish</u>: she was a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France
7. Perfect modern artifact in Nazi eyes = <u>the steel helmet</u>: it was the first movie about war
8. Survived the London Blitz = <u>Saint Paul's Cathedral</u>: it managed to survive unharmed for the most part
9. The purpose of the art exhibition in Munich was to show = <u>"degenerate" or inferior art</u>: this art show is actually known as Degenerate art show
10. Art approved by Third Reich (Nazi Germany) included idealized images of = <u>labor, maternity, and family life;</u> these were the ideas that Nazi Germany wanted to promote
11. Miro’s Birth of the World was a precursor to = <u>free association;</u> it is similar to action painting Miro often used
12. Like Pollock, Willem de Kooning was know for his = <u>abstract expressionism</u>: it is a movement where art is obviously abstract and expressed as something surreal
