Art History Survey II Exam 3 Vocab

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German 'The Bridge': Early 20th-century Expressionist movement led by Kirchner, seen as bridge between old and new eras.

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Die Brücke

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1960s American avant-garde: Integrates time into art with movements, sounds, gestures, no objects; documented by photos.

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Performance Art

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Emphasizing stylized shapes, composition methods, and visual elements over subject.

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Formalism

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Rejects elitist modernist formalism, embraces diverse styles, subjects, formats; includes irony, self-awareness.

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Postmodernism

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20th-century movement founded by Mondrian, van Doesburg, promoting utopian ideals through simplified geometric style.

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De Stijl

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An artwork constructed from already existing objects.

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Assemblage

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American trend of 1960s: sculptural works with severe form reduction, often to single, homogeneous units.

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Minimalism

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1920s German architectural school led by Walter Gropius, stressing unity of art, architecture, and design.

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Bauhaus

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Pioneering Cubism by Picasso & Braque: dissecting form from multiple angles to unify varied views into cohesive art.

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Analytic Cubism

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Composition of pasted together pictures, often photographs; akin to collage.

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Photomontage

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Born from Art Nouveau, elevating industrial design with streamlined, symmetrical forms and innovative materials.

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Art Deco

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Kazimir Malevich's art: conveying belief in pure feeling, detached from objects, through nonobjective forms.

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Suprematism

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Combining diverse materials like newspaper, photos, cloth on a flat surface to create composition.

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Collage

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British critic Lawrence Alloway's term. Emerged in 1950s, integrates consumer culture, mass media, and popular imagery.

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Pop Art

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German 'The Blue Rider': Early 20th-century Expressionist movement by Kandinsky, Marc; named for love of blue, horses.

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Der Blaue Reiter

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Melds dream exploration with abstract or naturalistic styles; Miró and Dalí exemplify its diverse approaches.

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Biomorphic Surrealism

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Mondrian's 'pure plastic art': abstract balance of universal & individual through formal vocabulary.

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Neoplasticism

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1960s American art: Cool, detached rationality, tight pictorial control. See also color field, hard-edge painting.

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Post-Painterly Abstraction

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Stain painting: Variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction. Diluted paint on canvas, seen in Frankenthaler, Louis.

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Color Field Painting

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Soviet art movement post-Revolution: artists redirecting art to create products for new society.

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Productivism

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Abstract Expressionism: 1940s NYC avant-garde. Abstracts evoke emotion, split into gestural, chromatic abstraction.

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Abstract Expressionism

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Early 20th-century Western art: incorporation of stylistic elements from Africa, Oceania, and native Americas.

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Primitivism

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Art born from personal vision, often emotive, contrasts empirical world depiction.

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Expressionism

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Early 20th-century Italian art movement. Celebrated war as cleansing, embraced speed and modern technology.

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Futurism

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1960s-70s emphasizes faithful depiction of optical reality. Also known as Photorealism for use of photographs as sources

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Superrealism

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20th-century American art: Regionalism depicts rural life with realist clarity; Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton notable.

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Regionalism

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Dada successor, delves into dreams. Miró's abstracts, Dalí's vivid dreamscapes.

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Surrealism

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19th-20th century artists pioneering innovation, challenging conventions in their work; also an adjective.

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Avant-garde

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Surrealism, successor to Dada, explores dreams, unconscious. Biomorphic Surrealists like Miró create abstracts

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Naturalistic Surrealism

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20th-century art movement: embraced 'machine esthetic,' sought purity in clean functional lines of industrial machinery.

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Purism

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Early 20th-century movement led by Henri Matisse: Fauvism. Color paramount for coherence and conveying meaning

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Fauvism

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20th-century art revolt against WWI horror. Embraced political anarchy, irrationality, humor, disdain for convention.

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Dada

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An artwork that creates an artistic environment in a room or gallery.

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Installation

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Sculptures built in space, emphasizing 'volume of mass' and 'volume of space' as distinct materials.

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Constructivism

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1960s American environmental art: Land used for large, minimal monuments, transforming surroundings.

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Earthworks

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1960s artists: Performance art creators. Events focus on single actions, more theatrical than Happenings.

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Fluxus

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Abstract Expressionism emphasizing emotional resonance of color, seen in Newman's and Rothko's work.

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Chromatic Abstraction

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20th-century architectural style: sleek, elegant design influencing modern office buildings and skyscrapers.

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International Style

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Pollock's gestural abstraction: emphasis on process. Paint poured in linear webs on floor-bound canvases.

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Action Painting

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Abstract style focuses on painting gesture as subject, led by Jackson Pollock. See also Abstract Expressionism.

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Gestural Abstraction

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Robert Rauschenberg's assemblages of painted passages and sculptural elements.

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Combinations, Combines

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Sewn collages with fabrics, quilts, buttons, sequins, lace trim, rickrack from antique shows.

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Femmages

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German 'New Objectivity': Post-WWI movement depicting war horrors and its aftermath.

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Neue Sachlichkeit

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1960s-70s school emphasizing fidelity to optical fact.

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Photorealism

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Kaprow's term, Mimic everyday life, emphasize actions over objects, incorporate time.

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Happenings

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Kinetic sculpture blending organic forms, motion, balanced structures on rods, wires, colored plates.

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Mobile

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Later Cubist phase: constructions from cut paper, engaging viewers with figuration, realism, abstraction.

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Synthetic Cubism

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20th-century art movement rejecting naturalism, favoring abstracted shapes/forms; linked to Analytic & Synthetic Cubism.

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Cubism

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A layer of thickly applied pigment.

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Impasto

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French 'fools the eye': Trompe-l'oeil painting deceives viewers into seeing real objects, not representations.

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Trompe l'oeil

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Post-Painterly Abstraction variant excludes gesture, uses geometric forms to reduce painting to visuals.

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Hard-Edge Paintings

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1960s American art: Land used for large, minimal monuments, transforming surroundings; earthworks.

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Environmental Art

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Art created for a specific location. See also Environmental art.

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Site-Specific Art

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1970s art movement: Reflects interest in expressive capability, influenced by German and Abstract Expressionism.

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Neo-Expressionism

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1960s American avant-garde movement positing art's essence in artist's idea, not final expression.

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Conceptual Art

Art History Survey II Exam 3 Vocab

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Art History Survey II Exam 3 Vocab

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