art movement Flashcards
a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time.
art movement
a French word which means works that are experimental, radical or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture or society
new “avant – garde”
are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art.
art movements
is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art.
“modern art”
each consecutive movement was often considered a new avant-garde.
“modern art”
encompasses a wide variety of American 20th century art movements
Abstract expressionism
a decorative style that flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the US;
Art Nouveau
innovative or experimental concepts in the realms of culture, politics and art;
Avant-garde
an art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century;
Baroque
embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the different types of art from ancient Greece and Rome
Classicism
focus on elegance and symmetry
Classicism
1960s, emphasizing ideas and theoretical practices rather than the creation of visual forms;
Conceptual art
developed by the Russian avant-garde around 1915,
a branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake”
Constructivism
An artistic movement begun in 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who developed a visual language whose geometric planes
Cubism
An artistic and literary movement in art formed during the
First World War
Dada/Dadaism
an international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920,
Expressionism
especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality;
Expressionism
with Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose works are characterized by strong, vibrant color and bold brushstrokes
Fauvism
an Italian development in abstract art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
aiming to capture the dynamism, speed and energy of the modern mechanical
Futurism
French artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley,
who attempted to accurately and objectively record visual ‘impressions’
Impressionism
movement in art, developed at the same time as pop art in the late 1950s, which is characterized by large-scale, mixed-media constructions,
Installation art
is a simple art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by works made directly in the landscape, sculpting
Land art/ Earth art
art movements from the 1960s, and typified by works composed of simple art, such as geometric shapes devoid of representational content;
Minimalism
an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886 to 1906, renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured and systematic painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics;
Neo-Impressionism
almost the opposite of pop art, drawing inspiration from the classical art and culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, which is not uncommon for art movements;
Neoclassicism
in 1960s to describe different types of art that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted;
Performance art
a technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac
is characterized by works made of countless tiny dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image;
Pointillism
an art movement emerged in 1950s, composed of British and American artists who draw inspiration from ‘popular’ imagery and products from popular and commercial culture, as opposed to ‘elitist’ fine art;
Pop art
a term coined in 1910 by the English art critic and painter Roger Fry
to describe the reaction against the naturalistic depiction of light and color in different types of art movements like Impressionism;
Post-Impressionism
a movement in art, particularly in architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 1700s,
it consists of elaborate ornamentation and a light, sensuous style, including scroll work, foliage, and animal forms;
Rococo
founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924,
to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism by championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary;
Surrealism
a relatively unknown member of the different types of abstract art movements, outside of the art world,
a term coined by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in 1915
to describe an abstract style of painting that conforms to his belief that art expressed in the simplest geometric forms and dynamic compositions was superior to earlier forms of representational art.
Suprematism
