Art W2 - Modern Art (terms)

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visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination

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art

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encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation

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art

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embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions

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modern art

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art movements:

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impressionism
expressionism
cubism
dadaism
surrealism
abstract expressionism
pop art
op art
post impressionism
neo primitivism
fauvism
social realism

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This is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures are outdoor scenes. Their pictures are very bright and vibrant. The artists like to capture their images without detail but with bold colors.

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impressionism

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what the eyes see in a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the object

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impressionism

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paint quickly to capture the impression of an object

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impressionism

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time and motion are conscious elements

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impressionism

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painting outdoors

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impressionism

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tiny dabs and dashes of bright colors

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impressionism

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people of the city life; everyday events

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impressionism

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an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality or distorted but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person

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expressionism

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It is a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.

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cubism

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style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and surprises

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dadaism

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“dada” means ________ _____

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nonsense world

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could no longer trust reason and society

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dadaism

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depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world beyond the logical, conscious, physical one. Its name came from the term “super realism,” with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered mental state

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surrealism

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The artist associated with this produced paintings that are ________ but expressed the artist’s state of mind. This creative state of mind opens channels for unconscious forces to make it visible. The viewer of works done by artists is advised to grasp their meaning intuitively in a state free from the structured thinking.

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abstract expressionism

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build up texture, using broad brushes to apply paint thickly

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impasto

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grounded in consumer culture, mass media, and popular culture, thereby making it much more accessible to the average person

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pop art

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short for popular art

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pop art

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physical sensation

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op art

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sharpen the viewer’s eyesight or eye perception

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op art

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to fool the eye

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op art

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eliminated realistic object

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op art

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elements are carefully chosen to achieve maximum effect (color, line, shape)

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op art

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important techniques; perspective and careful juxtaposition of color (black & white)

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op art

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impression of a strong drum beat

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red

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shrill sound of violin

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green

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capacity to attain heights

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yellow

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cold and flat

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horizontal

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warm and strong

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vertical

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mature

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curved

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youthful

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angular