Art W2 - Modern Art (terms) Flashcards
visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination
art
encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation
art
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
modern art
art movements:
impressionism
expressionism
cubism
dadaism
surrealism
abstract expressionism
pop art
op art
post impressionism
neo primitivism
fauvism
social realism
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.
impressionism
what the eyes see in a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the object
impressionism
paint quickly to capture the impression of an object
impressionism
time and motion are conscious elements
impressionism
painting outdoors
impressionism
tiny dabs and dashes of bright colors
impressionism
people of the city life; everyday events
impressionism
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
expressionism
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.
cubism
style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and surprises
dadaism
“dada” means ________ _____
nonsense world
could no longer trust reason and society
dadaism
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
surrealism
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.
abstract expressionism
build up texture, using broad brushes to apply paint thickly
impasto
grounded in consumer culture, mass media, and popular culture, thereby making it much more accessible to the average person
pop art
short for popular art
pop art
physical sensation
op art
sharpen the viewer’s eyesight or eye perception
op art
to fool the eye
op art
eliminated realistic object
op art
elements are carefully chosen to achieve maximum effect (color, line, shape)
op art
important techniques; perspective and careful juxtaposition of color (black & white)
op art
impression of a strong drum beat
red
shrill sound of violin
green
capacity to attain heights
yellow
cold and flat
horizontal
warm and strong
vertical
mature
curved
youthful
angular
