Chapter 21 & 22 Flashcards
Romanticism
Stress dramatic subject matter, turbulent emotions, and complex compositions. Not a style as much as a set of attitudes and characteristic subjects. Champion the motion, institution, and subjectivity.
Neoclassicism
New classical art. This viewpoint and its style became known as academic art and was encouraged by institutions in schools of the 19th century. History, classical mythology, biblical.
Realism
Depict the every day in the ordinary rather than the heroic or the exotic.
Impressionism
Proved that modern life itself was the most difficult subject for modern Art
Postimpressionism
Optical perceptions of light. Geometric, solid forms: rectangular landscape, pyramid shaped mountains
Expressionism
Wild, expressive colors. Express their intense feelings
Cubism
Fragmented, multiple viewpoints. Representation of form.
Fantasy
Entered the realms of childhood visions and dreams
Futurism
Decided that motion itself was the glory of the new 20th-century
Surrealism
Logic of dreams and the superiority of the unconscious
Dada
Irrational. Doesn’t make sense.
Harlem Renaissance
Dedicated to building a better society through education and the arts
Abstract Expressionism
Exploring the creative subconscious with large-scale canvases that are intended to engulf the viewer
Action painting
Gesture and spontaneity
Color field painting
Imagery reduced to a large field or area of color
Assemblages
Mixed-media
Happenings
An art event similar to performance art and may contain planned, unplanned, and spontaneous elements
Pop art
Derived imagery from popular mass-produced culture
Minimal art
Minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines, and textures. Abstraction, repetition, and economy
Photorealism
Painting that resembles photographs
Conceptual art
Intended to convey an idea or concept to the viewer
Feminism
Honored female art in the domestic realm
Postmodernism
1980s
Appropriation
Artistic recycling of existing images
