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Chance

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“Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance.”

To do something accidental or without design.

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Dada

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“Hugo Ball reciting the poerm ‘Karawane’ at the Cabaret, Voltaire in Zurich,”

French for rocking horse or hobby horse. It was the word that was randomly chosen in a French-German dictionary.

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Merz

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Merzbild 25A (Das Sternenbild) (Stars Picture)

Kurt Schwitters came up with the word. It originates from Kommerze which in german means commerce.

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Ready Made Art

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“Duchamp’s Fountain”

Common objects that are manufactured but then taken and modified slightly or tilted at an angel and displayed.

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Automatism

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Exquisite Corpse,

First used by surrealists, the technique of painting the unconcous. Derived from Freudism.

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Bio Morphic

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Painting

It is a depiction or sculpture of a freeform shape that often resembles a living object.

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Unconcious

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Battle of the Fishes

It is the part of the mind where material is hardly accessed by awareness yet it is highly influential on behavior.

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Dynamic Equilibrium

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Tableau No. II, with Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, and Gray.

A state of balance between continuing processes

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Nihilism

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Music Lesson

The rejection of all religion and meaning, making it that life is pointless.

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Avante-Garde

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Portrait of a Young Girl

Ideas that are new, experimental and unusual in the art world.

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Call to Order

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The Pipes of Pan

Response to the results of WW1 when artists were trying to make sense of all the loss and regain their bearings and study the more traditional styles of past artists.

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New Objectivity

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The Skat Players

Card Playing War Invalids, which sprang up in especially the German language region in the 1920s, was a reaction to both Expressionism’s subjective pathos and Abstraction’s rejection of reality, by means of its objective-realistic impetus and the emphasis on a factual approach to the object.

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Total Work of Art

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Hannover Merzbau (Hanover Merz-building)

It goes along with Bauhaus movement. It means that it uses all or most art forms to strive for. The Bauhaus movement was all about combining crafts and fine works of art. Gesamtkunstwerk

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Who was the artist of Mask?

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Marcel Janco

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What was the movement of Mask?

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Zurich Dada

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What was the year of Mask?

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1919

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What was the material of Mask?

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Paper, cardboard, string, gouache, and pastel,

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Who was the artist of Little German Christmas Tree?

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John Heartfield

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What was the movement of Little German Christmas Tree?

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Berlin Dada

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What was the year of Little German Christmas Tree?

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1934

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What was the material of Little German Christmas Tree?

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Photomontage

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Who was the artist of Doll?

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Hans Bellmer

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What was the year of Doll?

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1935

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What was the movement of Doll?

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Surrealism

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What was the material of Doll?

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Wood, metal, and papier mâché.

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Who was the artist of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass?

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Marcel Duchamp

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What was the year of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass?

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1915-1923

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What was the movement of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass?

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Dada in New York

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What was the material of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass?

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Oil, lead wire, foil, dust, and varnish on glass

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Who was the artist of Carcass of Beef?

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Chaim Soutine

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What was the movement of Carcass of Beef?

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School of Paris

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What was the year of Carcass of Beef?

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1925

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Who was the artist of Red and Blue Chair?

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Gerrit Rietveld

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What was the movement of Red and Blue Chair?

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De Stijl

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What was the year of Red and Blue Chair?

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1917

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What was the material of Red and Blue Chair?

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Painted Wood

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Who was the artist of Workshop wing, Bauhaus?

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Walter Gropius

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What was the movement of Workshop wing, Bauhaus?

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Bauhaus

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What was the material of Workshop wing, Bauhaus?

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Glass

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What was the year of Workshop wing, Bauhaus?

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1925-1926

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Who was the artist of Mama, Papa Is Wounded!?

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Yves Tanguy

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What was the year of Mama, Papa Is Wounded!?

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1927

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What was the movement of Mama, Papa Is Wounded!?

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Space- Surrealism

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