Exam 4-Final

Question 0

This movement lasted from 1908-1914. It took inspiration from the simple planes and shapes of Cezanne but broke the images down further into simultaneous viewpoints and used the new art form called collage. (Picasso, Braque)

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Cubism

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Any work made for a certain place, which cannot be separated or exhibited apart from its intended environment.

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Site Works

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A nonrepresentational style of sculpture and painting, usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes and masses.

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Mnimalism

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This is a movement that grew out of abstract impressionism, in which large stained or painted areas of color evoke aesthetic and emotional responses.

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Color Field

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A movement in art and literature, founded in Switzerland in the early twentieth century, which ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art.

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Dada

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This is the process of combining parts of various photographs in one photo.

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Photomontage

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This is a style of nonrepresentational painting that relies on the physical movement of the artist by using such gestural techniques as vigorous brushwork, dripping, and pouring.

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Action Painting

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The broad term that describes emotional art, most often boldly executed and making free use of distortion and symbolic or invented color. Refers to individual and group styles originating in Europe in the late nineteenth century and early twenties.

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Expressionism

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This is an event conceived by artists and performed by artists and others, usually unrehearsed and without specific script or stage.

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Happenings

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An art form in which the originating idea and the process by which it is presented is more important than the product.

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Conceptual Art

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Artist of this period focused on social and multicultural issues; these were issues that artists felt were ignored by modern art movement. These artist often use appropriation of art images to comment on past works of art. Artist of this period also made extensive use of technology.

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Post-Modern

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This term means wild beast and is used to describe the brightly colored and spontaneous works of Derain, Matisse,… This movement follows post impressionism.

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Fauvism

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This term comes from the French coller, to glue. A work made by gluing various materials, such as paper scraps, photographs, and cloth on a flat surface. First developed by Cubists.

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Collage

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Dramatic presentation by visual artists in front of an audience, usually apart from a formal theatrical setting. Carefully conceived and documented.

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Performance Art

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Sculptural forms made from earth, rocks, or sometimes plants, often on a vast scale and in remote locations.

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Earth Works

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Artists of this period were interested in Freudian psychology and in the subconscious. This movement began as a literary movement. Images depicting dreams were common. (Dali, Magritte)

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Surrealism

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This movement can be divided into action painting and color field painting. Both are spontaneous and mostly non-figurative in nature. (Pollock-relied on gesture)

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Abstract Expressionism

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A style of painting and sculpture that developed in the late 1950s and early 60s in Britain and the US. Its based on the visual cliches, subject matter, and impersonal style of popular mass-media.

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Pop Art