Final Flashcards
(53 cards)
Fauves
French for “The Wild Beasts”, Matisse promenant artist. Inspired by post impressionalists.
German Expressionism
1905-1915.
Emphasizes feelings and emotions over objective depiction
Dramatic colors
Rough, crude, brushwork
Simplified or distorted forms
-Cubism
1907-1914
Rejection that art should follow nature
Emphasize the 2 dimensional aspects of the canvas
Break subject down into its most basic geometric shapes
Multiple Vantage points.
Pablo Picasso
Futurism
(1909-1916)
-Dada
1916-1920s
-Surrealism
1920s-1930s
De Stijl
(1917-1931)
American Regionalism
(1920s-1940s)
Abstract Expressionism
(1940s-1960s)
Pop Art
(1950s-1960s)
Minimalism
1960s
The early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color
Analytical Cubism
The late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
Synthetic Cubism
the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the first large exhibition of modern art in America.
Armory show
a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction
Prairie School Style
ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called “retinal art”. (Micheal Duchamp)
Readymade
Putting photos together to make up a story
Photomontage
an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily.
Automatism
any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
Kinetic Sculpture
a technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock.
Action painting
style of American abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s that features large expanses of unmodulated color covering the greater part of the canvas. Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko were considered its chief exponents.
Color Field
an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects.
Assemblage
an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock
Earthwork
Styles that favored abstraction
Fauvism (non naturalistic color and simple oval faces)
Cubism
Dada?
German Expressionism
Futurism
Some Surrealism
