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Fauves

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French for “The Wild Beasts”, Matisse promenant artist. Inspired by post impressionalists.

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German Expressionism

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1905-1915.

Emphasizes feelings and emotions over objective depiction
Dramatic colors
Rough, crude, brushwork
Simplified or distorted forms

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-Cubism

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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

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Futurism

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(1909-1916)

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-Dada

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1916-1920s

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-Surrealism

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1920s-1930s

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De Stijl

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(1917-1931)

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American Regionalism

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(1920s-1940s)

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Abstract Expressionism

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(1940s-1960s)

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Pop Art

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(1950s-1960s)

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Minimalism

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1960s

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The early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color

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Analytical Cubism

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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.

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Synthetic Cubism

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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.

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Armory show

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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

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Prairie School Style

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ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called “retinal art”. (Micheal Duchamp)

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Readymade

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Putting photos together to make up a story

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Photomontage

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an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily.

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Automatism

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any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.

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Kinetic Sculpture

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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.

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Action painting

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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.

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Color Field

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an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects.

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Assemblage

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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

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Earthwork

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Styles that favored abstraction

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Fauvism (non naturalistic color and simple oval faces)
Cubism
Dada?
German Expressionism
Futurism
Some Surrealism

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Styles that favored naturalism

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Photography
American Regionalism
Pop Art (mostly)
Surrealism (some)

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Non representational

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Minimalism
Abstract Impressionism
Color Field
Action Painting
First artist who did non representational painting: Kandinsky
De Stijl
German Expressionism
Some Biomorphic Surrealism

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What social economic events were going on in the 20th century that affected art? Which movements specifically were affected by world events?

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WWI
Dada
De Stijl
American Regionalism
WWII
abstract expressionism
Great Depression
Photography
Spanish Civil War
Picasso- Guernica
Vietnam War
Consumerism
Pop Art
Conceptual Art
Dada (nothing is hand made anymore)
Feminism

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Henri MaJsse, Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1908-1909

Fauvism

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin, 1913

German Expressionalism

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Wassily Kandinsky, ComposiJon IV, 1911

German Expressionalism

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Georges Braque, Houses at l’Estaque, 1908

Cubism

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Georges Braque ,The Portuguese, 1911

Analytical Cubism

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Alfred SJeglitz, The FlaJron Building, 1903

Photography

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Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912

Futurism

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 Frank Lloyd Wright, robie house, 1909

Prairie School Style

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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, original produced 1917

Dada, Readymade

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Salvador Dali, The persistence of memory, 1931

Surrealism

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Joan Miró, Painting, 1933

Automatism

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Piet Mondrian, Tableau 2 with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Grey, 1922

De Stijl

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Kinetic sculpture Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939

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ConstanJn Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1924

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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

Analytical Cubism

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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

American Regionalism

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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 Action painting

Abstract Impressionalism

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Mark Rothko, Blue, Orange, Red, 1961

Color field

Abstract impressionalism

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 1943-1959

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Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955-1959

Assembledge

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Richard Hamilton, What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956

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Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963

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Donald Judd, UnJtled, 1967

minimalism

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Miami, 1980-1983

site spacific

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Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. …

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What is site-specific work?

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