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Abstract Expressionism

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1943-1970 First American art movement “action painting” Movement, energy and action Pollock

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Blaue Reiter

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More extreme color, extended Fauvism Kirchener Kandinsky Paul Klee

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Color Field

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Variation from “Action Painting” large abstract paintings Rothko *Seagram’s Murals

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Conceptualism

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Idea Art - Process sometimes more important than final artwork Rejected pop art, expressionism, surrealism, unique art and crafted objects, Developed from Minimalism

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Cubism

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Revolution in Form Influenced by the un-seen but known world, Atom, X-rays, Relativity Braque Picasso

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DADA

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1916-1923 reject rational thought (post WW1) overthrow old establishments Arp Schwitters Duchamp

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De Stijl

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1917-1931 Mondrian no reference to anything in nature, straight lines, primary colors and white black grey vitality and tranquility lines

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Expressionism

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Distortion of Color form to evoke an emotional response

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Fauvism

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lots color/non realistic color,fun Derain Matisse

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Futurism

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1909-1918 First movement to have a manifesto Glorify War, Fascism Boccioni

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Impressionism

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First Art movement/Paris Upset the conventional Neo-Classical Train transportation/paint in tubes/mobility Monet and Degas, not sharply painted or defined

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Minimalism

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Major form of visual art Andre Morris - Unititled Judd - Untitled Flavin

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Neo-Dada

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Pre-pop art Used found objects artists don’t define work Combine Rauschenberg

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Neo-Expressionism

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Revival of Painting Richter - Cage 1-6

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Pop Art

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Making art out of daily life Mass-Produced Warhol Lichtenstein

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Post-Impressionism

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1880-1906 Felt Impressionists lacked form Cezanne Seurat Van Gogh

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Surrealism

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Revolution from Reason 1924-1945 Freudian and dream Ernst *Miro - painting (blue with horse) Magritte Dali

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Young British Artists (yBas)

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Michael Craig-Martin (artist and teacher) Freeze - Damien Hirst Sensation exhibition Charles Saatchi - collectd/promoted yBas

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Contemporary Art Ready Made

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Use of everyday objects to make something new Cubework - Eternal

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Contemporary Art Transformation

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Taking everyday objects and applying something to them to make them something new Roger Hiorns and copper sulfate engines and room

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Contemporary Art Light

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Use of light applied to everyday objects David Batchelor - candelabra 3 bottles internally lit by light

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Contemporary Art Site Specific Art

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Art specific to a region Tracey Emin - Baby things Child toys placed around if left behind by a child

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Contemporary Art Photography

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Use of photograph pictures to showcase something dramatic Thomas Demand - Presidency

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Contemporary Art Video

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Video art Christian Marclay - The clock Each scene depicts a minute and shows a clock with the real time

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Monet - Rouen Cathedral, Sunset (1892-94

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Monet Water Lillies

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Cezanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire

Post Impressionism

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Derain
Pool of London

Fauvism

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  • Berlin Street Scene

Expressionism

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Braque
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece

Cubism

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Boccioni – Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)

Futurism

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Mondrian *Composition C (III), with Red, Yellow and Blue

De Stijl

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Duchamp - Fountain

Readymade

Dada

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Miro – Painting (1927)

Surrealism

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Magritte – The False Mirror

Surrealism

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THE TWO GREAT 20TH CENTURY ARTISTS

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Picasso and Matisse

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Picasso - The Studio (1928)

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Picasso

Woman in a Red Armchair (1937

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Picasso - Guernica (1937)

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Picasso – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust

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Rothko – Seagram’s Murals (1958-1959)

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Johns – Three Flags (1958)Uses flags, numbers, targets in his work; things “we already know”. Makes the viewer re-examine the mundane, to pay attention to the world in which we exist.

Neo Dada

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Lichtenstein – Whaam! (1963)

Pop Art

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Judd - Untitled

Minimalism

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Christo – The Gates, Central Park, New York

Conceptualism

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Richter
Cage 1 – 6 (2006

Neo Expressionism

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Kiefer
To The Unknown Painter

Explores themes of loss, memory and collective guilty of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.. Work seeks possibilities of a society coming to terms with its past.

Paints National Socialist architecture ,often designed by Albert Speer. References building to the Unknown Soldier.

The irony of Kiefer’s title is not lost in the fact that Hitler- himself famously a failed painter - exists in parallel to the millions who died at his hands.

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Sensation exhibition

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“The Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition of young British artists, which prompted protests and resignations was hailed yesterday as one of the most successful shows it has ever held.”

Charles Saatchi, a British art collector, bought and promoted the work of the young British artists.
Sensation was an exhibition of the art he owned and the first exhibition in a major institution for the young British artists.
Sensation was also shown in New York and Berlin to international acclaim.

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Damien Hirst – The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living

yBa’s

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