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Abstract Expressionism

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1940s-50s art movement that was the 1st to gain international prominence. At a time when society is moving toward mass production. Painting restores the hand made. Turn away from over representational art. Ex. Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950

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Action painting

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Paint is spontaneously dripped onto the canvas. Ex. Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950

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The Bauhaus

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German art school that combines the fine arts and applied arts to develop new aesthetic forms suitable for modern life.

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Black Mountain

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Art college founded in 1933. Helped develop the avant-garde Ex. Rauschenberg studied here

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Combine

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Incorporates various objects into the picture plane. Combines painting and sculpture. Ex. Rauschenberg, Charlene, 1954

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Cubism

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Early 20th century art movement. Abstract and avant-garde. Roots of assembling/cut&paste. Ex. Pablo Picasso

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Dada

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A radical artistic and cultural movement that emerged during WWI that rejected convention. Ex. Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913

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Modernism

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An array of cultural movements responding to changes in late 19th/early 20th century Western society. Encompasses artists who address new conditions of the emerging fully industrialized society.

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Modernist Painting (Greenberg)

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“Allover” painting: uniformity of surface. Flat and frontal. Abstraction without spatial illusion. Medium specific practice of exploring a flat plane. Ex. Pollock

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Collage

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“To stick or to paste” brings flat objects onto the flat plane of a picture. Ex. Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass, 1912

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Geometric Abstraction

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Abstraction based on forms and primary colors. Very rational on one side and very mystical on the other. Ex. Mondrian, Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1922

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De Stijl

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Dutch art movement inspired that explores new aesthetic ideas of harmony and order. Often based on “ideal” shapes and colors. Ex. Schroeder house, 1924

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Photomontage

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An extension if collage, the practice of cutting and pasting, and assembling bits of photos or reproductions to create a new composite image. Ex. Schwitters, Untitled, 1928

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Assemblage

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An art form making of 2 or 3 dimensional composition from putting together found objects and materials. Ex. Picasso

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Ready made

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Presents unaltered everyday objects in an art context. Ex. Duchamp, bicycle wheel, 1913

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Surrealism

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Early 1920’s after WWI activities of dada. Features unexpected juxtapositions that feature chance and random accumulation. Disrupt habits of thinking and perception, and get beyond rational thought

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Biomorphic abstraction

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Irrational. Comes from the unconscious, gestural, handmade, personal. Ex. Masson, Automatic Drawing, 1924

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Icon

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Conveys meaning through physical resemblance. Ex. Most images

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Index

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A bodily trace or mark, footprints, smoke, photographs

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Pop art

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Popular, low cost, mass produced, gimmicky, glamorous. Ex. Hamilton, just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? 1956

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Accumulation/random accumulation

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Often a characteristic of surrealist art

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Avant-garde

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Works that are experimental or innovative. Pushes the boundaries of what is accepted.

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Nouveau Realisme

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New realists founded in 1960, opposition of abstract expressionism. Arman, portrait of yves Klein, 1960

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Decollage

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“Un” collage, not additive. Ex. Village and Hains, Ach Alma Manetro, 1949

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Easel Painting

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Usually a certain, sometimes small size. Painted vertically and made to hang on a wall. Pollock, Mural, 1943

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Benday dots

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Printing process 1879. Depending on desired color, dots placed in certain distances.

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Gutai

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Post-war radical group in Japan. Interested in the beauty caused by disaster/destruction. Ex. Shozo, Hole (recto and verso), 1946

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Neo-dada

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Uses modern materials, pop imagery, and absurdist contrast. Denies traditional aesthetics. Ex. Jasper Johns, Flag, 1955

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Mexican Muralists

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Uses social/political message to try and re-unify the country after the Mexican revolution. Ex. Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization, 1932-34

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Independent group

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Wanted to challenge modernist approaches to culture. Created the found object aesthetic. Ex. Hamilton , 1955

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Situationist international

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Made of social revolutionaries that were avant-garde artists. Foundation in dada and surrealism. Critique of capitalism. Ex. Duchamp

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Spectacle

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The mass media, commodities rule consumers instead of consumers ruling commodities. Ex. Pop art

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Historical avant-garde

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A series of early 20th century artistic movements that developed radically new formal aesthetic practices in response to rapidly changing forms of industrial society

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Nonhierarchical

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No part is more important than the other

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WPA (works project administration)

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Employed millions of unemployed

People. Part of the new deal agency. Employed artists and created parks, roads, ect. In response to the Great Depression

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Phenomenology

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Concerned with the reflection of the consciousness and acts of consciousness

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Paradigm/paradigmatic

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A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model

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Performance art

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Performed for an audience, scripted of unscripted. If it involves paint, the painting is a residue of the performance. Ex. Yves Klein, anthoppmetries, 1960

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Performative

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Series/serial

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Palette

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The color combinations that one uses in a work. Ex. Pollock, autumn rhythm

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Noncomposition

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Modular grid

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Joins together standardized units to create a larger one. Ex. Agnes Martin, untitled, 1960

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Encaustic

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Adds pigment to beeswax and then applied to surface

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Facture

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Chance composition

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Some element of the composition is left to chance. Ex. John cage, text score for 4’33”

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Automatism

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Practiced by surrealists. Supposed to be created without any thought. Ex. Masson, automatic drawing, 1924

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Autographic

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Leaves some trace of the artist, may be from the unconscious. Ex. Pollock ?

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Fetish/fetishism

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Flatbed picture plane

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Surface on which to attach things, breaks 2-d elements of a work. Ex Rauschenberg, Charlene, 1964

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Figure and Ground

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The medium operates through it’s context. The message that the medium conveys can only be understood if the environment is analyzed with it

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Found Object

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Made from objects not normally considered art. Ex. Duchamp, bicycle wheel, 1913

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Frontality

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Composition is completely in the frontal view. Ex. ?

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Indeterminacy

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Ability of a piece to be performed in substantially different ways. Ex. John cage, text score for 4’33”, 1952

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Installation art

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Most often 3-d works that are site specific and are designed to transform a space. Ex. Rosenquist, F-111, 1965

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Fracture

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