Modern and Contemporary Art Flashcards
___ ___ signifies the philosophy and style of the artworks produced during the 1860-1970 era.
Modern Art
___ ___ refers to work made between 1970 and the present.
Contemporary Art
In this method the artist tries to present the subject as it is or objectively.
Realism
It combines the unconscious with the conscious in order to create a new “super-reality”
Surrealism
In this method of painting, the artist is characterized as one concerned more with the technique of suggesting light and color to the picture than with the subject matter.
Impressionism
This art technique involved painting tiny yet distinct dots next to one another in order to form an image.
Pointillism
The wildness manifested itself mainly in the strong and bright colors and dynamic brushwork to connote joy and happiness, as well as comfort and pleasure.
Fauvism
“treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed toward a central point.”
Cubism
In this method, the artist portrays the subject that literally relates to the future, and not to the present.
Futurism
The style is defined by bold colors, harsh lines and sharp angles along with a fascination in the machine age.
Vorticism
Embraced theory that art should be “constructed” from modern industrial materials such as plastic, steel, and glass in order to serve a societal purpose instead of merely making an abstract statement.
Constructivism
His central goal was to break art down to its bare bones, often employing basic shapes, such as squares, triangles, and circles, as well as primary and neutral
colors.
Suprematism
filled with grief, destruction, and chaos
Dada/Dadaism
The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.
Pop Art
A painstaking attention to detail is aimed, without asserting an artist’s personal style.
Photorealism
the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.
Conceptualism
the heart of the artwork is its idea or
message.
Performance Art
A kind of an immersive work where the environment or the space in which the viewer steps into or interacts with (going around installative art) is transformed or altered.
Installation Art
Is considered as a kind or a spin-off of installation art, earth or land art) is when the natural environment or a specific site art into or Space is transformed by artists.
Earth Art
Some of the examples of this include murals, stenciled images, stickers, and installations or installative/ sculptural objects usually out of common objects and techniques.
Street Art
