Modern Art Flashcards
THE MODERN WORLD
Categories for French Art:
Classic, Romantic, Realist
– Inspired by Greek and Roman art: clean contour, smooth finish, precise draftsmanship
Neoclassicism
– Stressed drama, turbulent emotion, and complex composition
Romanticism
– Reaction against neoclassicism and romanticism. Depicts the everyday and the ordinary rather than the heroic or the exotic
Realism
– *scenes glimpsed for a moment. sketched rapidly in paint as impressions of light and color in the eye. art moved outdoors
Impressionism
Admired the brightened palette and direct painting technique of the impressionists but reacted to the style which is highly personal
Post-impressionism
Includes Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cezanne
Believes that the industrialized world was not something to be needed be confronted but to be escaped
Post-impressionism
Freeing color: (wild beast; bold use of color)
Fauvism
Believes that the fundamental purpose of art is to express intense feelings towards the world
Expressionism
Shattering Form:
Reduced the role of color to minimum order in order to concentrate on the problem of representing the form in space
Cubism
Inclusion of nontraditional elements. Merging of figure and the ground. Fragmenting figures and other elements into flat planes
Cubism
Believed that art would move forward only through exploring new subjects. To become truly immortal, A work must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere
Fantasy and Futurism
_________- was the glory of the new 20th century
Motion
– protest art movement
Dada
– anti art, anti middle class society, anti politicians, anti good manners, anti business as usual, anti all that had brought about war.
An Anti
– Grew out of Dada. Appreciated the logic of dreams, the mystery of the unconscious, the lure of the bizarre, the irrational, the incongruous, and the marvelous
Surrealism
writing or drawing that flowed straight from the subconscious, uncontrolled by reason or by moral or ethical inhibitions
Practiced automatism –
- ideas about art should be put to practical use
Constructivism
Imagery reduced to a large field or area of color. Has a meditative tranquility drawing the viewers in; invites contemplation. Communicates a sensation of pure dematerialized color
Color Field Painting
(combine paintings; artistic arrangement of miscellaneous patterns AND HAPPENINGS
ASSEMBLAGE
Popular Mundane, mass-produced images and popular culture – comic books, advertising, billboards, packaging; home appliances and commodities; photographic images from cinema, television and newspapers as subjects
Pop Art –
Explored the nonrepresentational directions. Concerned with three-dimensional art. “What you see is what you see.” : beauty of color, the logic of the composition, the satisfaction of repetition
MINIMAL ART AND SITE WORKS
Revival of interest in the human figure. Like neo dada and minimalism, it has a strong literal component, relying on ordinary materials that are what they are
REAL, SUPER REAL-
– * realism that camera produces
Photorealism
*ideas – paramount; form is secondary – often lightweight, ephemeral, unpretentious, cheap, ordinary, unremarkable. not a style but a way of thinking about art
CONCEPTUAL ART
Visual culture as the feminist concern. Recover women’s art in the past, push for more equitable representation in museums and galleries, and to nurture contemporary women artists
Feminism and feminist art.
- First used to describe architecture by Renzo Piano and Richard Rodgers
Postmodern art
– presenting work as one’s own Toward
appropriation
– creating an environment for the viewer to enter,
Installation
– entwined with our faith that there is something that transcends our physical nature
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