Modern Art

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THE MODERN WORLD

Categories for French Art:

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Classic, Romantic, Realist

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– Inspired by Greek and Roman art: clean contour, smooth finish, precise draftsmanship

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Neoclassicism

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– Stressed drama, turbulent emotion, and complex composition

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Romanticism

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– Reaction against neoclassicism and romanticism. Depicts the everyday and the ordinary rather than the heroic or the exotic

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Realism

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– *scenes glimpsed for a moment. sketched rapidly in paint as impressions of light and color in the eye. art moved outdoors

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Impressionism

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Admired the brightened palette and direct painting technique of the impressionists but reacted to the style which is highly personal

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Post-impressionism

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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

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Post-impressionism

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Freeing color: (wild beast; bold use of color)

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Fauvism

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Believes that the fundamental purpose of art is to express intense feelings towards the world

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Expressionism

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Shattering Form:

Reduced the role of color to minimum order in order to concentrate on the problem of representing the form in space

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Cubism

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Inclusion of nontraditional elements. Merging of figure and the ground. Fragmenting figures and other elements into flat planes

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Cubism

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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

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Fantasy and Futurism

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_________- was the glory of the new 20th century

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Motion

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– protest art movement

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Dada

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– anti art, anti middle class society, anti politicians, anti good manners, anti business as usual, anti all that had brought about war.

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An Anti

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– 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

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Surrealism

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writing or drawing that flowed straight from the subconscious, uncontrolled by reason or by moral or ethical inhibitions

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Practiced automatism –

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• ideas about art should be put to practical use

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Constructivism

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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

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Color Field Painting

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(combine paintings; artistic arrangement of miscellaneous patterns AND HAPPENINGS

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ASSEMBLAGE

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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

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Pop Art –

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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

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MINIMAL ART AND SITE WORKS

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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

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REAL, SUPER REAL-

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– * realism that camera produces

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Photorealism

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 *ideas – paramount; form is secondary – often lightweight, ephemeral, unpretentious, cheap, ordinary, unremarkable . not a style but a way of thinking about art 

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CONCEPTUAL ART

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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

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Feminism and feminist art .

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- First used to describe architecture by Renzo Piano and Richard Rodgers  

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Postmodern art 

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– presenting work as one's own Toward 

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appropriation

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– creating an environment for the viewer to enter, 

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Installation

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– entwined with our faith that there is something that transcends our physical nature 

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