Movements Flashcards
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Impressionism
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- Began in Paris in 1874
- Artist wanted independence (ex.Monet)
- Landscapes/modern life scenes (the essence not realism)
- Usually small in scale
- Pastel colour palate
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Expressionism
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- Forms are created to express emotion, not reality
- Symbolism
- Van Gogh
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Futurism
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- Largely an Italian and Russian movement
- Explored every medium
- Intense loathing of things from the past
- speed, technology, violence
- Against history and religion
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Suprematism
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- Cubism and Futurism
- Only concerned with form
- Free from political or social meaning
- Art has autonomy
- Exploration of visual languages
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Analytical Cubism
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- First phase of cubism
- An analytical study of shapes/objects/structure
- Depicts different viewpoints simultaneously
6
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Primitivism
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- inspiration from primitive cultures
- Primitive people in society like children or those with mental disabilities
- More expressiveness
7
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Symbolism
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- Against capturing objects as they were
- interested in spirituality, imagination, dreams
- Similar to romanticism
- Against realism
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Art Nouveau
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- New art
- European 1890’s and first world war
- Combination of multiple different art forms and periods
9
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Realism
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- Depicting something exactly as you see it
- No extra glamour
- Emphasis on horizontality
- Earthy tones
- Immediately proceeding modernity
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Post-impressionism
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- Extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations:
- Artists continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint and real-life subject matter but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms and use unnatural and random colours.
- Coined by Roger Fry
- Describes a diverse group of painters
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Fauvism
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- Involves strong colour
- Fierce brushwork
- Happened at the same time as expressionism
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Constructivism
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- Avant-Guard tendency
- Appeared in architecture/engineering
- Mass-produced works of art
- Reflects modern industrial world
13
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Synthetic Cubism
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- Images are layered
- Colours are reintroduced
- Flattened cubism
- Not 3D like analytical
