Movements

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Began about mid 1900s, opposed to strict formalism that characterizes much of abstract art: Archile Gorky (1904-1948) American artist, one of the founders

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Abstract Expressionism

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Early 1900s, imposed formal structure of largely monochromatic planes upon an object; it’s chief exponents were Pablo Picasso and George’s Braque, who saw it as a stark expression of the impact of modernity

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Cubism

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About 1400-1480, in Italy: artist begin to approximate reality in form, space, color

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Early Renaissance art

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Began about 1960s, creating art in nature: Robert Smithson (1938-1973) Spiral Jetty in Utah

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Earth art

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About 1900s, Daring treatment of unexpected and shocking teams, sharp contrast of colors and shapes, bold brushwork, arbitrary color, harshly unreal drawing

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Expressionism

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About 1900s, motion brought to Cubism: Humberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Orpheus

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Futurism

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About 1592 -1750, began in Northern France before the middle of the 12th-century and in the rest of Western Europe slightly later, most distinctive are the cathedrals: Notre-Dame in Paris

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Gothic style

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About 1500-1580, central Italy: spatial depth and harmony, natural proportions, graceful poses

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High Renaissance

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About 1860-1875, considered photography false to the psychological perception of reality in color and motion, fascination with transformations wrought by light on natural objects, surfaces, atmospheric spaces

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Impressionism

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Nervous, spaceless, crowded with twisting, turbulent figures, unnaturally lengthened

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Mannerism 1520-1580

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Began about 1960s, simple objects, shorn of all suggestion of meaning or of human receptiveness (e.g., bookshelves), Donald Judd, art based on pure proportion: untitled, seven identical quadrangle cubic masses of galvanized iron

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Minimal art

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1775-1825, held Baroque in adherence, return to discipline in form drawing and composition

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Neo-classicism

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Old stone age 30,000-10,000 B.C.E., cave art, large scale paintings in caves

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Paleolithic art

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Intended to shock, combines theatricism with art, first performance artist: Allan Kaprow: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts

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Performance art

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Began about 1980s, picture was painted, unaltered, with an airbrush for my photographic slide projected on the canvas, as long as the subject was as banal as possible: Richard Estes (1936-) Hotel Empire, oil on canvas

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Photo-Realism

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Began about 1960s, characterized by wit, anti-aestheticism, positive nihilism

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Pop Art

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Began about 1960, denies representation altogether, strong optical illusions of depth, mass, motion: Richard Anuszkiewicz American artist: Trinity

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Op Art (optical art)

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About 1880-1890, retain the bright pallets of Impressionism, but acquired new shape and function, unique to the personal style of each painter

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Post-Impressionism

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Began about 1960, any material was art, as long as it was shapeless and impermanent

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Process Art

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About 1825-1870, lowering of tonality of color, as well as action and emotion, insistence on priority of vision over abstraction, emotion

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Realism

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Softness, vagueness, voluptuousness

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Rococo late 1700

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About 1780-1825, interest in the sublime, picturesque

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Romanticism

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Began about 1930, exploring illogic on Freudian principles to uncover and utilize for creative purposes the “actual” process of thought

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Surrealism