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Quiz 2 Flashcards

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Chosen by chance from French-German dictionary, French word for “hobbyhorse”, centered on chance occurrences, absurd (logic and reason had led to war), break complacency and conventional thinking

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Dada

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Use of salvaged scrap materials, combining unlikely found objects to create surprising and unsettling sculptures

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Assemblage

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One-of-a-kid camera less photograph made by putting objects directly on photographic paper and then exposing both the object and paper to light

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Photogram

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The principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations

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Surrealism

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Wiping paint over canvas with a textural object underneath, providing surface texture on canvas

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Grattage

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Sought to create, through geometric abstraction, total environments that were so perfect they embodied a universal harmony / the style

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De Stijl

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Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by Walter Gropius. Core objective to reimagine the material world to reflect unity of all arts. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living

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Bauhaus

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  1. No ground floor, with the house raised on columns, 2. A flat roof, which would be used as a garden terrace, 3. an open floor plan, with partitions slotted between supports, 4. free composition of the exterior curtain walls, 5. preferably ribbon (horizontal) windows
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Le Corbusier, Five points of a New Architecture:

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Symbol of American nation

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New York City +. Skyscraper

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Representational focus on social ills including poverty, labor oppression, suffering migrant work, alienation in industrialization, and racism

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Social Realism

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Movement in American Painting that flourished in New York City post WWII. Abstraction conveyed strong emotional content. Known for large-scale paintings and unconventional use of materials

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Abstract Expressionism

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A type of abstract expressionism utilizing gesture and movement

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Action painting / overall painting

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A type of abstract expressionism using large, meditative planes of color

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Color-field painting

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Innovative works that combined paintings, sculpture, collage, and found objects

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Combines

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Style emerged in early 1960s in NYC, derives imagery from popular or vernacular culture

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Pop Art

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Seek to make unemotional art using smooth surfaces that belie the human hand and assert the flatness of the surface

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Formalist Painting

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Using the land as a resource, the artist modifies or constructs in relation to the land, intended as a conceptual piece and often subject to atrophy or displacement, the work was frequently documented with photography or video

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Earthworks

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Art generally exists solely as an idea, with no visual manifestation other than words; the idea, concept, or information is consumed

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Conceptual Art

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Art that deals with women’s issues and redefining aesthetic values in contemporary art

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Feminist Art

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Duchamp 1917

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Hoch 1919

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Man Ray 1922

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Dali 1931

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Oppenheim 1931

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Calder 1939

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Gropius 1925

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Mies 1929

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Le Corbusier 1928

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Stella 1920

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O’Keefe 1926

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Rivera 1934

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Lange 1936

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Picasso 1937

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Pollock 1950

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Rauschenberg 1955

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Warhol 1961

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Smithson 1970

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Beuys. 1965

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Frank 1955

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Chicago 1979

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Mies & Johnson 1954

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Le Corbusier 1950

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