Terms Flashcards
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Bohemian
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- People usually artists
- Rejected the privileged lifestyle
- Took on a more free lifestyle
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Avant-garde
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- Conjures ideas of conflict
- “The Beginning”
- new/experimental artists
- Artists who were different than those of their time
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Modern
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- The contemporaneous
- Something happening right now
- All art was modern art when it was made
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Serfdom
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- A form of slavery that developed in medieval times
- In Russia
- Was not abolished till the mid-19th century
- Enslaved for centuries (born a serf died a serf)
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Pointillism
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- Separating colours into individual dots or strokes
- French origin
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Impasto
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- Thick application of pigments that gives it texture
- Allows for light reflection
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Lithography
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- Drawing on moistened stone with crayon
- Repelled by wet parts of stone
- Requires a different level of thinking
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Theosophy
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- Applies to several different branches of metaphysical thought
- Could be used to understand inner values/desires
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Collage
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Separate elements pasted together with glue
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Assemblage
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- At the base of most contemporary art
- Found objects
- Created by gathering and manipulating two and three-dimensional found objects
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Found Objects
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The use of unartistic objects used in an art piece
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Representational (styles)
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Those that describe the appearance of recognizable subject matter in ways that make it seem lifelike
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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- Roughly translates to total work of art
- Describes an artwork where different forms are combined to create a single cohesive unit
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Abstraction
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Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effects
