Third Quiz Terms Flashcards
“Degererate Art”
Is a translation of the German term Entartete Kunst used by Hitler for art that didn’t fit his definition of good German art, which included most modern art. By 1937 some 16,000 artworks had been removed from museums and galleries in Germany.
Abstract Expressionism
An American post–World War II art movement (1950). A New York school of painting.
Action painting
Sometimes called “gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.[1] The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.
An exhibition mocking modern art (1937)
Called Entartete Kunst, with 650 confiscated works by about 112 artists, opened in Munich on 19 July 1937, and then toured Germany, Austria, and Poland. More than three million people saw the exhibition.
Analytic Cubism
Picasso and Braque invented specific shapes and characteristic details that would represent the whole object or person. Analytic Cuism fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms.
*Art Nouveau
a French school of arts. An international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. Orenamental style compose of curvilinear, organic forms that was a European wide response to industrialization and the prevalance of the machine.
Assemblage
A artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together *found objects. *During Surrealist movement, it suggest alternate reality.
At that time the German term for Bauhaus was?
“house of construction”
Automatism
Where the artist attemps to disengage conscious control in the creative act. During Surrealist movement.
Betrayal of Images, The
1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte.
Bird in Space
Is a series of sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian sculptor. The original work was created in 1923.
Bird in Space court battle
In 1926-27, Bird in Space was the cause of a court battle due to the piece being taxed by U.S. Customs.
Blaue Reiter, Der
Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they felt, had spiritual values that could counteract the corruption and materialism of their age.
Brucke, Die
German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1905 to 1913. Artist (Kirchner & Nolde) intention to creat a bridge between their own art and modern revloutionary ideas, and between what was traditional and what was new in art.
Cantilever Construction
Cantilever construction is when a horizontal architectural element, projected into space, has vertical support and coutner balancing weight inside the building. Wright pioneered the use of reinforced concrete and steel girders for cantileverconstruction in large buildings.
Collage
A work of art formed by pasting fragments of printed matter, cloth, and other materials (occasionally three-dimensional) to a flat surface.
Color Field Painting
A style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism (Matisse) and closely related to Abstract Expressionism. Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. Typically calm and inwardly direction and is capable of evoking a meditative, even spiritual, response.
Cubi XXVII
Stainless steel sculptures built from cubes, rectangular solids and cylinders with spheroidal or flat endcaps by David Smith, 1963, example of Modernism.
Cubism
- First branch* of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, subject seen from differnt angles simultaneously was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, where flat shapes of color resemble object,remained vital until around 1918, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.
Dada
“anit-art” 1915-1923, Dada (movement) was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.
Dali, Salvador
1904–1989. known as Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
De Stijl
Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917-1931. Sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour, fostered “equilibrium of opposites”.