Workbook1-art1 Flashcards
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Futurism
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- Focused on motion in time and space
- Cubist dissection of form
- Began in Italy
- Glorified the life of today and celebrated science.
- Dynamism - Theory that the force of energy is the basic principle of all phenomena.
- Umberto Boccioni was obsessed with illustrating images in perpetual motion.
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Dada
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- Arose in 1916 during World War I
- Group of artists that believed that art should have nothing to do with rational thought
- Responded to the absurdity of war and the insanity of a world that gave rise to it.
- Ironically in order to communicate this, they created works of art
- Dada describes nonsense art - art that is meaningless, absurd, unpredictable.
- In an effort to show their views they assaulted the public with lack of respect and advocated antisocial behavior.
- Growing interest in psychoanalysis
- Marcel Duchamp - leading figure
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Surrealism
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- Surrealist specialized in the subconscious experience and dreams.
- Began as a literary movement after World War I
- The art of the Surrealist movement was centered around the irrational and the subconscious, both depicting dream-like images.
- Illusionistic Surrealism - rendered the irrational content, absurd juxtapositions and metamorphoses of the dream state in a highly illusionist manner.
- Automatist Surrealism - direct outgrowth of automatic writing and was used to divulge mysteries of the unconscious through abstractions
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De Stijl
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- Art form which is a reduction of form.
- Used flat surface, straight lines and right angles.
- Color was cut down to primary colors (Red, Blue, Yellow) and primary values (White, Black, Grey).
- Ultimate simplicity and abstraction.
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Regionalism
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- Style that specialized in local themes and the everyday life of rural Americans.
- Edward Hopper depicted buildings and streets with muted empty spaces.
- During Depression - 1930
- Nighthawks- overwhelming loneliness and isolation of the Depression-era life in the United States.
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Color Field Painting
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- Painting with solid areas of color covering the canvas.
- Arts were interest in atmospheric effects of large expanses of color.
- Pigment seeped into the fibers of the canvas giving it soft edges.
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Abstract Expressionism
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- Artists applied paint freely to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions rather than realistic subject matter.
- Two categories: Gestural abstraction/chromatic abstraction
- Gestural Abstraction - relied on the expressiveness of energetically applied pigment.
- Chromatic abstraction - focused on color’s emotional response.
- Jackson Pollock focused on gestural application of the paint and would walk across the surface of the canvas as if controlled by primitive impulses and unconscious ideas.
- Accident became a main compositional element in his painting.
- Harold Rosenberg, a critic, coined the term Action Painting in 1951 to describe the work of Pollock.
- Action Painting - painting whose surface implied a strong sense of splattering of paint.
- Pollock believed strongly in the role of the unconscious mind, of accident and spontaneity in the creation of art.
- Mark Rothko - focused on color as the primary conveyor of meaning.
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Hard Edge Painting
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- Artists were interested in hard, crisp edges.
- Razor - sharp edges and clear shapes.
- Works are extremely simple.
- Start to see artists using different shaped canvases.
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Minimalism
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- Rejected illusionism and symbolism and reducing sculpture to basic geometric forms.
- Interest in the purity of their material.
- Lack subject, color, surface textures and narrative elements.
- Eva Hesse created simple structures with parst that extend into the room.
- She wanted her works to express the strangeness and absurdity that she considered the conditions of modern life.
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Pop Art
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- Artist used images from popular culture, advertising and ordinary life.
- Emerged in the 1960sTerm coined by English critic - Lawrence Alloway in 1954.
- Subjects taken from movies, billboards, magazines, newspapers and advertisements.
- Challenge conceptions about the meaning of art.
- Consumer culture and mass media.
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Optical Art
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- Style that tried to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion.
- Artists manipulates light or color - repeats patterns of line in order to produce visual illusions.
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Photo-Realism
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- Style in which is so realistic it looked photographic.
- Rendering of subjects with sharp, photographic precision
- Reaction to the expressionistic and abstract movements of the 20th centuries.
- Used photographs as sources for their imagery.
- Duane Hanson created life-size figure sculptures that are sometimes mistaken for real people.
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Assemblage
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- An artwork composed of objects, parts of objects, or materials originally intended for purposes other than art.
- Revival after World War II
- Combine Paintings - Combination of collage, assemblage and painting.
- Louise Nevelson was considered one of the most influential assemblage artists.
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- Focused on motion in time and space
- Cubist dissection of form
- Began in Italy
- Glorified the life of today and celebrated science.
- Dynamism - Theory that the force of energy is the basic principle of all phenomena.
- Umberto Boccioni was obsessed with illustrating images in perpetual motion.
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Futurism
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- Arose in 1916 during World War I
- Group of artists that believed that art should have nothing to do with rational thought
- Responded to the absurdity of war and the insanity of a world that gave rise to it.
- Ironically in order to communicate this, they created works of art
- Dada describes nonsense art - art that is meaningless, absurd, unpredictable.
- In an effort to show their views they assaulted the public with lack of respect and advocated antisocial behavior.
- Growing interest in psychoanalysis
- Marcel Duchamp - leading figure
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