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Art History final terms
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Undergraduate 1
04/15/2010

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Symbolism
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Use symbols and signs in paintings, deeper meaning beyond, Does not imitate nature but transforms fact of nature into a symbol of inner experience
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German Expressionsm
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Early 20th century expressionist movement. Franz Marc, Fate of the animals, Kadinsky, Improvisation 28
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Cubism
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An early 20th century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, perfering compositions of shapes and forms "abstracted" from the convential world.

Braque, 4 picasso, 1908, dismissal of pictorial illusion "the portuguese" Les Demoiselles, D avignon inspired, Deconstruct art, Dynamic interelation.
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Collage
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French word "Coller" (to stick/glve)compostion of objects, newspaper/cloth etc, glued to a surface.
Braques bottle, newspaper, pipe and glass
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tenebrism
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Painting in the shadowy mann using violent contrasts of light and dark, caravaggio>Fenebroso
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Realism
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19th century movement where artists represented the subject matter of everyday life.

France, Emphasis, science, industial/rationalism, philosophy-positivism, whats seen is "real" contemporary life. Non fiction. Gustave Courbet, Burial at orans.
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Impressionism
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opposed realist, reaction to transformtion of french life, paris, 19th century, captive moment, claude monet, impression sunrise, 1st exhibetion, coined 1874. Personal responses to nature. Picasso, renior, degas, manet influenced
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Post impressionism
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Systematic approach to impressionist painting, expressive qualities of line, form, pattern and colour, lauter..stary night, seurat, Vangogh, cezanne.
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Dada
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art movement with was a Reaction to insanity of ww1, state of mind.
dada rejected all art and civilization, created art of the absurd
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marcell dunchamp-fountain
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Rococo
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a style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in france around 1700. Interiors were designed as total works of art with elegant furniture, small sculpture, reliefs, wall painting etc.
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Neoclassicism
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Art and arcitecture emerged 18th century, revivial in sclssical sctructure, Greece and rome, david.
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Abstract Expressionism
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1st major american avant garde, jackson pollock, creation procell, gestures. chromatic.
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Pop Art
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1950s- richard hamiltion, coined by lawrence alloway. Consumer culture, Mass media, advertising and movies. Andy warhal Marilyn Diptych
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Surrealism
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A successor to Dada, surrealism incorperated the improvisational nature of its predacessor into its exploration of the the ways to express in art the world of dreams and unconscious. Biomorphic Surrealisits such as
Joan Miro produced abstract compositions. while Salvadoor dali presented recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image
France surrealist manifesto, dadaists, Fantasy, dreams and unconscious, naturalistic salvador dali, recognizeable scene.
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Pointillism
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a system of painting that focussed on color anaylysis, devised by 19th century french painter george seurat. the artists seperates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tinday dots, only comprehensible from a a distance.

19th century french painter-George seurat seperate, colours and apply to canvas in tiny dots, comprehensible from distance. Divisionism. A sunday on la grande ..``
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anamorphic
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Fresco
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painting on a lime plaster either dry or wet

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