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Art/Design
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10/30/2012

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art deco
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1920's - 1930's art movement stressing higly decorative art
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baroque
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late 16th century to early 18th century movement from Italy that stressed grand theatrical effects and elaborate orgnamentation
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classicism
Definition
art attributed to ancient Greece and Rome that is characterized by discipline, objectivity and reason
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expressionism
Definition
20th century art in which the expression of the artist is the subject; focus is on emotion
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futurism
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1910 Italian art movement that stressed motion and movement
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Abstract expressionism
Definition
20th century american movement based on nonfigurative dramatic expressiveness
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art nouveau
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early 20th century art movement emphasized on nature in art with floral motifs
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bauhaus
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school in germany, that influnced architecture by blending science and technology with design
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cubism
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A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes
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dada
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a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century
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gothic
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a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries
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impressionism
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a movement in 19th century painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time
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lithograph
Definition
duplicator that prints by lithography
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minimalism
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an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
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motif
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a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
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neoclassicism
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A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, Neoclassicism was characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.
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performance art
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An art form from the mid-twentieth century in which one or more performers use some combination of visual arts (including video), theatre, dance, music, and poetry, often to dramatize political ideas. The purpose is less to tell a story than to convey a state of being.
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pointillism
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Dots of pure color that tend to mix in our eyes to produce the illusion of color mixtures.
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pop art
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an American school of the 1950s that imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media
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realism
Definition
the state of being actual or real
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renaissance
Definition
The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history
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rococo
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very highly ornamented; relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation
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surrealism
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a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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