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FAUVISM:
- strong color over representational qualities
- wild brush strokes
- simplification and abstraction
- e.g. Matisse |
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SUPREMATISM:
- idealized geometric forms (square and circle esp.)
- idea of 4th dimension beyond our senses |
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CUBISM:
- object broken up, analyzed, reassembled
- depicted from multiple viewpoints
- interpenetrating planes --> ambiguous space
- e.g. Picasso |
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PRIMITIVISM:
- idealizing simple/primitive social behavior (violence, sexuality, madness)
- celebrate the "unconscious" more common in NON Europeans
- dreams and symbols --> universal |
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PURISM:
- form of cubism, but DIFFERENT (not "taken apart")
- take decorative elements to more basic form (inspired by modern technology)
- areas of pure color
- eg. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier |
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SURREALISM:
- belief in superior reality of certain forms
- omnipotence of dream in play of thought
- surprise, non-chronological
- eg. Duchamp, Klee |
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DADAISM:
- "anti-art" against reason and logic of art and civilization
- approach object with "a new set of eyes"
- eg. Duchamp |
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EXPRESSIONISM:
- distortion to create an emotive effect
- challenge academic traditions
- eg. Kandinsky
--> Glass Pavilion, Mendelsohn, Einstein Tower |
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CONSTRUCTIVISM:
- art used for social/political purpose
- industrial approach
- celebrates technology
- eg. Melnikov (Russian Pavilion!), Lissitzky |
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Symbolism:
- mystical tendencies of life --> mythology
- dark/private aspects of life and death
- quest for the unknown
- eg. Klimt |
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