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Survey of Western Art
Art of the late 19th-20th centuries
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2007

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Plein-Air
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painting directly from nature, in the open air. Ex: Sunrise
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Salon des refusees
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Salon of refused works. Ex: Luncheon on the Grass.
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Pointillism
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Colored paint is methodically applied in a series of small dots, usually in complementary colors. The resulting surface is vibrant and luminous with thousands of clontrolled dots of color. Ex: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
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Fauvism
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20C artistic movement: an early 20th-century movement in painting, begun in about 1905 by a group of French artists, including Matisse, and characterized by the use of simple forms and bright colors. Ex: The Joy of LIfe
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Cubism
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artistic style using geometric shapes: an artistic style, chiefly in painting and sculpture, that developed in the early 20th century and emphasizes the representation of natural forms as geometric shapes seen from several angles. Ex: Ma Jolie
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Collage
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When pieces of materials such as newspapers, cloth, or colored paper are glued to canvas, or other surfaces. Ex: Still Life with Chair Caning
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Futurism
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artistic movement valuing technology's beauty: an early 20th-century artistic movement that attempted to express the dynamic nature of the modern age using technology as its subject. The dynamic sensation is the art. Ex: Speeding Automobile
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Analytical Cubisn
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Analyzing objects from different viewpoints to re-create them as planar faqcets lying near or on the picture plane. Ex: mA jOLIE
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Synthetic Cubism
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Painted elements are combined with commonplacer items. Resulting is traditonal artistic media joined with items previously considered outside the realm of art. Ex: Still Life With Chair Caning.
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Armory Show
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Armory Show, art exhibition in New York City, February 17-March 15, 1913, at the 69th Regiment Armory. The international exhibition was the first major showing of modern art in the United States. It had a huge impact on the American public; over a quarter of a million people paid to see the exhibition, which first promoted an awareness of contemporary art in America. See American Art.

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International Style
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The architectural style was geometric and asymmetrical and featured such modern materials as concrete, steel, and glass.Absence of superfluos material, but still has a finished polished look. Ex: Glass House (domestic version of international style).
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Steel-Frame construction
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Prefabricated steel I-beams are joined horizontally and vertically to create grids that becaome a skeletal structure for the building. Because steel-frame construction has elasticity it allows for response to high winds. Ex: Wainwright Building.
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Prairie Style
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Designed to hug the ground and reach out into surrounding spaces. Assymetrical as in nature, horizontal lines. Ex: Robie house
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Cantilevering
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The projection of horizontal elements into space with vertical support on one end only. Ex: Robie House
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Dada
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a European artistic movement of the early 20th century whose work was characterized by anarchy, irrationality, and irreverence. Random word picked from dictionary "anti-art". Ex: L.O.O.H.Q.
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Ready-made
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ordinary useful object that becomes a work of art, when artist arbitrarily decides to do so. Object in question usually becomes useless for its original purpose. Ex: Fountain
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Surrealism
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Rejected realities of the world, influenced by Freud. Explores the inner-psyche, dream imagery, subconscious, upper-higher reality, multi-national. Ex: Persistance of Memory
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Suprematism
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Affirms and asserts the pure feeling in the visual arts. The primary of pure feeling of art.Ex: White on White
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Action Painting
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The physical record of the gestural act of gestural act of painting. Ex: Convergence
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Color Field Painting
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Uses rectangular expanses of color applied to a flat surface. Ex: White and Greens in Blue
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Op Art
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Utilizes science of perceptual psychology, suggests the effect of movement. Used mathematically generated patterns. Ex: Drift 2
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Minimalism
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a form of abstration reduced to a single repetitive formal unites called primary structures. Purpose: to make the viewer of aware of how we see objexts in space. Ex: Untitled
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Pop Art
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Celebrates consumer culture, Silkscreening, mass produced, focuses on glamour icons, and brand names. Ex: Marilyn Diptych
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New Realism
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Art that is satirical and subversive. Makes the viewer look at thrmselves and examine our own prejudices. Ex: Tourists
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Femmage
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work by women, about women, celebration of women, but for everyone.
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P and D, Pattern and Decoration
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multi-media art, this type of work is often found in quilts, or samplers. Ex: Tar Beach
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Neo-Expressionism
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often suggest a narrative and are typically executed with big gestures that communicate emotional intensity. Although primarily a movement in painting, neoexpressionism is also associated with sculpture and printmaking. Ex: Demoiselles d'Alabama Vestidas.
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