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Abstract Expressionism
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| n. An artistic movement made up of American artists in the 1940s and 1950s, also known as action painting. It is usually characterized by large abstract painted canvases, although the movement also includes sculpture and other media. |
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| A term meaning extravagant, complex; applied to a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts. |
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| The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the art of ancient Greece and Rome. |
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| An artistic movement begun in 1907, when artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque together developed a visual language whose geometric planes and compressed space challenged the conventions of representation in painting. |
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| An international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria, that favored the expression of subjective emotions and experience over depictions of objective reality. |
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| A 19th-century art movement, associated especially with French artists, whose works are characterized by relatively small, thin, visible brushstrokes that coalesce to form a single scene and emphasize movement and the changing qualities of light. Anti-academic in its formal aspects. |
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| An artistic movement of the 1960s in which artists produced pared-down three-dimensional objects devoid of representational content. Their new vocabulary of simplified, geometric forms made from humble industrial materials challenged traditional notions of craftsmanship, the illusion of spatial depth in painting, and the idea that a work of art must be one of a kind. |
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| n. Realism in painting characterized by extremely meticulous depiction of detail. |
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A genre of drawing and painting
based on photographs that are used by the artist as
references to create a highly realistic artwork with
photographic qualities. |
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| A term broadly applied to all the visual arts to distinguish them from such non-visual arts as literature, poetry, or music. |
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A method of drawing or painting
with several layers of small colored dots, strokes,
or individual brushstrokes. When viewed from
a distance, the dots appear to blend together to create
the illusion of depth, visual masses, and forms. |
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| A movement composed of initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by references to imagery and products from popular culture, media, and advertising. |
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| A term coined in 1910 by the English art critic and painter Roger Fry and applied to the reaction against the naturalistic depiction of light and color in Impressionism, led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. |
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| n. A style in which things and people are shown as they are in real life. |
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| A term meaning rebirth or revival; applied to a period characterized by the humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning, originating in Italy in the fourteenth century and later spreading throughout Europe and lasting through the sixteenth century. |
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| Movement, which began in the 1920s, of writers and artists who experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination. |
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| An artist who creates artworks in the style of surrealism. |
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| n. A term generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature. |
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Academic Art
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| n. Art made according to the teachings of an art academy, often conservative in nature and resistant to innovation |
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| French for “advanced guard,” to describe a group that is innovative, experimental, and inventive in its technique . |
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| A combination of shape, colour and form that pleases the eye. |
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| A large international art exhibition held every two years |
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| Art in which the body, often that of the artist, is the principal medium and focus |
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| Person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. |
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| n. A genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. It is considered an advancement of Photorealism. |
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Action painting
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| A term coined in 1952 to describe the work of artists who painted with gestures that involved more than just the traditional use of the fingers and wrist to paint, including also the arm, shoulder, and even legs. |
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Illustration
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| n. A depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch, painting, photograph, or other kind of image of things seen, remembered or imagined, using a graphical representation. |
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| n. An artist who specializes in elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. |
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| A printmaking technique based on the repulsion of oil and water, in which an oily substance is applied to a stone or other medium to transfer ink to a paper surface. |
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| One who applies paint to canvas, wood, paper, or another support to produce a picture. |
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An artistic composition created by
applying a liquid medium such as paint or ink to a
surface. |
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