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Art History 206
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
06/12/2012

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supremetism
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  • Movement built around the supremacy of feeling, move away from subject mater, formal and aesthetic values, dynamic and relationships are built
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constructivism
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  • Put things together out of materials, style inspired by cubism and futurism, Utilitarian art - art for collective social purposes, made for the working man
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Installation
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3-D, Site Specific, Interior Spaces
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International Style
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Lack of ornamentation, Le Courbusier, Rectalinear Design, Modernist, Truth to materials, 

1. Volume over Mass

2. Regulartiy over Symmetry

3. Rejection of Decoration

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Photomontage
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The process and end result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joinging a number of photographs
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Readymade
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Transforming ordinary manufactured objects into works of art
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Automatism
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Release the mind from conscious control to produce new juxtapositions of imagery and forms
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Frottage
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Placing paper over a texture and coloring/painting over it
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The unconscious
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Processes in the mind that occur automatically - not available to introspection
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Praire Style
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Horizontal Lines, Low, FLW, Architectural
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New Deal
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FDR, WPA art, Social Security, New Jobs, 
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Halrem Renaissance
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Seeking information and inspiration from African art & Contemporary black culture, taking everything they had been through to create an identity
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2 Types of Abstract Expressionism
Definition

1. Action

2. Color Field

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Action
Definition

Focus on gesture, materiality of paint, brushstrokes.

Theme: Artists inner life

-Pollock, de Kooning

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Color Field
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Uniform color, optically foregrounded, universal human condition & tragedy

-Rothko and Newman

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Post-Painterly Abstraction
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Painting is strictly about painting, staining the canvas
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Art Brut
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Inspiration from Children, Insane, Those not classically trained for inspiration
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Art Informel
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Art without form 

(Without traditional form)

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Medium Specificity
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Specific to the medium; a painting will be 2-d, does not focus on figure, painting is about painting, its what it is
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
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Staining the canvas, flatness, 2-dimensionality
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Avant-Garde
Definition

Eccentric, High Art, Ground Breaking, Innovative

1. Van Gard

2. Radical

3. Experimental

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Happening
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Audience is part of the art

Event or situation, Performance Art

People are doing, we are observing

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Gutai
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Organized performances, action over object
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Combine Paiting
Definition
Hybrid between painting and scultpure, painting incorporating various objects
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2 Types of Fluxus
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1. Event Scores

2. Multiple

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Event Score
Definition
Fixed scripts for performance
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Multiple
Definition

Done by companies

Multiple companies

Small pieces to send mail art, portable art projects

Rebelling against the art world (making many)

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Dematerialization
Definition
Going with the concept and not the object
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Site Specificity
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Art made for a particular location, geological time is more significant than the human life span
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Identity
Definition
The relation each thing bears to itself
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Appropriation
Definition
Appropriate things from other things that already have another meaning
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Postmodernism
Definition

Apporpiration of past artistic styles and cultural image

1. Neoexpressionism 

2. Appropriation Art

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Deconstructivist Architecture
Definition
Frank Gehry, Lack of formal structure, unexpected shape, organic
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Appropriation in Post-Modernism
Definition
Deals with photography, re-used and re-thought from other works
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Public Art
Definition
Art for the masses
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Installation Art
Definition
3D Art that becomes a space environment other than an object
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