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Ch. 35
ARH F303
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
07/01/2013

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Primitivism
Definition
the incorporation in early 20th century Western art of stylistic elements from the artificats of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of the Americas
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Expressionism
Definition

20th century art that is the result of the artist's unique inner or personal vision and that often has an emotional dimension

 

contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world

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Die Brucke
Definition

German, "the bridge"

 

an early 20th century German Expressionist art movement under the leadership of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

 

the group thought of itself as the bridge between the old age and the new

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Der Blaue Reiter
Definition

German, "the blue rider"

 

an early 20th century German Expressionist art movement founded by Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc

 

the artists selected the whimsical name because of their mutual interest in the color blue and horses

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Fauvism

 

Definition

French, "wild beasts"

 

an early 20th century art movement led by Matisse

 

for the Fauves, color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning

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Cubism
Definition
an early 20th century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world
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Dada
Definition

an early 20th century art movement prompted by a revulsion against the horror of WWI

 

Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive

 

a disdain for convention, often enlivened by humor or whimsy, is characteristic of the art the Dadaists produced

Term
[image]
Definition

Erich Heckel

 

Crouching Woman

 

Painted linden wood

 

1912

Term
[image]
Definition

Vasily Kandisky

 

Improvisation 28 (second version)

 

Oil on canvas

 

1912

Term
[image]
Definition

Pablo Picasso

 

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

 

Oil on canvas

 

1907

Term
[image]
Definition

Georges Braque

 

Houses at L'estaque

 

oil on canvas

 

1908

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