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| "in the open air"; painting outdoors; french. |
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| made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. |
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| polychrome woodblock prints |
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| japanese art form that influenced impressionism. |
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| german expressionism; a form of surrealism. |
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| an american genre of modern art that used improvised techniques to generate highly abstract forms. |
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| a sub-sect of abstract painting. |
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| a beam supported on only one end. |
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| louis sullivan "form follows function" |
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| linking the relationship between the form of an object & its intended purpose. |
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| common or unusual objects that may be used to create a work of art. |
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| created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art. |
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| the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. |
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| depicts social & racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles. |
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| a movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, & an emphasis on light & its changing qualities. |
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| surrah; neo-impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically. |
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| based on irrationality & negation of the accepted laws of beauty in art. |
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| used fantastic images & incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts & dreams. |
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| characterized by bright & nonnatural colors & simple forms; influenced the expressionists. |
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| featured surfaces of geometrical planes. |
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| tried to express the energy & values of the machine age. |
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| art for art's sake; movement that emphasized aesthetic values over moral or social themes in literature, fine art, the decorative arts, & interior design. |
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| salon of the refused; an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official paris salon. |
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| any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts. |
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| denote the last decade of the nineteenth century; a transition period when writers & other artists abandoned old conventions & looked for new techniques & objectives. |
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