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Modernism
Definition

-Questioned the axims of earlier days

 

-experiments with form

-move away from traditional forms

 

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Avant-Garde
Definition

literally means "means "advance guard"

 

-refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

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Fauvism
Definition

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three years, 1905–1907, and had three exhibitions.[1]The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.[1]

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Expressionism
Definition

is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form.

 

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Die Brüke (The Bridge)
Definition

German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905,

-created the style of Expressionism

 

-wanted to create a "bridge" or link  between their own art and modern revolutionary ideas, between traditions, and also between the avant garde.

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Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider Group)
Definition

group of artists in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke which was founded the previous decade in 1905.

 

-thought moscow could be the new center of the world, as rome had once been.

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Cubism
Definition

-0th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture,

 

-Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism (using synthetic materials in the art)

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Analytic Cubism
Definition
Analytic cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane. Colour was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre. Instead of an emphasis on colour, Analytic cubists focused on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world. During this movement, the works produced by Picasso and Braque shared stylistic similarities.
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