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Chapter 35.
Terms and Vocabulary Words.
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
09/19/2011

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Fauvism.
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A style of painting with vivid expressionistic use of color that flourished in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Avant- Garde.
Definition
New and unusual or experimental ideas. Favoring or introducing such new ideas.
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German Expressionism.
Definition
A number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920's. These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European culture.
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Cubism.
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An early 20th-century style and movement in art in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
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Analytical Cubism.
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The early phase of cubism.
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Synthetic Cubism.
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The late phase of cubism.
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Futurism.
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An artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology.
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Dada.
Definition
A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
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Sigmund Freud.
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Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939).
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Carl Jung.
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Swiss psychologist (1875-1961).
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Surrealism.
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A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
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Psychic Automatism.
Definition
Automatic drawing and writing.
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