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| Optopenetical Dada Poem by Hugo Ball |
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| Artistic approach in which the artist relinquishes artistic rational control, enabling unconscious impulses to direct the form of the work |
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| Characterized by realistic or illusionistic landscapes that are fantastical. Includes visual images from the artists unconscious or ideas borrowed from Freud's literature. |
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| Technique in which the artists puts texture under a piece of paper and rubs it. Surrealist painters added detail to these shapes to develop and explain thoughts. |
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Artistic technique in which layers of paint are built up on a canvas, the canvas is layed over a 3D object and the paint is scraped away to reveal the texture of the object.
Artists used the images that were created unconsciously to form representational images. |
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| The Paranoiac-Critical Method |
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Creates a realm of reality that is not real with meticulous precision.
"Materializing images of concrete rationality... in order that the world of the imagination... (is of) the same durability... as that of te exterior world." -Dali |
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| Zurich Dadaists such as Tristan Tzara practiced the art of chance within the framework of poetry by cutting single words from an article and placing them in a new order as they were chosen at random. |
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| A poem read in different languages, with different rhythms, tonalities, and by different persons at the same time. |
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| The limited part of unfathomable reason, of an order inaccesible in its tonality - Hans Arp |
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| Functional object redefined as art by putting it in a new context. Introduced by Marcel Duchamp during the New York Dada movement |
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| Poetry that presents random sequences of letters as phonetic sounds in which the letter's sizes and fonts are used as a score for the reader. Invented by Raoul Haussmann during the Berlin Dada movement |
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| The combination of multiple pieces of different photos, often from newspapers and magazines in reference to mass production |
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| American themes such as landscape and people used to represent the virtues of a declining heartland. |
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| American style of painting in the 1920's and 1930's that uses portraits and landscapes to comment on the depression and attack the politics that were responsible for it. |
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| During the American Depression President Roosevelt began the Federal Art Project as part of the New Deal. Artists recieved goverment subsidies for public art projects, which stimulated the economy and encouraged society. |
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A style of painting that emphasizes the flattness of a canvas by using large blocks of color.
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| "Popular (designed for masses), transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmick, glam, big business" Richard Hamilton |
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| Collage and assemblage of objects that are taken from everyday visual culture |
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| Paint0sculpture hybrides in which 3d objects, normally unassociated with art, are put in to a painting (form of assemblage) |
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| Action painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed, or smeared onto the canvas to encorporate a sense of chance into the work. |
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| Style of painting in which the canvas is covered from edge to edge and corner to corner, in which each area of the canvas is given equal attention and significance. This invites the viewer's eye to travel across the entire piece instead of resting on a single focal point. |
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| The branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its psychological effects |
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Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913. New York Dada
Combine |
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| Marcel Janco, Cabaret Voltaire, 1916. Berlin Dada |
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| Hans Arp and Sophia Tauber, Untitled (Duo Collage) 1918. Zurich Dada
Chance, Atomitism, Collage |
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| Hans Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-1917. Zurich Dada
Chance, Atomistism, Collage |
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| Sophia Tauber, Dada Head, 1920. Zurich Dada, Neo Dada
Combine |
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| Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919New York Dada
Readymade |
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. New York Dada
Readymade |
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Raoul Hausmann, The Spirit of Our Time (Mechanical Head), 1919. Berlin Dada.
Assemblage |
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Raoul Hausmann, ABCD, 1923-24. Berlin Dada
Collage |
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Hannah Hoch, Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-1920. Berlin Dada
Collage
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| John Heartsfield, Whoever Reads Borgeois Newspapers Becomes Blind and Deaf: Away with the Stultifying Bandages! 1925. Dada.
Photomontage, collage |
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| Max Ernst, Forest and Dove, 1927. Berlin Dada, Surrealism
Grattage, Dream painting |
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| Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightengale. 1924. Surrealism
Dream Painting |
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| Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924-25. Surrealism. |
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| Salvador Dali, Accomodations of Desire, 1929. Surrealism
Dreamscape |
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| Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Surrealism
Dreamscape |
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| Salvador Dali, The Disentegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954. Surrealism |
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| Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1934Surrealism. |
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| Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur) 1936. Surrealism
Feminism, gender roles |
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| Claude Cahun, Self Portrait, 1928. Abstract Expressionism.
Gender roles |
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| Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Abstract Expressionism. |
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| Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. American Regionalism.
Federal Art Project |
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| Dorthea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936. Social Realism.
Federal Art Project |
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Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110, 1971
Abstract Impressionism |
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Willem de Kooning, Woman, I, 1950-52
Abstract Impressionism |
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| Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943. Abstract Expressionism.
All-over painting, Gestural Painting |
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| Jackson Pollock, White Light, 1954. Abstract Expressionism.
All-over painting, Gestural Painting |
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| Lee Krasner, Polar Stampede, 1960. Abstract Expressionism.
All-over painting |
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| Mark Rothko, Multiform No.2, 1948. Abstract Expressionism.
Color Block painting |
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| Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1940. Abstract Expressionism.
All-over painting. Color block painting. |
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| Barnett Newman, Voice of Fire, 1967. Abstract Expressionism.
Color block painting. |
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| Richard Hamilton, Just What is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing? 1956. Pop Art.
Photomontage. Collage |
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| Robert Roscheberg, Bed, 1955. Abstract Expressionism.
Combines |
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| Robert Roschenberg, White Painting (Four panels), 1951 . Abstract Expressionism.
All-over painting. Color block painting |
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| Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55. Pop Art. |
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| Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955. Pop Art.
Combine |
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| Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze, 1960. Pop Art.
Combine |
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| Roy Lichtenstein, I Know How you Must Feel, Brad." 1963. Pop Art. |
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| james Rosenquist, F 111, 1965. Pop Art.
Social Realism. |
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| Andy Warhol, 32 Cambell's Soup Cans, 1962. Pop Art |
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| Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1963. Pop Art |
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| Andy Warhol, Green Car Crash, 1963. Pop Art |
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