FAUVISM:

- strong color over representational qualities

- wild brush strokes

- simplification and abstraction

- e.g. Matisse

SUPREMATISM:

- idealized geometric forms (square and circle esp.)

- idea of 4th dimension beyond our senses

CUBISM:

- object broken up, analyzed, reassembled

- depicted from multiple viewpoints

- interpenetrating planes --> ambiguous space

- e.g. Picasso

PRIMITIVISM:

- idealizing simple/primitive social behavior (violence, sexuality, madness)

- celebrate the "unconscious" more common in NON Europeans

- dreams and symbols --> universal

PURISM:

- form of cubism, but DIFFERENT (not "taken apart")

- take decorative elements to more basic form (inspired by modern technology)

- areas of pure color

- eg. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier

SURREALISM:

- belief in superior reality of certain forms

- omnipotence of dream in play of thought

- surprise, non-chronological

- eg. Duchamp, Klee

DADAISM:

- "anti-art" against reason and logic of art and civilization

- approach object with "a new set of eyes"

- eg. Duchamp

EXPRESSIONISM:

- distortion to create an emotive effect

- challenge academic traditions

- eg. Kandinsky

--> Glass Pavilion, Mendelsohn, Einstein Tower

CONSTRUCTIVISM:

- art used for social/political purpose

- industrial approach

- celebrates technology

- eg. Melnikov (Russian Pavilion!), Lissitzky

Symbolism:

- mystical tendencies of life --> mythology

- dark/private aspects of life and death

- quest for the unknown

- eg. Klimt