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| painting directly from nature, in the open air. Ex: Sunrise |
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| Salon of refused works. Ex: Luncheon on the Grass. |
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| Colored paint is methodically applied in a series of small dots, usually in complementary colors. The resulting surface is vibrant and luminous with thousands of clontrolled dots of color. Ex: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte |
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| 20C artistic movement: an early 20th-century movement in painting, begun in about 1905 by a group of French artists, including Matisse, and characterized by the use of simple forms and bright colors. Ex: The Joy of LIfe |
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| artistic style using geometric shapes: an artistic style, chiefly in painting and sculpture, that developed in the early 20th century and emphasizes the representation of natural forms as geometric shapes seen from several angles. Ex: Ma Jolie |
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| When pieces of materials such as newspapers, cloth, or colored paper are glued to canvas, or other surfaces. Ex: Still Life with Chair Caning |
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| artistic movement valuing technology's beauty: an early 20th-century artistic movement that attempted to express the dynamic nature of the modern age using technology as its subject. The dynamic sensation is the art. Ex: Speeding Automobile |
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| Analyzing objects from different viewpoints to re-create them as planar faqcets lying near or on the picture plane. Ex: mA jOLIE |
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| Painted elements are combined with commonplacer items. Resulting is traditonal artistic media joined with items previously considered outside the realm of art. Ex: Still Life With Chair Caning. |
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Armory Show, art exhibition in New York City, February 17-March 15, 1913, at the 69th Regiment Armory. The international exhibition was the first major showing of modern art in the United States. It had a huge impact on the American public; over a quarter of a million people paid to see the exhibition, which first promoted an awareness of contemporary art in America. See American Art.
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The architectural style was geometric and asymmetrical and featured such modern materials as concrete, steel, and glass.Absence of superfluos material, but still has a finished polished look. Ex: Glass House (domestic version of international style).
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| Prefabricated steel I-beams are joined horizontally and vertically to create grids that becaome a skeletal structure for the building. Because steel-frame construction has elasticity it allows for response to high winds. Ex: Wainwright Building. |
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| Designed to hug the ground and reach out into surrounding spaces. Assymetrical as in nature, horizontal lines. Ex: Robie house |
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| The projection of horizontal elements into space with vertical support on one end only. Ex: Robie House |
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| a European artistic movement of the early 20th century whose work was characterized by anarchy, irrationality, and irreverence. Random word picked from dictionary "anti-art". Ex: L.O.O.H.Q. |
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| ordinary useful object that becomes a work of art, when artist arbitrarily decides to do so. Object in question usually becomes useless for its original purpose. Ex: Fountain |
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| Rejected realities of the world, influenced by Freud. Explores the inner-psyche, dream imagery, subconscious, upper-higher reality, multi-national. Ex: Persistance of Memory |
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| Affirms and asserts the pure feeling in the visual arts. The primary of pure feeling of art.Ex: White on White |
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| The physical record of the gestural act of gestural act of painting. Ex: Convergence |
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| Uses rectangular expanses of color applied to a flat surface. Ex: White and Greens in Blue |
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| Utilizes science of perceptual psychology, suggests the effect of movement. Used mathematically generated patterns. Ex: Drift 2 |
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| a form of abstration reduced to a single repetitive formal unites called primary structures. Purpose: to make the viewer of aware of how we see objexts in space. Ex: Untitled |
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| Celebrates consumer culture, Silkscreening, mass produced, focuses on glamour icons, and brand names. Ex: Marilyn Diptych |
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| Art that is satirical and subversive. Makes the viewer look at thrmselves and examine our own prejudices. Ex: Tourists |
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| work by women, about women, celebration of women, but for everyone. |
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| P and D, Pattern and Decoration |
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| multi-media art, this type of work is often found in quilts, or samplers. Ex: Tar Beach |
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often suggest a narrative and are typically executed with big gestures that communicate emotional intensity. Although primarily a movement in painting, neoexpressionism is also associated with sculpture and printmaking. Ex: Demoiselles d'Alabama Vestidas.
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