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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/14/2013

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Metaphysical School
Definition
Interest in symbolic meanings beyond surface appearances of objects
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Nietzsche
Definition
Philosopher; influenced metaphysical school
Term
Hugo ball,
Richard huelsenbeck,
And Tristan Tzara
Definition
Spokesperson for Dada
Term
Russolo
Definition
Futurist artist known for bruitisme
Term
Bruitisme
Definition
Noise-music effects;
Futurism and Dada
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Duchamp
Definition
Artist known for readymades
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Readymade
Definition
Found objects
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Arp
Definition
Artist known for concretions
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Concretion
Definition
Nonobjective art;
Organic forms
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Picabia
Definition
Artist known for functionless machines
Term
Functionless
Machines
Definition
Images made with abstract machine parts
Term
Solarization
Definition
Photo;
Unfixed print is exposed to light and then fixed.
Term
Man Ray
Definition
Artist known for rayographs
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Rayograph
Definition
Photo image without camera
(Photogram)
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Hannah Hoch
Definition
Artist known for photomontage
Term
Photomontage
Definition
A collage made with cut photographs
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Les
Maudits
Definition
"The cursed ones"
Term
Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin, and Utrillo
Definition
Artists of Les Maudits
Term
November
Group
Definition
German expressionists, former after WWI; promoted idealism.
Term
Entartete/ Degenerate Art
Definition
Designation given by the Nazis to avant-grade art
Term
Matisse
Definition
Artist known for
Decoupage
Term
Decoupage
Definition
Paper cut outs of
Matisse
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Andre Breton
Definition
Spokesperson for
Surrealism
Term
Frued
Definition
Psychoanalyst,
Influenced surrealism
Term
Ernst
Definition
Artist known for
Frottage
Term
Frottage
Definition
Images created by rubbing over different textures.
Term
Delcomania
Definition
Images created by transferring paint from one surface to another.
Term
Cantilever
Definition
Projecting lintel without support; reinforced concrete, based on post and lintel.
Term
Gropius
Definition
Architect;
Director of Bauhaus
Term
Bauhaus
Definition
German school of architecture,
Design, etc
Term
Mies van der rohe
Definition
Architect known for:
"Less is more."
Term
Le corbusier
Definition
Architect known for houses that are 'machines for living'
Term
Machines for living
Definition
Functional structure
Term
Marcel Breuer
Definition
Designer of furniture
Term
Moholy-Nagy
Definition
Artist known for light modulators
Term
Light
Modulators
Definition
Light motion machines
Term
Photograms
Definition
Photo images without a camera
Term
Cercle et Carrie
Definition
Circle and square;
European geometric abstraction group
Term
Abstraction/
Creation
Definition
European painterly abstractionists
Term
Calder
Definition
Artists known for mobiles and stabiles
Term
Mobiles
Definition
Kinetic works
Term
Stabiles
Definition
Works of Calder without movement.
Term
Robert
Henri
Definition
Artist, leader of the eight.
Term
The eight
Definition
Independent artists; mostly realists, non-academic painters in the US
Term
Ash
Can
School
Definition
Nickname for the eight because of ordinary subject matter used.
Term
Stieglitz
&
Steichen
Definition
Photographer associated with Camera Works and Gallery 291
Term
Camera
Works
Definition
Periodical by Stieglitz and Steichen
Term
Gallery 291
Definition
Held exhibitions of modern art
Term
Armory
Show
Definition
The first European modern art exhibition in the US; New York, 1913
Term
Adams
Definition
Photographer
Leader of f/64
Term
Group
F/64
Definition
Small aperture used for depth of field
Term
Synchromism
Definition
American style similar to
Orphism
Term
Fresco
Definition
Water-based painting on moist plaster
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