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Neo-classicism
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name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (
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Romanticism
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was a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution
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The sublime
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quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and w
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Edmund Burke
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime (1757)
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Realism
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refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular empirical rules
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Salon des Refusés
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(“Exhibition of the Rejects”)
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Emile Zola
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an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism
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Post-Impressionism
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term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet
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Pointilism
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technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image
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Emile Zola
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"Edouard Manet" Actually likes manet
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Fauves
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(“Wild Beasts”)
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Expressionism
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present the world in an utterly subjective perspective, radically distorting it for emotional effect, to evoke moods or ideas
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Arnold Schönberg
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associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art,
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Kankinsky
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910
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Analytic Cubism
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Painting
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Synthetic Cubism
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Collage
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Semiotics
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consist of distinct parts, each syllable has its own sound
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Synecdoche / “Pars pro toto”
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A part that represents the whole Ex: All hands on deck, the hands represent the whole body
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Futurism
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originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere
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Filippo Marinetti
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The Futurist Manifesto: 10 points in this, certain universal love for the dynamism of technology itself
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Dada
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chose the word because it seemingly has no meaning
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Readymade/Found Art
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describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function
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Marcel Duchamp
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challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain
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Surrealism
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best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members
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Psychoanalysis
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body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and continued by others. It is primarily devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior, although it can also be applied to societies
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Harold Rosenberg
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"The American Action Painters" (1952)
More action |
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Clement Greenberg
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"Modernist Painting" (1965)
Flatness and pigment of painting |
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Paranoid-Critical Method
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Will allow the work of art to come out spontaneously, won’t be plan, will form itself because he has suspended all forms of rationality
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Abstract Expressionism
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Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, nihilistic
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“American Action Painters”
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Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting," modeled on his intimate knowledge of Willem de Kooning's working process. His essay, "The American Action Painters," brought into focus the paramount concern the act of painting
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Clement Greenberg
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Greenberg has three modes of abstraction that modernist painters should embrace: flatness of the surface, properties of the pigment, and shape of the support. This is called formalism
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Color-Field Painting
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Color Field painting is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
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