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68 Cards in this Set
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Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
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Picasso
Beginnings of Cubism -Influenced by African masks |
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Guernica
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Picasso
Cubism -Modern art's most powerful antiwar statement |
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The Persistence of Memory
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Dali
Surrrealism |
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Autumn Rhythm
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Pollock
Abstract Expressionism -Pollocks drip technique |
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Cubi XIX
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Smith
Abstract Expressionism -Outdoors to reflect a light source, contrast to nature |
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Gold Marilyn Monroe
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Warhol
Pop Art -Screen print |
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Vega-Nor
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Vasarely
Op Art -Vibrant colors and disorienting perspective |
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Spiral Jetty
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Smithson
Earthwork |
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Running Fence
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Christo
Earthwork |
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Time for Bed
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Fischl
Postmodern |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Maya Lin
Sculpture/Public Art |
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Analytical Cubism
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-A systematic breaking up of the subject into planes and redistributing the planes over background
-A way to show all sides of an object on a two dimensional surface -Colors are limited to dull intensities |
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Synthetic Cubism
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-Collages is featured
-Simpler images -More colorful |
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Futurism Characteristics
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-Cubist forms
-Expression of speed/movement -Inspired by the Machine Age |
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Dada Readymade
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An ordinary object transformed into an artwork through the decision of the artist and by a change in its context
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The art of chance
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When aspects of the production of art are left to chance (Dada)
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Dada Art's Legacy
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Performance art
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Performance art
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the artist becomes the sole vehicle of expression
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Dada Characteristics
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-Challenged everything
-Readymades -Chance -Led to performance art |
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Surrealism
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unlocking the unconscious
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Automatism
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making art without the control of the conscious mind
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juxtaposition
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-two or more very different elements come into direct contanct with one another
-believed to activate the unconscious |
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Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung
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-psycholanalysts
-studied unconscious mind -influenced the development of Surrealism |
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Neoplasticism Characteristics
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-Purity of form
-Flat geometric shapes in primary colors and black and white -Painting and architecture |
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De Stijl
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-architecture
-created abstract designs in order to foster a utopian society |
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Grid
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a system of horizontal and vertical lines that structure an artwork
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Schroeder House
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De Stijl architecture
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Abstract Expressionism
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influenced by Kandinskeys nonrepresentational painting, their form and spiritual content
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The New York School
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NYC becomes captial of the world
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action paintings
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paintings show a record
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abstract expressionism characteristics
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-very painterly
-automatism -large format -personal expression |
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clement greenberg
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highly influential art critic who coined the term action paintings
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drip technique
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casting paint from a brush or stick or pouring paint directly on canvas spread on the the floor in a controlled gesture
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Smith- drawing in space
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sculpture in Abstract expressionism, a sculpture that features the elememts of line that delinates the image
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Color Field Painting
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imagery is reduced to a large field or area of color
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Rothko- AE
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layered oil paints to create a psychological and spirit void where one could meditate
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Neo Dada
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early pop
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combine
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technique of combining sculpture with paintings
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recontextualization
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the usage of images or objects outside their traditional frame of reference
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Raushenberg technique
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combine painting technique
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Johns
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a mainstream image painted in the style of modern abstract painting
-flat picture -painterly -exploration of the form of the painting |
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Pop art
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-inspired by popular culture
-artist becomes personality |
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Warhol's use of screen printing
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Warhol used commercial art process of screen printing
-flat color -saturated color -eliminated subjective gestures |
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Oldenberg
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change in scale humor and recontextualization
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op art
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exploring optical illusions
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Photorealism
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-painted from photographs
-highly realistic, allows viewers to see more than a photograph |
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Hanson
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-accurate and satrical representations
-mundane objects -blurs what is genuine and what is counterfeit |
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Skyscraper
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a multistory bulding constructed with steel frame and reinforced concrete
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reinforced concrete
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concrete slab reinforced with steel rods
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"Form follows function"
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design follows structures requirements
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setback law
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required buildings to be traced back to permit air and light to circulate around the buildings
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Cantilever
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a concrete slab projecting a substantial distance beyond its support
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context sensitive
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the design and the building materials are integrated in the immediate natural environment
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Wrights organic desgin
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open floor plans, interior design repeats the exterior structure
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shaped canvas
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there is no picture plane of subject
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Judds minimal design
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-simplified geometric forms
-use of industrial materials -satisfying to look at |
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Post Minimal Characteristics
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-irregular yet minimal forms
-repition -soft materials -self expression |
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Earthworks
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outdoor sculptures created by using nature as the raw material for art making
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site specific sculpture
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a sculpture designed for a particular location, often outside
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the gates
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by christo, central park
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conceptualism
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a movement that valued the concept or idea over the making of the art object
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performance art
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consists of live action events staged as artworks
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feminist art
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a movement of artists, critics and art historians beginning in the 1970s to promote art forms that express the unique experiences of women and to reduce oppression by the patriarchy
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The dinner party
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depicts place settings of 39 mythical and famous women throughout history
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post modern architecture
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a movement away from the international style towards an imaginative, edectic, and playful approach
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post modernism
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social issue art, commenting about society
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installation art
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the construction of an environment by an artist in order to make a statement or to express a mood or feeling
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neo-expressionism
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-painterly applicaiton
-highly subjective subject matter -personal expression -social issue art -appropriation |
