Art History

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Impressionism

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Goals:
- capture fleeting moments
- capture transient effects of light & climate on canvas

Characteristics:
- avoidance of sharp contours
- rejection of strong emotionalism of Romantic art
- rejection of depression of Realism
- rejection of tradition compositional elements

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Post-Impressionism

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Characteristics:
- accepted saturated colors
- accepted interest in colors
- rejected capture of fleeting moments
- rejected disregard of tradition compositional elements
- rejects idea that painting should reproduce visible world
- believed that task of artist is to make visible the world that is NOT perceivable through the senses

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Expressionism

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Characteristics:
- conventional ideas of Realism & proportion have overridden with emotion = distortions of shape & color
- direct, impulsive, rapid, & passionate
- uses lines & color to express inner feelings
- influenced by Freud's theory of repression

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Blue Riders

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Characteristics:
- expressionist movement
- saturated colors
- paint free of restraints
- non-objective images
- focused on contrasts & combinations of non objective shapes with pure color
- free association is popular
- matter of rhythmic lines, colors, & shapes

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Cubism

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Characteristics:
- developed by Picasso & Braque
- forms are reduced to geometric shapes; allows viewers to see multiple views of the same object at the same time
- image is distorted but recognizable
- influenced by African art
- abandons perspective
- greatest challenge to the trad., classical ideal of beauty & harmony

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Dada

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Characteristics:
- nonsense term to describe meaningless, unpredictable, & spontaneous art
- intellectual rebellion against WW1
- rejection of formal traditions of culture & society
- anti-art movement
- art is stupid & absurd b/c it is created in a stupid & absurd world
- art of creating is more important than the work

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Surrealism

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Characteristics:
- literary movement
- influenced by Dada
- key motifs: automation & dream interpretation
- recreates a dream-like state of the subconsciuos mind
- aim was to help ppl discover the larger reality

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International Style

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Aim:
improve the aesthetic quality of manufactured goods & industrial architecture

Characteristics:
- impersonal
- rebelled against current styles
- monumental
- used neo classical
- distinctive facade

Principles:
- conception of architecture as volume rather than mass
- regularity rather than symmetry
- rejected applied design

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Abstract Expressionism

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Characteristics:
- spontaneuos execution
- large imagery
- canvases are rather large
- intense color
- sense of motion
- sense of turbulence
- formal elements
- belief in role of unconscious mind, accident & spontaneity

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Pop Art

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Characteristics:
- began in England
- dependent on Realistic image
- portrays: the mundane, the ordinary, & the boring
- depicts popular entertainers

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Op Art

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Characteristics:
- non objective
- concerned w/ viewer's perception of art
- complex images & patterns create visual illusionary effects

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Minimalism

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Characteristics:
- predominantly sculptures
- rejected illusionism
- reduced sculpture to basic geometric forms
- math is a basis for compositions
- repetition
- prefrabricated objects
- rejected Abstract Expressionism

Goals:
- distance art from trad. associations
- create art on an impersonal & anonymous nature

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PhotoRealism

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Characteristics:
- began in 1970s
- realistic, accurate representation
- very detailed not idealized
- lack of visible brush strokes
- linear prospective is important
- developed as a reaction against expressionist movements

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Environmental Art

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Characteristics:
- uses natural landscape as the raw material for the work
- places the work within the landscape

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PostModern Architecture

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Characteristics:
- began in 1970s
- rejects purity of intl style
- expansive & inclusive
- complex
- eclectic
- plural
- combines past & present
- argues against uniformity & anonymity of modern skyscrapers
- used applied decoration
- refers to mass culture & popular imagery