Art History

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believed in socialist society and wrote a book Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx

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art thats aware if its relationship to past art
*examines the idea of art itself

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modern art

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bright color palet, foucus on the moment

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impressionism

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subject matter of everyday life

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realism

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sactions by the academics,religion,history and mythological based arts

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academic art

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objects actual apperance in white light

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local color

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dry sticks of powder pigments

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pastel

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theory of evolution
*survival of the fittest

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charles darwin

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focused more on line, pattern, and form

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post-impressionism

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"in plain air"
where Monet plained his multiple haystacks

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en plein air

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observes color breaks into parts and applies it to tiny dots

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pointalism

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artists inner or personal vison-emotional dimension

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expressionism

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breaking an object apart and putting the peices back together

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cubism

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weathly enjoying the good life

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fin de siede

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developed psycoanalysis
-thought our inner drives controls our behavior

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sigmund freud

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understand behavior and personality by identifing patterns in their dreams

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carl jung

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objects from different materials and combinding them together on a flat surface

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collage

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artist who empathized innovention and challenged convention in the work

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avangard

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emerged in reaction to WWI homocide
-more of an attitude/mindset

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Dada

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made environments to show the beauty and precision of machine forms.
Ex:New York Night by Georgia O'Keefee

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precisionism

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clear honost images
-the horror of war and its effects

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new objectivity

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leading surrealist
-motivation: bring the aspects of outer and inner reality together

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Andre Breton

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thought comes out without control of mind

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automatism

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midwest depicted royal american life in a clearly readable realistic style.
ex: American Gothic by Grant Wood

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Regionalism

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subconcious as source of creativity-fantasy

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surrealism

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known as the center of art world/New York School
-express state of mind,shows gesture and motion in work

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Abstract Expressionism

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belived painting is only about paint and no figures/subjects
-influenced modern art/wanted pure art(2d and paint)

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Clement Greenburg

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The Ny school action painter
-wrote the article "The American Action Painters"
(believes in gesture and process of painting)

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Harold Rosenburg

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reduction of form often into a single unit.

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minimalism

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time,movement,sound and gesture to communicate with an audience

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Performance Art

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influenced performance art by combinding art and life

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John Cage

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in the artists idea rather then the final object(based on concept rather then the object)Ex:Joseph Kosuth "one and three chairs"

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conceptual art

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"popular art"
uses signs, symbols,metaphors-understandable to the average person

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pop art

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focus on identity
reacts against formalism/more elements mixed together

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postmodernism

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used land as material
very minimal

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Earth Art

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analyzing cultural constructs as texts and acknowledging a lack of fixed meaning of these texts

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deconstruction

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introduces feminist ideas into performance art.
Ex: Meat Joy

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Carolee Schneeman

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group of woman
-use performance by creating deminstations, use mass media to get ideas across

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guerrilla girls

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create an artistic environment in a gallery or a room

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installation