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13 Cards in this Set
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Define Dadaism.
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a European artistic and literary movement of the early 20th century whose work was characterized by anarchy, irrationality, and placing more value in intuitive knowledge
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Define readymade.
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-objects that are purchased and then installed as art with little to no changes to the original object
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Define surrealism.
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-an early 20th-century movement in art and literature that tried to represent the subconscious mind by creating fantastic imagery and juxtaposing ideas that seem to contradict each other
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Define surreality.
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-absolute reality
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Define automatism.
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-process of drawing without thinking and then analyzing the results
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Define critical paranoia method.
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-Dali's method in which you're seeing something in reality and then you force yourself to see something else
-self-induced psychosis in a very objective and critical way |
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Define Bolshevik.
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-means majority or more
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Russian Revolution.
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Russian revolution led by Lenin in which they wanted to create a new society were everyone was equal (1917)
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Define constructivism.
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an early-20th century Russian art movement formulated by Gabo who built up his sculptures piece by piece in space instead of carving or modeling them
-the sculptor worked with volume of mass and volume of space as different materials |
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Define agitprop.
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-condensed form of agitational forms of propaganda that were used to educate people about the revolution
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Define De Stijl.
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-"the style"
-an early 20th century art movement (and magazine), founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, whose members promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style |
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Define Bauhaus.
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-a school that aimed at training artists, architects, and designers to anticipate and create according to 20th century needs
-it was also a combining of two schools: one fine arts and one craftsman school |
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Define typography.
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-the design of lettering (the look and placement of the letter)
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