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Avant-Garde
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"Before the rest"
The role of heroic exploration. |
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Daguerreotype
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A chemically derived silver-plate invented in 1837 by Louis Daguerre that produced a clearer photographic image in far less exposure time.
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Expressionism
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A term historically applied to art that is involved not so much with a faithful, seemingly objective description of nature (implicit within the terms, impressionism and realism). Typical devices are aggressive paint handling and the use of bright unnatural color.
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Fauvism
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An art movement of the first decade of the twentieth century, in which artists made bold use of color to express the inner qualities rather than the superficial appearance of objects.
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Impressionism
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An art movement that took its name from one particular painting by Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise of 1872. Impressionism did two distant things to paintings: it elevated color to the status of subject matter, liberating the artists.
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Lithography
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Meaning stone writing it is a printing process in which resists are applied to a stone slab.
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Pedestal
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A scriptural device used to separate an object form the space and scale of the viewer.It elevates and sanctifies the object as "other","different" and usually "heroic" .
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Photography
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From the Greek meaning to write or describe with light, the term was first applied to a technical process in 1826 when nicephore niepce first placed light sensitive silver slats onto a surface.
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Positive negative space
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An element of design in which positive refers to the shapes of forms representing the subject matter and negative to the open spaces surrounding the subject.
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Post impressionism
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An art movement of the mid 19th century and early 20th century in which artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin rejected the naturalism of the impressionist.
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Symbolist
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A literary and artistic movement, 1885-1910 characterized by a reaction against realism and the use of evocative but often private symbols.
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Group of seven
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A loose affiliation of Canadian painters between 1913 and the mid 1920's whose work centered around the northern landscape as the source for a national are movement.
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Santos
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Spanish meaning of saints. The terms refers to the devotional images produced for households in the converted the regions Mexico and New Mexico.
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Transcendentalists
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A group of American landscaper painters who considered the painting of nature as a mediation on the absolute.
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Abstract Expressionism
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a common appellation for first generation American abstract painting after the second war, due to the primacy of gesture and color while keeping consistent with the aims of formalism.
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Bauhaus
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derived from the German building house it was a school or art and design developed under the guidance and aesthetic philosophy of the architect design Walter Gropius.
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Collage
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Meaning gluing it is a method of replying extraneous material to an art work.
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Cubism
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The first art movement of the 20th century systematically to reconsider the conventions of paintings since the Renaissance.
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Dada
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A radical art movement initiated in Zurich during the first world war as an affront to what it saw as the hypocrisy of conventional culture.
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De Stijl
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A utopian collective founded in the Netherlands after world was I which prized the ethical potential pf modernists of design and architecture.
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Futurism
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A modernists anarchists associations of predominantly Italian artists, who championed change and automation as liberating characteristics of a new age period.
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International style
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A form of later modern architecture based on modular design, and emphasis on steel glass, and little or no embellishment. Best epitomized in the corporate skyscraper.
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Minimalism
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A painting and sculpture movement of the 1960's based on the primacy of the art object and its purist formal conditions.
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Supremarism
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A one-man school founded by Russian Kazimir Malevich , it prized artistic autonomy and geometric purity as gateways to the metaphysical experience.
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Surrealism
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A literary and visual art movement interested in unleashing and exploring the potential of the human psyche. loosely based on both Frueds and Jungs investigations into the mind.
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