Art Terms And Movements

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Abstract Expressionism

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20th century American movement based on nonfigurative, dramatic expressiveness (Pollock, Rothko)

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Art Nouveau

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Early 20th century art movement that emphasized nature in art and often has floral motifs

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Baroque

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Heavily stylized movement in Europe in the late 16th to late 18th century. lavish ornamentation

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Bauhaus

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Architecture and design school in the early 20th century that emphasized many geometrical motifs. (Klee, Kandinsky)

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Cubism

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early 20th century artistic movement predicated on the fragmentation of reality and a direct reaction to Impressionism. (Picasso)

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Dada

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Absurdist movement of the early 20th century (Duchamp)

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Futurism

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Early 20th century Italian art movement. machine as art

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Impressionism

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Late 19th century French school of art that emphasized the artis's visual impressions over realism (Monet, Renoir)

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Neoclassicism

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Late 18th century art movement that rejected ornate rococo style and returned to a Greek and Roman model

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Realism

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19th century art movement in wish reality of vision is emphasized over idealization or romanticization

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Rococo

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18th century art movement that was typified by elegance and vagueness.

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Surrealism

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Movement begun in the 1920s which sought to show the world through fantastic landscaps and dream imagery (Magritte, Dali)