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A constellation of social protest and art movements that originated in Zurich, Switzerland. Dada was formed as a protest against the First World War as well as the European culture that had fomented it.
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Dada
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The work of a group of poster artists during the early twentieth century noted for their simple, direct mode of expression, led by Lucian Bernhard in Germany.
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Sachplakat
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A modest nightclub in the back room of a restaurant in Zurich made famous by the Dada gatherings held there in 1916.
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Cabaret Voltaire
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An Italian art and political protest movement founded in 1909 by Filippo Marinetti. The Futurists hoped to revolutionize Italian society, returning it to its historical position as a dominant force in Europe.
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Futurism
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A movement in art, literature, and politics led by André Breton in the 1920s.
Arising out of the Dada movement and inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud, the Paris-based Surrealists exalted and explored the terrain of the unconscious mind. |
Surrealism
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A composite work made up of photographs that have been combined in any number of ways, including cut and paste as well as multiple exposure.
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Photomontage
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Term of ran avant-garde artist who utilized geometric abstraction, or an adjective describing their style; includes the artists of De Stijl and Russian Constructivism.
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Constructivist
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An art movement focusing on painting that originated in Paris between 1908 and 1911. Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were the key figures who developed a new type pf abstraction that would influence generations of future artists.
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Cubism
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A name coined by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire c. 1910 in response to the Cubist artwork of Robert and Sonia Delaunay.
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Orphism
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A British offshoot of the Futurist movement, founded by Wyndham Lewis in 1913.
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Vorticism
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An art movement founded in 1918 and led by Amedée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. They sought to create a new artistic style based upon Cubist principles combined with a classical aesthetic.
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Purism
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Most often used in reference to the art of the 1920s, the term refers to works that reproduce the sleek, shiny surfaces and geometric regularity of industrial machines.
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Machine Aesthetic
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A loosely defined philosophy popular with artists in the 1910s and 1920s that posits a transcendent world of universal harmony best represented in the arts through mathematically structured forms.
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Neoplatonism
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An English-language term established in 1968 by Bevis Hillier. It is derived from the name of the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes," held in Paris in 1925. Art Deco is a style characterized by geometric regularity, planar surfaces, rectilinear compositions, and an overall elegant Machine Aesthetic.
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Art Deco
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A characteristic element of the Art Deco style, streamlining refers to the shape of objects that have been modified to appear as if they could smoothly flow through space, like the bow of ship.
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Streamlining
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Literally "The Style," a Dutch art movement influenced by Neoplatonism, from the era after the First World War. De Stijl promoted a distinct type of reductive geometric abstract art.
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De Stijl
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Arising out of the work of the artist Vladimir Tatlin, the artists of this movement in the 1920s developed and abstract, geometric style that was designed to serve the needs of the new Soviet state.
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Russian Constructivism
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Literally "new imagery," this term was used by the members of De Stijl to indicate their plan for revolutionary change in the visual arts.
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Nieuwe beelding
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A term used by Piet Mondrian to denote his universal aesthetic, and especially his rejection of contemporary Expressionism.
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Neo-Plasticism
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A non-objective artwork bears no direct relationship to the natural world; it is totally abstract.
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Non-objective
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A unit of measurement in typography that corresponds to the size of the implied frame round a letter.
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Em box
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A term originally expressed in German —Die neue Typographie— that was coined by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 and soon made popular by Jan Tschichold. It denotes the progressive changes in typography that occurred during this era; the stylistic attributes of the New Typography include orthogonal compositions, bold rules, dynamic asymmetry, and sans serif lettering.
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New Typography
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The term used by Kasimir Malevich to indicate the spiritual, Neoplatonist underpinnings of his abstract painting of the 1910s.
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Suprematism
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A gathering of Constructivist artists held in Weimar, Germany, in 1922 at the behest of Theo van Doesburg. It was partially disrupted by the arrival of a number of Dadaists.
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Constructivist Congress
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The "House of Building," a state-sponsored school of the arts founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis in 1933.
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Bauhaus
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Literally a member of the "majority," the Marxist-inspired Bolshevik party led by Vladimir Lenin that seized control of Russia in 1917. It later formed the Communist Party that controlled the USSR for most of the twentieth century.
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Bolshevik
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Sort for "agitation propaganda," this term originated with the Russian communist campaign to spread their ideology.
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Agitprop
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A Russian folk art print often featuring religious stories.
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Lubok (lubki)
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A French-influenced art movement in Russian during the 1910s led by two Moscow artists, Natalya Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov.
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Rayonism
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Distinct from, although strongly influenced by, Russian Constructivism, this term refer to the very broad group of designers and artists interested in geometric abstract art in Europe during the 1920s and after.
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International Constructivism
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Conventionally styled, heavily didactic artworks favored by the Russian communist leader Josef Stalin, who rejected the abstract strategies favored by the Russian Constructivists.
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Socialist Realism
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