Isms

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Fauvism

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Group named by Louis Vauxcelles

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Cubism

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Little cubes

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Constructivism

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Russia-social purposes

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Dada

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Hobbyhorse

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Bauhaus

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Building house

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Surrealism

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Super reality (connects dream world and reality)

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Social Realism/Regionalism

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American trend between world wars

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Harlem Renaissance

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Renaissance in Harlem (African American)

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Straight Photography

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Photography?

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Abstract Expressionism

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First major American movement

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Pop Art

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Expression of optimistic spirit in 60s

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Happenings

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Performance art

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Earth Art

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Environmental Art

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Installations

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Room sized exhibitions

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Realism

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Paint the world as it is

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Impressionism

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Effect that light has on color

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Post-Impressionist

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Impressionism with more grit, dislike trivial subject matter

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Symbolism

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Suggests ideas through symbols

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Art Nouveau

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Modernisme/Vienna Secession

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Exemplum virtutis

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A painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer

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Fête galante

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18th century style of painting that depicts aristocracy walking through a forest

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Academy

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Institution whose main objectives include training artists in an academic tradition

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Grand tour

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In order to complete their education, young English and American toured Italy

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Pastel

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A colored chalk

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Salon

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A government sponsored exhibitionof artworks

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Calotype

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Grainy quality photograph

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Camera Obscura

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A box with a lens that usually captures light and casts an image on the opposite side

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Caprice

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Usually a work of art that is an architectural fantasy

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Daguerreotype

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Shiny surface/Meticulous finish photograph

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Odalisque

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A woman slave in a harem

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Photogram

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An image made by placing objects on photosensitive paper and exposing them to light to produce a silhouette

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School

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A group of artists that share the same philosophy

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The sublime

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Any cathartic experience that causes the viewer to marvel in awe, wonder, and passion

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Abstract

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Works of art that may have form, bit have no little or no attempt at pictorial representation

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Action Painting

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An abstract painting in which the artist drips or splatters paint onto the surface

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Assemblage

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A 3 dimensional work made of various materials

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Biomorphism

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A movement stressing organic shapes that hint at natural forms

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Cantilever

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A projecting beam that is attached to a building at one end but suspended in the air at another

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Collage

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A composition made by pasting together different items on to a flat surface

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Color field painting

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A style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color

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Documentary Photography

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A type of photography that seeks social and political redress for current issues by using photos as a way to expose society's faults

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Earthwork

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A large outdoor work in which the earth itself was the medium

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Ferroconcrete

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Steel reinforced concrete

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Frottage

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A composition made by rubbing a crayon or a pencil over paper placed over a surface with a raised design

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Happening

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Performance art

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Ready made

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A commonplace object selected and exhibited as a work of art

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Silkscreen

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A printing technique that passes ink or paint through a stenciled image

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Venice Biennale

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A major show of contemporary art that takes place in Venice

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Aquatint

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A kind of print that achieves a watercolor effect by using acids that dissolve onto a copper plate

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Avant-garde

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An innovative group of artists who reject traditional techniques

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Caricature

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A drawing that uses distortion or exaggeration of someone's physical features

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Drypoint

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A printmaking technique in which the artist uses a needle to incise a metal plate

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Japonisme

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An attraction for Japanese art

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Lithography

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A printmaking technique that uses a flat stone surface as the base

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Modernism

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A movement that began in the 19th century in which artists embraced the current

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Plein-air

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Painting in the outdoors to directly capture the effects of light

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Positivism

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All knowledge must have proof

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Zoopraxiscope

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A device that projects sequences of photographs to give the illusion of movement

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Kitsch

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Something of low quality that appeals to popular taste