Midterm

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Abstract Expressionism

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which encompasses a wide variety of American 20th century art movements, depicting large abstract painted canvasses;

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Art Nouveau

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a decorative style that flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the US;

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Art Deco

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Emerging in France before the First World War, this art exploded in 1925 on the occasion of the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs (Exhibition of Decorative Arts)

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Avant-garde

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innovative or experimental concepts in the realms of culture, politics and art;

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Baroque

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an art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid- 18th century;

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Classism

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embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the different types of art from ancient Greece and Rome, concentrating on traditional forms with a focus on elegance and symmetry;

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Conceptual Art

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arose during 1960s, emphasizing ideas and theoretical practices rather than the creation of visual forms;

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Constructivism

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developed by the Russian avant-garde around 1915, a branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake” in favor of art as a practice directed towards social purposes;

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Cubism

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An artistic movement begun in 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who developed a visual language whose geometric planes challenged the conventions of representation in different types of art;

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Dada/Dadaism

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An artistic and literary movement in art formed during the First World War as a negative response to the traditional social values and conventional artistic practices of the different types of art at the time;

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Expressionism

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an international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality;

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Fauvism

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associated especially with Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose works are characterized by strong, vibrant color and bold brushstrokes over realistic or representational qualities;

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Futurism

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an Italian development in abstract art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, aiming to capture the dynamism, speed and energy of the modern mechanical world.

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Impressionism

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associated especially with French artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, who attempted to accurately and objectively record visual by using small, thin, visible brush strokes that coalesce to form a single scene and emphasize movement and the changing qualities of light;

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Installation Art

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movement in art, developed at the same time as pop art in the late 1950s, which is characterized by large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time;

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Land Art/Earth Art

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is a simple art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by works made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself

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Minimalism

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art movements from the 1960s, and typified by works composed of simple art, such as geometric shapes devoid of representational content;

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Neo-Impressionism

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an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886 to 1906, renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured and systematic painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics;

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Neo-classicism

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almost the opposite of pop art, drawing inspiration from the classical art and culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, which is not uncommon for art movements;

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Performance Art

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emerged in the 1960s to describe different types of art that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted;

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Pointilism

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a technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, it is characterized by works made of countless tiny dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image;

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Pop Art

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an art movement emerged in the 1950s, composed of British and American artists who draw inspiration from ‘popular’ imagery and products from popular and commercial culture, as opposed to ‘elitist’ fine art;

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Post-Impressionism

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a term coined in 1910 by the English art critic and painter Roger Fry to describe the reaction against the naturalistic depiction of light and color in different types of art movements like Impressionism;

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Realism

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a reaction to Romanticism. In contrast to the beautiful and deeply emotional content of Romantic paintings, Realist artists presented both the good and beautiful, the ugly and evil. The reality of the world is presented in an unembellished way by Realist painters.

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Rococo

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a movement in art, particularly in architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 1700s, Characteristically, it consists of elaborate ornamentation and a light, sensuous style, including scroll work, foliage, and animal forms;

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Surrealism

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founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924, its main goal of Surrealism painting and Surrealism artworks was to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism by championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary; and,

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Suprematism

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a relatively unknown member of the different types of abstract art movements, outside of the art world, a term coined by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in 1915 to describe an abstract style of painting that conforms to his belief that art expressed in the simplest geometric forms and dynamic compositions was superior to earlier forms of representational art.