The 20Th Century

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Salon d' Automne

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An independent exhibition of ecperimental art held in the autumn of 1905; named the "salon of autumn" to distiguish it from the Academic salons that were usually held in the spring

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Fauvism

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An early 20th century style of art characterized by the juxtaposition of areas of bright colors that are often unrelated to the objects they represent, and be distorted linear perspective

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Expressionism

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A modern school of art in which an emotional impact is achieved through agitated brushwork, intense coloration, and violent, hallucinatory imagery

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Die Brucke

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(The Bridge) A short lived German Expressionist movement characterized by boldly colored landscaped and city scapes and by violent portraits

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Der Blaue Reiter

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(The blue rider) A 20th century German Expressionist movement that focused on the contrasts between, and combination of, abstract form and pure color

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The New Objectivity

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(Neue Sachlichkeit) A post world war I German art movement that rebelled against German Expressionism and focused on the detailed representation of objects and figures

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Analytic Cubism

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The early phase of Cubism during which objects were disected or analyzed in a visual information-gathering process and then reconstructed on the canvas

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trompe l'oeil

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A painting or other art form that creates such a realistic image that the viewer may wonder whether it is real or an illusion

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collage

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An assemblage of 2 dimensional objects to create an image; works of art in which materials such as paper, cloth, and wood are pasted to a two-dimensional surface, such as a wooden panel or canvas

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futurism

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An early 20th century style that portrayed modern machines and the dynamic character of modern life and science

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dynamism

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The futuristic view that force or energy is the basic principle that underlies all events, including everything we see. Objects are depicted as if in constant motion, appearing and disappearing before our eyes

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futurist

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An ealy 20th century style that portrayed modern machines and the dynamic character of modern life and science

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Op art

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A style of art dating from the 60s that creates the illusion of vibrations through afterimages, disorienting perspecitve and the jextaposition of contrasting colors. Also called optical art or optical painting

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afterimage

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The lingering impression from a stimulus that has been removed. The afterimage of a color is its complement

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stroboscopic motion

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The creation of the illusion of movement by the presentation of a rapid progression of stationary images, such as the frames of a motion picture

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Surrealism

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A 20th century art style whose imagery is believed to stem from unconscious, irrational sources and that therefore takes on fantastic forms. Although the imagery is fantastic, it is often rendered with extraordinary realism

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De stijl

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An early 20th century movement that emphasized the use of basic forms, particularly cubes, horizontals, and verticles

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Deconstructivist architects

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A Postmodern approach to the design of buildings that disassembles and reassembles the basic elements of architecture. The focus is on the creation of forms that may appear abstract, disharmonious, and disconnected from the functions of the building. Deconstructivism challenges the view that there is one correct way to approach architecture

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Fantastic art

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The representation of fanciful images, sometimes joyful and whimsical, sometimes horrific and grotesque

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Dada

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A post world war I movement that sought to use art to destroy art, thereby underscoring the paradoxes and absurdities of modern life

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automatic writing

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Writing based on the psychoanalytic concept of free association, as practiced by Dadaists and surrealists

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illusionistic surrealism

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A form of surrealism that renders the irrational content, absurd jextapositions, and changing forms of dreams in a highly illusionistic manner that blurs the distinctions between the real and the imaginary

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automatic surrealism

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An outgrowth of automatic writing in which the artist attempts to derive the outlines of images from the unconsious mind through free association

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Prairie style

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A style of architecture innovated by Frank Lloyd Wright early in the 20th century and characterized by houses with low, horizontal lines that blended with their flat prarie sites, a central chimney, an open plan that allowed living spaces to flow together, and use of windows, doors, and decking to encourage the integration of interior space with surrounding terrain

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naturalistic style

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A style prevalent in Europe during the second half of the 19th century that depicted the details of ordinary life