Travis And Chels Super Awesome Note Cards Of Awesome Deck 4

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Art Deco

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Defended from Art Nouveau, this movement of the 1920s and 1930s sought to upgrade industrial design as a "fine art" and to work new materials into decorative patterns that could be either machined or handcrafted. Characterized by streamlined, elongated, and symmetrical design.

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Art Nouveau

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French "new art". A late-19th and early 20th century art movement whose proponents tried to synthesize all the arts in an effort to create articles based on natural forms that could be massed produced by technologies of the industrial age.

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Avant-garde

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French "advance gaurd" (in a platoon) late 19th and early 20th century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work. Also used as an adjective.

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Bauhaus

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A school of architecture in Germany in the 1920s under the aegis of Walter Gropius, who emphasized the unity of art, architecture, and design.

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Calotype

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From the Greek kalos, "Beautiful". A photographic process in which a positive image is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of sensitized paper

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Cubism

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A early 20th century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world.

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Dada

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A early 20th century art movement prompted by a revulsion against the horror of World War 1. Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive. A disdain for convention, often enlivened by humor or whimsy, is a characteristic of the art of the Dadaists produced.

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daguerreotype

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A photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal; developed by Louis J. M. Daguerro.

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De stijl

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Dutch "The style" An Early 20th century art movement founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesburg, whose members promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric system.

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Expressionism

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20th century art that is the result of the artist's unique inner of personal vision and that often has an emotional dimension. Expressionism contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world.

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Fauvism

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An early 20th century art movement led by Henri Matisse. For the fauves, color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning.

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fete galante

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French, "amorous festival" A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper class society

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fin-de-siecle

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French "End of the century" A period in Western Cultural history from the end of the 19th century until just before World War 1 when decadence and indulgence masked anxiety about an uncertain future.

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Futurism

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A early 20th century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.

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Gopuras

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The massive, ornamented entrance gateway towers of southern Indian temple compounds.

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Impressionism

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A late 19th century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions

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International Style

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A style of 14th and 15th century painting begun by Simone Martini, who adapted the French gothic manner to Sienese art fused with influences from northern Europe. This style appealed to the aristocracy because of its brilliant color, lavish costumes, intricate ornamentation, and themes involving splendid processions of knights and ladies. Also, a style of 20th century architecture associated with Le Corbusier, whose elegance in design came to influence the look of modern office buildings and skyscrapers.

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Lithography

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A printmaking technique in which the artist uses an oil based crayon to draw directly on a stone plate and then wipes water onto the stone. When ink is rolled onto the plate, it adheres only to the drawing. The paint produced by this method is a lithograph.

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Manet

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Édouard Manet was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism

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Mbulu ngulu

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The wood and metal reliquary guardian figures of the Kota of Gabon

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mobile

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A kind of sculpture, invented by Alexander Calder, combining nonobjective organic forms and motion in balanced structures hanging from rods, wires, and colored, organically shaped plates.

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Modernism

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A movement in Western art that developed in the second half of the 19th century and sought to capture the images and sensibilities of the age. Modernist art goes beyond simply dealing with the present and involves the artist's critical examination of the premises of art itself.

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Mondrian

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Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian, was a Dutch painter. Mondrian was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. (he's from Holland is that weird?)

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Monet

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Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting

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Neoclassicism

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A style of art and architecture that emerged in the late 18th century as part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures. Neoclassical artists adopted themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.

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odalisque

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A woman in a Turkish Harem

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Plein air

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An approach to painting popular among the impressionists, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. The artist then takes the sketches to the studio for reworking into more finished works of art.

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pointillism

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A system of painting devised by the 19th century French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points). The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewer's eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism.

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Poussiniste

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A member of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture during the early 18th century who followed Nicolas Poussin in insisting that form was the most important element of painting.

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Post- impressionism

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The term used to describe the stylistically heterogeneous work of the group of late 19th century painters in France, including Van gogh, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, patter, form, and color then the impressionists did.

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Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood

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a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Seven members. intention was to reform art by rejecting what it considered the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. Its members believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite"

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Realism

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A movement that emerged int eh mid 19th century France. Realist artists represented the subject matter of everyday life (especially subjects that previously had been considered inappropriate for depiction) in a relatively naturalistic mode.

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Regionalism

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A 20th century American art movement that portrayed American rural life in a clearly readable, Realist style. Major Regionalists include Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton

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Rococo

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A style primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors featured lavish decoration, including small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel paintings, tapistries, reliefs, wall paintings, and elegant furnature. The term Rococo derived from the French word rocaille (pebble) and referred to the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors

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Romanticism

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A Western cultural phenomenon, beginning around 1750 and ending about 1850, that gave precedence to felling and imagination over reason and thought. More narrowly, the art movement that flourished from about 1800 to 1840

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Rubeniste

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A member of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture during the early 18th century who followed Peter Paul Reubens in insisting that color was the most important element of painting

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Suprematism

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A type of art formulated by Kazimir Malevich to convey his belief that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling, which attaches to no object and thus calls for new, nonobjective forms in art-shapes not related to objects in the visible world

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Surrealism

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A succesor to Dada, Surrealism incorporated the improvisational nature of its predecessor into its exploration of the ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious. Biomorphic Surrealists, such as Joan Miro, produced largely abstract compositions. Naturalistic Surrealists, such as Salvador Dali, presented recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image.

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Symbolism

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A late 19th century movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact.

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Ukiyo-e

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Japanese "pictures of the floating world" During the Edo period, woodcut prints depicting brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women.