Ap Art History Ch 20

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The New York School

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an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements

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Abstract expressionism:

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first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris

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Action Painting/Gesturalism:

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a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied
Pollock, Krasner, de Kooning, Kline, Gorky

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“color field” painters:

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characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color, spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. With less emphasis placed on gesture, brushstrokes and action and more emphasis placed on overall consistency of form and process
Rothko, Albers, Frankenthaler

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Assemblage, Combines:

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artwork created by gathering and manipulating two and/or three dimensional found objects
Nevelson, Rauschenberg

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Pop Art:

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an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art; The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it

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Appropriation:

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term used to describe an artist’s practice of borrowing from another source for a new work of art.
Johns, Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Oldenberg

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Op Art:

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also known as optical art, is a genre of visual art that makes use of optical illusions
Riley, Vasarely

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Minimalism:

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where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Judd, Hesse, Newman

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Earthworks (Site Specific Art):

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artwork and/or sculpture, usually on a large scale, created by manipulating the natural environment
Smithson, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Holt

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Happenings

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an art form developed n the 1960s incorporating performance, theater, and visual images. A happening was organized without a specific narrative or intent; with audience participation, the even proceeded according to chance and individual improvisation

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Performance art:

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based on a live sometimes theatrical performance by the artist

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Installation:

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the use of sculptural materials and other interesting material to transform a space or, arguably, an area

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Electronic Art:

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a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media
Tinguely, Nauman, Holzer, Paik

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Feminist Art:

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movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art.
Guerilla Girls, Chicago, Saar, Ringgold, Sherman

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The Mainstream:

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generally, the common current of thought of the majority applied in the arts

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Modernism

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a term that refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s through the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era

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Post-modernism:

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literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives

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Pluralism

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social structure or goal that allows members of diverse ethnic, racial, or other groups to exist within the society while continuing to practice the customs of their own divergent cultures

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Conceptual art:

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art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns
Kosuth

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Neo-Expressionism:

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a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting, it developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1970s
Kiefer, Bacon