Art Movements

1. a circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry.
4. translates to “wild beasts.” Known for strong colors and fierce brushwork.
7. painting in the 1960s that used geometric forms to create optical effects.
8. Light, sensuous, intensely decorative French style developed in the early 18th century.
10. Early 20th century movement that aimed to capture dynamism and energy of the modern world.
12. French word meaning rebirth, great revival of art that took place in Italy.
14. used to describe art that makes reference to ancient Greek or Roman style.
16. Global movement from the early 20th century reacting to modern industrial life.
17. Art that distorts reality in order to make it expressive of the artist’s inner feelings or ideas.
20. changes in Impressionism developed by Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh.
21. movement in art & literature distinguished by a new interest in psychology, expression, and interest in the natural world.
23. anti-war, anti-bourgeois, anti-traditional art.
24. Refers to painting that carries a clearly discernible social or political comment.

2. developed in France in the 19t century and based on the practice of painting outdoors.
3. Explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic, and revolutionary.
5. Revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by Walter Gropius in 1919.
6. painting style characterized by painstaking detail and precision.
9. 16th style characterized by sensuous distortion of the human figure.
11. refers to a mid 19thcentury movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life.
13. school of North American artists who used realist techniques to depict social deprivation and injustice.
14. artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space.
15. dominant 17th century style characterized by self-confidence, dynamism and realistic depiction.
18. movement that drew inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.
19. Extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s.Luminism, applied specifically to the American landscape painters of the Hudson River School.
22. Resurgence of classicism that emerged from about 1750.