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- 4. Aimed to capture the dynamism and energy of the modern world glorified speed technology war, and violence
- 8. An art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war that's often satirical and nonsensical in nature
- 9. Art Movement in the 50s-60s influenced by popular culture and consumerism
- 10. Reaction against modernism- its ‘unruly child’. Distrust of purity and originality, integrates art and life blurring the lines of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ art
- 12. French for “wild beasts” characterized by its vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic arbitrary use of form and color.
- 13. A style in which forms are broken down into parts or “cubes”
- 14. Dutch for “The style,” this movement was led by Piet Mondrian. It promoted a style based on strict geometry and universal beauty.
- 17. A “found,” ordinary manufactured object from popular or material culture transformed into an artwork simply through the selection of the artist.
- 18. From the original French term Cadavre exquis, a surrealist method by which a collection of images is assembled
- 19. MASK FROM THE SHERBRO DISTRICT
- 21. Also called “Process Art” or “Eccentric Abstraction” A reaction to minimalism and it’s insistence on closed, rigid, geometric forms by using soft, organic materials and focusing on the creation process.
- 22. Emphasized the artist's inner feelings or ideas over replicating reality
- 23. An art movement from the 60s-70s using very large-scale, outdoor artwork that is produce by altering the natural environment.
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- 1. Mid-20th-Century American formalist art critic
- 2. An American Realist Art Movement that depicted realistic scenes of rural and small-town America.
- 3. Dots that make up lettering and images in printing and typesetting,
- 5. Postmodern art that emerged in the late 1970s US characterized by intense subjectivity, rough handling of materials, and recognizable subject matter.
- 6. Art movement from 1940s-50s “The New York School” Characterized by large-scale, abstract paintings with spontaneous brush strokes. (Action and Color-Field Painters)
- 7. Mid-20th-Century art critic who supported Action Painting
- 11. 1960s Art of Extreme formal reduction using industrial materials with an emphasis on geometric structures.
- 15. A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the unconscious mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.
- 16. The borrowing of subjects or forms usually from non-European or prehistoric sources by Western artists
- 20. Refers to the practice of artists borrowing pre-existing objects or images and recontextualizing them in their own art to create new meaning.