Fauves
French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early
twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly
qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic
values retained by Impressionism.
dada
was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in
negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry
and performance produced by dada artists is often
satirical and nonsensical in nature.
Die Brucke (The Bridge)
Die Br�cke (The Bridge) was a group of German expressionist artists
formed in Dresden in 1905, after which the Br�cke Museum in Berlin was
named. Founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Marcel Duchamp
was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player
and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada
Andre Breton
he was a French writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist. He is known
best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first
Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as
"pure psychic automatism
FSA
The Farm Security Administration
Primitivism
it is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from
non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion
of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics. Borrowings from
primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.
Surrealists
is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best
known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to
"resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".
Readymades
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects
that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he
called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object (or
objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the
Found object became art.
Cubism
it was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early
twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish,
1881�1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882�1963) in Paris between
1907 and 1914
Blue Rider
was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led
by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in
abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they felt, had spiritual
values that could counteract the corruption and materialism of their
age. The flattened perspective and reductive forms of woodcut helped
put the artists, especially Kandinsky, on the path toward abstraction
in their painting.The name Blaue Reiter (�blue rider�) refers to
a key motif in Kandinsky�s work: the horse and rider, which was for
him a symbol for moving beyond realistic representation. The horse was
also a prominent subject in Marc�s work, which centered on animals as
symbols of rebirth.
demoiselles
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by
the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work portrays five nude female
prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Aviny� in Barcelona.
Prairie style
Wright pioneered a bold new approach to domestic architecture, the
Prairie style. Inspired by the broad, flat landscape of America�s
Midwest, the Prairie style was the first uniquely American
architectural style of what has been called �the American Century.�
Analytic Cubism
it is one of the two major branches of the artistic movement of
Cubism and was developed between 1908 and 1912. Analytic cubists
"analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic
geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane
Autumn Salon
or Soci�t� du Salon d'automne, is an annual art exhibition held in
Paris, France since 1903.
Avignon
Avignon, a city in southeastern France�s Provence region
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and
originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting
created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881�1973).
Degenerate Art
(German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted by the Nazi regime in
Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on
the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature, and
those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions.
Modern Art
artists seeking to capture images and sensibilities of their age.
Includes a critical examination of art itself.
Feminist Art
movement sought to change the world presenting a message about
women's experience and the need for gender equality.
Postmodern Art
it is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects
of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its
aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installationart,
conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are
described as postmodern.
Earthworks
Land art, earthworks (coined by Robert Smithson), or Earth art is an
art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.
Pop Art
art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as
a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
Action Painting
it sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of
painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared
onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
benday dots
printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry
Day, Jr., (son of 19th Century publisher Benjamin Henry Day) is a
technique dating from 1879. Depending on the effect, color and optical
illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced
or overlapping.
New York School
was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and
musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. It
represented, and is often synonymous with, the art movement of
Abstract Expressionism, such as the work of Jackson Pollack and Willem
de Kooning .