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Baroque Art:

The art style or art movement of the Counter-Reformation in the
seventeenth century. Although some features appear in Dutch
art, the Baroque style was limited mainly to Catholic countries. It
is a style in which painters, sculptors, and architects sought

Rococo

An eighteenth century art style which placed emphasis on portraying the
carefree life of the aristocracy rather than on grand heroes or pious martyrs.
Love and romance were considered to be better subjects for art than historical
or religious subjects. Th

Dadaism:

A meaningless term for an international art
movement that began during WWI. Dada manifestos
called for the destruction of all values�the end of art,
morality, and society. This "anti-art," which took the form
of bizarre performances and exhibition of foun

Surrealism

A twentieth century avant-garde art movement that originated in the nihilistic
ideas of the Dadaist and French literary figures, especially those of its founder,
French writer Andr� Breton (1896-1966). At first a Dadaist, he wrote three
manifestos about S

Word Work

Text based artwork where the font choices, imagery, colors, materials and
placement convey a message beyond the text, beyond mere communication.
The letterforms are often deconstructed as shapes. Minimal concrete poetry
presented as paintings and sculptur

Pop Art

An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s
and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists have
focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as
billboards, comic strips, magazine advert

Post Impressionism

In early Modernism, a French art movement that immediately followed
Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. The artists involved, usually meaning
Paul C�zanne (French, 1839-1906), Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), Paul
Gauguin (French, 1848-1903), and Hen

Earth Work

( "land art") refers to a movement of artists with wide
ranging goals, but all created in nature, employing such materials as stones,
dirt, and leaves. "Earthworks" is the same movement. Most works are
sculptural. Earthworks often refer to phenomena such

Neo Classic

A French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque
in the mid-eighteenth century, and continued into the middle of the
nineteenth century. It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman
art. Neoclassic artists used cla

Abstract Expressionism

A painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to
their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally,
non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping

Futurism (Italian: Futurismo)

was an artistic and social
movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th
century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated
with contemporary concepts of the future, including
speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such
as the car, t

Analytic Cubism

The first phase of Cubism, from about 1907 to 1912.
Analytic cubists reduced natural forms to their basic
geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these
essentially three-dimensional parts with the twodimensional
picture plane. Color was greatly subdue

Minimalism

is a term referring to styles of visual art and music
displaying pared-down design elements.
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 1960s and e

OP ART

A twentieth century art movement and style in which
artists sought to create an impression of movement
on the picture surface by means of optical illusion. It
is derived from, and is also known as Optical Art and
Perceptual Abstraction. In the 1960s art w

Color Field painting

is a style of abstract painting that emerged in
New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by
European modernism and closely related to Abstract
Expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were
among the pioneering Abstract Ex

Synthetic Cubism

grew out of Analytic Cubism. It was developed by Pablo
Picasso and Georges Braque and then copied by the Salon Cubists. Picasso and
Braque discovered that through the repetition of "analytic" signs their work
became more generalized, more geometrically si

Fauvism

An early twentieth century art movement and
style of painting in France. The name Fauves,
French for "Wild Beasts," was given to artists
adhering to this style because it was felt that
they used intense colors in a violent,
uncontrolled way. The leader of

Social Realism

The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late
nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of
contemporary life. Realism emerged in the aftermath of the Revolution of
1848 that overturned the mona

Regionalism

Also known as American scene painting,
a style of art that was popular in the
United States during the 1930s. The
artists who worked in this style wanted
to paint the American scene � away
from the New York area � in a clear,
simple way that could be unde

Impressionism

A style of painting that originated in France about 1860.
Paintings of casual contemporary subjects were executed
outdoors using divided brushstrokes to capture the light and
mood of a particular moment and the transitory effects of light
and color.
An ar

Straight Photography / F-64 Group/ Photo Journalism- Photo Essay

Pure photography or straight photography refers to photography that
attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the
medium, renouncing the use of manipulation. The West Coast Photographic
Movement is best known for the use