Art History Vocab

• -The first major American avant-garde movement
• -emerged in NYC 1940s
• -Artists produced abstract paintings that expressed thier state of mind and they hoped would strike emotional chords in viewers.
• -movement developed along two lines: Gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction.

a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning throughconcrete or material forms; figurative treatment of onesubject under the guise of another.

lack or absence of symmetry in spatial arrangements or inmathematical or logical relations

Assignment of a work to a maker or makers

In painting, the process of yeilding oneself to instinctive motions of hands after establishing a set of conditions(such as size of paper or medium) within which a work is to be created.

An early 20th century art movement prompted by revulsion against the horror of WWI. Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive. A disdain for convention, often enlivened by humor or whimsy, is characteristic of the art the Dadaists produced.

A photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal; developed by Louis J.M. Daguerre

The western philosophy based on empirical evidence that dominated the 18th century. The enlightenment was a new way of thinking critically about the world and about human kind, independently of religion, myth, or tradition

Latin for example or model of virtue.

French, amorous festival. A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of french upper-class society.