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Abstract Expressionism
- mid 1900s
- opposed formalism
- Arshile Gorky (founder)
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Cubism
- early 1900s
- large monochromatic planes
- Pablo Picasso and George Braque
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Early Renaissance art
- 1400-1480 Italy
- approximate reality in form, space, color
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Earth Art
- 1960s
- art in nature
- Robert Smithson
- Spiral Jetty in Utah
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Expressionism
- 1900s
- shocking/daring themes...sharp contrast of colors/shapes, bold brushwork, arbitrary color, harshly unreal drawing
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Futurism
- 1900s
- Motion to Cubism
- Umberto Boccioni
- Orpheus
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Gothic Style
- 1590-1750
- northern France, western Europe later
- Gothic cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris
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High Renaissance
- 1500-1580
- Central Italy
- spatial depth and harmony, natural proportions, graceful poses
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Impressionism
- 1860-1875
- photography false to the psych, fascination with trasnformations wrought by light on natural objects, surfaces, atmospheric spaces
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Mannerism
nervous, spaceless, crowded with twisting, turbulent figures, unnaturally lengthened
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Minimal Art
- 1960s
- Simple objects without meaning
- Donald Judd:Untitled, seven galvanized quadrangular cubes of iron
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Neo-classicism
- 1775-1825
- Baroque in abhorrence
- a return to discipline in form drawing and composition
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Paleolithic art
- Old Stone Age 30,000-10,000BCE
- Cave art
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Performance Art
- theatrics with art
- first performer Allan Kaprow:18 Happenings in 6 Parts
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Photo-Realism
- 1980s
- Pic painted via airbrush from a photo slid projected on canvas with a banal subject.
- Richard Estes-Hotel Empire-oil on canvas
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Pop Art
- 1960s
- wit, anti-aestheticism, positive nihilism
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Op Art
(Optical Art)
- 1960
- optical illusion of depth, mass, motion
- Richard Anuszkiewicz-Trinity
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Post-Impressionism
- 1880-1890
- bright palette with unique personal stye of each painter
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Process Art
- 1960
- any shapeless and impermanent material
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Realism
- 1825-1870
- lowered tone of color/action/emotion; prioritized vision
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Rococo
soft, vague, voluptuous
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Romanticism
- 1780-1825
- sublime, picturesque
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Surrealism
- 1930
- illogic Freudian principles
- "actual" processes of thought
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