3rd test terminology Flashcards
What is an approach to painting quickly to sketch light, air, and color outside. Used by impressionists.
plein-airisme
What is a successor to Dada, that incorporated the improvisational nature of its predecessor into exploration of the ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious. Biomorphic Surrealists such as Joan Miro, produced largely abstract compositions. Naturalistic Surrealists, notably Salvador Dali, presented recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image.
Surrealism
What is a term coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to refer to art, first appearing in the 1950s, that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, such as images from motion pictures and advertising.
Pop Art
What is an early 20th century art movement prompted by a 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.
Dada
What is French for Advance Guard, Late 19thand 20th century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work. also used as an adjective.
avant- garde
What is German the bridge. An early 20th century German expressionist art movement under the leadership of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The group thought itself the bridge between the old and the new.
Die Brucke
What is regionalism
Regionalism is a 20th century American art movement that portrayed American rural life, (especially subject matter from every day life that had been viewed previously as inappropriate for depiction). Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton as examples of artists.
What is De Stijl
De Stijl is the style. An early 20th century art movement, and magazine, founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, whose members promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style.
What is collage
A collage isCollage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.
What is formalism
Formalism is strict adherence to or dependence on stylized shapes and methods of composition. an emphasis on an artwork’s visual elements rather than its subject.
What is fauvism
Fauvism is an early 20th century art movement led by Henri Matisse. For the Fauves, color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning.
What is automatism
Automatism is in painting, the process of yielding oneself to instinctive motions of th hands after establishing a set of conditions (such as size of paper and medium) within which a work is to be created.
What is pointillism
Pointillism is a system of painting devised by the 19th century French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points). The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance. when the viewer’s eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism.
What are earthworks
Earthworks are Environmental art. An American art form that emerged in the 1960s. Often using the land itself as their material, Environmental artists construct monuments of great scale and minimal form. Permanent or impermanent, these works transform some section of the environment, calling attention to both to t land itself and to the hand of the artist.
What is futurism
Futurism is an early 20th century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.
What is biomorphism
Biomorphism is Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Taken to its extreme it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices.
What is primitivism
Primitivism is the incorporation of early 20th century Western art of stylistic elements froth artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of America.
What is synthetic cubism
Synthetic cubism is a later phase of cubism, in which paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject, in order to engage the viewer with pictorial issues, such as figuration, realism, and abstraction.
What is color field painting. Frankenthaler Tutti Frutti.
Color field painting is a variant of Post Painterly Abstraction in which artists sought to reduce painting to its physical essence by pouring diluted paint onto unprimed canvas and letting the pigments soak int the fabric, as exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis.
