Chapter 13 - The Influence Of Modern Art

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Pablo Picasso

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Spanish painter (1881-1973), genius of 20th Century art; developed many personal styles of expression, including Cubism.

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Art style pioneered by Picasso, presenting space and form as though seen through a prism; multiple views of a single object are presented simultaneously.

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Cubism

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The name given to Picasso and associate George Braque’s work during the time period 1910-1912. Images depicted space seen from several points simultaneously, resulting in paintings composed of rhythmic geometric planes.

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Analytical cubism

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Cubist works that built upon initial cubist observations, but also added symbolic elements and collage for representations of the subject matter.

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Synthetic cubism

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20th century style of modern art that focused on presenting the speed, motion, and movement of modern urban life.

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Futurism

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A public declaration of one’s ideas and artistic intent.

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Manifesto

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Work of art in the form of a book, often created as a one-of-kind piece. Often uses or distorts the codex format in an unusual and unique manner.

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Artist’s books

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Early 20th century movement that claimed to be anti-art and had a strong negative and destructive element; focused on randomness and accidental effects.

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Dada

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The most prominent visual artist of the dada movement; exhibited a urinal as art, presented oddly juxtaposed objects as “ready-made” works of art.

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Marcel Duchamp

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The technique of manipulating found photographic images to create jarring juxtapositions and chance associations.

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Photomontage

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Art movement that began in the early 1920s; imagery focused on dreamlike subjects and the unconscious mind.

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Surrealism

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20th century art movement; artists depicted not objective reality but subjective motions and personal responses to subjects and events.

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Expressionism

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Russian painter, founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, who became the leading advocate of art that could reveal the spiritual nature of people through orchestration of color, line and form in purely abstract means.

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Wassily Kandinsky

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An American photographer from Philadelphia who experimented with photographic abstractions, pioneered solarization and photograms (which he called Rayographs).

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Man Ray