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Magic Realism Define Dates Artists |
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(1875 - 1900) American term - A form of painting meant to create the illusion of absolute reality. It is a very popular form of painting because if it's "fool the eye" quality. Painting from actual objects. This form of painting had a successful run in America in the last quart of the 19th century. John Haberle - Compositions Triangular John Peto William Harnett |
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Primitive, Naive, Folk or Outsider Art Define Artists |
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No Time - No Place Art by amateurs. Timeless and ubiquitous (everywhere). Examples would be African carvings, Inuit totem poles, weather vanes. Content varies always stylized. First known mark of human Kind Grandma Moses, Henri Rousseau, Edward Hicks |
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Means of documenting what people looked and look like. Prior to 1860's it was the only means to identify. Photography then became the primary method. Portraits are now a luxury. Thomas Aiken was one of the best portrait artists. |
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Social Realism Define Artists |
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No Time line - Man's inhumanity to man - Art that protests situations and events that some see as controversial. It is generally political in nature. and is ongoing somewhere or another Because of its polemical (passionate argument) nature, work generally has a short shelf-life. Picasso - "Guernica" Peter Saul - particularly intense political critique - Bright pop art Jack Levine - political in nature |
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Regionalism Define Date Artists |
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(1920's - 1930's - 1940's) American Art that documented various regions of the country especially the Depression of the 1930's. Provincial in nature, nonetheless captured the weary, bereft, social situation. A time when unemployment was high. Edward Hopper - "Early Sunday Morning" Charles Burchfield - Buffalo Grant Woods - Mid West Georgia O'Keefe - South West |
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Photo Realism Define Date Artists |
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Primarily American - Beginning in the 1960's 1. From photos 2. Acrylic paints - and airbrush 3. Scale - very large 4. context captures a moment Chuck Close Steven Posen Richard Estes |
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Impressionism Define (include Location) Dates Artists |
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1870-1890 French - User friendly - dabs of paint. Broke with tradition, simple impressions of what is observed. Part of the whole economic, social, and political evolution that occurred during the last part of the 19th century Monet Degas Renoir |
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Post Impressionism Define Dates Artists |
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1880 - 1907 French This is a period of time, a period of experimentation. Both Hot emotional, Gauguin, and VanGogh. Lead to Exprssionsim Cool - more intellectual approach, Cezanne and Seurat lead to Cubism and Futurism Guaguin & VanGogh - Hot Cezanne & Seurat - Cool |
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Cubism Define Dates Artists Artists |
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1907-1914 French - Paris Space was flattened, hard edges, geometric, Process oriented. Picasso - Les Dmoiselles de Avignion Delaunay Gris |
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Futurism Define Dates Artists |
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1910 - 1925 - Italian, Milan Extension of Cubism. Expression of movement Invention of performance art (Marinetti) Marinetti - performance art Giacomo Balla - Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash 1912 Seveini |
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Russian Constructivism Define Date Artists |
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1917-1925 Russian Hard edge geometric - reduced sculpture and drawing to basic geometric forms. Artists - Popova, Malevich, El Lissitzky |
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Fauvism Dates Define Artists |
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1905 French - short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized 1905 - French painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic Henri Matisse and André Derain Maurice de Vlaminck |
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Expressionism Date Locations Artists |
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1910 - Started in Germany Continues today - emotional experience rather than physical reality Movement in fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist. Munch, Kirchner, Nolde |
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1914 - 1920 Three areas - WWI was the catalyst Zurich Escapism Cabaret Voltaire Hugo Boll Berlin - toxic Political - Grosz Paris - absurd - Duchamp, Manray and Oppenheim - Morphed into Surrealism |
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Surrealism Define Date Artists |
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1914 - 1939 Paris - Sandwiched by wwI and wwII Freedom Sexual freudian, children's art, art of the insane, primitive art. Wanted total freedom. Not meant to tell a story. DeChirco (Italian) Dali Miro (Spanish) |
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Blue Rider Define Dates Artists |
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1910 - Munich, Germany Transcendentalism - intellectual group lead by Kandinsky in Munich, Germany. Their work expresses inner feeling rather than observed nature Kandinsky Klee Marc |
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The Bridge (Der Brucke) Define Date Artists |
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1905-1913 - Dresden Germany Precursor to Expressionism The artists’ group Die Brücke created a shocking new style, using deliberately distorted images and antinaturalistic, dissonant colors, which became known as expressionism. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Erich Heckel Fritz Bleyl |
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