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| the incorporation in early 20th century Western art of stylistic elements from the artificats of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of the Americas |
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20th century art that is the result of the artist's unique inner or personal vision and that often has an emotional dimension
contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world |
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German, "the bridge"
an early 20th century German Expressionist art movement under the leadership of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
the group thought of itself as the bridge between the old age and the new |
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German, "the blue rider"
an early 20th century German Expressionist art movement founded by Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc
the artists selected the whimsical name because of their mutual interest in the color blue and horses |
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French, "wild beasts"
an early 20th century art movement led by Matisse
for the Fauves, color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning |
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| an early 20th century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world |
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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 |
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Erich Heckel
Crouching Woman
Painted linden wood
1912 |
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Vasily Kandisky
Improvisation 28 (second version)
Oil on canvas
1912 |
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Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Oil on canvas
1907 |
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Georges Braque
Houses at L'estaque
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1908 |
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