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an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th centuryEurope that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. |
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| an early cameralike device used inthe Renaissance and later for recording images of nature. Made from a dark box (or room) with a hole in one side (sometimes fitted with a lens), the camera obscura operates when bright light shines through the hole, casting an upside-down image of an object outside onto the inside wallof the box. |
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| a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. |
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| a term derived from the french military word meaning "before the group," or "vanguard." Avant-garde denotes those artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for the time. |
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| a french term meaning "in the open air" describing the Impressionist practice of painting outdoors so artists could have direct access to the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere while working. |
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| thickly applied paint that gives a three-dimensional surface quality to a painting. |
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a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of purecolor are applied in patterns to form an image. |
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a term used by post-Impressionist artists to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Synthetist artists aimed to synthesize three features:
1. The outward appearance of natural forms.
2. The artist’s feelings about their subject.
3. The purity of the aesthetic considerations of line, colour and form. |
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| terms describing a work of art in which forms are created primarily to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality. |
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| Colour that has no realistic or natural relation to the object that is depicted, as in a blue horse, or a purple cow, but which may have emotional or expressive significance. |
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a technique in which cutout paper forms (often painted or printed), and/or found materials, are pasted onto another surface.
Also: an image created using this technique |
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| an object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist. |
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| a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature |
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automatism
(automatic writing) |
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| a technique whereby the usual intellectual control of the artist over his or her bursh or pencil is forgone. The artist's aim is to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference. |
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| an artwork created by gathering and manipulating two- and/or three-dimensional found objects |
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| an art form developed in the 1960s incorporating performance, theater, and visual images. A Happening was organized without a specific narrative or intent; with audience participation, the event proceeded according to chance and individual improvisation |
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| term used to describe an artist's practice of borrowing from another source for a new work of art. while in previous centuries artists often copied one another's figures, motifs, or compositions, in modern times the sources for appropriation extend from material culture to works of art. |
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site-specific
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| a sculpture commissioned and designed for a particular spot |
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