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10/11/2015

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Metaphysical School
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Interest in symbolic meanings beyond surface appearances of objects.
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Nietzsche
Definition
Philosopher; influenced Metaphysical School
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Hugo Ball
Richard Huelsenbeck
Tristan Tzara
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Spokesperson for Dada
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Russolo
Definition
Futurist artist known for Bruitisme
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Bruitisme
Definition
Noise-music effects; Futurism and Dada.
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Duchamp
Definition
Artist known for readymades.
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Readymades
Definition
Found objects
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Arp
Definition
Artist known for concretions
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Concretion
Definition
Nonobjective art; organic forms
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Picabia
Definition
Artist known for functionless machines
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Functionless Machines
Definition
Images made with abstract machine parts.
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Solarization
Definition
Photo; unfixed print is exposed to light and then fixed.
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Man Ray
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Artist known for Rayographs
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Rayograph
Definition
Photo image without a camera
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Hannah Hoch
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Artist known for photomontage
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Photomontage
Definition
A collage made with cut photographs
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Les Maudits
Definition
'The Cursed Ones'
-Modigliani
-Soutine
-Pascin
-Utrillo
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November Group
Definition
German Expressionists; former after WWI; promoted socialist idealism
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Entartete/ Degenerate Art
Definition
Designation given by the Nazis to avant-garde art.
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Matisse
Definition
Artist known for decoupage
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Decoupage
Definition
Paper cutouts of Matisse
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Andre Breton
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Spokesperson for Surrealism
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Freud
Definition
Psychoanalyst; influenced Surrealism
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Ernst
Definition
Artist known for Frottage
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Frottage
Definition
Images created with rubbing over different textures
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Decalcomania
Definition
Images created by transferring paint from one surface to another
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Cantilever
Definition
Projecting lintel without a support; reinforced concrete; based on post and lintel
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Gropius
Definition
Architect; Director of Bauhaus
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Bauhaus
Definition
Gemma school of architecture, design, etc.
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Mies van der Rohe
Definition
Architect known for 'less is more'
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Less is More
Definition
Minimum decoration
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Le Corbusier
Definition
Architect known for houses that are 'machines for living'
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Machines for Living
Definition
Functional Structure
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Marcel Breuer
Definition
Designer of furniture
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Moholy-nagy
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Artist known for light modulators
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Light Modulators
Definition
Light-motion machines
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Photograms
Definition
Photo images without a camera
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Cercle et Carre
Definition
Circle and square; European geometric abstraction group
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Abstraction/Creation
Definition
European painterly abstractionists
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Calder
Definition
Artist known for mobiles and stabiles
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Mobiles
Definition
Kinetic works
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Stabiles
Definition
Works without movement
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Robert Henri
Definition
Artist; leader of The Eight
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The Eight
Definition
Independent artists; mostly realists; non-academic painters in the US
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Ash Can School
Definition
Nickname for the Eight because of ordinary subject matter used
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Stieglitz
Steichen
Definition
Photographers associated with Camera Works and Gallery 291
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Camera Works
Definition
Periodical by Stieglitz and Steichen
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Gallery 291
Definition
Held exhibitions of modern art
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Armory Show
Definition
The first European modern art exhibition in the US; New York 1913
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Adams
Definition
Photographer; Leader of f/64
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Group f/64
Definition
Small aperture used for depth of field
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Synchromism
Definition
American style similar to Orphism
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Fresco
Definition
Water-based painting on moist plaster
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