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| Faith in science, in human rights arising from natural law, in human reason, and progress |
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| Emphasis on formal design and idealism. |
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| Decorous and sensitive style in the arts. Fuzzy detail, complex composition, and certain superficiality. Intimate townhouse so they were smaller and had more intimate subject matter. It represented the time; decorative and nonfunctional. The people would be posed in affected attitudes |
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| A literary and artistic movement that sought at assert the validity of subjective experience. Emphasized individualism, imagination, free expression of feelings, communion with nature, and idea of creative artist as visionary genius. Artist possesses ultimate insight into fundamental reality. Nature, wild and unspoiled often highest form of human endeavor. |
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| Applying to art, music, and literature, implies an approach that evokes subjective and sensory impressions. Seeing through color and motion. Spontaneity, harmonious colors, and subjects from everyday life, and faithfulness to observed lighting and atmospheric effects. Tried to out do the camera. |
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| New ways of seeing with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. Abstraction. |
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| Born from negative reaction to WWI. Rejects reason and logic, prizing nonsense, anarchy, irrationality and intuition. Anti-war politics. |
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| Modernist movement in poetry and paintings. Presents the world from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Express meaning or emotional experience. |
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| Originated in Italy. Emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future: speed, technology, youth, violence, cars, airplane, and industrial city. |
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| Focused on geometric forms. (square and circle in particular) |
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| Cultural movement. Elements of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur. Or expression of philosophical movements. |
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| Concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Questions nature of art. |
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| Movement in contradiction to aspects of modernism. Bricolage, use of words as central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, recycling past styles and themes, and break up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low arts and popular culture. |
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