Art History (Renaissance to Modern) Exam #3

expressionism

artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than portray objective reality or elicit a rational response

Formalism

Paintings should embrace its main characteristic: flatness

readymade

an object from popular or materiel culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist

Action painting

using broad gestures to drip or pour paint onto a pictorial surface

abstract

of art that does not attempt to describe the appearance of visible forms but rather to transform them into stylized patterns or to alter them in conformity to ideals

combine painting

high relief collage

Fauvism

means " wild beast" a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905

Analytic Cubism

the first phase of cubism; based on intellect. Used a monochromatic color palette, reduces objects to geometric shapes and uses simultaneous perspective

synthetic cubism

The second phase of Cubism (1912) that was less intricate, had more color, collages and paint. Objects were less recognizable and had a range of textures.

Dada

A chaotic and humourous art movement that was the product of WWI. Mocked the senselessness of rational thought and foundations of modern society. The art reflects the broken society after the war.

Regionalism

artists that developed American Midwestern dreams in the 1930s at the height of the Depression

futurism

A art movement popular in Italy that was interested in modernity. Emphasis on portraying technology and a sense of speed. Came out of Cubism

Bauhaus

A German art school of design that wanted to marry fine art and craft.

Die Brucke

Means "the bridge" A group of radical German expressionist artists who painted the natural world and the nude body. They focused on the distortions of form and agitated brush strokes to produce emotional works.

Der Blaue Reiter

Means "the blue rider" An art group that thought that art could communicate something deeper and spiritual. Believed in charging form and color with spiritual meaning and eliminating all resemblance to the physical world

De stijl

Means "The style" in Dutch. An art movement that aspired their works to be universally beautiful. Eliminated everything sensual and subjective from their work.

Constructivism

Leave the studio and into the factory. An art movement that renounced painting as a selfish activity and condemning self expression

surrealism

Interested in Freud's psychology. The art movement turned ordinary objects into strange new contexts

social realism

a hint of a narrative but nothing is actually happening

Abstract Expressionism

A group of loosely affiliated artists who were bound by the common purpose to express their profound social alienation after WWII. Interested in existentialism. Produces personal type of art. Re-imagined European and American modernism.

Pop Art

a blend of high art and pop culture. Appropriated design. Embraces and critiques the superficial fiction of a perfect life.

postmodernism

the elimination of a grand narrative. A rejection of formalism and modernism.

1915 Armory Show

an exhibition of Modern Art in America. Before art in America was realistic.

Degenerate Art Exhibit

an exhibit of confiscated German art put together by Hitler.

Clement Greenberg

Formalism= Flatness=good. The best paintings have no reference to the outside world

1905 Salon de Autumn

progressive artists and modernist group. The Fauves exhibited there.

Louis Vauxelles

a journalist that named the Fauves (Wild Beasts in a cage)

Harold Rosenberg

coined the term Action Painting. Not a painting but an event

Assisted Readymade

The combining of two or more found objects - by taking them out of their normal context, each takes on new meaning

color field painting

Rothko, no subject to get in the way of emotion flat areas of color to produce more contemplative moods