APAH Style Flashcards 1-20

Abstract Expressionism

First major American avant-garde movement emerged in 1940s NYC; artists focused on automatism and revealing subconscious through broad gestural strokes on huge canvases

Amarna Style

Based on monotheism, rejects traditional conventions; features elongated forms, androgynous bodies, and daily life scenes

Ancient Egypt

Aims for timelessness and tradition through conventional images of power; utilizes twisted perspective, hierarchical scale, and bodies based on a canon of proportion

Archaic Greek

Typically funerary or ritual artwork; male figures nude, female figures clothed; idealized bodies with little negative space and no contrapposto

Art Nouveau

Flourished between 1880-1910; characterized by organic, twisting natural motifs in decorative and fine arts

Austrian Secession

Characterized by decadence, breakdown of light, and a reaction against traditional Viennese art community

Byzantine

Focuses on formal religious imagery with flattened, frontal figures; limited modeling, lack of depth or perspective

Chicago Style

Early 20th-century architecture style with simple design, steel-frame technology, and limited ornamentation

Classical Greek

Figures based on canon of proportions, idealized bodies, typically nude or draped in wet drapery

Color field

Reduces painting to physical essence by pouring diluted paint on unprimed canvas; explores body's response to color

Constructivism

Originated in Russia; uses photomontages to construct politically-charged utopian images

Cubism

Early 20th-century art movement rejecting naturalistic depictions for abstract shapes and forms; inspired by African art with multiple views in a single image

Dada

20th-century art movement with disdain for convention, often humorous and absurd, contempt for tradition

De Stijl

Early 20th-century art movement founded by Piet Mondrian; features simplified geometric pure abstraction

Documentary Photography

Chronicles historical events with cultural or social messages

Dutch Baroque

Scenes with Protestant moral messages, attention to light and fabrics, new art types emerge

Early Christian

Christian adaptation of Greco-Roman imagery with squat figures, no individuality, and no perspective

Early Medieval

Manuscripts with interlacing flat decoration, rich colors, and Biblical text

Environmental art/Earth Art

Uses land as material, response to environmentalism, rejects traditional art object

Etruscan

Based on Archaic Greek sculpture with greater emotion, often funerary and joyful