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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
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