acadeca art history - the art of the jazz age (section one)

realism

A 19th century artistic movement based on idea to show all features of a subject (including neg.)

impressionism

art movement that based itself on dissatisfaction of the rigid rules of the Salon, shows changing patterns of light

post-impressionism

style of impressionism with emphasis on the scientific rules of color

pre raphaelites

english group of artists who attempted to return to the simple forms pre renaissance

art noveau

style of design characterized by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing lines

fauvist art

style established when artists realized their colors do not have to replicate the real worlds colors

cubism

art style characterized by figures being broken into simplest forms, angles, perspectives

die brücke

german group inspired by fauvists and norwegian art that led to expressionism

expressionism

art style that shows the inner working of mind, emphasized emotional response

de stijl

canvases consisting of flat fields of primary colors

what shifted the art world from paris to new york?

world war I

the armory show

first major modern art show in U.S.

what was/is harlem?

center of african american creativity

what was the harlem renaissance

a decade long, jazz fueled era where writers and painters joined musicians

dada

an art that protested against society and ridiculed accepted values and norms.

where was dada founded?

Zurich

what are ready-mades?

an object is given a new context, it becomes art

who established ready-mades?

Marcel Duchamp

what is an example of a ready-made?

Pablo Picasso's "Bull's Head" (1942.)

surrealism

a style that sought to show the working of the unconscious mind

what is Bauhaus

a school of design that established modern architecture and design standards

why did The Bauhaus close?

pressure from the Nazi party in 1933

what happened to art during WWII?

it was put on a standstill

abstract expressionism

ideas that art, like music, could be free from the limitations of pictorial subject matter

what is action painting?

a sect of abstract expressionism that employs dramatic brushstrokes or dripping technique

what is color field painting?

a sect of abstract expressionism that features broad areas of color and simple, often geometric forms.

who created the dripping technique in action painting?

Jackson Pollock

pop art

style of art that included images of mass culture

who is known as an icon of pop art?

Andy Warhol

minimalism

an art movement that reduced art to its barest essentials

what tools allowed for precise outlines (hard edge paintings)?

acrylic paint and the airbrush

photorealism

art with hyperealistic quality

what are earthworks?

pieces creating within or using the land

what are the guerrilla girls an example of?

performance art

what do postmodernist works do?

reintroduce traditional elements or to exaggerate modernist techniques by using them to the extreme

how did the communist revolution change art in China?

art became suffused with political ideas and was often an instrument of propaganda

why is Japan known, in the western world, for printmaking?

French artists would began to replicate the prints they collected

Why is it hard to study African art?

the context of the art was lost

what is the most basic art element

line

formal def. of line

the path of a point moving through space

shape

what defines the two dimensional area of an object

form

objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, and depth

positive space

the area occupied by an object

negative space

the blank area not occupied by anything

local color

the "true" color of an object or area as seen in normal daylight

optical color

the effect that special lighting has on the color of objects

arbitrary color

color used for emotional impact or aesthetic

what are two aspects of repetition?

motif and pattern

how do you make relief printmaking

cut away parts from the surface of the plate

intaglio printmaking

lines are incised on the wood or soft metal plate

lithography

a process in which the image is drawn with a waxy pencil or crayon directly on a plate

what are the limitations to tempera painting?

the colors dry quickly and there is a narrow tonal range