Mid term exam Vocabualry

Abstract Expressionism

based in the US (NYC) 1950s-60s, break in traditional painting -positive, individuality is freedom, monumentality, mixing tradition with new, gestural

Art Informel

Individualism, expressiveness, spontaneity, break with tradition - negative, 1940s-50s, mostly abstract

Tachsime

sub movement pf art informel, focused on painting and sculpture, 1950s, near complete/complete abstraction,

Asocion Arte Concerto Invencion (AACI)

1940s-50s, manifesto written by committee, based in Argentina, rejection of representational art, collectivity, exploration of tension in scientific and physical qualities of art.

Black Mountain College

college where performance art is said to start in the US. Had many high-brow artist like Willem de Kooning

Calligraphic Abstraction

asia, asian diaspora, northern africa, middle east, 1950s-1970s, deconstruction of calligraphic text and methods, fusion of 'western' abstraction with 'eastern' content

conceptual art

1960s-present, Europe , US, and Latin America, embrace the ambiguity/unknown, idea> appearance

Fluxus

experimental art form that could involve music that the user/viewer but has no single unifying style

Fluxus Score

a series of notes/directions on paper that allows anyone to preform the art

geometric abstraction

1940s-1970s, Lantion America: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, rigid geometry, post modernism: inspired by modernism, abstraction as empowering the viewer

Gutai

Based in Japan, Fouded by Yoshihara Jiro, 1950s-70s, interest in reimagining and/or challenging traditional Japanese Culture.

Happenings

pieces that involve audience participation and combine performance and art most of the time

Kinetic Art

resisting static presentation of art

Madi

1940s-50s, manifesto written by Guyla Kosice, Based in Argentina, kinetic Art, viewer as creator

minimalism

1960s- present, predominantly US - based, de emphasizing the art object: formalism, deceptive simplicity, spatial awareness.

neo concretism

1960s, manifesto written by Ferreira Gullar, Based in Brazil, Embrace of Concretism, affective manipulation of the scenes, breaching the frame, art is non-object

non-object

a piece of the art that does not depict any recognizable object, person or place

Performance Art

time based art form that involves a lives presentation and can be recreated/ re preformed

Pop Art

1950s-80s, based in the Us and England, inspired by popular ('low') culture, bold color "flatness", appropriation as a critique of cultural trends

post war

after ww2

Ruptura

1950s-60s, manifesto written by Wlademar Cordeiro, Based in Brazil, rejection of tradition, representational art, manipulation of the sense, tensions in physics

tropicalia

a creative movement that originated in the late 1960s in Brazil. Encompassing music, art and writing it celebrated Brazil's culture and people.

new configuration

artistic movement in Spain and Latin America, specifically Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela, that embraced a new form of figurative art in response to both abstraction and traditional forms of representation.