U9 Art

Cubism

An art style that broke objects down into flat geometric shapes and showed them from multiple angles at the same time. (Example: A flattened painting of a guitar)

Dada

An anti-art movement that used nonsense, humor, and random objects to protest the seriousness of the world. (Example: Submitting a regular toilet bowl signed with a fake name to a museum)

Surrealism

Art based on dream worlds, weird fantasies, and the subconscious mind. (Example: Salvador Dalí’s painting of melting clocks)

Abstraction

Non-realistic art that focuses purely on colors, lines, and shapes rather than recognizable things. (Example: A canvas covered in splatters of paint with no real object depicted)

Assemblage

A 3D artwork made by grouping found, random objects together. (Example: A sculpture made out of a bicycle seat and old metal scraps)

Photomontage

A collage made by cutting out and pasting together different photographs. (Example: Cutting out eyes from a magazine photo and pasting them onto a building)

Pop Art

Art based on modern popular culture, advertisements, comic books, and mass media. (Example: Andy Warhol’s colorful paintings of Campbell’s soup cans)

Automatism

Drawing or painting randomly without thinking, letting your subconscious mind take over. (Example: Closing your eyes and doodling lines on paper without planning)

Ashcan School

A group of American realistic painters who loved painting gritty, raw, everyday scenes of crowded city streets. (Example: A painting of kids playing in a dirty city alleyway)

New Negro Movement

An African American cultural movement in the 1920s celebrating Black pride and heritage through vibrant art, music, and literature. (Example: Bold, colorful paintings of jazz musicians in Harlem)

Pablo Picasso

The Spanish modern artist who co-invented Cubism and completely changed 20th-century art. (Example: Artist behind the famous anti-war painting Guernica)

Georgia O'Keeffe

An American modern artist famous for her close-up, large-scale paintings of flowers and desert landscapes. (Example: A painting of a red poppy flower zoomed in incredibly close)