Modern Art Movements - Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, movements, artists, and works from the lecture notes on Modern Art.

Impressionism

A late-19th-century movement characterized by pure unmixed colors placed side by side, short broken brushstrokes, outdoor painting, natural light, and unconventional compositions.

Claude Monet

A leading Impressionist known for landscapes, gardens, and water lilies; helped popularize the movement.

Auguste Renoir

An Impressionist noted for scenes of real-life people and figures, capturing everyday moments.

Edouard Manet

An artist whose works depicted modern-life subjects and influenced Impressionists.

Impression, Sunrise

Claude Monet’s painting whose title gave the name Impressionism.

Expressionism

An early 20th-century movement emphasizing emotional content and distorted forms over realistic representation.

Neoprimitivism

A style combining elements from non-Western and African/Iberian art; exemplified by Modigliani’s elongated forms.

Amedeo Modigliani

An artist associated with Neoprimitivism known for oval, elongated faces in sculpture and painting.

Fauvism

A early 20th-century movement (Les Fauves) known for wild, non-naturalistic color and bold brushwork; led by Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse

A leading Fauvist famous for vivid, expressive color and simplified forms.

Dadaism

A movement that embraced absurdity, satire, and non-traditional aesthetics, often opposing conventional art.

Marc Chagall

Artist associated with Dada and Surrealist-influenced imagery; known for dreamlike scenes.

Giorgio de Chirico

Dada/Surreal-influenced painter known for enigmatic, dreamlike compositions.

Surrealism

A movement exploring illogical dream worlds and subconscious imagery, often depicted as bizarre or fantastical.

Salvador Dalí

Prominent Surrealist known for dreamlike and morbid imagery, such as The Persistence of Memory.

Paul Klee

Surrealist-influenced artist known for symbolic, whimsical works; contributed to Surrealism.

Joan Miró

Surrealist artist known for imaginative, abstract compositions and symbolic imagery.

Social Realism

An art movement expressing social reform, protest against injustice, and awareness of human conditions.

Miners’ Wives (Shahn)

Symbolic example of Social Realism; a work by Ben Shahn (1948) emphasizing social issues.

Guernica (Picasso)

Picasso’s monumental painting (1937) addressing the horrors of war; a hallmark of Social Realism-era critique.

Abstractionism

20th-century movement focusing on non-representational forms; emphasizes logic and ideas over recognizable subjects.

Cubism

An Abstractionist style using geometric forms and multiple viewpoints; influenced by Picasso.cha

Pablo Picasso

Pioneering Cubist and modern artist with numerous influential works.

Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso)

A Picasso work illustrating Cubist fragmentation and shifting perspectives.

Futurism

An Italian movement celebrating speed, motion, and machines; dynamic, rapid forms.

Gino Severini

Futurist painter known for depicting motion and mechanization, e.g., Armored Train.

Armored Train (Severini)

A Futurist painting illustrating the machine-age grit and motion.

Mechanical Style

An Abstractionist approach using precise, neat arrangements of basic forms like planes and cylinders.

Fernand Léger

Artist associated with the Mechanical Style; known for geometric, architectural compositions.

Non-objectivism

A style within Abstractionism that rejects recognizable subjects; often linked to Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian

A key Non-objectivist painter known for geometric abstraction and grid-based compositions.

Op Art

Optical art that creates visual sensations of movement and depth through patterns.

Pop Art

A movement using everyday objects and mass-media imagery; famous artists include Warhol and others.

Installation Art

Contemporary form using space and media to transform the viewer’s experience; walk-through environments.

Cordillera Labyrinth (Roberto Villanueva)

An example of Installation Art (1989) creating an immersive environment.

Performance Art

Art where time, space, the artist’s body, and audience interaction constitute the work.