Global Modern Art Exam #2

Bauhaus

German art school founded in 1919, the modern design movement it inspired, which combined crafts and fine arts to emphasize functionality, simplicity, and modern materials.

Fauvism

Style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

Readymade

A type of art defined by the artist designating a mass-produced, manufactured object as a work of art, often without any modification.

Art deco

A decorative style that emerged in the 1910s and flourished internationally in the 1920s and 1930s characterized by geometric shapes, streamlined forms, and a sense of luxury and modernity.

Art nouveau

An international style of art, architecture, and design popular from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, characterized by curving, organic lines inspired by natural forms like flowers and vines.

Arts and crafts movement

An international design and architecture movement that began in England in the 1860s as a reaction to industrialization and mass production.

Negritude

A creative and literary movement originating in the 1930s, that emerged as a response to colonial oppression and aimed to celebrate Black identity and culture.

Cubism

An early 20th century art movement characterized by the fragmentation of objects into geometric shapes, the depiction of subjects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously, and the use of a shadow, 2D space to represent forms.

Diaspora

When a group of people are scattered across different regions than their place of origin.

Creolization

When different cultures/languages come together and blend to create new ones that are hybrid.

Pan-africanism

An ideology regarding solidarity among all people of African descent, regardless of what country they reside in or are originally from.

De-skilling

The deliberate rejection of traditional artistic skills and craftsmanship in favor of prioritizing the concept or idea.

Die Brucke

"The Bridge" in German - was a small group of artists who embraced their wild behavior and ideas as a way of getting through their contemporary movement.

Gestamkinstwerk

"Total work of art," a concept that combined multiple art forms to create a single, cohesive, and immersive experience.

Degenerate Art Exhibition

Nazi produced term for modern art, especially art that was perceived as Un-German, Jewish, Communist, or an insult to "German feeling" and traditional aesthetics.

Degenerate Art Exhibition (Event)

In 1937, Nazis organized the Degenerate Art exhibition, which featured hundreds of confiscated artworks and was designed to mock and condemn them to a wide audience.

Orientalism

The depiction of the "East" primarily the Middle East and North Africa, by Western artists, especially in the 19th century.