Modern Art Movements and Key Artists

Flashcards covering modern art movements and key artists' contributions and concepts.

Primitivism

A Western art movement that idealized non-Western or prehistoric cultures, often criticized as colonial and reductive.

Analytic Cubism

The first phase of Cubism developed by Picasso and Braque, emphasizing fragmented geometric forms and multiple viewpoints.

Futurism

An early 20th-century Italian movement celebrating speed, technology, and modernity, emphasizing motion and energy.

Suprematism

A Russian abstract art movement founded by Kazimir Malevich, focused on basic geometric forms and pure feeling over representation.

Dada

An anti-art movement that emerged during World War I, rejecting norms and embracing chaos to critique war and cultural values.

Readymade

Ordinary manufactured objects designated as art by artists like Marcel Duchamp, challenging traditional craftsmanship.

Surrealism

A movement emerging in the 1920s, influenced by Freud, aimed at unlocking the unconscious through irrational imagery.

Exquisite Corpse

A Surrealist game where multiple contributors create a composition without seeing each other's work.

De Stijl

A Dutch movement led by Piet Mondrian, characterized by pure abstraction and a limited color palette, aiming for universal harmony.

Bauhaus

A German design school founded in 1919, emphasizing the unity of art, craft, and technology, influencing various design fields.

Pablo Picasso

A key figure in Cubism known for his quote on painting objects as he thinks them, and for his innovative perspectives.

Umberto Boccioni

A leading Futurist artist who celebrated speed and motion, known for his manifesto contributions and tragic early death.

Kazimir Malevich

The founder of Suprematism, known for his radical abstract works like the Black Square, focusing on pure feeling.

Hannah Höch

A Dada artist known for her photomontages that critiqued gender roles and mass media, and for being the only woman in the Berlin Dada group.

Salvador Dalí

A prominent Surrealist known for his dreamlike works and eccentric personality, who used the 'paranoiac-critical method' in his art.

René Magritte

A Surrealist artist famous for works like 'The Treachery of Images,' questioning perception and representation.

Piet Mondrian

An abstract artist known for his grid-based compositions and commitment to expressing spiritual harmony through color.

Josef Albers

An influential teacher and artist known for exploring color perception in his series 'Homage to the Square.'