Robert Green - Art History 20th Century Exam 2 (Movement Characteristics)

Surrealism

A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. Officially began with Dadaist writer Andre Breton's 1924 Surrealist manifesto.

Suprematism

A type of art formulated by Kazimir Malevich to convey his belief that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling, which attaches to no object and thus calls for new, nonobjective forms in art shapes not related to objects in the visible world.

Futurism

An early-20th-century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.

Constructivism

An extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be, that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin

Dada

Artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers. It all began at the cities Cabaret Voltaire in February 1916.

De Stijl / Neo-Plasticism

Dutch, "the stye"; an artistic movement associated with a group of early 20th-century. Dutch painters who used rectangular forms and primary colors in their works. Also believed that art should have spiritual values and a social purpose.

New Objectivity

Term coined in the 1920s to describe a kind of new realism in music, in reaction to the emotional intensity of the late Romantics and the expressionism of Schoenberg and Berg

School of Paris

lots of styles, highly individualistic, international character, cross fertilization. negitive attitude towards this idea: many thought france was losing culture and classical values