Modern Art Quiz 2 Terms

Dada

"The Dadaists believed that Enlightenment reasoning had been responsible for the insane spectacle of collective homicide and global devastation that was World War I, and they concluded that the only route to salvation was through political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive" Its absurdity, or nonsensical. Disdain for conventionality" Although horror and disgust about the war initially prompted Dada, an undercurrent of often irreverent humor and whimsy runs through much of the art. " Started by Duchamp and Francis Picabia

De Stijl

"The Style" started by a group of young Dutch artists 1917 a movement and a magazine called De Stijl "De Stijl artists believed in the birth of a new age in the wake of World War I. They felt that it was a time of balance between individual and universal values, when the machine would assure ease of living. " He said , " eternal structure of existence"

Art Brut

"raw art," artworks made by untrained artists, and having a primitive or childlike quality

Rrose Selavy

'Eros, c'est la vie'" Eros, that's life.

Blue Period

1901-1904 Picasso painting time of depression and alienation Melancholy state of mind

Futurism

1910. A movement in modern art that grew out of cubism. Artists used implied motion by shifting planes and having multiple viewpoints of the subject. They strive to show mechanical as well as natural motion and speed. The beginning of the machine age is what inspired these artists. Sociopolitcal agenda

Surrealism

An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images THE UNCONSCIOUS! Focus on inner world of the psyche dreams as connecting human consciousness

Purism

An early-20th-century art movement that embraced the "machine aesthetic" and sought purity of form in the clean functional lines of industrial machinery. Opposed Synthetic Cubism on the grounds that it was becoming merely an esoteric, decorative art out of touch with the machine age. Purists maintained that machinery's clean functional lines and the pure forms of its parts should direct artists' experiments in design, whether in painting, architecture, or industrially produced objects.

Clement Greenberg

Apart of the New York School He helped redefine the parameters of modernism by advocating the rejection of illusionism and the exploration of the properties of each artistic medium. Formalism Purity in art and acceptness

Art Deco

Art Deco was a movement in the 1920s and 1930s whose adherents sought to upgrade industrial design in competition with "fine art." Proponents wanted to work new materials into decorative patterns that could be either machined or handcrafted and could, to a degree, reflect the simplifying trend in architecture. It descended from Art Noveau

Abstract Expressionism

First major avant-garde movement that emerged

Armory Show of 1913

Foundation event in the development of American modernist art and European painters as well Exhibition receive hostile press The New York Times described the show as "pathological" and called the modernist artists "cousins to the anarchists," while the magazine Art and Progress compared them to "bomb throwers, lunatics, depravers."† other critics demanded that the exhibition be closed as a menace to public morality.

Russian Constructivism

Gabo explained that he called himself a Constructivist partly because he built up his sculptures piece by piece in space, instead of carving or modeling them in the traditional way."

Der Blaue Reiter

German, "the blue rider." An early-20th-century German Expressionist art movement founded by Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. The artists selected the whimsical name because of their mutual interest in the color blue and horses. Formed in Munich in 1911

New York School

Group of abstract expressionists lived and worked in New York during the 1940's and 1950's. The most important champion of this strict formalism—an emphasis on an artwork's visual elements rather than its subject—was the American art critic Clement Greenberg. -Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko

Entartete Kunst

Literally "Degenerate Art," a term used in 1930s Nazi Germany to denigrate modern art, which the regime asserted had a corrupting influence on the national culture.

Photomontage

The process of combining parts of various photographs in one photograph.

Neoplasticism

a movement that is an extension of Cubism, in which the action of color and forms are reduced to utter simplicity by strict adherence to simple geometric shapes primary colors are the purest colors and this art is pure plastic art

Cubism

an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage. " Braque and Picasso formulated Cubism around 1908 in the belief that the art of painting had to move far beyond the description of visual reality. Cubism represented a radical turning point in the history of art, nothing less than a dismissal of the pictorial illusionism that had dominated Western art since the Renaissance. The Cubists rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world. A"

Readymade

an object made for another purpose, but displayed by an artist as art (bicycle wheel, urinal, hat rack)

Abstract

existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Suprematism

the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art