Vocab

analytic cubism

-The first phase of Cubism, developed jointly by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, in which the artists analyzed form from every possible vantage point to combine the various views into one pictorial whole. -multiple view of angles

Fauvism

1.Henri Matiss 1905,Paris. Fauvism was a short-lived movement concerned with the liberation of color and the formal structure of a work of art. Fauve is a title which means "wild beast." This group first exhibited paintings in 1905 in Paris. The leader of this group was Henri Matisse, who painted pictures of revolutionary simplicity and high chroma, arbitrary color. Other painters of this group were Rouault, Derain, Vlamick, and Dufy

international style

14th and 15th century painting style fused the French and Sienese. It appealed to the aristocracy because of its brilliant color, lavish costumes and themes of knights and ladies

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 strived to show mechanical as well as natural motion and speed. The beginning of the machine age is what inspired these artists.

cubism

1910.This movement in painting and sculpture was fathered by Picasso and Braque, and influenced by the conceptual painter, Paul Cezanne. Cezanne believed that the world could be perceived as groups of planes or solid geometric forms, (cubes, cylinders, spheres).

dada

1915. Dadaists shared antimilitaristic and anti-art attitude. These attitudes were generated by the horrors of World War I. These artists did very little painting. They preferred to make constructions called ready mades. Eg. Marcel Duchamp

tripartite

1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

pop art

1950. A style of painting and sculpture in the 1950's and 1960's; the subject matter was based on visual cliches, subject matter and impersonal style of popular mass media imagery. Andy Warhol and Claus Oldenburg were two of the important pop artists.

ukiyo-e

A Japanese term for a type of popular art that was favored from the sixteenth century, particularly in the form of color woodblock.

combines

A combine painting is an artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture.

art nouveau

A decorative style of art, popular in Europe and America from the 1880s to the 1930s. This style is usually characterized by flowing lines, flat shapes, and vines and flowers.

chromatic abstraction

A kind of Abstract Expressionism that focused on the emotional resonance of color, as exemplified by the work of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

encaustic

A method of painting, which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat. ( heated pigment)

surrealism

A movement in art emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control.

loadbearing and non loadbearing walls

A non-load bearing wall is a wall that does not support any gravity loads from the building, hence doesn't bear any weight besides its own. A load bearing wall is a wall that bears some of the building's weight in addition to its own weight. Both, load bearing and non-load bearing walls may see lateral loading such as wind loads and seismic loads.

abstract expressionism

A painting movement that involved the expression of feelings and states of mind through abstract means, first coming together in New York City in the 1940s.

cantilever

A projecting beam anchored without support

automatism

A technique whereby the usual intellectual control of the artist over his or her brush or pencil is forgone. Lets the subconscious take control to create the artwork no rational interference. PG 1193

gesturalism / action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

gestural abstraction

Also known as action painting. A kind of abstract painting in which the gesture, or act of painting, is seen as the subject of art. Its most renowned proponent was Jackson Pollock. See also Abstract Expressionism.

american scene painting

American scene painting refers to a naturalist style of painting and other works of art of the 1920s through the 1950s in the United States. American scene painting is also known as Regionalism. ( man and woman)

acroteria

An acroterion or acroterium is an architectural ornament placed on a flat base called the acroter or plinth

curtain wall

An exterior building wall that is supported entirely by the frame of the building, rather than being self-supporting or load bearing.

readymade

An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.

skeletal framing

Framed building, structure in which weight is carried by a skeleton or framework, as opposed to being supported by walls ( medieval europe)

pilotis

Free standing post

hard edge pianting

Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas.

rustication

In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.

post painterly abstraction

Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto.

postmoderism

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.

representation surrealism

Recognizable objects with impossible properties

colorfield painting

Rothko - movement (1945 - 1965) a New York school of painting characterized by Large blocks of color.

superrealist

Something that looks really real

synthetic cubism

The second phase of Cubism (1912) where artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper to represent parts of an object.

historicism

The strong consciousness of an and attention to the institutions, themes, styles, and forms of the past, made accessible by historical research, textual study, and archaeology.

environmental art / earthworks

The term "environmental art" is used in a variety of different contexts: it can be used to refer to art describing the natural world, art that celebrates personal engagement with the natural world

the armory show

This exhibition was the first major showing of modern art in the United States.

farm securities administration

This group established in 1935 was formed to combat American rural poverty. It stressed "rural rehabilitation" and allowed for farmers on poor land to be relocated to a more suitable land.

zips

What Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman called each of the vertical lines in his work. Many of his later works featured a zip.

urban realism

a movement in writing where people began talking about the realistic life of people in the cities

regionalism

an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot

richard sonion romaneque

is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson

collage

is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

festoons

is a wreath or garland, and in architecture typically a carved ornament depicting conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons.

op art

optical illusion A style of art that exploits the physiology of seeing in order to create illusory optical effects

biomorphic surrealism

produced largely abstract compositions, although they sometimes suggest organisms or natural forms; notable artists include Joan Miro , dada

prairie school

style of American building pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 20th century A school of Architecture most common to the nidwestern United States(working in close proximity to Chicago) marked by horizontal lines, hipped roofs, open interior spaces, reliance on local, natural materials, and exposed structural supports. Early on Frank Lloyd Wright was thought to be of this style.