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Abstract Expressionism, action painting
a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
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Ash Can, Ashcan school
early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life
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Impressionism, impressionism
a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
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Pop Art
a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media
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Ashcan School, Eight
a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
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pointillism
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
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art deco, deco
a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
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art nouveau
a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers
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avant-garde, new wave, van, vanguard
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
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constructivism
an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
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suprematism
a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism
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cubism
an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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dada, dadaism
a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
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expressionism
an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
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fauvism
an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists
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futurism
an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
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Hudson River school, romantic realism
the first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England
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imagism
a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
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lake poets
English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it
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luminism
an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective
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minimal art, minimalism, reductivism
an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
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naturalism, realism
an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
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neoromanticism
an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature
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New Wave, Nouvelle Vague
an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
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secession, sezession
an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
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surrealism
a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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symbolism
an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
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neoexpressionism
an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings
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supra expressionism
a movement that tried to go beyond expressionism
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analytical cubism
the early phase of cubism
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synthetic cubism
the late phase of cubism