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Brian R. (United States of America)
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  1. art
    the creation of beautiful or significant things
  2. beaux arts
    the study and creation of visual works of art
  3. fine arts
    the study and creation of visual works of art
  4. artistic movement
    a group of artists who agree on general principles
  5. expressionism
    an art movement focused on representing inner emotions
  6. surrealism
    an artistic movement using fantastic and incongruous images
  7. abstract
    existing only in the mind
  8. sezession
    an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
  9. Ashcan school
    early 20th-century American painting portraying city life
  10. Eight
    a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
  11. constructivism
    an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
  12. neoromanticism
    an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature
  13. surrealism
    an artistic movement using fantastic and incongruous images
  14. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  15. mark
    a distinguishing symbol
  16. trace
    an indication that something has been present
  17. stain
    make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
  18. syncope
    the loss of sounds from within a word
  19. flow
    move along, of liquids
  20. artist
    person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
  21. prophet
    someone who speaks by divine inspiration
  22. channel
    a deep and relatively narrow body of water
  23. interpret
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
  24. view
    the visual percept of a region
  25. viewer
    a close observer; someone who looks at something
  26. metaphysical
    pertaining to the philosophical study of being and knowing
  27. mimesis
    imitative or realistic representation in art and literature
  28. autodidact
    a person who has taught himself
  29. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  30. painting
    creating a picture with paints
  31. drawing
    a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
  32. line
    a length between two points
  33. point
    a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
  34. plane
    an unbounded two-dimensional shape
  35. Bauhaus
    a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918
  36. museum
    a building for collecting and displaying valuable objects
  37. art gallery
    a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
  38. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  39. esthetic
    concerning an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  40. esthetics
    the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste
  41. art nouveau
    a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s
  42. art deco
    a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
  43. 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
  44. modern
    ahead of the times
  45. abstract
    existing only in the mind
  46. Abstract Expressionism
    a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
  47. Hudson River school
    the first coherent school of American art
  48. romantic realism
    the first coherent school of American art
  49. romanticism
    impractical ideals and attitudes
  50. Romanesque
    an architectural style of 11th- and 12th-century Western Europe
  51. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  52. sign
    a visible clue that something has happened or is present
  53. gesture
    motion of hands or body to emphasize a thought or feeling
  54. culture
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  55. semiotics
    a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
Created on Tue Mar 02 13:55:59 EST 2010 (updated Tue Mar 09 12:45:52 EST 2010)

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