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Techniques/styles
Paintings/artists
History shtuff
Photography
100

Global movement that advocated for photography to be “fine art”

pictorialism

100

builds forms using primarily straight lines and rigid, simple shapes such as squares and triangles

geometric abstraction

100

This artist made an abstract portrait of his friend using only 3 colors that featured a large numerical figure in the center (answer with artist and piece name)

Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

100

A generation/group of artists including Georgia O’Keefe, Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, and more

The Stieglitz Circle or Stieglitz Group

100

Majored in chemistry and advocated for chemistry to be more important within photography

Imogen Cunningham

200

The representation of things seen as they appear to humans

naturalism

200

this technique would cause unpredictable areas of tonal reversal in the final image

solarization

200

Artist who called his works “compositions” and “improvisations”

Kadinsky

200

The event that gave attention to expressionism, cubism, and fauvism to the American public

The Armory Show of 1913

200

Movement that shied away from overly dramatic, emotional, and dramatic imagery and relied on recording without manipulation from the photographer

New Objectivity

300

Italian movement that focused on speed, tech, modern life, and dynamism

 Futurism

300

When a photo is made by direct contact with a light-sensitive surface rather than in a camera

contact print OR photogram

300

This artist utilized biomorphic abstraction in many of their paintings- notably one of a tree that rises out of the viewers closest proximity (answer with artist and piece name

Georgia O'Keefe, The Lawrence Tree

300

Antiwar art movement that began in Switzerland and focused itself in New York once it got to America

New York Dada

300

A group of California based photographers that started in 1932

Group f/64

400

Writing or drawing without a conceived plan

Automatism
400

art more concerned with the concept, or the idea behind the art, than with its fabrication, artistic technique, or forms of representation

conceptual art

400

Artist whose paintings echoed syncopations of jazz music

Arthur G. Dove

400

One of the first American venues to display non-Western art

291 Gallery

400

Photographs made without camera or film

Rayograph

500

A type of poetry that conveyed clear imagery without the use of artificial impositions or mediation of figurative language

Imagism

500

 Art that depicts forms of the natural world, often having references to the human body, plants, trees, water, or other landscape elements

biomorphic abstraction

500

Artist who mocked how consumers portrayed Native American culture and handcraft as exotic

John Sloan

500

Lead by Robert Henri, this artistic movement focused on realism whose style focused heavily on impasto brushwork

The Ashcan School

500

Important movement that embraced uncanny imagery and strange juxtapositions

Surrealism

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