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Postmodernism
100
A group of Paris-based artists who were directly influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud and sought to gain access to the unconscious.
Who were the Surrealists?
100
A composition made by gluing pieces of paper, cloth, etc. on a canvas or other ground.
What is collage?
100
Art that is non-representational, purely autonomous and makes no reference to an exterior world.
What is abstract art?
100
Something that is ahead of its time.
What is avant-garde?
100
The copying of images for purposes different from those for which they were originally intended.
What is appropriation?
200
Artworks whose subject matter is the process of their creation.
What is Process art?
200
The technique used by Andy Warhol to create his painting, 210 Coca-Cola Bottles (1962).
What is screenprinting?
200
The theory that a building, piece of furniture or other object should be designed primarily to fulfill its material purpose and use.
What is functionalism?
200
A painting in tones of a single color.
What is a monochrome?
200
A group of American artists operating at the limits of modernism during the 1960s.
What is Minimalism?
300
The French counterpart of the American Pop artists.
Who were the New Realists?
300
The technique used by Max Ernst to create his painting, The Horde (1927).
What is grattage or frottage?
300
A manufactured object promoted to the status of art through the choice of the artist.
What is a readymade?
300
A designed environment set up as an artwork in a gallery or outdoor location.
What is an installation?
300
Trend in 1960s art that used text and photography, and held that the idea is the work of art.
What is Conceptualism?
400
A group of Japanese artists who drew inspiration from Jackson Pollock.
What is the Gutai Group?
400
An artistic approach in which the artist relinquishes conscious, rational control, enabling unconscious impulses to direct the form of the work.
What is automatism?
400
A public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives.
What is a manifesto?
400
The dominant philosophical response to the madness and pointless violence that seemed endemic to Western civilization following World War II.
What is Existentialism?
400
The critic Leo Steinberg called this artist postmodern in relation to his combine paintings, which are made up of disparate elements that do not coalesce into any single, unified meaning or narrative.
Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
500
A group of Chinese artists who promoted Western modernism in 1930s Shanghai.
What is the Storm Society?
500
A process of shading by means of small uniform dots used for cheap photographic reproductions; also imitated by Pop artists.
What is Benday?
500
A late-nineteenth-century movement in art and literature that emphasized the artist's imagination over representing observed nature.
What is Symbolism?
500
Methods such as chance, the allover grid, the monochrome, and the readymade all helped artists minimize individual decision-making in their assault on the traditional values of art and personal artistic subjectivity.
What are strategies of non-composition?
500
An appropriative strategy used by postmodern architects, who seemed to be collaging historical styles to generate contemporary buildings.
What is pastiche?