Framework
A book that posits that art, prior to the term "beaux arts" should not be considered "art" due to it's functionality.
What is Believing is Seeing?
A military term that is applied to modern artists who are ahead of their time.
What is the avant-garde?
An art movement which explores "pure artistic feeling" rather than relying on the visual depiction of objects.
What is Suprematism?
Art movement which often explored the irrational juxtaposition of images.
What is Surrealism?
A movement that focuses on form and color in order to get back to a more fundamental, basic art that can best reflect its contemporary society.
What is De Stijl?
A mode of creating artwork in which the viewer can easily recognize the content.
What is mimeticism?
A movement that is constituted from the belief that art can create a better world when it rejects absolute rationalism.
What is Modernism?
An obsession of artists in the Post-Impressionist movement that showed them new techniques and perspectives in art-making. It also pushed their belief that art should be more accessible.
What is Japonisme?
An art movement that showed its subject matter from multiple viewpoints at the same time.
What is Cubism?
The show that shocked American audiences by bringing the Avant-Garde into their cities.
What was the Armory Show?
Art that is inauthentic, which is characterized as showing easy enjoyments or presenting dark subject matter in a sanitized manner.
What is kitsch?
The art movement that is considered the beginning of Modernism, which shows a new kind of people in the western world enters the Industrial Revolution.
What is Realism?
A group better known as the Fauvists, who are inspired by primitivism and the bold use of color to express emotion.
Who are the Wild Beasts?
A movement that is politically ideological and embraces technology and industrialization.
What is (Italian) Futurism?
The most influential movement to design.
What is Bauhaus?
The artistic medium that often appears to be a window to the world.
What is photography?
The artist who is said to illustrate Baudelaire's essay, though the artist specifically mentions his distaste for him. He is considered the "father" of Modernism.
Who is Edouard Manet?
Two movements whose aim is to elevate "arts and crafts" to the level of "fine art".
What are Art Nouveau and Art Deco?
The artist who hosted an exhibition entitled "0.10".
Who is Kazimir Malevich?
The technique used by Surrealists to create works that embraced total chance.
What is automatism?
An ideological space for the display of artworks which does its best to disappear and not distract from the content of the works themselves.
What is a white cube gallery space?
An art movement showing a society which enjoyed new-found leisure time.
What is Impressionism?
A movement that comes right after the Gilded Age and rejects its high-class subject matter.
What is the Ashcan School?
The movement that embraced absurdity.
What is Dada?
The Aesthetic term that the AbEx artists discussed in their writing as well as strived to express on the canvas which is characterized by the "hunger" to transcend to a new level of art & life. We discussed this most especially in the work of Barnett Newman.
What is the Sublime?