isms
Global movement that advocated for photography to be “fine art”
pictorialism
builds forms using primarily straight lines and rigid, simple shapes such as squares and triangles
geometric abstraction
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
A generation/group of artists including Georgia O’Keefe, Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, and more
The Stieglitz Circle or Stieglitz Group
Majored in chemistry and advocated for chemistry to be more important within photography
Imogen Cunningham
The representation of things seen as they appear to humans
naturalism
this technique would cause unpredictable areas of tonal reversal in the final image
solarization
Artist who called his works “compositions” and “improvisations”
Kadinsky
The event that gave attention to expressionism, cubism, and fauvism to the American public
The Armory Show of 1913
Movement that shied away from overly dramatic, emotional, and dramatic imagery and relied on recording without manipulation from the photographer
New Objectivity
Italian movement that focused on speed, tech, modern life, and dynamism
Futurism
When a photo is made by direct contact with a light-sensitive surface rather than in a camera
contact print OR photogram
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
Antiwar art movement that began in Switzerland and focused itself in New York once it got to America
New York Dada
A group of California based photographers that started in 1932
Group f/64
Writing or drawing without a conceived plan
art more concerned with the concept, or the idea behind the art, than with its fabrication, artistic technique, or forms of representation
conceptual art
Artist whose paintings echoed syncopations of jazz music
Arthur G. Dove
One of the first American venues to display non-Western art
291 Gallery
Photographs made without camera or film
Rayograph
A type of poetry that conveyed clear imagery without the use of artificial impositions or mediation of figurative language
Imagism
Art that depicts forms of the natural world, often having references to the human body, plants, trees, water, or other landscape elements
biomorphic abstraction
Artist who mocked how consumers portrayed Native American culture and handcraft as exotic
John Sloan
Lead by Robert Henri, this artistic movement focused on realism whose style focused heavily on impasto brushwork
The Ashcan School
Important movement that embraced uncanny imagery and strange juxtapositions
Surrealism