Definition of art movement Art movement
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| art movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles | ||
| artistic movement | ||
| social movement, front, movement the side that is seen or that goes first | ||
| abstract expressionism, action painting a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles | ||
| ash can, ashcan school early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life | ||
| impressionism a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light | ||
| 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 | ||
| ashcan school, eight a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life | ||
| pointillism a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | ||
| art deco, deco a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production | ||
| art nouveau a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers | ||
| avant-garde, new wave, vanguard, van any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | ||
| constructivism an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | ||
| suprematism a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism | ||
| cubism an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | ||
| dadaism, dada a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | ||
| expressionism an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | ||
| fauvism an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | ||
| futurism the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future | ||
| hudson river school, romantic realism the first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England | ||
| imagism a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | ||
| lake poets English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it | ||
| luminism an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective | ||
| minimal art, minimalism, reductivism an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | ||
| naturalism, realism (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | ||
| neoromanticism an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | ||
| nouvelle vague, new wave an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s | ||
| sezession, secession formal separation from an alliance or federation | ||
| surrealism a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams | ||
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