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Review Modern and Contemporary

City by Fernand Legar 1919 Philadelphia cubism. Loud colors and busy motion to represent city life

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp 1950 Philadelphia DADAISM anything can be art forcing people to see art in a new way

Night by Max Beckmann 1919 Düsseldorf GERMAN EXPRESSION representing the brutality of the early 20th century with tortured and contorted body

Big block by Walter Gropius 1925 Germany the Bauhaus period skeleton in glass building with reinforced concrete

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange 1935 Oakland Photographic Realism period showing the strength and worry of a migratory worker struggling to feed her children during hard times

Your gaze hits the side of my face by Barbara Kruger 1981 NY Contemporary displaying the issue of male gaze and the views on women and how they are treated like material possessions

Fete galante: an outdoor entertainment or rural festival, especially as depicted in 18th-century French painting

Romanticism: a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

Realism the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life.

Impressionism: a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.

Sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

Pointillism: a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye. It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color.

Fauvism: a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

Ready-Mades: a mass-produced article selected by an artist and displayed as a work of art

Neo Plasticism: a style of abstract painting developed by Piet Mondrian, using only vertical and horizontal lines and rectangular shapes in black, white, gray, and primary colors.

Bauhaus: German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught

Form follows function is a principle associated with 20th-century modernist architecture and industrial design which says that the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended function or purpose.

Surrealism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Postmodernism: a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.

Abstract expressionism: a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (e.G., action painting). Leading figures were Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.