# 3 Art History Vocabulary Words – Flashcards
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Avant-Garde
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late 19th and 20th century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work
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Japonisme
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the French fascination with all things Japanese
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Modernism
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an art movement that sought to capture images and sensibilities of the age (Impression:Sunrise)
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Impressionism
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art movement that sought to capture a fleeing moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions
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Post-Impressionism
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term used to describe pieces that more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color (A Sunday on La Grande Jatte)
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Pointillism
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a system of painting in which the artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots.
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Abstract
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forms and colors arranged without reference to the depiction of the object
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Cubism
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art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world.
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Futurism
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art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology (Armored Train)
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Readymade
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ordinary objects that an artists chooses to become art (Fountain)
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Automatism
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the process of yielding oneself to instinctive motions of the hands after establishing a set of conditions within which a work is to be created
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Primitivism
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the incorporation in early 20th century Western art of stylistic elements from the artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples (The Portuguese)
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Collage
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a composition made by combining on a flat surface various materials, such as newspaper, wallpaper, printed text and illustrations, photographs, and cloth
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Dada
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art movement that embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive. (Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany)
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Surrealism
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incorporated the improvisational nature of its predecessor into its exploration of the ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious. (The Persistence of Memory)
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Drip Painting
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form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured on a canvas
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Action Painting
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the kind of abstract expressionism practiced by Jackson Pollock, in which the emphasis was on the creation process, the artist's gesture in making art. (Number 1, 1950)
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Abstract Expressionism
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The first major American avant garde movement; artists produced abstract paintings that expressed their state of mind and that they hoped would strike emotional chords in the viewers. (Number 1, 1950)
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Gestural Painting
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a kind of abstract painting in which the gesture, or act of painting, is seen as the subject of the art. (Jackson Pollock)
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Pop Art
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art that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, such as images from motion pictures and advertising (just what makes today's homes so different, so appealing?)
