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Chapter 28 - RISE OF MODERNISM
Assemblage
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____ Artwork created by gathering and manipulating found objects and other three-dimensional items. Especially popular in the first half of the 20th century.
Automatism
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____ Technique whereby the usual intellectual control of the artist over his or her brush or pencil is foregone. The artist's aim is to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference.
Avant Garde
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____ Term meaning "before the group". Denotes those artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental or radical nature for the time.
Collage
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____ Technique in which cutout paper forms are pasted onto another surface in a composition.
Curtain Wall
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____ A wall in a building that does not support any of the weight of the structure.
Formalism
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____ An approach to the understanding of art based almost solely on considerations of FORM. (duh.)
Frottage
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____ Design produced by laying a piece of paper over a relief or incised pattern and rubbing with charcoal.
Historicism
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____ 19th century consciousness of and attention to the newly available and accurate knowledge of the paste, due to historical research, textual study, and archeology.
Photomontage
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____ Photographic work created from many smaller photographs arranged (and often overlapping) in a composition.
Readymade
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____ An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.