Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Weekly Vocab

Pop Art: 1950s art movement centralized in Britain and the US that challenged traditional notions of fine art. The movement integrated "lower art" pieces such as advertising and pop culture


Dadaism: A European artistic and literary movement by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland that revolted against smugness in traditional art and Western society;



Photomontage: A composite photograph resulting from two or more photographs fused into a seamless illusion of an unreal subject. 


Constructivism: Aartistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favor of art as a practice for social purposes.


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