Dadaism: An art movement that expressed revulsion against the absurdity and horror of World War I, rejecting all art, modern and traditional. It also rejected the entire society that created. One of the most famous members being Marcel Duchamp.
-Gardner's Art Through the AgesDali, Salvadore: Salvadore Dali was part of an Art Movement in the 1920's and 1930's called Surrealism, which grew out of the psychological writings of Sigmund Freud. These paintings were representations of journeys taken into the subconscious through hallucinogenic drugs. In the 1940's, Salvadore moved on to classical and religious themes in his paintings, living until 1989.
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About.comde Stijl: A style of art that comes from the Netherlands featuring colors within a balanced structure of lines and rectangles. The style was meant to express the higher unity between humankind and the universe. Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg began the style in 1914.
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Art FundamentalsDegas, Edgar: Edgar Degas was a French painter that was part of the Impressioninst Art movement that took place during the 1860's. He focused primarily on painting images of the ballet, ballerinas at practice, and ballet performances.
He lived from 1834 to 1917.
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Design: The underlying plan onwhich artist base their total work; how the artwork is constructed or arranged, whether it be a two-dimensional work like a painting or a three dimensional work like a relief sculpture.
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Art FundamentalsDivisionism: Divisionism is the offspring of
Pointillism, who studied Georges Seurat's concept of placing small dots together to create form. Divisionism is a branch of
Neoimpressionism or Post-Impressionism where colors are divided into their components and arranged mechanically so the eye can recognize the shape.
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The Free DictionaryDominance: A principle used in organizing a composition where a certain element or elements are given more importance than other elements in the composition.
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Art FundamentalsDuchamp, Marcel: Marcel Duchamp(1887-1968) is famous for creating/founding the Dadaist movement. His focus was to make everything that seemed innocuous a piece of art. The most famous of his statements was a urinal, which he titled
Fountain, and signed it R. Mutt.
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