Art Movements

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ABSTRACT

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Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures

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CUBISM

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A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

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EXPRESSIONISM

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A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

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IMPRESSIONISM

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characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light

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POP ART

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art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

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SURREALISM

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The movement's artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.