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Expressionism

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Focused on representing emotional experiences rather than physical reality, often with bold colors and dynamic compositions.

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Photorealism

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Art movement that involves painting or drawing from a photograph to create an image that closely resembles a photograph in its accuracy and precision.

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Dada

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Anti-art movement that sought to challenge art conventions and perceptions, often through absurdity and irrationality.

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YBAs (Young British Artists)

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A group of visual artists who began exhibiting together in London in the late 1980s, known for shocking and often controversial works.

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Impressionism

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Focused on capturing the momentary effects of light, loose brushwork, plein air painting.

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Installation Art

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Creates immersive environments, often large and mixed-media, designed to exist in a specific space temporarily or permanently.

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Performance Art

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Art in which the actions by the artist are the final, actual piace, with the audience sometimes expected to engage with the performance.

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De Stijl

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Advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors.

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Viennese Secession

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Formed by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, focused on exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition.

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Stuckism

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Founded in 1999, it promotes figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art, aiming to return to a more personal and traditional expression in art.

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Neo-Dada

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Blurred the boundaries between art and life, employed found objects, and challenged the notion of what art could be.

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Art Brut

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Literally 'Raw Art', 'outsider art', works created outside the boundaries of official culture; art by the mentally ill, prisoners, and children.

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Kinetic Art

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Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.

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COBRA

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A European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951, engaged in spontaneous and colorful works, often with primitive and mythic figures.

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New Realism

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French art movement in which artists used found objects and unconventional materials as a means of subverting traditional ideas of what art should be.

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Post-Impressionism

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Extended Impressionism while emphasizing on geometric forms, distorting form for expressive effect, and unnatural or arbitrary color.

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Appropriation Art

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Uses pre-existing objects or images with little transformation applied to them, intending to question the originality and authenticity in art.

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Surrealism

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Sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, through odd juxtapositions and dream-like scenes.

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Abstract Expressionism

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Highlighted spontaneous or subconscious creation, large-scale works, and expressive brushstrokes or mark-making.

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Art Nouveau

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Characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

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Bauhaus

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Combined fine arts and crafts, aimed to create a total work of art in which all arts would eventually be brought together.

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Land Art

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Artform that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures with natural materials such as rocks or twigs.

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Neo-expressionism

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A style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s, characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.

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Cubism

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Emphasized flat, two-dimensional surfaces, fragmented objects into geometric forms, and multiple perspectives.

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Conceptual Art

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Emphasized the idea or concept behind the work over the traditional aesthetic and material concerns.

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Pop Art

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Challenged traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising and comic books.

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Arte Povera

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Italian movement that used everyday materials to challenge and disrupt the commercialization of art.

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Arte Informale

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European abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by an instinctive and deeply human approach to abstraction.

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Zero Group

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Founded in the late 1950s, it aimed to transform and redefine art after World War II using materials like light, movement and space.

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Street Art

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Visual art created in public locations for public visibility, often with strong social or political messages, includes graffiti and murals.

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Color Field Painting

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Characterized by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

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Suprematism

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Focused on basic geometric forms and a limited range of colors, pioneered by Kazimir Malevich.

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Transavanguardia

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Italian art movement from the late 1970s to the 1980s, characterized by a return to figurative art and mythic iconography.

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Abstract Art

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Uses a visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Futurism

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Glorified themes of the modern age: technology, speed, violence, and the industrial city; often depicted dynamic motion and fluidity.

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Fauvism

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Characterized by strong colors and fierce brushwork, prioritized painterly qualities and color over representational values.

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Minimalism

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Focused on simplicity and objectivity, using geometric shapes and often monochromatic palettes.

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Digital Art

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Uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, including computer animation, 3D printing, and virtual art.

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Op Art

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Focused on creating optical illusions through abstract patterns and contrasting colors, often creating a sense of movement.

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Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)

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Emerging in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, this movement has its roots in underground comic, punk music, and other subcultures, often with a sense of humor.

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Constructivism

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Artistic philosophy that originated in Russia, rejecting the idea of autonomous art in favor of art as a practice for social purposes.

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Lyrical Abstraction

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A style of abstract art which emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s, characterized by a focus on form, color, and the sensation of painting.

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