art movement
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1. a group of artists who agree on general principles (noun.group)
hypernym | : | front, movement, social movement, |
definition | : | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | abstract expressionism, action painting, |
definition | : | a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | ash can, ashcan school, |
definition | : | early 20th-century United States painting; portrays realistic and sordid scenes of city life (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | impressionism, |
definition | : | a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | pop art, |
definition | : | a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | ashcan school, eight, |
definition | : | a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | pointillism, |
definition | : | a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | art deco, deco, |
definition | : | a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | art nouveau, |
definition | : | a French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | avant-garde, new wave, van, vanguard, |
definition | : | any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | constructivism, |
definition | : | an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | suprematism, |
definition | : | a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | cubism, |
definition | : | an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | dada, dadaism, |
definition | : | a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | expressionism, |
definition | : | an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | fauvism, |
definition | : | an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | futurism, |
definition | : | an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | hudson river school, romantic realism, |
definition | : | the first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | imagism, |
definition | : | a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | lake poets, |
definition | : | English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | luminism, |
definition | : | an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | minimal art, minimalism, reductivism, |
definition | : | an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | naturalism, realism, |
definition | : | an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | neoromanticism, |
definition | : | an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | secession, sezession, |
definition | : | an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | surrealism, |
definition | : | a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | symbolism, |
definition | : | an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images (noun.group) |
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