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Frida Kahlo: 

  • Born in Mexico

  • Had polio

  • exagerated facial hair in self portraits 

  • Considered on of Mexico's greatest artists

  • mostly self portraits

  • Became politically active and married another communist artist

  • uses bold and b

Contemporary Art: The art of today. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced culturally diverse and technologically advancing world. 

Fantasy art: A broad and loosely defined art genre. Depicts magical or other supernatural themes. ideas, creatures or settings. 

Photo realism:  highly illusionistic images that referred not to nature but to the reproduced image.

Conceptional Art: Art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take presedence over traditional aesthetic, technical and material concerns.

Installation art: Three dimensional work of art usually from various materials that create an experience for the viewer.

Art Deco

  • Theatrical

  • classical

  • symettrical

  • rectilinear

  • 1925-1937

  • Art deco objects showcase simple and clean shapes. They are very geometric and stylized.

Surrealism

  • To free the mind

  • imaginative

  • reveal the unconscious

  • reject to logic and reasoning

  • Surrealism was an art movement in the early 1900's. Surrealist artists wanted to reveal their hidden desires and fears of society.

Pop art

  • subject matter

  • ordinary objects

  • clean

  • straightforward

  • two dimensional

  • Pop art took common objects and used them as subject matter. campbells soup cans were very popular of pop art.

Abstract Art

  • visual

  • shape

  • form

  • line

  • texture

  • Abstract art is a visual language and is not straight forward. It uses art values and mediums to create art.

Dada

  • ​expression

  • violence

  • war

  • nationalism

  • prove a point

  • Dada was an art movement formed during ww1. It was a negative reaction to war. It is often satirical and nonsensicle.

Precisionism

  • style of representation

  • realistic

  • emphasis on geometry

  • inspired by cubism

  • visual

  • similar to art deco

  • Inspired by early art movements, art deco was notably the technological aesthetic of futurism and geometry.

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