Conart 11

• Using new materials - employment of different objects and materials that looked useless to the common man but were brought to great use by modern artists.
• Use of color - Traditionally, color was used to bring reality to paintings and art pieces.
• Modern artist use color unconventionally to make new textures and themes and used them in their pieces of art.
• Fauvism - aggression in the use of colors and their autonomy about shapes
• Fauvism - thick and pasted brushstrokes
• fauvism - do not try to imitate reality but rather give a unique imprint to each work showing the emotional charge of the artists.
• Expressionism -  the artist depicts not objective reality but the subjective emotions that objects or events arouse.
• Expressionism -  distortion and exaggeration of shape and the vivid or violent application of color.
• Cubism - emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective
• Futurism - manifestation of the movement, the speed, and the rhythmic repetition
• Abstract art -  Many authors suggest that this current is within cubism.
• Abstract art - abstracting from appearances, even to the point of unrecognizable, and making works of art out of forms not drawn from the visible world.
• Neoplasticism -  based on two-dimensionality, use of straight lines, and primary colors.
• Neoplasticism -  divest itself of the particular to manifest the purity of art.
• Constructivism -  one of the directives that it contained was “to construct” art, because of admiration for machines and technology.
• Surrealism - Emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.
• Surrealism - world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surrealistic.”
• Conceptual art - post object art or art as an idea
• Conceptual art -  usually manipulated by the tools of language and sometimes documented by photography.