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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of ... Read more
Rudolf von Laban
Rudolf von Laban , 1879-1958, Slovakian dancer, choreographer, and dance theorist. After studying in Paris and performing in N Africa, Germany, and Austria, he founded (1910) a dance school in Munich; Mary Wigman was one of his early students. He founded schools bearing his name all over Europe du... Read more
lyceum
lyceum , 19th-century American association for popular instruction of adults by lectures, concerts, and other methods. Lyceum groups were concerned with the dissemination of information on the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs. The National American Lyceum (1831) developed from the lecture... Read more
vorticism
vorticism , short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism . Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-Brzeska . The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ja... Read more
suprematism
suprematism Russian art movement founded (1913) by Casimir Malevich in Moscow, parallel to constructivism . Malevich drew Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. In Malevich's words, suprematism sought "to liberate art from the ballast of the representati... Read more
de Stijl
de Stijl [Du.,=the style], Dutch nonfigurative art movement, also called neoplasticism. In 1917 a group of artists, architects, and poets was organized under the name de Stijl, and a journal of the same name was initiated. The leaders of the movement were the artists Theo van Doesburg and Piet ... Read more
color-field painting
color-field painting abstract art movement that originated in the 1960s. Coming after the abstract expressionism of the 1950s, color-field painting represents a sharp change from the earlier movement. The production of the abstract expressionists involved a strong personal emotionalism, a painter... Read more
arts and crafts
arts and crafts term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. The chief influence behind this movement was Wi... Read more
Mikhail Larionov
Mikhail Larionov , 1881-1964, Russian painter. Larionov, together with Natalya Goncherova, was the founder of Rayonism, one of the earliest movements in nonfigurative art. Settling in Paris in 1914, Larionov stopped painting in 1915 and designed sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe the same year. ... Read more
orphism
orphism a short-lived movement in art founded in 1912 by Robert Delaunay , Frank Kupka , the Duchamp brothers, and Roger de la Fresnaye. Apollinaire coined the term orphism to describe the lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects that these painters sought to introduce into the drier aesthetic o... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Primitivism (art movement)"

Primitivism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Primitivism Definitions of the...les sciences et les arts (1749) [ Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts ] and his idea of...cultures. In the visual arts, earlier aesthetic...emergence of the modernist movement in art and literature and...
Miró, Joan
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Landscape (1923) heralds his more mature work and a close affinity with abstract art and primitivism . In 1924 Miró became a member of the surrealism movement, producing works such as Dog barking at the moon (1926). His work is often...
Romanticism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...but as a historical movement it arose in the 18th...Americans. The romantic movement in America, as elsewhere...impression not only on the arts, but also in the more...liberal religious movements (Unitarianism and...defined romantic literary movement in the U.S. was...The Sketch Book ); ...
Henri Matisse
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...initiators of the modern art movement and the most outstanding...Gauguin's experience of primitivism in Tahiti. The combination...new alternative to the art of the past, what entered...cerebral quality in modern art. Fauvism, on the other...Matisse into a classical art. A balance was ...
Harlem Renaissance
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...American creative arts associated with the larger New Negro movement, a multifaceted phenomenon...for developing black arts and sending them out...x201D; Modernist primitivism was a multifaceted...renovation of the arts. Early in the twentieth...
Francisco de Zurbarán
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Quietism, a religious movement that taught inner withdrawal...profound effect upon his art, it in no way limited...when his wife died. His art production declined markedly...luck in Madrid. His art, however, was little...technique and ingenuous primitivism, precise exactitude...
slavery, the literature of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Africa. The anti-slavery movement, at its peak in the 1780s and...commerce links anti-slavery with primitivism ; stock images of the Noble...important role in the abolition movement because writing and art were given value as expressions...

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Neo-primitivism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Neo-primitivism. A movement or trend in Russian painting...derived from peasant art, lubki (brightly coloured...main exponents of Neo-primitivism were Goncharova and Larionov...1913— Neo-Primitivism: Its Theory, its Possibilities...
Futurism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...similar concern with movement in his Manifesto of...foreshadowed Performance art . In keeping with this...differences between the movements in the two countries...theatre as in the visual arts, and it combined modern...with an interest in primitivism . In terms of Russian...x2014;as an ...
Miró, Joan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Lonja Academy of Fine Arts, 1907–10...working as a clerk, at an art school run in a liberal...influence of various modern movements— Fauvism...other members of the movement in the variety, geniality...Mixing abstraction, primitivism , and elements of a...Carnival ...
Gauguin, Paul
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...stimulating ideas about art. The most important...theory and practice of art reflected these attitudes...visual inspiration in the arts of ancient or primitive peoples (see Primitivism ), and he reacted vigorously...major revival of the art of woodcut in the 20th...figure of the Symbolist ...
Moore, Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...went to Leeds College of Art (1919–21...at Chelsea School of Art and he continued there...British Museum (see PRIMITIVISM ), and also in the frescos...vitality of life, of movement, physical action, frisking...European avant-garde art as well as ancient sculpture...
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...simplicity of early Italian art (i.e. before the...Thomas Woolner , and the art critics W. M. Rossetti...the Brotherhood. The movement had a strong literary...heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of...progressive reversion to primitivism and ugliness. The fortunes...
Larionov, Mikhail
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...developed a style known as Neo-Primitivism, in which he blended Fauvist...elements drawn from Russian folk art. Together they were involved...Rayonism , a near abstract movement that was a counterpart to Italian...with Goncharova) in London (Arts Council, 1961) and Paris (Mus. d'Art Moderne ...

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"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 12/1/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...imperatives of Western art but had merely changed...serious perversion of the art movement this eassy set out to...by the publicity for "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art...his or her concept of primitivism. If those dark exotic...
Jungle creatures and dancing apes: modern primitivism and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...overdetermination is the product of primitivism, a term I use without...relies on assumptions of primitivism as always constructed...women. A history of primitivism (both social and scientific...represent the avant-garde movement in modernism, its formal...contemporary establishment art for ...
Environmental primitivism and the noble savage. (Environment).
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...the great master of the art of cultural appropriation...fringe of the environmental movement. In my experience, it is...have here is environmental primitivism. It is Rousseau's Noble...environmental theories. Environmental primitivism portrays tribal societies...
'De la magie blanche la magie noire': 'primitivism', magic, mysticism and the occult in Picasso.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...can be no doubt that art did not begin for art's sake. It worked...origins of the magical arts in tribal cultures undoubtedly...German Expressionists with art negre helped establish...context of the Surrealist movement. At this time, artists...9) The influence of primitivism was ...
A supreme moment in Soviet art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/6/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...transformed Russian art in the early 20th century...two major abstract movements, Suprematism and Constructivism...dozen often competing movements, ''Russia and Its...swiftly.Here individual movements can be seen as part...Cubo-Futurism, a movement still linked to figuration...art ...
Dario Basso blends Arab and Spanish art.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 11/26/2008; 700+ words ; Part modern art, part homage to Arab creativity...The work itself reads more as Primitivism than any subtle reading of geometric discourse. Primitivism is defined as a movement in modern art wherein Europeans and Euro...
Viennese Kokoschka: Painter of the Soul, One-Man Movement.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 4/8/2002; 700+ words ; ...prevailing practices of the Expressionist movement. Just as he had rejected the decorative...Kokoschka eschew both the programmatic primitivism of the Brucke group and the mystical...Kokoschka was, in effect, a one-man movement of his own invention--an Expressionist...
'Aberrant Forms': The art of uncertainty
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Lancaster Museum of Art, 135 N. Lime St...Lancaster Museum of Art beginning Jan. 3...ve actually seen art that I feel bad for...a sense of modern primitivism that allows the viewer to trace the movement of the artist's...
Visual Art: Revolution is just around the corner They were the best artists of their generation, but their work is only now coming to light. By Lisa Jardine
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/31/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...of the avant-garde movement, too, women played...objective creativity is a movement of the spirit, a protest...answer to why their art has subsequently slipped...those of us who know Primitivism, Cubism and Constructivism...practitioners in the various movements (Braque, ...
City of big abstracts Giant dreams come true Series: CHICAGO'S ART OF THE CENTURY
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/10/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...an entirely abstract work of art. Never named and never explained...midwife of many of the major movements in art in this century, from Primitivism to Cubism, and a champion at various times of art as autobiography and art as...