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What is meant by “Fauvism” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Fauvism is associated with intense color and varied departures from naturalistic color relations.
What is meant by “Cubism” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Cubism developed fragmented and restructured representation through varied approaches to objects and space.
What is meant by “Multiple viewpoint” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Multiple-viewpoint representation presents aspects not restricted to one optical position.
What is meant by “Abstraction” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Abstraction selects, transforms, or departs from representational features to varying degrees.
What is meant by “Nonobjective art” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Nonobjective art does not depict identifiable external objects as its primary organizing basis.
What is meant by “Collage” in this lesson?Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction: Collage combines attached or assembled materials within a work.
What is meant by “Dada” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: Dada comprised varied practices challenging conventions amid contexts including World War I.
What is meant by “Readymade” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: A readymade selects and recontextualizes an existing object as art under a particular practice.
What is meant by “Surrealism” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: Surrealism developed varied practices exploring imagination, unconscious processes, and unexpected relationships.
What is meant by “Automatism” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: Automatism seeks reduced conscious control in making under specific artistic methods.
What is meant by “Juxtaposition” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: Juxtaposition places elements together to create relationships or contrasts.
What is meant by “Interpretive caution” in this lesson?Dada and Surrealism: Caution avoids treating an image as proof of a maker's or viewer's clinical condition.
What is meant by “Global modernisms” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: Global modernisms recognize multiple situated projects of visual and institutional change.
What is meant by “Appropriation” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: Appropriation reuses forms or materials with context-dependent questions about power, permission, and meaning.
What is meant by “Colonial art institution” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: A colonial institution organizes art through unequal political and cultural authority.
What is meant by “Anticolonial visual project” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: A project uses visual practices in relation to emancipation or contested identity.
What is meant by “Diasporic practice” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: A diasporic practice develops through movement and connections among places.
What is meant by “Center-periphery critique” in this lesson?Global Modernisms and Cultural Exchange: Critique questions accounts that treat one region as the sole source of artistic innovation.