abstract expressionism
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a style in abstract art in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things rather than showing objects as they really appear
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noun
a style in abstract art in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things rather than showing objects as they really appear
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a style of art, decoration, and architecture with simple strong lines that was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and the U.S.
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a style of art, decoration, and architecture that uses curved patterns of leaves, flowers, and other natural objects, and was popular at the end of the 19th century in Europe and the U.S.
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made in a style that returned to using patterns, materials, and methods that existed before industrial production, following ideas developed in England in the late 19th century
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relating to the very detailed style of art, building, or music that was popular in Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries
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a style of art or entertainment that deliberately does not follow traditional ideas about what is considered good in order to produce a humorous effect
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the way that light and dark areas create a pattern, especially in drawings and paintings
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a style of art or literature based on ancient Greek and Roman styles that is beautiful in a simple controlled way
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art in which the idea the artist wants to express though a piece of work is more important than the work itself
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a style in art, literature, and music in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things instead of objects as they really appear
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a style or method in art, literature, music etc. in which there is more emphasis on obeying formal rules than expressing meaning or emotion
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freeform music or art does not obey the usual rules for creating a piece of music or art
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a movement in art and literature in the early 20th century that used technology as its subject
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a particular style used in movies, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain features
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a style of painting in which artists use light and color to give the general feeling of a scene, rather than exact detail. Impressionism began in France in the middle of the 19th century.
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a type of literature or cinema in which very strange things happen in ordinary situations, as they do in dreams
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a style of art that developed in the 1960s and uses a small number of simple shapes and colors
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a style of art, literature, etc. that developed in the early part of the 20th century
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the method of combining several different pictures, pieces of music, etc., to create a single piece
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an idea, subject, or pattern that is frequently repeated in a piece of literature, art, etc.
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a work of literature, music, art, or cinema that makes use of material from other similar works, especially in order to laugh in a gentle way at those other works
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the practice of showing a particular quality in the form of a person, or an instance of this
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a style of modern art that began in the 1960s and used familiar images such as advertisements as its subjects
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ideas, attitudes, or styles of art, literature, or thinking that have developed after modernism, often as a reaction against it
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music, art, or writing that is based on the experiences that people have when they are taking psychedelic drugs
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a style of literature, art, and music common at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries that emphasized the importance of personal feelings and of nature
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a type of art that represents objects instead of people, animals, or the countryside
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a 20th-century style of art and literature that tried to represent dreams and unconscious experience using unusual combinations of images
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