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Art movement
Figurative Constructivism is an art movement that arose principally in Germany. The term was introduced by Franz Seiwert in 1929 using the phrase "gegenständlichen
Figurative_Constructivism
Artistic and architectural philosophy originating in Russia
Malevich. Constructivism first appears as a term in Gabo's Realistic Manifesto of 1920. Aleksei Gan used the word as the title of his book Constructivism, printed
Constructivism_(art)
Early-20th-century Russian art movement
fundamentally opposed to the postrevolutionary positions of Constructivism and materialism. Constructivism, with its cult of the object, is concerned with utilitarian
Suprematism
Artistic and social movement
cuisine. To some extent, Futurism influenced the art movements Art Deco, Constructivism, Surrealism, and Dada; to a greater degree, Precisionism, Rayonism,
Futurism
Avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
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Dada
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AI_art
20th-century avant-garde art movement
art form. In France and other countries Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism, De Stijl and Art Deco developed in response to Cubism. Early Futurist
Cubism
List of western art periods
1921 Bauhaus – 1919 – 1933, Germany The "Others" – 1919, United States Constructivism – 1920s, Russia/Soviet Union Vkhutemas – 1920 – 1926, Russia Precisionism
Periods in Western art history
Periods_in_Western_art_history
expressionism Art Deco Art Nouveau Bauhaus Color Field painting Conceptual Art Constructivism Cubism Dada Der Blaue Reiter De Stijl Die Brücke Body art Expressionism
Art_of_Europe
Works that are experimental or innovative
short descriptions of redirect targets Conceptual art – Art movement Constructivism – Artistic and architectural philosophy originating in Russia Creationism –
Avant-garde
Art movement
Fountain was exhibited, it was a sculpture. Some currents of post-war figurative painting have been analyzed as postmodern. The Italian painter Carlo Maria
Postmodern_art
Dutch art movement founded 1917
started playing a role. These influences were mainly Malevich and Russian Constructivism, to which not all members agreed. In 1924 Mondrian broke with the group
De_Stijl
Technique of painting with small, distinct dots
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Pointillism
Artistic style in Europe and colonies, c. 1600–1750
like the Vienna Secession, Cubism, Fauvism, Primitivism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Futurism, De Stijl, and Expressionism. Besides Modernism, elements
Baroque
A flat minimalistic art style
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Corporate_Memphis
20th-century architectural and art style
exhibition called the "Jazz Age" at the Cleveland Museum of Art, US Constructivism – Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, by El Lissitzky (1919–1920), lithographic
Art_Deco
American art movement
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was
Bay_Area_Figurative_Movement
Late 19th-century movement
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Decadent_movement
Contemporary art movement
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Photorealism
Art movement
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Primitivism
Modernist art movement
many of Jewish origin, dubbed the School of Paris. After World War II, figurative expressionism influenced artists and styles around the world. The term
Expressionism
Online musical genre and visual aesthetic
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Vaporwave
Minimalism Modernism Modular constructivism Naive art Neoclassicism Neo-Dada Neo-expressionism Neo-Fauvism Neo-figurative Neogeo (art) Neoism Neo-primitivism
List_of_art_movements
German painter
leading theorist of Figurative Constructivism describing its origins as "From the expressionist-cubist art-form abstract constructivism was developed, which
Franz_Wilhelm_Seiwert
Styles of art associated with periods of time and/or locations of artistic activity
perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create
Art_movement
American art movement
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Hudson_River_School
Group of English painters, poets, and critics founded in 1848
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Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
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Romanticism
Western cultural movement
Union, multiple competing avant-garde movements were present, notably Constructivism. However, as Stalin consolidated his power towards the end of the 1920s
Neoclassicism
Art produced in the Western world
(Russell), De Stijl (van Doesburg and Mondrian), Suprematism (Malevich), Constructivism (Tatlin), Dadaism (Duchamp, Picabia and Arp), and Surrealism (de Chirico
Western_painting
Art movement
Being narrative in subject and employing not only skill in arranging figurative compositions but also the burgeoning skill of linear perspective, the
Italian_Renaissance_painting
19th-century art movement
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Aestheticism
Art movement
illusions, can be traced back to Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dada. The Divisionists, a group of Neo-Impressionist painters,
Op_art
German art school and art movement
cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism. Such influences can be overstated: Gropius did not share these radical
Bauhaus
Art produced by the Minoan civilization
across different media, although only some styles of pottery include figurative scenes. Bull-leaping appears in painting and several types of sculpture
Minoan_art
1890–1911 European style of art and architecture
Amsterdam Commodities Exchange, which he built following the principles of constructivism. Everything was functional, including the lines of rivets that decorated
Art_Nouveau
Art by a person lacking formal training
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Naïve_art
Art made in Ancient Rome and the territories it ruled
originals that were copied. The Romans entirely lacked a tradition of figurative vase-painting comparable to that of the Ancient Greeks, which the Etruscans
Roman_art
Art Deco in architecture
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Art_Deco_architecture
Art movement
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Maximalism
Architectural style
designed in the brutalist style with some elements of structuralism and constructivism. It is considered a prime representative of the brutalist architecture
Brutalist_architecture
Imitation or depiction of Eastern cultures
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Orientalism
Cultural and artistic movement
Soviet Union, where it had previously endorsed Russian Futurism and Constructivism, primarily under the homegrown philosophy of Suprematism. The Nazi government
Modernism
19th-century art movement
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Impressionism
Artwork created through actions of an artist or other participants
of performance art in the beginnings of the 20th century, along with constructivism, Futurism and Dadaism. Dada was an important inspiration because of
Performance_art
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List_of_Brutalist_structures
International cultural movement (1920s–1950s)
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Surrealism
Artistic style of Europe from 1000 AD to the 13c
12th centuries, figurative sculpture strongly revived, and architectural reliefs are a hallmark of the later Romanesque period. Figurative sculpture was
Romanesque_art
Art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
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Outsider_art
Art technique of illusory tridimensionality
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Trompe-l'œil
Early 20th-century artistic style
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Fauvism
Art showing conditions of the working class
easy to understand (ruling out abstract art such as suprematism and constructivism) for the masses of illiterate people in Russia. A wide-ranging debate
Social_realism
Underground visual art movement
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Lowbrow_(art_movement)
Design movement (c. 1880–1920)
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Arts_and_Crafts_movement
Art movement
the 1960s and 1970s, the Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of abstract expressionism
Neo-expressionism
Group of expressionist artists
European medieval art and primitivism, as well as the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France. As a result of their encounters with Cubist, Fauvist
Der_Blaue_Reiter
Art created by a set of rules, often using computers
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Generative_art
English art of the Anglo-Saxon period
therefore suggests an artist skilled in all the main Anglo-Saxon media for figurative art – of which being a goldsmith was then regarded as the most prestigious
Anglo-Saxon_art
19th-century art movement from Central Europe
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Biedermeier
Artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies
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New_media_art
Art of the Franks under the Merovingian dynasty
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Merovingian art and architecture
Merovingian_art_and_architecture
17th-century Dutch painting
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Dutch_Golden_Age_painting
Art movement emerging in the mid-1950s
reality". In Spain, the study of pop art is associated with the "new figurative", which arose from the roots of the crisis of informalism. Eduardo Arroyo
Pop_art
Art movement
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Superflat
Group of Canadian landscape painters (1920–1933)
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Group_of_Seven_(artists)
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
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Japonisme
European art movement from about 1590 to 1750
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Baroque_painting
Predominantly French art movement, 1886–1905
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Post-Impressionism
19th-century artistic movement
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Realism_(art_movement)
Old Russian art school
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Moscow_school
Art by advanced cultures of ancient societies
from Yemen; height: 30 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 24 cm; Louvre Bahraini figurative funerary stele; about 2nd-3rd century; the Bahrain pavilion of Expo 2015
Ancient_art
Three-dimensional work of art
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Installation_art
Style of medieval art
used to define the periods in art in all media, although in many ways figurative art developed at a different pace. The earliest Gothic art was monumental
Gothic_art
Art movement
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Neo-Impressionism
Architectural and art movement and style
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Neo-futurism
Art movement, an offshoot of cubism
to muted, monkish tones of brown and gray, and for retaining traces of figurative imagery. Even though Orphism was effectively dissolved before World War
Orphism_(art)
Group of Austrian artists and architects
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Vienna_Secession
European artist group
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Zero_(art)
Art movement
aesthetic in the context of the French Wars of Religion. The iconography of figurative works was mostly mythological, with a strong emphasis on Diana, goddess
Northern_Mannerism
heterosexual and male homosexual, became common. By about 320 BC fine figurative vase-painting had ceased in Athens and other Greek centres, with the polychromatic
Ancient_Greek_art
Visual arts produced during the European Renaissance
Giovanni Pisano, the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic, three-dimensional, lifelike
Renaissance_art
International art movement
movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017, the initial group
Stuckism
Art movement and architectural style
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Classicism
Period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
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High_Renaissance
Early 19th century German Romantic painters
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Nazarene_movement
European cultural period of the 14th to 17th centuries
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Renaissance
1920s African-American cultural movement
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Harlem_Renaissance
Post-Roman British and Irish style of art
although historiated initials (an Insular invention), canon tables and figurative miniatures, especially Evangelist portraits, are also common. This sense
Insular_art
1920s German art movement against expressionism
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New_Objectivity
Architectural style popular in the 1920s-1930s
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Art_Deco_in_the_United_States
Art movement
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Conceptual_art
Art during the Middle Ages in Europe and beyond
architecture, seem to have had influence even in Western Europe. For example, figurative monumental sculpture on the outside of churches appears here some centuries
Medieval_art
Japanese art group
opposed to both abstract (chūshō) and figurative (gushō), the group distinguished themselves from contemporary figurative art, such as Surrealism and social
Gutai_Art_Association
Genre of artworks that contains movement
shadows and movement. Russian artist and founder-member of the Russian Constructivism movement Vladimir Tatlin is considered by many artists and art historians
Kinetic_art
International feminist movement, promoting art reflecting women's lives and experiences
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Feminist_art_movement
19th-century French artistic movement
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Barbizon_School
Overview of nighttime themes in European art
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Night in paintings (Western art)
Night_in_paintings_(Western_art)
American art movement
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Ashcan_School
Painting style developed in the 14th century Siena
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Sienese_school
Artistic style in Europe and colonies, c. 1730–1780
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Rococo
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Merrow in Surrey, possibly so named from Old English mearg ‘marrow’ used figuratively to mean ‘fertile ground’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English sale ‘hall’, a topographic name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house.English : from Middle English salwe ‘sallow’ (a tree, a kind of willow), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a sallow tree, or a habitational name from for example Sale in Greater Manchester, named from the old dative form of this word, in atte sale.French (Salé) : from Old French salé ‘salty’, hence a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by or worked in a salt marsh, or, in a figurative sense, a nickname for an amusing or witty person.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Imbert or a translation of German and Jewish Bernstein, which means ‘amber’.Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world) : from the Arabic personal name ‛Anbar, literally ‘perfume’, ‘ambergris’, figuratively ‘good’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’.
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : nickname from Middle High German nac, nacke, Middle Dutch necke ‘neck’, perhaps denoting someone with a stiff neck, in either the literal or figurative sense.English : from the Old Norse personal name Hnaki.
Male
English
Celtic Arthurian legend name of a famous King of Britain. The name is of obscure etymology, possibly composed of Welsh art/arth "bear" and Brittonic gur "man," hence "bear-man." The earliest mention of him is in Welsh texts, where he is never called "king," but rather dux bellorum, ARTHUR means "war leader." Medieval Welsh texts call him ameraudur "emperor" which could also mean "war leader." In early Welsh works the word art was used as a figurative synonym for "warrior."Â
Male
English
English form of Greek Diabolos, DEVIL means "accuser, slanderer." In the bible, this is a title for Satan, the prince of demons and author of evil, who estranges men from God and entices them to sin. Figuratively, the devil is a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English streʒt ‘straight’, ‘upright’, presumably applied in either a literal or a figurative sense.
Male
Greek
(Διάβολος) Greek name DIABOLOS means "accuser, slanderer." In the bible, this is a title for Satan, the prince of demons and author of evil, who estranges men from God and entices them to sin. Figuratively, the devil is a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him.
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Female
English
Variant spelling of English Annabelle, ANNABEL means "gracious beauty."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Muslim
Arranger; Adjuster
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
A Companion of Prophet Muhammed; Helper; Friend
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Big Sky
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Lord Krishna; Lord Venkateswara
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Singer; Lotus
Girl/Female
Indian
Good natured
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Lord of the Universe
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (Latin homo), representing an Anglo-Norman translation of German Mann.North German (Frisian) : from a short form of Humbert or Humbold (a compound name with the same first element + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Deep-rooted. Stable.
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n.
A wing, literal or figurative.
a.
Figurative; symbolical.
n.
Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
a.
Figurate. See Figurate.
a.
Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.
a.
Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
n.
Mixture of concords and discords.
n.
One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
a.
Not literal; figurative.
v.
In various figurative senses.
a.
Of a definite form or figure.
n.
A halo, actual or figurative.
n.
A figurative or symbolical reference.
a.
Figurative; metaphorical.
a.
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
a.
tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense.
a.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
a.
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
a.
Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
n.
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.