FINE209 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Willem De Kooning, Western Canon, Clement Greenberg
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Modern, adjective: describes a period of time, for our purposes, mid-twentieth century, example: autumn rhythm by jackson pollock is a work of modern art. Modernism, noun: the cultural outcome of modernity , a particular approach to art making, reception, and history, which was especially dominant during the twentieth century, example: jackson pillock"s autumn rhythm ascribes to the principles of modernism. Modernist, adjective: describes an object that ascribes to the tenets of modernism, ex. a painting, philosophy, example: autumn rhythm by jackson pollock is a modernist painting. Modernist set of values, broad cultural way of being - capital m modernism, formalist modernism, greenbergian modernism. Shaped culture, music, etc - broader way of thinking. Describes a speci c approach to art, visual culture, and its history. Developed from the early twentieth century through to 1968. De ned and upheld as dominant by the critics, curators, collectors, institutions, and ar historians that wrote the history of modern art.
