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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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AI_art
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
Online musical genre and visual aesthetic
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Vaporwave
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
Group of English painters, poets, and critics founded in 1848
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Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
A flat minimalistic art style
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Corporate_Memphis
International cultural movement (1920s–1950s)
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Surrealism
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
Avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
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Dada
American art movement
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Hudson_River_School
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
Technique of painting with small, distinct dots
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Pointillism
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
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
International feminist movement, promoting art reflecting women's lives and experiences
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Feminist_art_movement
19th-century art movement
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Impressionism
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
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
Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
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Romanticism
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 by a person lacking formal training
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Naïve_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
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
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
Late 19th-century movement
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Decadent_movement
Minimalism Modernism Modular constructivism Naive art Neoclassicism Neo-Dada Neo-expressionism Neo-Fauvism Neo-figurative Neogeo (art) Neoism Neo-primitivism
List_of_art_movements
Group of Austrian artists and architects
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Vienna_Secession
Art technique of illusory tridimensionality
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Trompe-l'œil
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
1920s African-American cultural movement
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Harlem_Renaissance
Design movement (c. 1880–1920)
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Arts_and_Crafts_movement
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
illusions, can be traced back to Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dada. The Divisionists, a group of Neo-Impressionist painters,
Op_art
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)
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
19th-century art movement
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Aestheticism
Early 20th-century artistic style
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Fauvism
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
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 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
19th-century artistic movement
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Realism_(art_movement)
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 French artistic movement
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Barbizon_School
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
Predominantly French art movement, 1886–1905
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Post-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
Imitation or depiction of Eastern cultures
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Orientalism
Austrian short-lived art movement
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Viennese_Actionism
Contemporary art movement
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Photorealism
Art movement
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Maximalism
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
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 movement
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Primitivism
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
Art movement
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Neo-Impressionism
European cultural period of the 14th to 17th centuries
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Renaissance
19th-century art movement from Central Europe
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Biedermeier
Genre of photorealistic painting
Bert Monroy and Robert Bechtle. Subject matter ranges from portraits, figurative art, still life, landscapes, cityscapes and narrative scenes. The more
Hyperrealism_(visual_arts)
Art movement
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Superflat
Architectural and art movement and style
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Neo-futurism
create visual interest. Their work has come to be described as modular constructivism, reflecting both its compositional methodology and its architectural
Modular_art
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
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Japonisme
Overview of nighttime themes in European art
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Night in paintings (Western art)
Night_in_paintings_(Western_art)
Art created by a set of rules, often using computers
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Generative_art
Underground visual art movement
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Lowbrow_(art_movement)
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
Three-dimensional work of art
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Installation_art
European art movement from about 1590 to 1750
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Baroque_painting
Phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting
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Geometric_art
Art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
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Outsider_art
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
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
Soviet style of realistic art depicting communist values
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Socialist_realism
Term for art of Scandinavia and Viking settlements of 8th-11th centuries
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Viking_art
International network of artists, composers and designers
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Fluxus
Late 19th-century art movement in Europe
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Symbolism_(movement)
Period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
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High_Renaissance
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
Art of the Franks under the Merovingian dynasty
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Merovingian art and architecture
Merovingian_art_and_architecture
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
Art movement and architectural style
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Classicism
Italian art style
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Metaphysical_painting
Type of performance artwork
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Happening
Artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies
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New_media_art
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
Art movement
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Costumbrismo
Visual art in public spaces
writers such as Mickey, Zedz and Yalt to the capital of the Netherlands. Figurative street art became more and more common in the streets around the turn
Street_art
French artists
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Nabis_(art)
Art movement
Elmer Bischoff and several others formed the Bay Area Figurative School with a return to Figurative painting. During the period between the fall 1964 and
Lyrical_abstraction
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List_of_Brutalist_structures
1920s German art movement against expressionism
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New_Objectivity
Artistic style of representing subjects realistically
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English streʒt ‘straight’, ‘upright’, presumably applied in either a literal or a figurative sense.
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 : habitational name from Merrow in Surrey, possibly so named from Old English mearg ‘marrow’ used figuratively to mean ‘fertile ground’.
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
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’.
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
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
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.
FIGURATIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM
FIGURATIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Unique Friend
Girl/Female
Greek
Founded the cult of Aphrodite.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Heat Wave
Boy/Male
Hindu
More attractive, Gratitude, Thankfulness, Obligation
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Who Give You Love
Girl/Female
Tamil
Punthali | பà¯à®‚தாலீ
A doll
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Costain.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Name of a saint, Divine, Holy
Girl/Female
Tamil
River Yamuna, Born of the Sun
Biblical
son of grief,
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n.
A figurative or symbolical reference.
a.
tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense.
a.
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
a.
Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
a.
Of a definite form or figure.
n.
Mixture of concords and discords.
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.
a.
Figurate. See Figurate.
n.
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
a.
Not literal; figurative.
n.
A wing, literal or figurative.
a.
Figurative; symbolical.
a.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
n.
One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
a.
Figurative; metaphorical.
n.
Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
a.
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
n.
A halo, actual or figurative.
v.
In various figurative senses.
a.
Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.