| Term | Definition |
| abstraction | to draw away , extract |
| realism/ realistic | represented as it actually is |
| naturalism/ naturalistic | equate w/ realism |
| ideal | made better than it actually is or "best example" |
| surreal | beyond reality |
| non-objective/Non- representational | no recognizable shapes or patterns |
| Expressionism | many print makers |
| Expressionism | lines appear hacked or violent |
| expressionism | influeced by Gaugin and Van Gogh |
| Expressionism | artist's emotions |
| Munch"The Scream", | painting was often stolen, orange sky, swirling lines, scary expressive masked face |
| Beckman "Christ and the women taken in Adultery" | biblical, clashy colors, expressive faces Dramatic |
| Beckman "Paris Society" | Heavy lines, the poker game characters |
| French fauves | colorists |
| Matisse "Blue nude" | naked body, extracted from a womans body, non reaistic |
| Matisse "Harmony in Red (Red Room)" | redroom, flattened, hieroglyphic style |
| Matisse "still life w/ goldfish" | gold fish in a bowl, child like, bright colors , simple |
| cubisim | influnece by african maskes, relativity, developed by picasso and Braques, simultaneity |
| simultaneity | multiple time, and space on one canvas |
| Picasso | child prodigy, study of a torso, old guitarist, Halequin family w/ and ape |
| Pure abstraction | no need for subject matter |
| Destijl/ Neoplasticism | dutch publication, puriy of forms right angles, primary and neural colors |
| Mondrian | started with realistic art work |
| Mondrian " composition in white black and red" | black lines, red and white spaces |
| Brancusi | romanian sculptor |
| Brancusi "Bird in space" | sculptor of "bird in flight " |