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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Week 12 Vocabulary: pop art, dadaism, photomontage

pop art: a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of pop culture and mass media

dadaism: a revolt by certain twentieth century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.

photomontage:the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into a new image

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