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  1. @TASCHENBooks RE: best twitters for art... Opening lecture line: Art history is about 3 things: Sex, Death, and Power. Any questions?
  2. More Art History humor from the Onion: Four Or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance http://twurl.nl/3mjiei
  3. paint like a post-war master at http://twurl.nl/sz0h5b
  4. Upstate is very Mad Max today. RT @mjbroadbent: NYC is very Blade Runner today.
  5. Int'l Style: uses new materials/techniques of steel/concrete/glass to create asymmetric compositions of volumed geometric form, w/o ornament
  6. Modernism: art theory and practice that breaks with past ideas and styles in order to make the next major ("new") historical contribution
  7. Dada means everything.
  8. Dada means nothing.
  9. Beauty in art is created not by the objects of representation, but by the relationships of line and color. —Mondrian #quote #art
  10. Malevich: ...in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form... on a white field.
  11. Modern Art explained! http://twurl.nl/7cvxg3
  12. Cubism: art movement that translates natural form as fragmented geometric planes + creates a new pictorial space through multiple viewpoints
  13. Expressionism: emphasize inner experience, show subjective response to scene rather than scene itself, distort reality for emotional effect
  14. Modern art was doubtlessly born on the day when the idea of art and beauty were separated. —Andre Malraux #quote #art
  15. primitivism is a style inspired by non-Western and naive art + makes use of themes or formal elements from prehistory and tribal cultures.
  16. amusing take on Apple products and Dali's The Persistence of Memory RT @FallingWhale: @profLauber http://bit.ly/pvXxV
  17. fin-de siécle = a common turn-of-the-century anxiety or disillusionment in art, best represented by Munch's "The Scream" (1893)
  18. Post-Impressionism: a style that follows Impressionism, discards concern w/light + nature in favor of exploring form + symbolic content.
  19. van Gogh version of first-person-shooter "Counter-Strike "video game http://snipr.com/gguem See the "Night Cafe"! http://twitpic.com/p8c07
  20. a worthy battle... RT @ABSTRACTAGEOUS: Art History paper. You are doomed to completion. Let the war begin.