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  2. Pattern and Decoration - Wikipedia

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    Pattern and Decoration was a United States art movement from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The movement has sometimes been referred to as "P&D" [1] [2] or as The New Decorativeness. [3] The movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. [4] The movement was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in ...

  3. Pointillism - Wikipedia

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    Detail from Seurat's Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism. Pointillism (/ ˈ p w æ̃ t ɪ l ɪ z əm /, also US: / ˈ p w ɑː n-ˌ ˈ p ɔɪ n-/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.

  4. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    The symbolist painters were an important influence on expressionism and surrealism in painting, two movements which descend directly from symbolism proper. The harlequins , paupers, and clowns of Pablo Picasso 's " Blue Period " show the influence of symbolism, and especially of Puvis de Chavannes .

  5. Bay Area Figurative Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...

  6. Kitsch movement - Wikipedia

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    Hope, George Frederic Watts, 1886.Cover of On Kitsch by Odd Nerdrum and others. [note 1]Kitsch painting is an international movement made up of classical painters, a result of a 24 September 1998 speech and philosophy given by the Norwegian figurative artist, Odd Nerdrum, [1] later clarified in his book On Kitsch [2] with Jan-Ove Tuv and others.

  7. Barbizon School - Wikipedia

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    Corot, Road by the Water, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas.Clark Art Institute Charles-François Daubigny, The Pond at Gylieu, 1853. The Barbizon school (French: école de Barbizon, pronounced [ekɔl də baʁbizɔ̃]) of painters were part of an art movement toward Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

  8. Pattern recognition (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Semantic memory, which is used implicitly and subconsciously, is the main type of memory involved in recognition. [2] Pattern recognition is crucial not only to humans, but also to other animals. Even koalas, which possess less-developed thinking abilities, use pattern recognition to find and consume eucalyptus leaves. The human brain has ...

  9. Pattern language - Wikipedia

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    A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns, each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many ways within a specific field of expertise. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his 1977 book A Pattern Language.