intuitive
(adjective)
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought; easily understood or grasped by instinct.
Examples of intuitive in the following topics:
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Art Informel in Europe
- The movement abandoned geometric abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to Action Painting in the United States.
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Romanticism
- Romanticism was also inspired by the German Sturm und Drang movement (Storm and Stress), which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism.
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European Postwar Expressionism
- Art Informel, a movement closely related to Tachisme, rejected the geometric, hard-edge style of American abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression.
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Der Blaue Reiter
- They believed in the promotion of modern art, the connection between visual art and music, the spiritual and symbolic associations of color, and a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting.
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What Makes Art Beautiful?
- An aesthetic judgment cannot be an empirical judgment but must instead be processed on a more intuitive level.
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Chance, Improvisation, and Spontaneity
- The movement rejected logic and reason and instead prized irrationality, nonsense, and intuition.
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Compositional Balance
- Just as symmetry relates to aesthetic preference and reflects an intuitive sense for how things "should" appear, the overall balance of a given composition contributes to outside judgments of the work.
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Dada and Surrealism
- Surrealist works drew inspiration from intuition, the power of the unconscious mind and various psychological schools of thought.
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German Expressionism
- Der Blaue Reiter as a group believed in the promotion of modern art, the connection between visual art and music, the spiritual and symbolic associations of color, and a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting.
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Mendé Masks
- The bird on top of the head represents a woman's intuition that lets her see and know things that others can't.