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Francisco Goya
Third of May
Romanticism
Factual event, Spanish response to Napoleonic troops |
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Gustave Courbet
The Stone Breakers
Realism
"If you are born poor, your destiny is to be poor your whole life." |
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Edouard Manet
Olympia
Realism
Parody of Venus of Urbino by Titian
Prostitute and slave |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Banjo Lesson
Realism
The lives of ordinary people; no luxury |
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Claude Monet
Impression: Sunrise
Impressionism
Source of the name "Impressionism"; painterly/sketchy |
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Edouard Manet
Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Impressionism
She cannot afford her own products; labels on the alcohol |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Le Moulin de la Galette
Impressionism
Scenes of daily life and entertainment |
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Paul Gauguin
The Vision After the Sermon
Post-Impressionism
Reality (women) and imagination (angel) |
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Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night
Post-Impressionism
Nature is more powerful than industry. |
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Edvard Munch
The Scream
Post-Impressionism
Personal anguish of the artist; chaos of the world |
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Henri Matisse
Woman with the Hat
Fauves
Flashy color and emotion |
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Henri Matisse
Le Bonheur de Vivre
(aka The Joy of Life)
Fauves
The figures as part of nature. |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Street, Berlin
German Expressionism
Workers as robots with routine lifestyles. |
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Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Primitivism
European and non-western art/culture |
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Georges Braque
The Portuguese
Analytical Cubism
We depend on the title to get some ideas in art. |
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Pablo Picasso
maquette for Guitar
Synthetic Cubism
What the mind sees is more important than what the eye sees. |
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Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Futurism
Man walking in the wind; movement |
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Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
Dada
Remake of the original
Ready-made |
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Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q.
Dada
L.H.O.O.Q. = "She has a hot ass." |
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Rene Magritte
Attempting the Impossible
Surrealism
What is reality? Are paintings real? |
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Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
Surrealism
Recurrent dream; dreams do not have time |
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E. Lissitzky
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Russian Constructivism
Propaganda for Russia; art for social purposes |
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Kazimir Malevich
Black Square
Russian Suprematism
The absolute form; the absence and abundance of everything |
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Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley
America during WWI & WWII
Icon of photography and the Great Depression
Photojournalism |
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Edward Hopper
Nighthawks
America during WWI & WWII
Contemporary, industrial America; isolation |
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Grant Wood
American Gothic
America during WWI & WWII
American reginalism; strength & pride of America |
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Otto Dix
Der Krieg (The War)
Post-WWI
German tragedies of war; artist was a veteran of WWI |
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Asger Jorn
The Great Victory
Post-WWII
"Victory" in war is a distortion |
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Jackson Pollock
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Abstract Expressionism
Gestural abstraction; emotions, not technique, are important |
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Barnett Newman
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Abstract Expressionism
Chromatic abstraction; traumas of war |
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Mark Rothko
Blue, Orange, Red
Abstract Expressionism
Chromatic abstraction; image of the bomb |
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Donald Judd
Untitled
Minimalism
Not representing anything |
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Richard Hamilton
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Pop Art
Entertainment to forget the war |
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Andy Warhol
Marilyn Diptych
Pop Art
Idols are consumed like products; who are they really? |
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Roy Lichtenstein
Drowning Girl
Pop Art
Low vs. High art; portrayal of women in comics |
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Walter De Maria
Lightning Field
Earth & Site-Specific Art
Sublime; nature as art (lightning) |
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Maya Lin
Vietnam's Memorial
Site-Specific Art
Walls covered in names of veterans |
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Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Chairs
Conceptual Art
Mental idea versus Reality
(Visuals & language versus Real chair) |
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Edward Kienholz
John Doe
Conceptual Art
Assemblage; Commentary on the average American man |
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Joseph Beys
Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me
Performance Art
Opposed to American action in Vietnam; coyote symbolises colonizers vs. Native Americans |
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #48
Feminism
Stereotypical movie women; vulnerable, waiting for a man, sexually accessible |
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Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
Feminism
Last Supper parody; women as consumable food; water (in the middle) as the source of life |
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Barbara Kruger
Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face
Feminism
Pastiche (roman busts; media portrayal of women as ideal) |
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Yves Klein
Anthropometries of the blue Period
Performance Art
Painted with women's bodies |
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James Luna
Half Indian/Half Mexican
Identity Art
Eugenics (identifying someone on profile and front view); Stereotypes |
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Bansky
Graffiti Removal Hotline
Public Art & Graffiti
No real hotline exists |
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Fred Wilson
Mining the Museum
Identity & Issue-Oriented Art
Critique on art is displayed in museums (no African American or Native American portraits) |
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Dario Robleto
At War With The Entropy of Nature/ Ghosts Don't Always Want To Come Back
Post-Modern Art
Material from an atomic bomb test; Pastiche |
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Nam June Paik
Electronic Superhighway
Video Art
Global village connected by TV |
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Thomas Hirschorn
Superficial Engagement
Issue-Oriented Art
Commentary on the war in Iraq; media could show news on Iraq and then entertainment |
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