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Art Final (Chapter 19)
Modern Art: Europe and North America in teh Early 20th Century
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/06/2008

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Title: The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (Large Glass)

Artist: Marcel Duchamp

Date: 1915-1923

Style:

POI: even though he worked on it for eight years, he only found it complete when it was accidently shattered and put back together

-bride in the upper pane controls the nine bachelors in the lower one

-image of female sexual desire

-bride emitts a sigh with her -commands, -orders, -authorations (three blank squares)

-bachelors portion: recognizable objects 1.menswear, 2.seven cones 3.waterwheel, 4. chocolate grinder 

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Title: The Kiss

Artist: Klimt

Date:1907

Style:

POI: while passionate and beautiful to begin with, upon closer inspection you see that it has and edge of tension

-the girls head is force uncomfortable to the side

-her hand looks as if it is trying to tear his away

-they are kneeling dangerously close to the edge of the cliff 

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Title: The Joy of Life

Artist: Matisse

Date: 1905-1906

Style: abstract (fauvism)

POI: combination of dynamic brushwork of van Gogh and  bold primary colors

-objects are different colored then naturally are (trees, grass, even people)

-movement evident in long flowing motion of trees

 

 

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title: Cannons

Artist: Kandinsky

Date: 1913

style:

POI: possibly a coming of war prediction, or an apocolyptical prediction

-the figures are not what the viewer is supposed to be paying attention to

-we are supposed to be moved by the bold blasts of color that leap off te canvas 

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Title: Les Demioselles de 'Avignon

Artist: Picasso

Date: 1907

Style:

POI: influenced by spanish and african art

-suggests that women are not gentle and passive creatures like men might see them as

-unintentional broke with western ideas of space (accidental invention of cubism)

-piercing gazes and angular 

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Title: Violin and Palette

Artist: Braque

Date: 1910

Style: cubism

POI: still life not arranged on a table

-various elements of the still life were broken down and placed in the same plane

-cubism can be seen as taking a closer look at different aspects of the subject while eleminating space differences 

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Title: Ma Jolie

Artist: Picasso

Date: 1911

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