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Art History
Foundation Year - RISD
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/08/2015

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

La Grande Odalique

1814

 

Term
The Salon Exhibition
Definition

The Salon beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world.

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Ingres

The Source

1856

 

TO NOTE: Texture of hair/water in contrast to the smoothness/purity of the body (no depicted orfices) 

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Alexandre Cabanel

Birth of Venus

1863

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Manet

Olympia

1863

 

TO NOTE: active pose (not passive); 'Olympia' = slang for prostitute, digression from the mythological portrayal of women 

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[image]
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Pablo Picasso

Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon

1907

 

TO NOTE: Confrontational; staring directly at the viewer

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[image]
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

The Dance

1867-9

 

TO NOTE: Chaotic, emotional = scandelous

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[image]
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Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

1917

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El Lissitzky

Abstract Cabinet

1927

 

TO NOTE: Abstraction moves beyond painting

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[image]
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Marcel Duchamp

First Papers of Surrealism

1942

 

TO NOTE: Prevented the viewer from interacting/experiencning the work in the exhibit

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Paul Gauguin

Yellow Christ

1889

 

TO NOTE: expressionism - color

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Paul Gauguin

Matu Mua/ In Olden Times

1892

 

TO NOTE: Colonialism/primitivism - disconnect between reality, and the fetishization of nonwestern culture

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Paul Gauguin

Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching

1892

 

TO NOTE: Primitivism - the hypersexualization/fetishization of the nonwestern female body

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[image]
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Ernest Ludwig Kirchner

Nude Under a Japanese Umbrella

1909

 

TO NOTE: expressionism

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Daguerreotype:

Usually portraiture (private - everntually spread into erotica as well) 

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[image]
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J. Barnett and Co. 

Young Xosa [Xhosa] Woman in Costume; Wood Bowls and Gourd Container 

n.d. (late 19th century) 

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Matisse

The Red Studio

 

TO NOTE: Color - expressionism (emotional, decorative, irrational)

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Pablo Picasso

Ambroise Vollard

1910

 

TO NOTE: Abstraction (intellectural, rigerous, rational)

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Pablos Picasso

Violin

1912

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Pablo Picasso

Still Life with Caning

1912

 

TO NOTE: First time use of collage 

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Piet Mondrian 

Composition with red, blue, black, yellow, and gray

1921

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Kasimir Malevich

Monochrome

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Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie-Woogie

1942

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