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Art history test 2 20th century
Art history 20th century
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Undergraduate 4
10/21/2012

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Who made the Robie House?
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Who made Monument to the 3rd Internationals?
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Tatlin
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Who made the Surprematist Composition: White Square on White?
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Malevich
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Who made the Fagus Shoe Company?
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Gropius
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Who made the Light-Space Modulator?
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Maholy-Nagy
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Who made the Einstein Tower?
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Mendelsohn
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Who made the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)?
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Duchamp
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Who made Cut with Kitchen Knife Dada?
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Hannah Hoch
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Who made Merz 163?
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Schwitters
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Who made Large Reclining Nude?
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Matisse
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Who made Simultaneous Constrasts: Sun & Moon?
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Delaunay
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Who made Nude Decending a staircase #2?
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Duchamp
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Who mystery and melancholy of a street?
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De Chirico
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Who made Unique forms of continuity in space?
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Boccioni
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Who made the women of avignon?
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Picasso
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Who made the portuguese (The emigrant)?
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Braque
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Who made Still Life with Chair-caning?
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Picasso
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Who made Guernica?
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Picasso
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Who made Treachery or perfidy of images?
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Magritte
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Who made Harlequin's Carnival?
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Miro
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Who made Spectre of sex appeal?
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Dali
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Who made Lozenge with red, black, blue, and yellow, 1925
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Mondrian
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Who made AEG turbine Factory?
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Behrens
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Who made Palace at 4:00 AM?
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Giacometti
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Who made Column?
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Gabo
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Who made Surrealism and Painting?
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Ernst
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Who made the city?
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Leger
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Who made Pillars of Society?
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Grosz
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Who made collage arranged according to the laws of chance?
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Arp
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What greatly interested Balla, and was evident in his works?
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movement- Dynamism
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Who are the artists associated with Cubism?
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Gris, Leger, Archipenki, Duchamp-Villon, Lipchitz
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Who was involved in Cubist Sculpture?
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Picasso, Braque, Archipenko, Duchamp-Villon, Lipchitz
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Who was involved in Orphism?
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Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Kupka
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Who was involved in suprematism?
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malevich
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Who took part in constructivism?
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Tatlin, Rodchenko, Pevsner, Gabo
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Who took part in De Stijl?
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VAn Doesburg, mondrian, rietveld
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What was the basis of cubism?
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-Questioned material reality of space and time.
-"Consciousness is the accumulation of experience."
-Weak abstraction and an unconventional account of the wold.
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Who was involved in futurism?
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Balla, Severini, Boccionio
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Who was deeply involved in the metaphysical life?
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De Chirico
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Who created Suprematism?
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Malevich
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Who was involved in the early 20th century architecture?
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Wright, Perret, Wagner, Loos, Behrens, Poelzig, Mendelsohn, Gropius
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Who was involved in the school of PAris?
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Modigliani, Matisse, Picasso, Leger
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Who was involved in Biomorphic surrealism?
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Arp, Miro, Ernst, Matta
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Who was involved in naturalistic surrealism?
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Dali, Tanguy, Tanning, Magritte
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Who was involved in New objectivity?
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Kollwitz, Beckmann, Dix, Grosz
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What is a manifesto?
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A Public declaration of intent, policy, aims, issued by a political party, government or movement
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What is Paper Colle?
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Collage of paper/card and is painted over and pieces are pasted on
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What is a collage?
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Diverse elements or fragments in juxtaposition on one surface pasted together
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What is grattage?
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Built up layers of paint on the canvas, then scrapping parts off or applying frottage to it for texture
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What is frottage?
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Using a pencil to rub over a textured surface to create another form of the existing subject.
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What is concretion?
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a hard mass formed by the local accumulation of matter
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What is kinetic?
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Of relating to or resulting from motion,
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What is a readymade?
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products made to a standard size or specification
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What is a curtain wall?
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A non load bearing wall attached to a framed structure
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What is a found object?
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A natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying
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What is ferroconcrete?
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reinforced concrete
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What is paranoiac critical?
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created by dali, images can be perceieved multiple ways. Perceive links between two things not rationally linked.
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What is decalcomania?
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placing paper or glass on a wet painted surface then pulling it away to achieve surprising textural effects. appealed largely to ernst
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What is construction?
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substitution for abstraction as made by arp, wanted to make a positive twist onto abstraction
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What is involved in the dada movement?
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Arp, duchamp, picabia, man ray, hoch, schwitters, ernst
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What was involved with the Bauhaus?
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Gropius, Maholy-Nagy, Klee, Kandinsky, Van Der Rohe
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What inspired Chagall's artwork?
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Russian folktales, mythology, and his wife
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Who were the surrealists?
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Arp, Ernst, Miro, Tanguy, Dali, Picasso, Matter, Magritte, Oppenheim, Tanning, Gonzalez, Giacometti, Moore
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Info on Gabo
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believed in truth to materials and having to use modern materials in authentic ways.
Believed the form objects came to you in where the form you had to use them in.
-Worked with nylon cord a lot as well as transparent quality
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Info on Tatlin
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-Founder of russian constructivism
-uses newer, durable materials
-creates sculpture around empty space
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Info on Malevich
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-Takes futurism to its logical conclusion
-moves it in a new spiritual direction
-wants cubism to be like expressionism
-suprematism
-geometric simplification
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Info on Boccioni
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-always aims to capture movement and the energy of movements
-painted in a way that showed people being crazy and a consistent inability to tame them
-emulate paris cubism
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Info on De Chirico
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-into romanticism and german painter baklin
-believed juxtaposition in disparate things added mysticism
-believed objects had significance which pointed to other things
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Info on Magritte
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-explored semiotics or how we "read" things
-capacity for irony, uncanny invention and deliberate expressionless realism
-explored relationship of language to the painted image
-drew freely on freduian concepts
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Info on Miro
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-Catalan roots
-moved from complex images to more magically simple.
-all his works are painstakingly rendered
because of world war 2 had to flee back to spain
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Info on Dali
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-symbolizes surrealism in the public imagination
-aimed to display in his art freudian theories applied to his own inner world
-obsessed with the morphology of hard and soft
-pictorial metamorphosis, matter is transformed from one state into another
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Paranoic critical method (from the book)
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spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based upon the interpretative-critical association of delirious phenomena
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Ernst
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identified with the bird, made paintings by cutting a hole in a can and swinging it over a canvas to paint. Wanted the implications of the dripping technique.
-biomorphic meaning abstract, or thought without the control of the mind
images have some degree of recognizability
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Arp
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MArried to Sophie Taeuber
favorite motifs- the navel and mushroom shaped heads sometimes sporting a mustache and round dot eyes.
-largely believed in chance and therefore did not always attach his sculptures together
-said that non-representational art was the most concrete and therefore renamed abstraction concretion
-Used wood to make painted reliefs
-art is a fruit that grows in man
-made collages even from his own works being ripped up and demolished
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Giacometti
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inaugurated a bronze age
created sculptures with that were 3d and abstracted the human form. Some works can move and be interacted with
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Oppenheim
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First modeled for Man Ray
-most well known for object and its freudian erotic ambivalence and sexual anxiety
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Tanning
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Married to Max Ernst
-meticulous style intensifies the hallucinatory quality of the scenes painted
-"Its necessary to paint the lie so great that it becomes the truth"
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Gonzalez
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trained in metal work by his father and started the craze to sculpt in metal
-worked in welded iron
helped picasso and worked on a piece together
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mondrian
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Was the principal figure in the evolution of geometric abstraction
-de stijl was his achievement
revolutionary modern style painting
-balance of unequal opposites
-strict rectangular grids
-no more curved lines, just horizontal and vertical
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klee
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work always rooted in nature and seldom abstract
-emphasis on geometric structure in works
- was part of the bauhaus and taught
-believed in starting off works by drawing like children
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Delaunay
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pioneer of abstract painting
simultaneity or ability of capturing light on canvas through color
pure places of color fractured by light
painted both clearly recognizable paintings next to abstract ones
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Wright
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went to the university of wisconsin
-architecture had japanese influences
prairie style: horizontal accents of rooflines with deep overhanging eaves
-chimney was center of everything and aimed to break planes of horizontal roofs
(connect penn station to crystal palace of past)
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Loos
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-Created the steiner house which was a key monument in the creation of a new style
-used reinforced concrete in one of its earliest applications for a private house
-employed barrel-vaulted roofing, one side is symmetrical the other is swooped
-datred to create simple but severe architecture in new ways
-said ornament is excrement and that it was similar to comitting crime
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Behrens
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Was a german architect who was hired by the largest company to mass produce generators, lightbulbs, and motors to supervise and improve their quality which was a landmark in architecture and design
-made the turbine factory which was both structurally sound and good for the working conditions of employees
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Mendelsohn
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created the einstein tower
-had a very organic quality
influenced by casa mila and gaudis curving edges
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Duchamp
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Mechanomorphic cointed to describe duchamps distinctive draft of machine forms to human activity
-stopped painting at 25
-began using readymades or found objects to create new innovations in art
-believed art could be made out of virtually anything with little manipulation
-delighted in paradox, play of visual against verbal and a tendency for alliteration and double or triple meanings
-three types of readymades
--readymades
--readymade aided
--reciprocal readymade
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Hoch
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Created photomontages which extracted pieces and inserted them into a new work therefore changing its meaning.
-female and therefore featured women in her work indicating the interest of new roles of women in postwar Germany
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Schwitters
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Poet and Painter
-made collages from trash on the street
-created sculpture on an environmental scale
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Kollwitz
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Part of the november group
-expressionist printmaker and sculptor
-devoted her art and life to a form of portest or social criticism
she was female and her son died in war
-was a great sculptor and colorist
-many of her works focused on post war effects on people
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Grosz
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Paintings depicted chaos, death, and sature
-Caricatures and drawings of the shady side of berlins nightlife
-earlier works had passionate convictions, later works expressed bitter hatred and deep personal disillusionment
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Matisse
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We still see him using the cubist manner
never see any impact that anthing bad happened in any of his paintings
looks at old ingres paintings
interested color, line, and shape, decoration
moved back again to move severe style, mor simplistic after more detailed paintings
begins to adapt for old age by making cut pieces of paper works
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Leger
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o Moved cubism toward representing the city
o Also moved it toward objectivity through cubist planes
o After the war he continues with modern industrial type of city but more classical with sedate figures and organized manner.
o He continued to do cubism throughout his entire life and expanding it and doing new things with it.
o Straightforward graphic design pop art
o Later on he does great mural pieces, treat figures in more realistic and believable ways.
o Made it stay cubist by using flat colored shapes weaved and flattened out in background
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Gropius
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invented the curtain wall
was not naturally a skilled drafter but had to work at it
married alma mahler who was previously having an affair with kokoscha from test 1
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analytic cubism
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first form of cubism, which was the dissecting of forms and the analysis of the structure of forms
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synthetic cubism
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used real pieces of paper to represent painted on pieces. or real musical notes instead of painted on ones. works became more generalized more simplified and flatter. Fragments of many random things
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Futurism
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emphasized and glorified the themes of speed technology youth and violence
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suprematism
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focused on basic geometric forms, limited range of colors. Supremacy of pure artistic feeling
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constructivism
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art as a practice for social purposes.
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de stijl/ neo-plasticism
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based on harmony and order, simplified visual compositions, geometry and the straight line were very key to this movement
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dada
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everything was based on chance, a celebration of anti-war, very big into photomontages and cutting and assembling things
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new objectivity
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turn towards practical engagements and all business attitudes
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school of paris
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drawn to the city and its freedom encapsulated orphism, purism and surrealism.
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surrealism
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sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. connected to freuds theories.
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