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Ch. 14
Europe and America 1900-1945
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Art History
12th Grade
04/23/2013

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Matisse - The Woman with a Hat

Fauvism

Clashing colors for dramatic statement

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Kirchner - Street, Dresden

Die Brucke/German Expressionist

Flattened shapes, distorted figures, crude/pure color

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Kandinsky - Improvisation 28

Der Blaue Reiter/German Expressionism

Theme of color and form, abstract

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Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Analytical Cubism

Multiple perspectives, analyzed forms of objects

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Picasso - Still Life with Chair Caning

Synthetic Cubism

More color than analytical

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Boccioni - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Futurism

Strong political overtimes, Art expressed movement and dynamism

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Duchamp - Fountain

Dada

Deliberately absurd/irrational/nonsensical/humorous, concept over execution

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Dali - Persistance of Memory

Surrealism


Sought to release the subconscious mind, Illogical juxtaposition of unlikely subjects

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Malevich - Suprematist Composition 1914

Suprematism

Purity and simplification, Art entirely abstract in order to be rational

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Tatlin - Monument to the Third International

Constructivism

Emphasis on dramatic use of materials, influenced by the Cubists and Futurists

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Mondrian - Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

De Stijl (Dutch Rationalism)

Horizontal and vertical lines, art is universal language, primary colors

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Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye

International Style

Simple geometric aesthetic, clean lines, crisp design, no ornamentation

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Wright - Falling Water (Kauffman House)

Prairie School of Architecture

Contrating textures, simple geometric shapes

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Lawrence - The Migration Series

American Scene Painting/Social Realism

Exalted struggles of the working class, used to highlight injustice and motivate reform

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Wood - American Gothic

Regionalism

Reflects inward focus of the Depression, Rejection of avant garde, abstraction, and European modernism

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