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| The Bath; 1891; Mary Cassatt |
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-Print
-Influeced by Japanese prints which were popular at the time
-Critics claimes she depicted women as harsh, not idealized |
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| Rainy Day, Boston; 1885; Childe Hassam |
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-Hassam had least amount of contact with Impressionists, but most renowned American Impressionist
-TONALIST PAINTING - very somber colors, still interested in relective quality of light
-Influenced by Velasquez (in vogue at the time)
-Wide foreground suggests influence of photography
-Studied in Paris |
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| The Daughters of Edward D. Boit; 1882; John Singer Sargent |
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-Non-traditional portrait shows personality of girls
-Box w/in box composition to show depth
-Dark tones like admired Velasquez |
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| Lydia, Leaning on Her Arms, Seated in a Loge; 1879; Mary Cassatt |
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-Impressionism
-Small marks of color placed near each other and repeated
-Bright, glowing colors
-Beautiful subject (her sister) |
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| The Oval Mirror; 1901; Mary Cassatt |
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-Cassatt liked the Renaissance artists and this was meant to conjure up Mary and Jesus with oval frame acting as halo
-Black of the frame was unusual for Impressionists
-Loose, painterly style
-Very intimate portrait |
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| In the Studio; 1881; William Merritt Chase |
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-Interior view of his studio (very wealthy artist)
-Objects were collected from around the world meant to impress his patrons
-Impressionism style, more realistic (perceptual)
-Rich, shimmery colors |
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| Peonies; 1895; William Merritt Chase |
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-Impressionism, perceptual realism.
-Subject influenced by Japanese (Woman's dress, fan, hairstyle ...)
-Beautiful subject, bright colors |
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| The New York Window; 1912; Childe Hassam |
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-Impressionism, perceptual realism
-Subject is his wife; window takes up most of the picture plane
=This picture is about how light is diffused through the gauzy curtains and how that affects the color in the scene |
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| Symphony in White, no.1 (Little White Girl); 1864; James McNiell Whistler |
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-Impressionism, perceptual realism
-Subject is his lover in white dress
-Artist interested in painting with white, not "about" the woman
-Japanese influences in fan, porcelain vase, cherry blossoms, fan |
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Portrait of Madame Poirson; 1885;
John Singer Sargent |
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-Sargent made Impressionistic paintings for his own pleasure - made his name and living from portraits
-Life size, idealized portrait
-Beautiful colors |
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| Madame X; 1884; John Singer Sargent |
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-Painting done to keep Amelie Gatreau at top of society and JSS at top of art world
-Backfired when seen at Salon because the painting was seen as "snooty and seductive" with slipped strap, form fitting dress, look on her face |
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| Laughing Child; 1907; Robert Henri |
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-Leading member of Ash Can School; people of New York was subject matter
-Thick layers of paint, choppy brush strokes
Painted from observation, lots of black used |
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| Hairdresser's Window; 1907; John Sloan |
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-Sloan went to gritty parts of the city and documented (multiculturalism) people and city
-Sloan liked his subjects and loved the hustle and bustle of the city
-No moral overtone
-Box within a box composition |
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| Cliff Dwellers; 1913; George Bellows |
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-Ashcan School; urban, crowded, energy of the city; precursor of social realism
-Name refers to Native Americans who lived in spaces inside cliffs
-Tenement buildings are "new" to the scene
-Bellows did not intend to demean his subjects |
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| Forty-Two Kids; 1907; George Bellows |
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-Did not exhibit with but is Ashcan School; pupil of Henri; urban kids out swimming
-Homage to Eakins' "Swimming Hole"
-Very quick, almost cartoonish, brushtrokes from jouranlism background; dark color palette |
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| Six O'Clock; Winter 1912; John Sloan |
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-Ashcan school; urban, crowded, includes new technology of gas lights in shop windows and elevated train
-Sloan interested in hustle and bustle of the city |
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| Movie, 5 Cents; 1907; John Sloan |
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| Ashcan school; urban subject matter that includes new technology of electricity within the movie theatre and mixing of classes |
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| Allies' Day; 1917; Childe Hassam |
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-Impressionism; light, airy colors, very beautiful
-Picture shows flags on 5th Avenue in NY on Allies day (US start involvement in WWI) proceeds from prints to war effort
-Hassam made a series of flag paintings
-Hassam most like French Impressionists |
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| Near the Beach, Shinnecock; 1895; William Merritt Chase |
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-Impressionistic; pleain air; alla prima
-Ran a summer art school and would accept all kinds of students
-Taught students to not paint anything "grand", but paint the "everyday"
-He felt a structure was not needed to establish the composition |
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| Girl Arranging Her Hair; 1886; Mary Cassatt |
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-Impressionist
-"S" composition considered quite beautiful
-Cassatt subject matter was primarily women and children (leisure class) |
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| The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare...); 1923; Marcel Duchamp |
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-DADA, made from multiple materials
-Top half represents female, bottom half is male
-An attempt to make art more kinetic
-This piece is about sexual desire |
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| The Fleets In!; 1934; Paul Cadmus |
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-Magic Realist, egg tempera painting
-Expressive, exaggerated figures-*Sexual in nature - tight clothing, everyone touching everyone else
-Was removed from Corcoran Gallery exhibition by Admiral (bad view of sailors) |
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| Subway; 1950; George Tooker |
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-Magic Realis; influenced by Renaissance artists as seen in use of primary colors
-Many perspectives shown, anxiety on homogonized faces
-Picture about "urban anxiety"; weight of the world on their shoulders (subway), cut off from senses |
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| Nude Descending a Staircase; 1912; Marcel Duchamp |
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-Cubist influence with flat, geometric planes in the figure
-Futurist influence as this picture is about movement as suggested by repetition of figure |
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| Reproduction; 1888; John F. Haberle |
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-Trompe L'Oeil, shallow space in composition
-Care-worn bills, stamps; life sized objects, paint thickness matches actual objects (appeals to senses)
-Haberle intentionally provoked authorities who accused him of counterfitting
-Newspaper article (legible) about his counterfitting charge |
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| Iron and Tacks; 1970; Man Ray |
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-DADA, nonsensical sculpture (assemblage) made from materials not used in art before
-Tried to make a useful thing useless
-Conceptual
-Great friends with Duchamp, Steiglitz was his mentor
-Earned his living as a fashion photographer |
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| After the Hunt; 1885; William M. Harnett |
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-Trompe L'oeil; appeals to the senses (careworn), life size objects, shallow space
-Nostalgic props owned by artist, purchased in Europe
-Harnett trained as a silversmith
-Earned a living by selling his work to business owners (not gallery worthy art) |
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| The Faithful Colt; 1890; William M. Harnett |
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-Trompe L'oeil; shallow space, aged, careworn door, life size
-Colt manufactured in US - gun was common/ nostalgic to many
-Revolving barrel made it a handy firearm; was mass-produced
-Centralized, sparse composition points to the gun being an icon |
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| Charming Things, Rayograph; 1923; Man Ray |
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-DADA assemblage sculpture, questions "what is art"
-Man Ray inspired by the Armory Show of 1913
-He coined the term "rayograph"
-Artful composition fo everyday items with a cameraless method |
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| Expressionism; German; painted mother/sister; darker colors |
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-Mexican Muralist
-Married to Frida Kahlo
--Followers of Marx and Lenin
--Plight of the worker/haves and have nots
--Horrors of rich
-Katrina, figure is skeleton dressed in fancy hat, clothes, feather boa that is a snake |
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| Pop; in advertising; people; screenprinting |
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| American breakout artist; dinner painting; lonely, quiet, still, voyeuristic; realistic but no details |
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| American Abstract; calligraphy like |
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| American breakout artists; details; love of science |
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| Hudson River artists; has people, but landscape is more important |
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| American Abstract; minimal colors; fuzzy; chapel in Houston |
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| Romanticism; neo classical; masculine men/swooning women |
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| Frustrated with lack of form/content in impressionism |
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| Hudson River artists; no people, only landscapes |
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| American breakout artists; experiments with color and composition |
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| Cubism; City; Somewhat recognizable images |
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| Cubism; Started movement with Picasso; Monochromatic coloring |
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| American breakout artist; extreme close ups |
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| Paint is laid on very thickly |
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| Emotions instead of image; No references to natural objects |
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| Dada; Early cubist; Poking fun of old art; Kinetic art; Also did found art |
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| Pop; Shapes (flag, target) |
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| Use of machine imagery; Sarcastic comments |
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| Early American artists; casual, baroque |
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| Movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (squares and circles); Kasimir Malevich |
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| American breakout artist; photographer; owns gallery in NYC |
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| Impressionism; Landscapes; Did not use black |
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| Post-Impressionism; Way of depicting space; Beginning of cubism |
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| Cubism; Started movement with Braque |
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-Social ideas
-Revolution
-Common man
-Starts in mexico, show in Europe, USA
-Connected to other artists |
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| Popular culture; Image people will recognize immediately |
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| Surrealism; Surreal; Bowler hat |
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| Abstract; Bird sculptures |
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| Romanticism; Emphasis on storms, ocean |
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-Post-Impressionism
-Dutch
-Used texture to suggest form
-Never sold paintin-Halo effect
-Impasto |
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| Romanticism; Emphasis on nature |
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| Post-Impressionism; Color theory; Pointilism |
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-American breakout artists
-Emphasis on people
-Casual
-Water, boats
-Watercolors |
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| Expression with paint and color; Subject is secondary |
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| Drawing imagery from subconscious or dream like but looks real |
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| Impressionism; People and parties; Social |
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-Surrealism
-Liked Vermeer
-Wife in many paintings
-Catholic
-Insects |
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| Passionate; Oceans; Drama; Patriotic |
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| Expressionism; Intense, warm colors |
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| American abstract; Teacher of famous artists |
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| Abstract; Lines and colors; Page layout |
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| Hudson River artists; Sent West by government |
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| Expressionism; Medical issue: Sees sound; First abstract |
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| Impressionism; Real people; Used old paintings as inspiration |
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| American Abstract; Charming artist; Starts with female form but gets more abstract |
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| Impressionist; Dancers and horseraces |
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-Landscape painters influenced by Romanticism
-Depict Hudson River Valley and surrounding area |
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-Something exalted, noble
-Inspiring wonder or awe, wonderful, splendid |
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-Instantaneous moments, quickly
-Intense observation
-Attention to actual physical texture
-Focus on light, shadow, reflections
-Influenced by Japanese, photography |
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| Surrealism; Unreal building structures; Long shadows |
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-American breakout artists
-Student of Eakins
-Not happy with portrayal of African American's art
-Last part of career painted only religious art |
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| Abstract; Suprematism; White on White |
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| Expressionism; Brighter colors and themes |
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-The term found art describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified
-Use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a mundane, utilitarian function |
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-Mmultiple view points
-Geometric forms
-Broken down and put together again |
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| American Abstract; Action painting; Many tools |
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| Early American artists; Baroque, romanticism |
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| Cubism; More recognizable |
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| Romanticism; Court painter; French Revolution |
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-Post-Impressionism
-Yellow Christ
-Left family to "find himself"
-Influenced by ancient American art |
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-Definition: "the charm of the unfamiliar"
Scholar Alden Jones: the representation of one culture for consumption by another
-Archetypical example: artist/writer Paul Gauguin and his representations of Tahitian people and landscapes for a French audience |
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-Began around 1912
-Painters' attention centered on construction, not analysis of represented object (creation instead of recreation)
-Color regained its decorative function --No longer restricted to the naturalistic description of the form
--Compositions still static and centered
--Lost their depth
--Became almost abstract, although subject still visible in synthetic, simplified forms
-Construction requirements brought introduction of new textures new materials (i.e. paper collages)
-Lasted till 1920s, had a profound effect on the art of the avant-garde |
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-Early, "pre-Cubist" period (to 1906)
-Characterized by emphasizing process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes: the cube, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone
-1909 and 1911, analysis of human forms and still lifes
-Led to creation of new stylistic system, allowed artists to transpose the three-dimensional subjects into the flat images on the surface of the canvas
-An object, seen from various points of view, could be reconstructed using particular separate "views" which overlapped and intersected
-Result of such a reconstruction was a summation of separate temporal moments on the canvas |
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| Product of the industrial revolution |
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| Middle class is the main patronage, some can afford cameras |
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-Began in mid 19th century
-Attempted to create objective representations of the external world
-Based on impartial observations of contemporary life
-Consciously democratic, including subject matter that had previously been considered unworthy of vulgar |
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-Not an art movement "impressionism" -Example-phylosophy
-2 defining points: the 'here' and 'now'
-The process of art; Obvious strokes and creation of the piece |
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-Salon of the Refused Art
-1863 additional exhibition of Refused Art from the French Academic Salon
-When the public spoke up about what they wanted to see |
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| Purposeful male stroller; Observers of society-detached |
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| Influence of Japanese prints on 19th Century Western Arts |
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-Societe anonymedes artists - Impressionist exhibitions. 8 exhibitions between 1874-1886
-Sketchiness in submitted paintings |
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| art for arts sake. art without morals |
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| cutting edge, breaking away from the norm |
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| Name given by Roger Fry. artists include, Cezanne, seurat, van gogh, gauguin and toulose-lautrec. no formal organization. followed impressionism's modernist interests and palette. added formal elements |
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| pointillism - divisionism |
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| distortion of facial features usually for comic effect |
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| stone - printing process using a greasy pen on a stone surface; printing ink adheres only to the oily lines of the drawing many impressions can be made from a single stone plate. |
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| litterary movement; begun in France. rejected interest in nature of impressionism . main focuz is interior. man's soul or dreams. drawn to dreams, myths, the macabre and poetic |
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| new art. arts and crafts brought together. beauty transforms the mundane. focus was strongly architectural and interior design. moves architecture into a more stream line approach, one step away from modern architecture. |
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| wild beasts. group of artists who appeared to substitute raw energy for draftsmanship and technique. primary colors were dominant clearly influenced by van gogh and gauguin |
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| "the bridge" opposed to the "older, well-established powers" wannted to created a bridge to the future. influenced by Nietzsche. opposed to Bourgeoisie lifestyle. considered bohemians |
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| the blue rider. focus was on visually expressing a spirituality that resided beneath the surface of the visual world. used color as a language. theosophy(the study of the philosophy of religion) |
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| is that in which space is reduced to a flat plane and the subjects look as if they were sliced into small strips which were put back together in shifting and overlapping planes and intersecting triangles of empty space |
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| this is simply subism that is contructed of exterior materials, paper and other materials(college). provokes the question what is real and what is not real |
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| a combination of fauvism and cubism, with a reference to the spirituality of color and the spirituality of flight |
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| Italian movement. used cubism's formal discoveries to represent figures and machines in motion and to express a new universal dynamism . the machine was the dawn of a new era for it |
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| a non representational style of art developed in Russian in the early 20th century. used severely simple geometric shapes or forms. extremely limited palette. goal: to convey that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling which can attach itself to no object |
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| a reactionary movement to WWI Dada-ists believed reason and logic had been the cause of war. therefore, the only route to salvation was through the irrational and the intuitive |
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| literary movement founded by the poet Andre Brenton in 1924. met Freud in 1922-fascinated by the idea of the unconscious mind's control. surrealist manifesto was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality |
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| sought to create, through abstraction, total environments that were so perfect they embodied a universal harmony. spiritual. Utopian values. nationalism would be obsolete |
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| functional art. goals of government. to keep communism going |
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| on every continent. simplified block style of concrete and steel |
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| after WWII. no object or subjects |
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Arist: Courbet
Movement: Realism
Info: portayed as they are in reality. poor, poverty, low paying job. he depicts the harsh reality of the workers. pity for the middle class. what he witnessed with his own eyes. |
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| Title: The Third-class carriage |
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Arist: daumier
movement: realism
info: showing the dignity of the lower class and also the harsh reality of it. This is a caricature but not comic. "lonley crowd". common and daily commute |
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Arist: Bouguereau
Movement: French Academic
Info: rebeling. mythological scene.overtly eroitc. classical erotic abandoment phychology. backdrop of nature |
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Arist: Manet
Movement: Realist
Info: This was accepted into the adaemy and the men who viewed it were nervous because Olympia was a mistress and most men had mistresses. This exposed the secret life of men to themselves |
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| Title: A Bar at the Folies Bergere |
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Artist: Manet
Movement: Realism
Info: Skewed to show the paint on the canvas. and to show the beauty of the painting. The barmaid is real and shows a blank expression suggesting alienation. skew of the barmaid in the mirror may suggest a dual role of prostitute and barmaid |
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| Title: The Orchestra of the Paris Opera |
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Artist: Degas
Movement: Impressionism
Info: Japonime inspired. view from the pit with the lower class. stage is slightly skewed along with the angular thrusts of instruments and the dancers' legs and arms. abrupt cropping and spatial contraction is japanese inspired |
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| Title: Wheatstack, Sun in the Mist |
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Artist: Monet
movement: Impressionism
Info: he was a serial painter of wheat stacks, same wheatstack at different times of the day. used complementary colors to make the image vibrate. feathery brushstrokes |
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| Title: Luncheon of the Boating Party |
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Artist: Renoir
Movement: Impressionism
Info: leisure scene. cropped on the side, sloping lines. Japonism inspired. figures, and line. feathry brushstrokes. landscape in the back. |
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Artist: Morisot
Movement: Impressionism
Info: melancholy. bird's in cages. shows fashionalbly dressed figures not interacting, deep in thought.asymmetrical cropped composition |
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| Title: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? |
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Arist: Gauguin
Movement: Post-Impressonism
Info: Painted to be his last paiting before he tried to commit suicide. shows birth, youth, old age. about the history of human kind |
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| Title: Nocturne in Black and gold: the falling rocket |
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Arist: Whistler
Movement: aestheticism
Info: After the explosion of a firework, line, form, and color. Abstract painting visual music |
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| Title: Mont Saint-Victoire |
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Arist: Cezanne
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Info: persuit of purity of art. japonism. shows cool and warm colors to show distance |
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| Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte |
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Artist: Seurat
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Info: Pointalism/Divisionism. patterns, plays with perspective. |
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Arist: Van Gogh
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Info: painting from his emotions with color. uses red and green to express the terrible passions of humanity by making an acidic atmosphere |
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Arist: Van Gogh
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Info: was painted in a mental institution for therapy. shows the wind in the sky and the movement of the tree in the trees |
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| Title: At the Moulin Rouge |
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Artist: Tolouse-Lautrec
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Info: carticature, but not funny. degas influence (japonism). subject is off center. sloping lines. cropping. facepainted almost figures to show mood. lautrec in the background as a small guy |
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| Title: Salome with the head of john the baptist |
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Arist: Beardsley
Movement: Symbolism
Info: from death comes lifes. death of john the baptist comes life of the plants |
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Artist: Munch
Movement: Symbolism
Info: The scream is comming from nature and the man is holding his ears to shield himself from it. the man has abandonment issues from the peopel walking away from him while hes having a nervous breakdown |
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Artist: Klimt
Movement: Symbolism
Info: shows the passion of the man and the women becoming one with the kiss thought the pattersn entertwining . it also shows danger, the women may not want the kiss and she is nearing falling off a cliff. |
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Artist: Rodin
Movement: Symbolism
Info: michelangelo inspired. organic. molded not carved. large hands and feet shows the weight of the thinkers phycological load. |
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Artist: horta
Movement: Art nouvaeu
Info: invention of iron opens up space. everyday objects get turned into beauty |
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Artist: Gaudi
Movement: Art Nouveau
Info: carved out of stone, plasticity, the inside has just as movement as the outside with angled walls, everything inside was also created by gaudi |
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| Title: The woman with the hat |
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Artist: Matisse
Movement: Fauvism
Info: Uses very vibrant primary and secondary colors to create the image. no use of black for shadows. |
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Artist: Matisse
Movement: fauvism
Info: Red is highly evocative color. its a flat shade throughout the entire room. the rest of the objects seem to pop out. the things that pop out are his acomplishments |
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Artist: Kirchner
Movement: Die Brucke
Info: shows the busy streets of society, always pushing each other out of the way to get to the stores or shops |
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| Title: Sketch I For "Composition VII" |
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Artist: Kandinsky
Movement: Der Blaue Reiter
Info: First non-representational art image. meant for the viewer to put together their own meaning of the colorsTitle: Animal Destinies |
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Artist: Marc
Movement: Der Blaue Reiter
Info: showing animals meant for them to be pure and that they are trapped |
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| Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
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Artist: Picasso
Movement: protocubism
Info: Its about the red light district in Barcelona. the fruit shows lust |
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| Title: Guitar, Sheet Music, and wine glass |
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Artist: Picasso
Movement: Synthetic Cubism
Info: uses a collage to say that mass produced objects can be art |
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Artist: Braque
Movement: Analytical Cubism
Info: unfolding the 3D musician on to a 2D plane to show his truth as an object in space |
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Artist: Kupka
Movement: orphism
Info: Draws upon the abstract power of music. the saturated palette recalls medieval stained glass |
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Artist: Duchamp-Villon
Movement: Futurism
Info: trying to entwine a horse with a machine to represent horse power |
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| Title: States of Mind I: Farewells |
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Artist: Boccioni
Movement: Futurism
Info: shows a train and shows the perpetual movement of all objects and energy by showing the train and the electric railroad signals and trussed steel towers |
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| Title: Suprematist Composition: Airplane flying |
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Artist: malevich
Movement: suprematism
Info: shows the purity of color and the rectangle |
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Artist: Duchamp
Movement: Dada
Info: making and ordinary object and calling it art. made people question what is art. irrational |
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Artist: Ernst
Movement: dada
Info: machine parts cut out and painted to look like a man. doesn't make any sense and that is what Dada is all about. |
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Artist: chagall
Movement: Surrealism
Info: expressive representations, dreamlike, the goat represents his girl friend for unconditional live. it is about his childhood life in his dreams. |
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Artist: Picasso
Movement: Surrealism
Info: It is about the bombing of a small market town full of women and children during the first strike of the blitzkrieg 7000 were killed. shows the horror of it all |
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| Title: Persistance of Memory |
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Artist: Dali
Movement: Surrealism
Info: Showing how time could be an organic object. the clocks turn into pieces of cheese melting in the sun being eaten by the ants. and so is he |
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| title: Composition with red, blue, and yellow |
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Artist: Mondrain
Movement: neo plasticism/de stijl
Info: an asymettrical peice of primary colors and white/black. he had harmonic understanding of math. trying to get rid of the human element and make everything perfect |
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| Title: Monument to the third international |
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Artist: tatlin
Movement: constructivism
Info: building of the communist soviet union different shapes hold different branches of government. rotating levels. very idealistic and he couldn't even do real architecture. |
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| Title: Bauhaus shop block |
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Artist: Gropius
Movement: Bauhaus
Info: it is trying to meet the needs of the 21st century. The students had to walk through other types of schooling like architecture and metalworking to get to their art classes, this may give them ideas for their art. big wide open spaces with large windows. steel made ths possible combines arts and crafts together |
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Artist: Le Corbusier
Movement: international style
Info: streamlined, very regular shapes. opens up the walls with movable walls. domino house style 3 level of empty space, load bearing and form following function. |
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| title: Autumn rhythm: number 30 |
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Artist: Pollock
Movement: abstract expressionist
Info: used action painting method. its about the process of creating art. no subject matter |
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| strongly influenced by science, philosophy and phycology |
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| exhibition in pairs in the autumn of 1905 an important venue for avant garde artists |
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