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Exam 1 for arth342
USC Columbia w/ Dr. Brad Collins
85
Art History
Undergraduate 3
02/04/2012

Additional Art History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
[image]
Definition

 

Kenyon Cox, An Ecologue, 1890, Academy

 

Function: pleasure

 

For: Wealthy males

Shows ideal beauty of human body

Term
[image]
Definition

Luks, Mrs. Gamley, 1930, Ashcan School

Function: promote good

For: women or everyone

Term
[image]
Definition

Cafferty, The fish basket, 1926, Ashcan School

function:promote values

for:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

John Sloan, Hairdresser's Window, 1907, Ashcan School

function: emphasize tribe/connection

for: everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Luks, The Spielers, 1905, Ashcan School

function: goodness of fun/ no sexual from dance

for:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913, Ashcan School

function:goodness, community is good

for:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, Straight photography

function:aesthetic pleasure

for: elite

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Marin, Lower Manhattan, 1922, Steiglitz school- Expressionism

function:how manhattan feels, aesthetic

for: the elite

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sloan, The Picnic Grounds, 1906-7, Ashcan School

function:liberate women

for:everyone/women

 

Term
[image]
Definition

O'Keefe, A Black Bird over Snow-covered Hills, 1946, Stieglitz School-abstraction

function: public provide viewer with escape private steiglitz death

for: the elite

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Benton, The Lord is my Shepard, 1926, American Scene Painting- Regionalism

promotes midwest is good henri, country is good city is bad

for:everyone

 

am rejection of europeans

Term
[image]
Definition

John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas, 1928, American Scene Painting-Regionalism

function: promote getting back to roots, community, religion both which are lost in city

for:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Wood, American Gothic, 1930, American Scene Painting- Regionalism

function: promote simplicity am values, sometimes values are too repressionistic, victorian values 

for:everyone

 pitchfork gives threatening tone, daughter has pained expression, loose hair

Term
[image]
Definition

Reginald Marsh, Why not use the El, 1930, American Scene Painting- Urban Realism

function: show women are vulnerable and alienation in the city

for: everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie, 1936, American Scene Painting- Urban Realism

Function: social statements (people influenced badly by media love,sex,blood,sin)

for:everyone

 celebration of lower class values

Term
[image]
Definition

Hopper, Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947, American Scene Painting- urban realism

function: promote life (sun,fern), we're always alone

for:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, American Scene Painting- urban realism

function:"sad oasis" people go out to not be alone, light redeems giving hope, viewing looking in from out with no door in sight creates lonliness

for: everyone

 city is lonely

Term
[image]
Definition

William Gropper, Sweat Shop, c. 1930, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: communist view, capitalist make profit off of workers

for: everyone

 through The Masses

Term
[image]
Definition

Ben Shahn, Scott's Run, West Virgina, 1937, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: promote new deal/help coal miners

for:everyone

 symbol of Great Depression

Term
[image]
Definition

Walker Evans, Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

Function: evoke sympathy for farmers, inspire to vote for New Deal (Roosevelt)

For:everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Walker Evans, Dining Area and Washing Area, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: promote values of simplicity/ rural values

for: everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: propaganda-evoke sympathy for poor, vote for whoever would help

for: everyone

 made for magazines and papers madonna and child

Term
[image]
Definition

Sheeler, Bucks County Barn, c. 1920, Persistence of Modernism

function: social value- premodern existance/simplicity

for: everyone

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sheeler, The Staircase, 1925, Persistence of Modernism

function: promotion of pre-modern values/simplicity

For: everyone

 compromise am and euro values, formal arangement, amish values

Term
[image]
Definition

Davis, Hot Stillscape for Six Colors, 1940, Persistence of Modernism-formalism

function: aesthetic pleasure of listening to jazz and am values(freedom of expression/jazz) am political values

For:everyone

 soviet,german, russian artists werent free

Term
[image]
Definition

Krasner, Compostition, 1943, Persistence of Modernism- AAA art

 Function: aesthetic pleasure

For: everyone(to uplift them to the elite)

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

Gorky, Garden in Sochi , 1940, Abstract Expressionism-Jungian Phase

Function: collective unconscious, to heal

for: everyone

yung art comes out of surrealism and automatism, your shit for frued jung beneath your shit is everyones gold, garden of wish fulfilment

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Gorky, Plow and the song, 1947 Abstract Expressionism - Jungian Phase

function: get back to roots

for: everyone

Term
[image]
Definition

Gottlieb, Male and Female, 1950, Abstract Expressionism-Jungian Phase

function: heal: healthy psychee = parts male and female

for: everyone

Term
[image]
Definition

Rothko, Omen of the Eagle, 1942, Abstract Expressionism- Jungian phase

function:"Agamemnon" evoke myth

for: everyone

greek tragedy is universal

Term
[image]
Definition

Pollock, Male and Female, 1942 abstract expressionism- Jungian

Function: to heal

For: everyone

healthy psychee has balance of male and female, pollock learned this from yungian analist, angles male curves female. stable center, primitive art is closer to truth

Term
[image]
Definition

Pollock, Pasiphae, 1943, Jungian phase - Freudian

Function: myth

for: everyone

 

 

promotes pain and anguish

Term
American Academy of Art
Definition
 America’s national academy taught academic values. Organized annual exhibition juried exhibitions
Term

 

Expressive

 

Definition
alteration of formal elements of art convey something about subject, brush strokes, dynamic, energetic
Term

 

Philadelphia 4

 

Definition
- Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn
Term

The Armory Show

 

Definition
was the 1st exhibition of modern art organized by Henri’s circle and held in Brooklyn
Term
Expressionism
Definition
alteration of the formal elements to convey the feelings of the artist.
Term

 


 

291 Gallery

 

Definition
It was in Steiglitz apartment, a gallery for photography and modern Euro art, to identify photography as art
Term

 

 

 

 

Pictorialism.

 

Definition
-photography characterized to make photos look like paintings. It is also mechanical not just pressing a button
Term

 

Formalism-

 

Definition
careful arrangement of the formal elements (Shape color light texture) of art for aesthetic purpose.
Term

 

Roy Stryker 1935-1945

 

Definition
– Head of the Photography Section of the Farm Security Administration –agency of the new deal to promote the welfare of the farmers
Term

 

Alfred H. Barr 1926

 

Definition
taught first course of modern art. Make Americans appreciate European art. Dedicated to the Avante Garde Idea the newest Idea should come out of the last idea. first director of MOMA
Term
Abstraction
Definition
Simplification of an original image
Term

 

Abstract Art

 

Definition
Nonrepresentational simplification to its essence
Term

Apollonian

 

Definition
storyline of a greek tragedy, rational elements
Term

Dionysan

 

Definition

 

Music (blind will to live)  we know we are going to die (apollonian) we need to live life and have fun (Dionysian)

 

Term
surrealism
Definition
illustrating fantasies and dream
Term
Collective Unconscious
Definition
Jungian theory that painting with our unconscious can connect us to others unconscious
Term
Automatism
Definition
process of letting the hands freely meander across the page without censorship
Term
Academic Art
Definition
Art should depict ideal beauty
Term
Realist Art
Definition
artist paints on the premise that goodness, beauty, and/or interest are in the world
Term
Ashcan School
Definition
Created from Henri, Realist views, art is for everyone, mostly lower and middle class
Term
Clement Greenberg
Definition
powerful critic, influenced Pollock's career. doesn't like imagery, more of avante garde very annoying man
Term
Expressive
Definition
alteration of formal elements of art to convey something about the subject
Term
Pictorialism
Definition
photography characterized to look like paintings
Term
Steiglitz School
Definition
Art is for the elit, should be aesthetically pleasing
Term
American Scene Painting
Definition

1920-1940

 

·         Regionalism- Regionalism Benton, Curry, and wood

 

·         Urban Realism

 

·         Social Realism

 

Term
Persistence of Modernism
Definition
artist who combined Euro and Am
Term
Abstract Expressionism
Definition

1940-1960

 

1.      Jungian Phase, 1940-1947

2.      Mature Phase, 1947-1960

a.      Gesturalism

b.      Color Frield

Term
[image]
Definition

Pollock, Autumn Rythm, 1950 Abstract Expressionism- Gestural Phase

 

Function: To achieve a blissful state of harmony

for himself

 “when I am in my painting I am not aware of what I am doing… it is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take,  and the painting comes out well”

Term
Alexander Elliot
Definition
Rebuted Greenburgs article about Pollock in Time magazine
Term
[image]
Definition

                             De Kooning, Asheville, 1949, Abstract Expressionism—Gesturalism 

  Function: express the pain and anxiety

For: Himself

Term
[image]
Definition

                              De Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52, Abstract Expressionism--Gesturalism

               Function:to express frustration his wife, mom, himself, and women in magazines

                  (expressive and expressionism)

For: himself

Term
Elaine Fried De Kooning
Definition
De Kooning's wife married in 1938. Very sexual promiscuous woman. Causes him much distress with her affairs
Term
1890
Definition
An Ecologue
Term
1905
Definition
Thr Speilers
Term
1906
Definition
The Picnic Grounds
Term
1907
Definition

The Hairdressors Window

The Steerage

Term
1913
Definition
Cliff Dwellers
Term
1920
Definition
Buck's County Barn
Term
1922
Definition
Lower Manhattan
Term
1925
Definition
Staircase
Term
1926
Definition

Lord is My Shepard

The Fish Basket

Term
1928
Definition
Baptism in Kansas
Term
1930
Definition

Mrs. Gamley

American Gothic

Why Not Use the El

Sweatshop

Term
1936
Definition

Twenty Cent Movie

Sharecroppers Family

Dining Area and Washing Area

Migrant Mother

 

 

 

 

Term
1937
Definition
Scott's Run, WV
Term
1940
Definition

Hot Stillscape for 6 Colors

Garden in Sochi

 

Term
1942
Definition

Nighthawks

Omen of the Eagle

Pollock, Male and Female

 

 

Term
1943
Definition

Pasiphae

Composition

 

 

Term
1946
Definition
Black Bird Ove Snow-Covered Hills
Term
1947
Definition

Plow and The song

Pennsylvania Coal Town

Term
1949
Definition
Asheville
Term
1950
Definition

Woman I

Autumn Rythm

Gottlieb, Male and Female

 

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