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Final Exam
Charles Peer's Art History 1 class at John Brown University
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2014

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Picasso, Gertrude Stein

 

associate with: Cubism, Picasso's Rose Period

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Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon



associate with: Cubism, Rose Period

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Picasso, Head of a Woman



associate with: analytic cubism

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Georges Braque, Violin and Pitcher



associate with: analytical cubism

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Picasso, Man with a Hat

 

associate with: collage & assemblage


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Picasso, Bull's Head


associate with: collage & assemblage

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Picasso, Three Musicians

 

associate with: synthetic cubism

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Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror



associate with: surrealism

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Picasso, Guernica

 

associate with: symbolism

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Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space



associate with: futurism (speed, travel, technology, dynamism)

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Mondrian

 

associate with: futurism

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Frank Leger, The City



associate with: futurism

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Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase

 

associate with: futurism

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Constantin, Mademoiselle Pogany



associate with: futurism (minimalist)

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Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space



associate with: futurism (minimalist)

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Malevich, Black Square



associate with: suprematism

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Frank Lloyd Wright



associate with: International Style

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Frank Lloyd Wright



associate with: Prairie Style

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Walter Gropius



associate with: International Style

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Le Corbusier



associate with: International Style

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Picasso's Rose Period

Definition
just like his Blue Period but not "blue" (both in color palette and emotion). Less depressed and warmer tones.
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Analytical Cubism
Definition
  • simultaneous views of one thing
  • one idea from multiple viewpoints
  • never ever completely loses the subject like abstract does
  • it's our responsibility to interpret the pieces; the artists don't spell it out for us anymore
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Collage & Assemblage
Definition
broken apart/put back together in new ways, giving things a new purpose that doesn't relate to its original purpose
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Synthetic Cubism
Definition
assembling collages with paint
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Futurism
Definition

centered around speed, travel, technology, and dynamism

 

"it's not of running, it's of the energy of running"

"..not of the city, but the vibes of the city"

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The Armory Show
Definition
A huge exhibition in New York in 1913. A total of 1200 works by Post-Impressionists, Fauves, and Cubists, as well as by many American artists. The first widespread American exposure to the European avant-garde.
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Surrealism
Definition
things that make sense individually but not together
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Dada
Definition

what even is art? 

"we've gotten so low already...what's the point? why not make a urinal a piece of art?"

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Duchamp, Fountain



associate with: Dada, wtf

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Duchamp, LHOOQ



associate with: Dada, vandalism

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Paul Klee, Mask of Fear

 

associate with: surrealism

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Salvador Dali

 

associate with: surrealism, cool mustaches

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Salvador Dali



associate with: surrealism, Jesus Christ Superstar

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René Magritte, Time Transfixed



associate with: surrealism, choo choo

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Henry Moore



associate with: surrealism (sculptures), fertile mother


also he did several other variations of this sculpture in several other places 

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Alexander Calder



associate with: surrealism, the laws of physics


also he did lots of these things

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Grant Wood, American Gothic



associate with: regionalism & social realism

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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

 

associate with: Regionalism & Social Realism

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Edward Hopper, Gas



associate with: Regionalism & Social Realism

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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother


associate with: Regionalism & Social Realism

 

all her photos look dirty...her assignment was to document the Great Depression. (The FSA [Farm Security Admin.?] gave her this job and other photographers like her to create more jobs and also to document how bad the Great Depression really was.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

 

associate with: American Abstraction/Regionalism

 

she was from like New Mexico or Arizona or something so she painted a lot of skulls and stuff like this mixed with flowers...She also paints close ups of flowers.

also she had that thing with Alfred Stieglitz. 

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O'Keeffe



associate with: American Abstraction/Regionalism

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Alfred Stieglitz

 

associate with: (nothing I just really like this photo he took of Georgia O'Keeffe)


but really...he started that gallery thing in NYC to show people that art could be weird photographs too and that anything could be art really. Tons of people who turned out to be great photographers learned under Stieglitz and worked in the gallery and also eventually had exhibits in that gallery. 

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Alfred Stieglitz



associate with: (again, nothing, really...) 

 

he did a whole series on O'Keeffe's hands because he really enjoyed how beautiful things created beautiful art

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Alfred Stieglitz

 

associate with: American Abstraction/Regionalism


this one we have to know for the test I think... The series Stieglitz did on clouds was one of his final things he did to show people that everything was beautiful, you just have to change your perspective on some things to see them that way. 

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Hans Hofmann, The Gate



associate with: abstract impressionism

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Regionalism
Definition
artwork specific to a certain area
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Social Realism
Definition
tells realistic truths about society
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American Abstraction
Definition
American artists whose work was abstract (?)
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Abstract Expressionism
Definition
the colors are the subject
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Josef Albers



associate with: Abstract Expressionism

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Jackson Polluck



associate with: Abstract Expressioninsm (Action Painting)

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Franz Kline



associate with: Abstract Expressionism

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William de Kooning



associate with: Abstract Expressionism

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Rothko



associate with: Abstract Expressionism (color field)

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FRANKENTHALER

 

associate with: Abstract Expressionism

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FRANK STELLA



associate with: Abstract Expressionism (hard edge)

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DIEBENKORN


associate with: west coast abstraction

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David Smith



associate with: abstract expressionism (sculpture)

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Richard Hamilton



associate with: pop art

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JASPER JOHNS

 

pop art

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Richard Rauchenberg



pop art

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Robert Rauchenberg



pop art

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warhol
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lichtenstein

 

comic book stuff

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oldenburg

 

huge sculptures

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donald judd

 

minimalism

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bridget riley

 

op illusion

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chuck close

 

photo-realism

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duane hanson

 

hyper-realism

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ron mueck
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I.M. Pei
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frank gehry
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frank gehry
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robert smithson
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christo
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christo
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basquiat
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richard estes
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andy goldsworthy
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sherat
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maya lin ying
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andres serrano
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andres serrano
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