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Fine Arts Notes II
Notes on Romanticism-Modern
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
12/15/2010

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Representational (naturalistic)
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Objects viewed by eye [Realism]
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Abstract
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Selective simplification/ exaggeration of objects
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Non-representational/non-objective
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No basis in real world
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Neo-primitivism
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Influence of African and Oceanic art towards abstractionism
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Fauvism (Wild Beasts)
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Intense color, free brushwork

Henri Matisse (Blue Window) 2-dimensional, vibrant colors, formal design

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German Expressionism
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Emotion and feeling as main goal (psych focus) use of distortion and/violence

Edvard Munch: (the cry/scream) undulating shapes reflect inner tension/anxiety

Kandinsky: (improv. no. 30/cannon)emphasis on effect of form and color

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Cubism
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Reduces nature to geometric shapes, overlapping, simultaneous views

Pablo Picasso: (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) develops style becoming step to abstractionism; possibly most important artist 20th century

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Dadaism
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Nihilistic, post-war reaction to culture

Duchamp R. Mutt (Fountain) offers urinal as artwork-actually anti-art.

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Surrealism (Superrealism)

 

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World of dreams, fantasy, incongruity

Marc Chagall: (I and the Village) Russian/Jewish influence

Salvador Dali: (Persistence of Memory) most popular, great promoter

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Social Realism

 

Definition

Mexicans Diego Rivera (murals) and Frida Kahlo (personal themes)

Picasso: (Guernica) protesting facism

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Socialist Realism
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Became official art style of Stalinist Russia
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Non-Objectivism
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Abstractionism worked out to logical conclusion

Piet Mondrian: (Broadway Boogie) universal harmonies using pure forms

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 Modern Sculpture
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Brancusi (Mde. Pogany) and Boccioni (Forms of Continuity in Space)
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Modern Architecture
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Organic: "form follows function": the design of a building should reflect the building's purpose.

Louis Sullivan: (Wainwright Building) Frank Lloyd Wright: (Falling water building and Guggenheim Museum)

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Late Modern Style Painting
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Action Painting

Willem de Kooning: (Woman) slashing brushwork/violent-explosive energy

Jackson Pollock: (composition) "drip painting"--networks of swirling lines; energy made visible

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Pop Art
Definition
use of common objects, images from mass media, comic strips in cheerful acceptance of consumerism
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Pop Art
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Andy Warhol: celebrates impersonal nature machine-oriented life
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Minimalism

 

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Reduction of work to irreducible minimum--focus on art object itself
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Late Modern Architecture
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Mies van der Rohe: (Chicago Apartments) rectangular skyscrapers of glass and steel
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Late Modern Arch. "Organic Approach"

 

Definition

more sculpted to fit purpose and space

F.L. Wright (Running Water Home)

Le Corbusier: Notre-Dame-du-Haut, France

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Postmodernism Architecture
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I.M. Pei (glass pyramids--louvre)

Frank Gehry (Guggenheim 'spain' and Experience Music Project)

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