Chirico 

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street 

1910 

Metaphysical Art 

1. Tanish orange ground planes are apparent with dense cast shadows. 

2. The perspective is dramatic (multiple perspectives). 

3. Wagon of some sort is visably open with no indication to what is inside. 

4. Female child is at play rnning across pavement. 

5. Innocent figure is headeing toward the cast shadow comming from what may be a monument. 

Hans Arp, Head with Three Annoying Objects, 1930, Surrealism

1. Art made according to the laws of chance.

2. Has idea of female torso in mind.

3. Made out of Cast metal.

Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1920, NY Dada

1. You would stick your wet bottles on the evenly spaced prongs to dry.

2. Example of a ready made

3. Ready Mades are manufactured objects that are dignified to the title of art by the artist

Grosz, Fit for Active Service, 1920, New Objectivity

1. Doctor is studying a skelleton for a check-up and says he's okay.

2. Top officers aren't paying attention.

3. The skelleton is going to be set off for war.

4. "K.V." means okay in German

5. Published in a satirical magazine.

Corbusier, Still Life, 1920, Purism

1. Bottles are very analyzed.

2. Cubist aspect: you see top of bottle and its profile

Hans Arp, Hammer-Flower, 1920, Zurich Dada

1. Constructed painting

2. Each piece is colored differently and placed in seperate layers.

3. Cast Shadows add to painting.

4. Biomorphic them (vegital)

Tanguy, Mama, Papa is Wounded, 1930, Surrealism

1. Cactus-like references

2. Figures with hole seems to be papa who is casting a shadow.

Dali, Persistance of Memory, 1930, Surrealism 

1. Landscape from Catalonia

2. Melted watches = elements from real world distorted

3. "Soft like Camerbridge cheese after it sits"

Dali, Premoniton of Civil War, 1930, Surrealism

1. Idea of two components of the same body at war with one another.

2. "Delirium of auto strangularities"

3. Tounge draped over buttocks, which is a possible reference to sensorship

4. Figure unaware of what is going on, walking near structure.

5. Possible reference to spanish Civil War.

Magritte, The Portrait, 1930, Surrealism

1. Big Brother is Watching You concept 

2. Paranoia

Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1930, Surrealism

1. Combination of Fur and Teacup, spon, and bowl

2. Object itself is surreal

Carrington, Self Portrait, 1937, Surrealism

1. Lady in riding costume is playing with a hienna

2. Writes a story about a hienna with a bad odor who attends a masquerade.

Picasso, Minotauromachy, 1930, Bone Period

1. Monstrous Animal

2. Reference to Spansih bull fights (good vs. Evil), but instead of bull we see a minotaur.

3. Horse is crying from pain (inners are spilling out).

4. Small girl (innocence), holding flowers (Nature), and candle (truth)

Picasso, Guernica, 1930, Synthetic Cubism

1. Synthetic in every way except color palette, he thought it would be too painful to be in color.

2. We see a bull, horse (victim wich represents citizens attacked from above), light (resembles bomb, evil eye, and torture chamber), female figure with lantern (truth), literal victims (woman on fire), woman holding dying child, and head, arm, and neck with no body.

3. Expresses the horror of the mililtary caste on Spain.

4. Flower sprouting (hop)

5. Dove (peace)

Giacometi, Woman with her Throat Cut, 1930, Surrealism

1. Displayed on floor (no pedistol)

2. throat has been cut

3. Woman is violated

4. Her hands are shown seperately

Le Corbusier, Domino House, 1920, International Style

1. Example of simplicity (4 blocks supporting slab)

2. Free Space

3. Modular approach = you can build up and free space.

4. Machine for Living = inexpensive (reinforced concrete), standardized, and mass produced.

Frank Wright, Falling Water HOuse, 1930, International Style US

1. Domestic architecture.

2. Cantiliers (projects out of air, no post support)

3. Made of reinforced concrete with quairried stone accents (echo's landscape).

4. the stream goes under the house

5. free plan: destory the box (asymmetry)

6. Large rock running through the house (echo's nature).

7. LIke a 3d collage(concrete, and nature interlocking)

8. red accents in interior (favorite color)

9. Inspired by palaceof knossos (assymetry in rooms) and japanese architectore and art

10. Chimeny as axis

Frida Khalo, Self Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the US, 1930, Surrealism

1. "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

2. American feminist , doesn't think she's a surrealist.

3. her emotions toward US is demonstrated (hatred)

4. Emphasis on vegitation and Mexico (love)

5. MEchanical features of Detroit are shown -> sink cords into soil

6. Idea of "final judgement"

7. Moralized landscape.

Jacob Lawrence,Migration of the Negro Series #1, 1940, American Art

1. Small image

2. Deals with massive movement/migration to NY, ST. Louis, and Chicago.

3. Collage approach: jaunty paint with somber accent painting effects (tocato)

Segal, The Diner, 1960, POp Art 

1. Makes plaster casts off an actual model.

2. Models are working class man and woman

3. sagging quality in figures

4. Ghostly eeriness

5. Found objects used to produce enviromental fixtures

Jean Claude, Runnig fence, 1970, Enviro Art

1. Actual work is on view for a limited time, then dismantled (2 weeks)

2. Cost 3.2 million to make

3. Met with officials in order to set up installation

4. located in NorCal

5. Plunges into the sea

6. Panels made of white nylon

7. 24 1/2 miles long

Tinguely, Homage to NY, Kinetic Art, 1960

1. Monumnetal work: ephermal (designed to commit suicide).

2. Large combo of found objects

3. Self destructive apparatus

Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Enviro Art

1. Located in Salt Lake, Utah

2. 1500 ft. long and 15 ft. wide

3. Made of Earth and stone

4. Recalls "serpant Mound"

5. Built on S.L. Because: orgins of life (premordial ocean), end of life (few organisms there, red like blood due to bacteria in water).

6. Counter clocksiwise spiral

7. Abandoned oil rigs reminds him of dinosaurs and remanants of a lost civilization

8. Submerged for 3 decades, reappeared in 2010

9. Spirals form refers to DNA, Sea Shells, and Galexies

Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1930, New International Style 

1. Domestic Architecture 

2. USe of pharoh concrete and tubular furniture 

3. Slabs from rails 

4. Long prolotis legs that make it different from Wright

Dix, The Trench, 1920, New Objectivity 

1. PTD is expressed 

2. Detailed image of rotting corpses 

3. Memeber of group "no more war" to protest war

Wright, Robie House, 1910, De Stijl Architecture 

1. Candaleaver roof  

2,. Gives free flwoing space 

3. Simple Granite 

4. HOuse as a refuge mindset  

5. Hearth (where family sits) as nucleous 

Rietveld, Schroder HOuse, De Stijl Archi. 1920 

1. Named after patron 

2. Lack of symmetry 

3. Accents in primary colors on posts 

4. Roof slab ejects out (blocks sunshine) 

5. Overlapping planes

Corbusiers Five Points: 

1. piolotis: use freely through open space, visable, and not obscured *supported levels 

2. free plan: non bearing walls allow 1. free flow inside 2. interpretation of inner and outer space 

3. free facade:non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. 

4. strip windows:The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system.  

5. Roof Garden:to compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof.

Malevich, Eight Red Rectangles, 1920, Suprematism 

1. implyed movement 

2. white is the real concept of infinity

Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1940, De Stijl 

1. Bands are made of primary colors and gray 

2. Bands might represent throbbing music: rhytmic patterning is imaginative of music and movement 

Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950, Abstract Expressionism 

1. Flings paint onto surface : drip technique 

2. Very rhythmic and tan color palette with black refers to death 

3. White is carefully placed 

4. Raw canvas peaks through (tan) 

Tatlin, MOnument to the 3rd International, 1920, Russian Constructivism 

1. Comes out of supprematism 

2. Walls become part of the work of art 

3. Made of wood, iron, and glass 

4. TCIM was targeted for worldwide democracy 

5. Sense of upward motion 

6. Four shapes were intended as chambers

Picabia, Ideal, 1920, New York DADA 

- You see portions of paper pasted on 

- You see an old camera and parts of a car 

- Rendered in gothic type 

Hoch, Cut with a Kitchen Knife, German DADA, 1920 

- Works in photomontage department 

- Consists of many cut out and mounted photos 

- References to life in photos, famous people, tall buildings, portraits of weimer republic, people, and locomotives. 

- Nearly all of figures look out to the audience. 

Hausman, The Spirit of our Time, German Expressionism, 1920 

- Wooden head with an aluminum cup at the crown of the head  

- Clock works on head

-measureing tape (how high his forehead is, but not how deep his soul is)

Ernst, One Copper Plate... Once Zinc Plate, 1920, German DADA 

- Small image 

- Very intersted in scientist equipment 

- Two figures standing side by side (humanized) 

- Most of design are cut outs 

- IDea of a portrait 

Klee, Twittering Machine, 1920, Blaue Pietra 

- IDea of bobbing affect 

- serpentine wire 

- platform 

-watercolor 

Tinguely, Homage to NY, 1960, Kinetic Art 

- Monumental work: ephemeral  (designed to commit suicide) 

- large combo of found objects 

- self destructive apparatus

Georgia O'Keefe, Music Pink and Blue, 1920, American Feminist Art 

- Intended to be non objective

Marisol Escobar, The Family, 1960, Pop Art 

- Assemblage approach 

- Slabs and blocks of wood use 

- plaster casts of hands are attatched to surface 

- Reference to walker evans photography of poverty families 

- Found objects incorporated: shoes 

- painted background softens image and suggests iron gates 

Niki De Saint Palle, She-A Cathedral, 1960, Feminist Art 

-ephermal 

-giant and architectural in scale 

- black lines section zones in Big Nana 

- Vagina= opening 

- Designed to partiton off the living space of a chief  

Chicago, Dinner Party, 1970, Feminist Art 

- Triangular shaped table symbolizes woman (pubic area)

- Concept of a dinner party

- References last super (13 placings on each side)

- Famous names of notable woman

- plates specialized for each woman in a vagina form (only thing these women have in common)

Giacometti, City Square, 1950, Surrealism 

- Reference to life in the city (isolation of city life and lack of communication) 

-lone woman isnt moving (sexists)

Calder, Lobster Trap, Kinetic Art, 1940 

- Mobile Structure: makes it kinetic (wind moves it) 

- Cut metal and wire medium 

- MOvement when touched mimiques movement of lobster 

Hanson, Tourists, 1970, Figurative Art  

- Ordinary People (Man and WOman) 

- Varying Forms of Plastic to create body 

-Abandoned Painting and emigrated to America where he began to produce "ready mades" 

- Submitted "Fountain" piece under the surname of MR. MUTT 

-Refused it because they thought it was lude and plageristic for he did not make it

-Chip article argues that it doesn't matter that he didn't make it, all that matters is that he chose it. By doing so he turned an ordinary plumbing device into art. 

Even in the most “deductive of his canvases, he always made sure that his squares were slightly skewed so that one would notice their stark simplicity and read them as stubbornly “one” rather than identifying them as geometric figures. 

-"Picabia's ironic rendering of the human subject as a machine." 

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By the end of 1920, Mondrian’s mature style, which he called “Neoplasticism” was in place. 

Greenberg invented the term ‘homeless representation’ to account for the paradox of abstract paintings that nonetheless seemed to describe the shallow hills and valleys generally used to model the illusion of 3d objects, ex. Pollock