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Issues in Women's Art Quiz 2
paintings and their artist
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/05/2015

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Alice Barber Stephens, The Female Life Class

  • american painter, illustrator,print maker, Harper's magazine
  • classes at pennsylvania fine art school
  • studied in Paris and visted Italy
  • Document new spaced for women in modernity
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Alice Barber Stephens, The Woman in Business
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Susan MacDowell Eakins, Portrait of Thomas Eakins

  • realism
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Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic

  • Contraversial because the doctor had blood on hands (Victorian Period)
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Berthe Morisot, Mother and sister of the Artists

  • Critique of urbanization
  • considered agreeable looks at middle calss
  • kept working after marriage and children
  • sketch aesthetics
  • impressionism
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Berthe Morisot, Psyche
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Mary Cassat, Mother and Child

  • american born to wealthy family
  • settled in Paris
  • painted working class women, upperclass women
  • mixed wall patterns influence by Japonese art (Japonisme)
  • impressionism
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Mary Casatt, A Cup of Tea
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Mary Cassat, Women in Black at the Opera

  • Opera = modernity, city life
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Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self Portrait as "New Woman"

  • epitomized the new woman 
  • academy julian in paris
  • photographer and illustrator of official government portraitts
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Charles Dana Gibson, "Gibson Girl" images

  • epitome of the "new woman"
  • atheletic, nature loving, talented artist and musician
  • well educated, out in public life
  • atheletes and scientists
  • still...women had to look feminine
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Frances Benjamin Johnston, Class in American History, Hampton University

  • Document HBCU education
  • depicts westernization of Native Americans
  • problematic because supports notion that European=civilized
  • not influcence of Victorian dress
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Cubist dress from Vogue, 1925
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Georges Braque, the Portuguese

  • cubism
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Picaso, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

  • seen as the beginning of cubism, 1907
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Gabriele Munter, Meditation

  • German expressionist
  • hinter glasmerie= paintings viewed through glass
  • tribute to Russian folk art
  • helped found blue rider
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Gabriele Munter, Boating
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Gabriele Munter, Jawlensky and Werefkin
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Franz Marc, the Large Blue Horses

  • der blaue reiter= subsection of German expressionism
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Sonia Delaunay, Simultaneous Contrasts

  • Dada= art mov't before surrealism, child like reaction to trauma of WWI, whimisical, absurd, began in Zurich, Switzerland
  • color harmonies= best modernity expression
  • influenced by cubism and russian folk art
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

  • very influencial dada artist
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Sonia Delaunay, applique coat

  • simultaneous dress: patterns of abstract form, reaction to boring fashion, embrace female body
  • clothing=signifer of modernity
  • dada, cubist inspired
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Sonia Delaunay, page from Ses peintures, ses objets, ses tissus simultanes
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Hannah Hoch, DADA-dance

  • German, photo montages (collages)
  • aligned dada with revolutionary movements
  • "found" images
  • role of women included
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Hannah Hoch, cat with the kitchen knife through the last weimer beer belly cultural epoch of germany
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Jean Arp, Grande Collage

  • dada, Zurich
  • duo-collages (husband and wife collaboration)
  • embroidery, weavings
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vertical Horizontal Composition
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Liubov Popova, Painterly Architectonics

  • Russian avant garde
  • cubism influenced
  • sharp edges
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Liubov Popova, the Pianist
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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self Portrait with Amber Necklace

  • independent German expressionist
  • worked with nude female
  • influenced by Paul Gaugain
  • symbolist
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Gauguin, Two Tahitian Women

  • focus on primitivism
  • stock broker who lost job
  • post-impressionist
  • influenced by symbolism (spirit related, mystical, dream like
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Gwen John, A Corner of the Artist's Room

  • welsh artist
  • influenced by impressionism
  • solitary images of women
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Susan Valadon, Blue Room

  • reclining figures relate to orientalism
  • has books on bed
  • self portrait about her experience as an art model
  • post impressionist color
  • focus on body and emotional states
  • odalisque figure=recline women
  • different because not of a sexual nature for the male gaze
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Maria Fortuny, The Odalisque

  • example of oriental depiction of Harem scene
  • pornographic postcards
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Alphonse Marie Muche, Model reclining on the couch in Mucha's studio

  • odalisque
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Frida Kahlo, the Broken Column

  • Mexican surrealist
  • married to Diego Rivera
  • 1st celebrity artist figures
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Frida Kahlo, the Two Fridas
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Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace
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Laura Carrington, Self Portrait (The White House inn)

  • English born, Mexican artist
  • Surrealist
  • revert back to childhood (Hobby Horse)
  • nervous breakdown relayed in work
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Kathe Kollwitz, the Outbreak

  • Black anna
  • German expressionism
  • progressive focus on social problems
  • documented challenges of working class
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Kathe Kollwitz, Attack
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Camille Claudel, the Waltz

  • French
  • partner of Rodin
  • emotional and lyrical quality to work
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Camille Claudel, the Gossips or Women Chatting
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Camille Claudel, the Age of Maturity
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Auguste Rodin, the Thinker

  • working in paris
  • emotion through gesture
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Auguste Rodin, Burghers of Calaise

  • Christian martyrs
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Marie Laurencin, Group of Artist

  • in Picasso's circle
  • cubist
  • know for group portraits
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Picasso, Self Portrait
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Romaine Brooks, Self Portrait

  • "New Woman"
  • cross dressed
  • Flanear= female dandy, dressed well, lived in city
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Man Ray, Coco Chanel

  • created brand off of her life
  • cross dressing women
  • Chanel N 5
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Georgia O'Keefe, The American Radiator Building
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Georgia O'Keefe, Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur
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Georgia O'Keefe, Blue and Pink II

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Georgia O'Keefe, Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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Alfred Steiglitz, The Street

  • 291 gallery that introduced modernist and avante garde art and photography to United States
  • founded Photo cession group
  • "Photowork" photo journal
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Gertrude Kasebeier, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage

  • visible dividing line between classes
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Walter Pach, Interior View of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913

  • modernist exhibit that introducted art to the United States
  • American critics disliked avant garde
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Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms

  • English abstract sculptor
  • part of "Abraction Creation" sculptor group
  • critics of surrealism
  • biomorphic
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Barbara Hepworth, Forms of Echelon
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Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure

  • Influenced by non Western art, like Mexican
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Henry Moore, Chacmool
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Brancusi, Bird in Space

  • Influenced by Romanian Folk art
  • Romanian man
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Brancusi, the Newborn
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Remedios Varo, Celestial Pablum

  • Surrealism
  • born in Spain, lived in Mexico
  • women always alone, evokes sense of isolation
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Remedios Varo, the Call
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Remedios Varo
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