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Cards Term http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/14373003.jpg Definition Joan Miró, Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird, 1926 Term Definition Salvador Dalí, Apparition of a Face on a Seashore, 1938 Term Definition Max Ernst, Oedipus Rex, 1922 Term Definition Meret Oppenheim, Luncheon in Fur, 1936 Term Definition Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy of Departure, 1914 Term Definition Magritte, On the Threshold of Liberty, 1929 Term Definition Eugène Atget, Avenue des Gobelins, 1920 Term Definition Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933 Term Definition Man Ray, Gift, 1921 Term Definition Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928 Term Definition Dali and Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou, 1929 Term Definition Man Ray, L’Étoile de mer (The Starfish), 1928 Term Definition Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933 Term Definition Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928 Term Definition Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait / Henry Ford, 1932 Term Definition Calder, Button Flower, UCLA, 1959 Term Definition Hepworth, Elegy III, UCLA, 1966 Term Definition Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923 Term Definition Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, View from the Radio Tower, 1928 Term Definition Gropius, Fagus Factory, 1911 Term Definition José Luis Sert, Spanish Pavilion, 1937 Term Definition Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Term Definition John, Heartfield, Those Who Read Bourgeois Newspapers will become blind and deaf, 1930 Term Definition Hannah Höch, Pretty Girl, 1920 Term Definition Höch, Cut With the Kitchen Knife: Dada through the last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1920 Term Definition John Heartfield, The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Millions Stand Behind Me, 1932 Term Definition Diego Rivera, The Detroit Industry Murals, 1931-32 Term Definition Arno Breker, Strength, 1934 (drawing sword) Term Definition Josep Thorak, Comradeship, 1930 Term Definition Albert Speer, Party Rally Grounds, Nurnberg 1936 Term Definition Paris World's Fair, 1937 Term 2 responses to WWI Definition -return to order (restore cohesion) ex: picasso reinstatement of neoclassicism -underlying barbarism/dismantling order (way of handling the chaos in society) ex: dada-chaos (Hannah Hoch-Pretty Girl collage) Term Uncanny Definition -somewhat familiar but unfamiliar @ the same time -doesn't fit into expectations -understand but the meaning is unknown ex: Man Ray-Starfish Term Formless Definition -infinitely permeable -lacking definite shape ex: Giacometti, Women w/ Throat Cut -victim of men's sexual aggression -leaves woman helpless -pschologically, she is formless due to the truama Term 3 Characteristics of Fascism Definition 1. suppression of dissant (demonstrated by Hitler) -when political party oppresses another party instead of constructively engaging in other party's perspective 2.centralization of authoritu under a dictator 3.rampant nationalism/rampant rascism Term 3 characteristics of mural movement Definition 1. portraying nature & science -Rivera (proletariat art, art i exclusive-shows distint classes, comm art-no class therefore reflects everyone) -propaganda (art accessible in masses, not elitist, didactic/moralistic) Term Degenerate Art Definition -Hitler did not condone (sickness of masses/society, art gone wrong) -1937 -across from German Art Exhibit -nazi propaganda throughout installation of exhibit (what art was not) Term German art exhibit Definition -1937, munich (same yr as Paris world fair-contributed to potential of modern art/modern tech.-Hitler needed to control) -pure art (Nazi art, nationalistic) ex: Strength -cleansing of degenerate art -what art was Term Paris World Fair Definition -1937 -international trade/sharing of modern art, science, tech. -intended not to be political, but was (competition?) -main attractions-countries pavilions, telephone, auotmobile Term Spanish Pavilion Definition -@ Paris world fair -Franco opposing comm. state -Hitler supporting Franco's army -civil war (Nationalists (Franco) vs. Republicans (for comm.)) ex: Picasso, Guernica-response to civil war (dark/agressive, colors-blues/greys/black-sets melancholy mood) -hung in Spanish Pavilion Term The Magnetic Fields Definition -1922 surrealist texts -featured pure pysychic automatism (main precept of surrealism-expression of thought without exercised reason/control or mind) -developed by Breton and Soupault Term 2 strands of surrealism Definition 1. biomorphic/abstract surrealism -free form, suggestive of shape -many scupltures ex: Miro 2. dream-like paintings (detail, distortion, recognizable scenes/objects) ex:dali (artists used images of subconscious) -both priviledged the unconscious Term Bauhuas Definition -established in 1919 in Weimar by GROPIUS -Bauhuas philosophy-learning by doing, broke down barrior between fine art and craft-consisted of course workshops that encouraged student's creativity -2 areas of study: problems of craft and problems of form Term International Style Definition -new form of advanced architecture and design -term originated in exhibition in NYC, 1932 -resulted in new spatial organ (free flow of interior space) -used for urban planning, low cost mass housing -new materials: structural stee, ferroconcrete Term "Machines for Living" Definition -bland housing, lack of color/decoration -affordable housing -la corbusier-coined the term Term Automatic Writing Definition -dictation of thought without control of the mind -exuisite corpse -Breton "Soluable Fish" -writer unaware of what will be written -experimented in 1922-The Magnetic Fields