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Claude Monet Impression: Sunrise 1872 Impressionism Supported by the people First Painting to be labeled as immpression Painting refelects the upheval, confusion, in the city itself. Society is in a state of flux. He is not depicting forms but rather how the light affects on forms.
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Edouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1882 Impressionism Are looking at her state of consiessness and the way she wishes she could talk to her customer. She is trapped Trappize to create a unsetalling feeling that you would have exsperienced in a bar She has a deeper sense of self. She is in thought and it creates a emotional involvement.
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Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal 1874 Impressionism Carvaggio of impressionism Movement is mimiced by staircase and dancers Famous Coriographer. He only showed male coriographers He painted the painting from a photograph
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge 1892-1895 Impressionism Shows uglyness of cafe life, thus ugly characters Painting is unbalanced, the same as the life was Very superficaial people, very impersonal life of a cafe Henri was born with a birth defect that kept his legs from forming.
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George Seurat A Sunday on the La Grande Jatte 1884-1886 Post-Impressionism 3 dogs, 8 boats, 38 people and 1 monkey which could mean the women holding it is a prostitute The painting use pointillism; points of primary colors Seurat shared the impressionist interest in analyzing light and color Seurat created a rhythmic cadence by the place of the figures that harmonized the entire composition.
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Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire 1902-1904 Post-Impressionism Sense of permanance by useing geometric shapes. Uses blues to make it recede and warmer colors to bring it forward. Very little reference to human life. He analyzed lines, planes and colors of nature.
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Henri Rousseau Sleeping Gypsy 1897 Symbolism Creates uneasyness of being vonerable Paintings are primative, reduced down to niave simple forms Henri was a novice but had a natural talent for design and imagination. Rousseau was said to be primative without leaving Paris.
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Antoni Gaudi Casa Mila Barcelona, Spain 1905-1907 Arts and Crafts Movement Has a rythem to it, not static Inspired by Moorish-Spanish and Catalonia architecture Antoni felt his buildings was symbolically a living thing The building may reflect the excitement that swept Spain following the 1879 discovery of Paleolithic cave paintings.
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Reliquary guardian figure Kota, Gabon 19th century African Art Geometric form compose this artwork. The gleaming surface is said to repel evil Geometric ridges, borders, and subdivisions add texture
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"Beautiful Lady" Dance mask Senufi, Ivory Coast Late 20th century Mask act outside of reality Men sometimes wore the mask The masks are belived to hold ancestoral and bush powers that combat witchcraft and sorcery
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Henri Matisse Woman with the Hat 1905 Fauvism Color played a key role inconveying meaning The women is Matisse's wife The whole painting consistes of patches and splotches of colors With pure colors came stronger reactions
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Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 Cubism Has eliminated perspective Many angles are shown at once This opened the door to new methods of represented forms and space Picasso creates tension between repersentation and abstraction
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Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 Futurism Speed and force are placed in a sculptural form Creates a sense of power Seems as thought the sculpture is gliding forward Was the first of the kinetic sculpture
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Hannah Hoch Cut with the Kitchen Knife 1919-1920 Dada Some other Dada artists appear in the photomontage It seems haphazard, but it was a carefully thought about arrangement She promoted Dada by the prominently place lettering The photomontage states that women and Dada had the power to destabilize society
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Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937 Cubism Very analytical cubism, sharp edges to symbolize terror Sign of peace now but originally created to show the horrors of war and the German bombing of Guernica Allows viewer to interpret work, does not offer his own intent. The bull overlooking the destruction represents brutality and darkness
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Salvador Dali The persistence of Memory 1931 Surrealism Influenced by Vermieer Got idea for painting when he look at some cheese melt and thus he made everthing melt Landscape his from his home in Spain, Catalonia The watches seem to be organic and in decay
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Rishard Hamilton Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing? 1956 Pop Art Modern day Adam and Eve surrounded by the objects that they would have in the garden of Eden Moon makes reference to the space race Progress and success are brought into question. Started in Britian
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Robert Rauschenberg Canyon 1959 Pop Art His insperation comes from zen budisum He combines intersperse painted passages with sculptural elements He grew up in an enviornment devoid of images The viewer is forced to find meaning in randomness
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Andy Warhol Marilyn Diptych 1962 Pop Art Technique used is silk screen He thinks of her as a saint Eliminates any personalization from the artist Garish colors give the painting a masklike quality
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Audrey Flack Marilyn 1977 Superrealism Same objects seen in Northern Renaissance All makes reference to vanity and mortality Takes photo image and projects it then paints it Makes you discuss how photography constructs reality
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Judv Chicago The Dinner Party 1979 Feminist Art Thirten plates on each side makes reference to the Last Supper, A Witches Convent Famous women on base with 13 historical women on each side Plates are in the shape of vaginas Triangle is ancient symbol for women
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Cindy Sherman Untitles Film Still #35 1979 Feminist Art Concerned with the gaze and that influences how women look and feel about themselves Takes a movie scene, dresses as the character and then takes photo to take control of how she is seen
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Judwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson Segram Building New York 1956-1958 Postmodernism completely unified and cohesive space. Very little walls inside, set back from the street and seems isolated. it appears to rise rom the pavement on stilts Amber glass gives it a richness found in few of the surrounding buildings
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Frank Gehry Guggenheim Bilbao Spain 1997 Deconstructivism Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright. Emphasizes the environment. Architecture follows design that emphasizes deconstruction The interior floats and flows only guided by light and dark cues
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Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas 1939 Surrealism Deeply personal painting that touches the viewers sensual and psychological memories The connected hands and shared artery suggest different sides of the artists personality Painting contains the struggle of mexicans during the 20th century
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Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Waters 1936-39 Naturalism The design reaches out and captures the expansivness of nature He blends the buildings interior with the exterior to create dynamics and fluidity The contrast in textures enlivens its shape Wright's message was space, not mass
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Alberto Giacometti Man Pointing 1947 Abstract Expressionism Sculpture is alienated, solitary, and lost in the world's immensity Speaks to the pervasive despair in the aftermath of the world war Giacometti best expresses the spirit of existentialism Made from bronze
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Jackson Pollock Number I (Lavender Mist) 1950 Abstract Expressionism Pollock emphasizes the creative process Painting consists of drips, spatters and dribbles The energetic skein draws the viewer into the lacy spider web Pollocks painting style earned him the name "Jack the Dripper"
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David Smith Cubi XIX 1964 Abstract Expressionism Auto worker who worked with steel. Believed metal had no art historical context. Represented modernity and power. Creates texture on the surface with steel wool
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Rober Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970 Deconstruction Challenges notion of where art be shown. Does not want it maintained to show deconstruction and decay. Got the idea one day when he saw son abandon machinary left by a company who tried and failed to extract oil from the site He choose a spiral because of the way the salt coats the lack.
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Nam June Paik Global Groove 1973 New Media Painting through television Renaissance goal of teaching with art. Created the possibility of manipulating video in real time Was originally commissioned to be broadcast over the UN satellite
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Stairway, No.2 1912 avant-garde Duchamp's figure in motion down a staircase in a time continuum reveals the artist's indebtedness to Cubism and Futurism No desernible figures Forces the viewer to draw their own conclusions Was first shown in the Armory Show of 1913
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