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Red Room
Matisse
1910
Fauvism
Shown at the Salon d'automne
Flatness in color, but 3-dimensionality still achieved
Matisse leader of fauvism (was lawyer turned artist)
Liberated Color
Fauves=wild beasts of color |
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St. Mary
Nolde
1910
Fauvism
Belonged to "The Bridge" Group of German Expressionists
Wanted to "bridge the gap" between the old and new
Depicts St. Mary's (prior to conversion) and her anti-pilgrimmage to Jerusalem
Men flock towards her with desires for sexual favors
Known as degenerate art by the Nazis |
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Improvisation #28
Kandinsky
1912*
Blue Rider German Expressionist
First Example of Non-Objective Art
Not an abstraction, because it is a non-object
Association between color and musical notation
Took cubism into its natural conclusion: the non-objective
Authored "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"
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Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Picasso
1907*
Developmental Cubism
First cubist piece
Influence of African Art Seen
Compression of Space
Figures are not cubes, but torques |
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Still Life with Chair Caning
Picasso
1912
Synthetic Cubism
Begins the practice of collage
Brings Non-Fine Arts Materials to a fine-arts context
The Uppermost portion has an analytic cubist still life |
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Guernica
Picasso
1937
Analytic Cubism
Decades separate this piece from earlier works
Based on Spanish War
A Response to fascism and totalitarian regimes
Shows how suitable cubism is to modern art
Illustrates human values
First time in his artistic life that art was about the context of the world, and not just himself |
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The City
Leger
1919
*Not Reviewed
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Armored Train
Severini
1915
Italian Futurism
Old Italians, short lived movement
All about violence, dynamism, and movement
Shows military train on the move to kill people
Futurists use the visual language of cubism and add dynamism and movement
Movement dies at WWI
The futurists believed war was a great cleanser |
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Boccioni
1913
Italian Futurism (Sculpture)
Follows the tradition of sculpture, because it is a figure
A moving form, not posing
"So" Italian because of the movement in the piece
Forms like those in Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (Torques) |
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The Fountain
Duchamp
1917*
Dadaism
Dadaism: anti-art
Example of a Ready-Made
Influenced by WWI
Meant to challenge the politicians |
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Night
Beckmann
1919
German Expressionism
Not a member of either principal German Groups (Bridge/Blue Rider). Independent of movement
Post WWI response to what he was seeing in Germany (rise of various political parties)
Showed what happened to people who disagreed with those in power |
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War Monument
Barlach
1925
*Not Reviewed |
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Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
De Chiricho
1914
Metaphysical Painting
Italian, but not a futurist
Surrealist vibe, but not surrealism
Eerily Silent
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Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
Ernst
1924*
Veristic Surrealism
Meticulous Realism of things that cannot be seen
Mixed media piece
Andre Breton authors the Surrealist Manifesto on this date |
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The Persistence of Memory
Dali
1930
Verristic Surrealism
hyperrealism of imaginary things
Colored photographs of really strange wild things |
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The Treachery of Images
Magritte
1930
Verristic Surrealism
"This is not a pipe, it is a picture of a pipe."
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Two Frieda's
Kahlo
1940
Veristic Surrealism*
*Does not identify herself as a surrealist, because she doesn't paint her dreams, she paints her reality
No distinct "ism;" where do you place her and why?
Mexican |
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Painting
Miro
1933
Spanish Surrealism
Absolute Surrealism
Employs Automatism (method in which the artist suppresses the conscience and allows the unconscious mind to create); forms that result are often biomorphic and amoeba-like
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Bird in Fight
Brancusi
1930
Futurism*
*No Distinct "ism"
Absolute surrealist qualities
Italian Futurist qualities
Biomorphic forms out of Bronze
Gives truth to materials
Romanian
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Composition
Mondrian
1930
"De Stil" (the style)
Self defined as "Neoplasticism)
Utopian, cerebral, and intellectual in nature
Response to cubism and WWI
Uses only primary colors, black, white, and 90 degree angles |
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Painting
Bacon
1942
Expressionism
Post Modernism
Expressionist vibe, figural
It is impossible to truly understand the meaning of his work without the context of his experience with the bombings of the war, and the knowledge of what people were subjected to in the concentration camps |
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Number 1
Pollock
1950*
Abstract Expressionism
Post-Modernism
NYC replaces Paris as the Art Capital of the world due to WWII
This was a triumph of American Painting
Two aspects of the NY School of Abstract Expressionism: gestural painting and color field
Example of gestural painting
His process became primary, he abandoned the paintbrush and opened everything up |
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Woman
De Kooning
1950
Abstract Expressionism
Post-Modernism
Gesture painter (NYC School of Abstract Expressionism) |
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Untitled
Rothko
1950
Abstract Expressionism
Post-Modernism
Color Field Painter
Seeks to find the metaphysical and spiritual in color fields
Responds to the temper of the time (like gestural painters)
Places the primacy of the individual as number one (like gestural painters) |
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Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Newman
1950
Abstract Expressionist
Post-Modernism
Colorfield Painter
Translates to Man, Heroic and Sublime
Zip Strips: the vertical lines of light on the canvas |
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Bay Side
Frankenthaler
1960
*Abstract Expressionism
*Influenced by Abstract expressionism, but developed her own unique style to it
Was NOT a colorfield painter
Dyed/Stained the canvas, paint in the canvas instead of on it
Post-Painter Abstractionist or 2nd/3rd Generation Abstractionist
Wasn't into theory like the previous abstractionists
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Red Blue Green
Kelly
1960
Minimalism
Example of hard edge painting
Purely design
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Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?
Hamilton
1956
Pop Art
Post-Modernism
British Artist, not American
British Commentary Collage looking at the materialism and flourishing in America, post World War (look at all the cool stuff you can buy in America right now)
Historically significant/big, but not physically large
This piece named the pop-art movement |
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Flag
Johns
1955
Pop Art
Post-Modernism
A move towards realism
A Bridge piece from abstraction to word pop
Paints things that are recognize able, but by their very nature, are two-dimensional |
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Coca Cola
Warhol
1960*
Pop Art
Post-Modernism
Pop-Art celebrates what we know
Commercial Art |
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Hopeless
Lichtenstein
1960
Pop-Art
American
Combatted Dekooning and Polluck's styles
Pointilist |
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Tropical Garden
Nevelson
1960
*Not Reviewed |
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Supermarket Shopper
Hanson
1970
Photo-Realsim
Legacy of Pop Art, Realism, and deification of popular culture
Sculpture
Super Realism
Depicted the average person |
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Spiral Jetty
Smithson
1970*
Earth Art
Post-Modernism
Reacts against the materialism of the art world
Idea that nature will reclaim itself and it will become obliterated
You Cannot Own it.
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Dinner Party
Chicago
1979
Feminism
Exemplifies first generation (1970's) feminism
All about biological differences, reclaiming "her-story in his-story"
Piece honors women in history that history has obliterated
Triangular shape= form for the divine female (biological)
Each plate has a flowering vagina
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Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face
Kruger
1980
2nd Generation Feminist Art
Less about biological differences, more about intellectual, art historical theory
All about the idea of who is active: the subject or the viewer
The active person is always more powerful |
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Backs
Abakanowicz
1980
Neo-Expressionist Sculpture
No heads or chests
Works with non-fine arts materials
Emotional, visceral response t her work
Raises the question: "Is she a girl, a feminist, and are only women feminists?"
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Negredo
Kiefer
1980
European Neo-Expressionist
European vs. American intellectual traditions are vast, as seen in the complexity differences in the images
Response to WWII
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Pink Panther
Koons
1980
Neo-Pop
Kitsch
Does not "make" his own art
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Holy Virgin Mary
Ofili
1980
Neo-Expressionist
Post-Modern Art
African, living in London
Fixes Elephant dung to the works
Raisis issues of cultural identity and how we read works, and issues of sensorship
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Suprematist Composition
Malevich
1915
Suprematism
Pioneers this movement
Russian suprematist movement influenced by cubism and futurism
Informed in responding to WWI and the Russian Revolution
Cerebral, intellectual, utopian movement
Depicts an Airplane flying |
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Untitled
Judd
1969
Minimalism
Sculpture that is produced in the minimalist vein is sometimes referred to as primary structures
Product-Like Quality: hundreds of versions of the same thing |
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Marylin Diptych
Warhol
1962
Pop Art
People were commodified
Icon of female
Sexuality and Sensuality |
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The Walk Home
Julian Schnabel
1985
American Neo-Expressionism
Emotional and Subjective
Recalls the work of gestural abstractionists like Pollock and deKooning
Thick, mosaic like texture
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How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Bueys
1960
German Performance Art
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| What is the title of Kandinsky's publication? |
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| Concerning the Spiritual in Art |
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| Define and provide an example of Absolute Surrealism |
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Biomorphic Forms
Miro's Painting |
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| Define and provide an example of Veristic Surrealism |
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Detailed Realism
Dali's Persistence of Memory |
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| Two Names for Mondrian's Style |
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Neoplasticism
De Stijl (The Style) |
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| What are the 3 Phases of Cubism |
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Developmental (1907-1910)
Analytic (1910-1912)
Synthetic (1912-1914) |
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| What are the Russian Avant-Garde Movements? |
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Suprematism
Constructivism
Ex. Suprematist Composition by Malevich |
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| Who is the author of the surrealist Manifesto? |
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| Identify a Political Work by Picasso |
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| Who Pioneered the style known as piruria metaphysicia (metaphysical painting)? |
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Giorgio de Chirico
Ex. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street |
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| Who is the author of the Futurist Manifesto? |
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| What is the definition of a Ready-Made and provide an example |
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Sculpture that was made out of already-made materials
Belonged to the Dada movement
Ex. The Fountain |
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| Where and when did Dadaism originate? |
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| What was the name of the artist to go into non-objectivism |
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Kandinsky
Ex. Improvisation #28 |
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What was the exhibit that brought modern art to the United States?
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| What did "the bridge" mean? |
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German Expressionist movement that was supposed to span the distance of all artists and close the gap between the old and the new
Ex. St. Mary of Egypt Among the Sinners by Nolde |
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| A Deliberate exaggeration or distortion of line and color to elicit an emotional response |
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| What was the idea of what art was at this time? |
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| Art was the intentional mark-making process by humans |
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