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Magic Realism
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(1875 - 1900)
American term - A form of painting meant to create the illusion of absolute reality. It is a very popular form of painting because if it's "fool the eye" quality. Painting from actual objects. This form of painting had a successful run in America in the last quart of the 19th century.
John Haberle - Compositions Triangular
John Peto
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Primitive, Naive, Folk or Outsider Art
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No Time - No Place Art by amateurs. Timeless and ubiquitous (everywhere). Examples would be African carvings, Inuit totem poles, weather vanes. Content varies always stylized. First known mark of human Kind
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| Means of documenting what people looked and look like. Prior to 1860's it was the only means to identify. Photography then became the primary method. Portraits are now a luxury. Thomas Aiken was one of the best portrait artists. |
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Social Realism
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No Time line - Man's inhumanity to man - Art that protests situations and events that some see as controversial. It is generally political in nature. and is ongoing somewhere or another Because of its polemical (passionate argument) nature, work generally has a short shelf-life.
Picasso - "Guernica"
Peter Saul - particularly intense political critique - Bright pop art
Jack Levine - political in nature |
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Regionalism
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(1920's - 1930's - 1940's) American
Art that documented various regions of the country especially the Depression of the 1930's. Provincial in nature, nonetheless captured the weary, bereft, social situation. A time when unemployment was high.
Edward Hopper - "Early Sunday Morning"
Charles Burchfield - Buffalo
Grant Woods - Mid West
Georgia O'Keefe - South West |
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Photo Realism
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Primarily American - Beginning in the 1960's
1. From photos
2. Acrylic paints - and airbrush
3. Scale - very large
4. context captures a moment
Chuck Close
Steven Posen
Richard Estes |
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Impressionism
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1870-1890 French - User friendly - dabs of paint. Broke with tradition, simple impressions of what is observed. Part of the whole economic, social, and political evolution that occurred during the last part of the 19th century
Monet
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Post Impressionism
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1880 - 1907 French This is a period of time, a period of experimentation. Both Hot emotional, Gauguin, and VanGogh. Lead to Exprssionsim Cool - more intellectual approach, Cezanne and Seurat lead to Cubism and Futurism
Guaguin & VanGogh - Hot
Cezanne & Seurat - Cool |
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Cubism
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1907-1914 French - Paris
Space was flattened, hard edges, geometric, Process oriented.
Picasso - Les Dmoiselles de Avignion
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Futurism
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1910 - 1925 - Italian, Milan
Extension of Cubism. Expression of movement Invention of performance art (Marinetti)
Marinetti - performance art
Giacomo Balla - Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
1912
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Russian Constructivism
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1917-1925 Russian
Hard edge geometric - reduced sculpture and drawing to basic geometric forms.
Artists - Popova, Malevich, El Lissitzky |
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Fauvism
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1905 French - short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized 1905 - French painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic
Henri Matisse and André Derain
Maurice de Vlaminck |
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Expressionism
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1910 - Started in Germany Continues today - emotional experience rather than physical reality
Movement in fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist. Munch, Kirchner, Nolde |
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1914 - 1920 Three areas - WWI was the catalyst
Zurich Escapism Cabaret Voltaire Hugo Boll
Berlin - toxic Political - Grosz
Paris - absurd - Duchamp, Manray and Oppenheim - Morphed into Surrealism |
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Surrealism
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1914 - 1939 Paris - Sandwiched by wwI and wwII
Freedom Sexual freudian, children's art, art of the insane, primitive art. Wanted total freedom. Not meant to tell a story.
DeChirco (Italian)
Dali
Miro (Spanish) |
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Blue Rider
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1910 - Munich, Germany
Transcendentalism - intellectual group lead by Kandinsky in Munich, Germany. Their work expresses inner feeling rather than observed nature
Kandinsky
Klee
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The Bridge (Der Brucke)
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1905-1913 - Dresden Germany
Precursor to Expressionism The artists’ group Die Brücke created a shocking new style, using deliberately distorted images and antinaturalistic, dissonant colors, which became known as expressionism.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Erich Heckel
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