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The Kiss
Artist - Gustave Klimt
-1907 to 1908
style - art Nouveau
Additional-Had many influence. Like byzantine mosaics |
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Casa Mila
Artist - Antonio Gaudi(Spanish)
Year-1907
Style-Art Nouveau
Additional -Masterful architect that invented new techniques in order to make his vision possible
-Spiritual kin of early 20th cent expressionism sculpture and painting |
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Demoiselles d'Avignon
Artist-Picasso(spanish)
style - analytic cubism
additional - Originality of cubism lay in depiction of pictoral space. Objects seem to be seen from multi-directions all at once
-Artists studied bones and form of subjects, then combined the views into one
-Broke with the art of the past |
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Red Room(Harmony in Read)
Artist- Henri Matisse(French)
Year- 1908-1909
Style- Fauve
Additional- Matisse remained most faithful to Fauves style
-Matisse's way of allowing paintings to emerge, had become a common practice amongst artist. But was revolutionary at the time |
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Bather
Artist- Jacques Lipchitz
Year- 1917
Style- Analytic Cubism style
Add- He was part of the 2nd gen. of cubism.
-He brought theory to the approach, as well as proportion and mathematics.
-Golden mean, ideal proportion and order |
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Three Musicians
Artist- Picasso
Year- 1921
Style- Synthetic cubism
Add.- Picasso and Brock going separate ways in style at this time |
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Women with Dead Child
Artist- Kathe Kollwitz(German)
Year- 1903
Style- German Expressionism
Add.- Liked themes of injustices and inhumanity
-Unrelenting and bleak styles
-Inspired by Christian theme of Pieta
-Liked working with prints b/c it allowed a wide audience to see them |
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War Monumenmt
Artist- Earst Barlach
Year-1927
Style- New Objectivity/german expressionist
Add.-Influenced by Medieval arts
-New Objectivity was born in Germany
-Original one was melted down by Nazis |
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Departure
Artist- Max Beckman
Year- 1932-1933
Style- New Objectivity Style
-rather exclusive to him on test
Add.- Presented in triptych: a format often for alter pieces
- He thought chaos would lead to a better society
-Brutality of life in Cent. Europe, human suffering |
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The Bicycle Wheel
Artist- Marcel Duchamp (French moved to America and became citizen)
Year- 1913
Style- Dada
Add.- The dark veins of expressionist were just one respones to disintegration of society
- End of 2nd decade of 20th cent, 2 groups came together, the Dadaist, and surrealists
- Dada movement begain in NY and Switerland at the same time.
- Dada style was more of a mindset than a style
- Duchamp was probably most influential of the Dadaists |
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Fountain
Artist- Marcel Duchamp
Year- 1950
Style- Dada
Add.- "Ready made art"
- Rethinking the role of the artist |
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Nude descending a Staircase, No 2
Artist- Marcel Duchamp
Year- 1912
Style-
Add.- Collectively yet idealistically, and art group from Europe went out to shock |
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Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
Artist- Giorgio de Chrico
Year- 1914
Style- Metaphysical Painting style. Proto surrealist
Add.- His paintings cityscapes and shop windows were part of a metaphysical painting |
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Two Children and Threatened by a Nightingale
Artist- Max Ernst (German)
Year- 1924
Style- Surrealism/dada
Additional- The dominate motivation of surrealist art was to bring the outer/inner most reality into justaposition
-Dream born from a romantic position
- Frottage process-> taking a texture with a paper and crayon |
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The Percistence of Memory
Artist- Salvador Dali(Spanish)
Year- 1931
Style- Naturalistic Surrealism
Add.- Manifesto of Surrealism
- Leading surrealist at the time |
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Black Wall
Artist- Louise Nevelson
Year- 1964
Style- Surrealism
Add.- Most of her sculptures before 1954 were done in cubism
- after '54 she does surrealism |
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The Two Fridas
Artist- Frida Kahlo(Mexican)
Year- 1939
Style- Surrealism/trad. Mexican emotional
Add.- in style her self-portraits are similar to traditional Mexican devotional images |
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The Dinner Party
Artist- Judy Chicago
Year- 1979
Style- feminist
add.- triangle represents equality
- 13 places on each side |
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Supermarket Shopper
Artist- Duane Hanson
Year- 1970
Style- super realism sculpture
add.- failure of American dream |
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Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Artist- Richard Hamilton(British)
Year- 1956
Style- Pop art
Add.- Pop art begain in London in mid 1950's
- First Pop art |
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Spiral Jetty
Artist- Robert Smithson (American)
Year- 1970
Style- Earth works/art (style) site specific
Add.- Wanted to take art back to nature |
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Cow with the Subtitle Nose
Artist- Jean Dubuffet
Year- 1954
Style- ...?
Add. -Paintings inspired by art brute(raw art)
-Brute Art = Raw Art
-Jean's celebration of crude art was considered most artist approach in its day, known as 'art informal' or 'lyrical abstraction' |
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Head surrounded by Sides of Beef
Artist- Franis Bacon (Irish/English)
Year- 1954
Style- Existentialism
Add. - (Asks what 3 artist we need to read about)
-jean de buffea, bacon, valeasquez? Bacon is the best; most original and forceful |
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