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"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Seurat
1884-86 |
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| A type of painting that Seurat invented; it is characterized by the application of tiny dots painted onto a canvas. |
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"Mont Sainte-Victoire"
Cezanne
1902-04 |
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"The Basket of Apples"
Cezanne
1895 |
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"Woman with the Hat"
Matisse
1905 |
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| means "wild beast" in French; a critic wrote that, in a salon with Renaissance paintings and expressionistic art, the Renaissance art looked like it was surrounded by wild beasts. Fauvism refers to the expressionist movement being energetic, colorful, not in perspective, and out of the ordinary. |
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"The Ladies of Avignon"
Picasso
1907 |
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"The Portuguese"
Braque
1911 |
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| the braking down of line and space in art; there is a lot of shading but the art is still abstract |
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"Still Life with Chair Caning"
Picasso
1911-12 |
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| The impulse to break apart and abstract a picture and put it back together in a different arrangement than it started; to synthesize the elements of a picture in a different way than it started. |
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"Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass"
Braque
1913 |
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| Pasting numerous different types of material onto a flat surface while exploring new ways to integrate art. |
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"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
Boccioni
1913 |
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| An art exhibition in New York that featured European artists. It was important because it introduced Americans to European art forms. |
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"Nude Descending a Staircase"
Duchamp
1912 |
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"L.H.O.O.Q."
Duchamp
1919 |
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| A mass produced object that has been modified by an artist and called art. |
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"Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance"
Jean Arp
1916-17 |
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"The Persistence of Memory"
Salvador Dali
1931 |
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"The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe)"
Magritte
1928-29 |
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"Object"
Meret Oppenheim
1936 |
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"The Two Fridas"
Frida Kahlo
1939 |
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"Twittering Machine"
Klee
1922 |
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"Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow"
Piet Mondrian
1930 |
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| Means "the style" in Dutch; the style of art Mondrian invented and characterized by a limited color palette and only horizontal and vertical lines. |
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| An exhibition that took place in Nazi Germany to show the political influence in art; they art was chosen so it could be ridiculed. |
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"Woman 1"
de Kooning
1950-52 |
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| A type of abstract painting where the act of painting becomes part of the art; mistakes are also incorporated into the art. |
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"Lavendar Mist"
Jackson Pollack
1950 |
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"No. 14"
Mark Rothko
1960-61 |
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| Large areas of color that are concerned with the emotional resonance of color. |
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"Bay Side"
Frankenthaler
1963-67 |
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| A type of art where an object is stripped down to its fundamentals and all the personalness is removed. |
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"Untitled"
Donald Judd
1969 |
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"Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?"
Richard Hamilton
1956 |
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| A printmaking technique that uses a piece of silk attached to a piece of wood; the silk recieves an image by pressing ink onto it. |
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"Green Coca-Cola Bottles"
Andy Warhol
1962 |
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"Hopeless"
Lichtenstein
1963 |
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"The Dinner Party"
Judy Chicago
1979 |
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"Untitled Film Still #35"
Cindy Sherman
1979 |
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"Your Gaze Hits the Side of my Face"
Kruger
1983 |
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"The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist"
Guerilla Girls
1988 |
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"Sandwich Boards"
Daniel Buren
1968 |
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| A philosophical viewpoint that associates the idea with the object; this term is tied closely to Karl Marx. Associations between the object and the idea can be arbitrary and unrelated. |
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"One and Three Chairs"
Kosuth
1965 |
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"How to explain pictures to a dead hare"
Joseph Beuys
1965 |
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| Allen Kaprow's Happenings |
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| Performances he did which could last as short or long as he wanted. An example of a happening would be having people write whatever they wanted on a special wall. |
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| John Cage and 4' 33" (1952) |
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John Cage was Allen Kaprow's teacher and was interested in integrating life into musical compositions through spontaneity.
He did a performance where he sat quietly behind a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and had the audience pay attention to the white noise. |
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| An art movement having to do with happenings and challenging objective art. |
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"Cornered"
Adrian Piper
1988 |
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"Self Portrait Exaggerating my Negroid Features"
Adrian Piper
1981 |
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"Spiral Jetty"
Robert Smithson
1970 |
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| A movement in the 1970s where artists thought about making art on a large scale by using the land. |
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"Surrounded Islands"
Christo and Jean-Claude
1980-83 |
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"Tilted Arc"
Richard Serra
1981 |
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