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Art History II - Quiz 3
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Undergraduate 1
11/18/2011

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  • Edouard Manet, “Bar at the Folies-Bergere,” 1882

    • Place to eat, drink, and hear music

    • Background is a mirror, not an actual space

    • Woman is made a commodity

    • Women are viewers and the viewed, purchasers and the purchased

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  • Edgar Degas, “The Tub,” 1886

    • Sense of intrusion into an intimate scene

    • Private work becomes a public statement

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  • Mary Cassatt, “The Bath,” c. 1892

    • Very tuned to the psychological charge of a mother and her child

    • Like an asian woodblock print:

      • Flattening of the picture plane

      • Emphasis of line and contour

      • Use of floral motifs

      • Cropping of form

      • The theme (bathing a child)

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  • Mary Cassatt, “Breakfast in Bed,” 1897

    • Mother gazes at or across her child while her child looks elsewhere

    • Vertical vs. Diagonal

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  • James McNeill Whistler, “Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket),” c. 1875

    • Post-impressionism, even more abstract than French impressionism

    • Most abstract American painting painted up to this time

    • Interested in visual pleasure

    • Painted using the soup method

      • Cover the canvas with a gray or black primer

      • Add little details here and there

    • Described as “throwing a pot of paint in the face of the public”

    • Whistler sued Ruscan (critic) for his comment and won

    • No longer making religious or inspiring art, it is now all experimentation

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  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “At the Moulin Rouge,” 1892-95

    • Form itself can carry meaning

    • Lautrec was a dwarf and was, because of his abnormality, let in many circles that most artists were not able to access

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  • Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” 1884-86

    • not naturalistic at all

    • Dis-topia: Play and relaxation have become a cruel opposite in modern Parisian life

    • Pointillism

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  • Vincent van Gogh, “Starry Night,” 1889

    • First artist to set the trend for the typical artist being an outcast

    • Beginning of painting “feeling”

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  • Vincent van Gogh, “Night Cafe,” 1888

    • Symbolism: Red and green shows the darkness of civilization, terrible passions of humanity

    • Romanticism: expressing the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime

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  • Paul Gauguin, “Vision after the Sermon,” or “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,” 1888

    • Interested in not external truths, but internal truths

    • The women are having a vision

    • Both real and imagined world, which are separated by the diagonal tree trunk

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  • Paul Cezanne, “Mont Sainte-Victoire,” 1902-1904***

    • When breaking down a Cezanne painting, you find the underlying geometric structure of nature

    • Color is more important here than foreshortening

    • Color takes the place of line

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  • Paul Cezanne, “Basket of Apples,” c. 1895***

    • Painting is a construction

    • Each apple is its own painting, asymmetrical bottle, makes it look like an accidental grouping

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  • Odilon Redon, “The Cyclops,” 1898

    • Galiteo is having a dream about the cyclops

    • Redon also goes to his dreams for his material

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  • Edvard Munch, “The Scream,” 1893

    • Modernity is a thing (bridge, new building), modernism is an expression of an experience among modernity

    • Appeals to all senses: you hear it, visual, oral, tactile

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  • Auguste Rodin, “Burghers of Calais,” 1884-89

    • Life-size so at the viewer's level

    • Episode from the 100 years war where six men sacrificed their lives so that the rest of the town may live

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  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens, “Adams Memorial,” Rock Creek Cemetary, Washington, D.C., 1891

    • Clover Adams was known as “Henry Adam's wife”

    • In her search for autonomy, she became a photographer

    • Committed suicide by drinking photo-developing chemicals because they considered her “hysterical” due to her depression

    • This statue was made to represent “nirvana,” or being beyond joy or sorrow

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  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Macintosh, “Ladies Luncheon Room,” Ingram Street Tea Room, Glasgow, Scotland, 1900-12

    • Arts and Crafts movement: observing how things are put together and constructed

    • Belief that surrounding yourself with beautiful and lasting things will make you more beautiful and long-lasting

    • A suffering atmosphere makes the person suffer

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  • Louis Comfort Tiffany, “Lotus Table Lamp,” c. 1905

    • People that worked inside would gravitate toward this lamp because its flora motif. It is even transparent and delicate looking like a flower and its leaves.

    • Art nouveau glass that completed the whole effect in a home

    • Stained by chemical fire

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  • Henry Hobson Richardson, “Marshall Field warehouse store,” Chicago, 1885-87

    • Modern because it's make for speed and safety, best durability in the 1800s

    • Load-bearing walls made of rock and cast iron

    • Roman arches show the influence from Neo-Romanesque architecture

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  • Henri Matisse, “Woman with the Hat,” 1905

    • More interested in color to have expressive possibilities

    • Painting on the edge of abstraction

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  • Henri Matisse, “Red Room (Harmony in Red),” 1908-09

    • The idea that a painting and its patterns/colors/expressionism can stand for emotions and feelings came from this time

    • Modernism = self-expression

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  • Vassily Kandinsky, “Improvisation 28,” 1912***

    • Feeling is the point of the work

    • Abstraction, not figurative or representational

    • Suggests spontaneity and action

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  • Franz Marc, “Fate of the Animals,” 1913

    • German expressionist

    • Develops preoccupation with animals and their way of moving

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  • Robert Delaunay, “Champs de Mars,” or “The Red Tower,” 1911

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  • Pablo Picasso, “Gertrude Stein,” 1906-1907

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  • Georges Braques, The Portuguese,” 1991

    • Analytic cubism: breaking down of form

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  • Pablo Picasso, “Still Life with Chair Caning,” 1912

    • First form of collage

    • Looking beneath the surface to break from tradition

    • Synthetic cubism

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  • Georges Braque, “Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass,” 1913

    • Aims to fool the mind, not the eye

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  • Aleksandr Archipenko, “Woman Combing Her Hair,” 1915

    • Experimental

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  • Umberto Boccioni, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” 1913

    • Literally moves through space

    • You can tell where he was a second ago, and also where he is going

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