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04/04/2018

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Example Of Stereoscopy
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Still Life with Apples and Peaches, 1905
Paul Cezanne
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La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes, 1895
Paul Cezanne
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The Large Bathers, 1906
Paul Cézanne
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Boats in the Port of Collioure, 1905
André Derain
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Walking Man I, 1960
Alberto Giacometti
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Le Bonheur de Vivre, 1905-6
Henri Matisse
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Girl with Mandolin, 1910
Pablo Picasso
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Houses at L’Estaque, 1908
Georges Braque
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Woman with a Hat. 1904
Henri Matisse
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Pablo Picasso
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Carnival Evening, 1886
Henry Rousseau
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The Kiss
Constantin Brancusi, 1907-8
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Woman’s Head
Amedeo Modigliani, 1910-11
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Violin and Palette, 1909
Georges Braque
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Still Life With Flowers, 1912
Juan Gris
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Ma Jolie, 1911-12
Pablo Picasso
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Guitar, 1912
Pablo Picasso
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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
Giacomo Balla
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
Umberto Boccioni
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States of Mind (triptych), 1911
Umberto Boccioni
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First Step, c.1910
Frantisek Kupka
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Simultaneous Disc, 1912
Robert Delauney
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Picture with a Circle, 1911
Wassily Kandinsky
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Composition IV, 1912
Wassily Kandinsky
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Composition VII, 1913 Wassily Kandinsky
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Hammamet with Its Mosque, 1914
Paul Klee
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primitivism
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Tendency of Western artists to emulate motifs or techniques associated with so called "primitive" cultures.
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Symbolism
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is the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea. An action, person, place, word, or object can all have this meaning.
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Fauvism
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a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non naturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists.
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Futurism
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an artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology
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Paul Cezanne
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a French artist and Post Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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Henri Matisse
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a French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter
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Paul Gaugin
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a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, he is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism
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Pablo Picasso
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a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore
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"Master of Aix"
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the nickname given to Paul Cezanne for his work done in isolation the south of France (Aix-en-Provence).
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Cubism
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an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
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Abstraction
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Freedom from representational qualities in art
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Salon d' Automne
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the new salon established in 1903 in opposition to the Academy's increasingly out of-touch annual exhibition. It was a gallery for the avant-garde.
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Daniel Henry Kahnweiler
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a German-born art historian, art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the artistic development of Pablo Picasso and George Braque.
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Leo and Gertrude Stein
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brother and sister, Leo was an art critic, Gertrude, a charismatic intellectual and writer. Their apartment on the Rue de Fleurus became a central meeting point for writers, artists, poets, and musicians.
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Pure Painting
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A term created by Pablo Picasso. the canvas was no longer pretending to be a window- an instrument of illusion. The canvas was the object itself
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Orphism
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a short-lived art movement within cubism, pioneered by a group of French painters (including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Fernand Léger) and emphasizing the lyrical use of color rather than the austere intellectual cubism of Picasso, Braque, and Gris.
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Der Blaue Reiter
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(The Blue Rider) was a group of artists united in rejection of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was an art movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke which was founded in 1905.
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Die Brücke
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(The Bridge) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905, after which the Brücke Museum in Berlin was named. Founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908.
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Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
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The site of the first futurist's show in Paris in 1912
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Frantisek Kupka
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a member of the Paris-based Cubo-Futurist art movement that Apollinaire had called Orphism.
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Robert Delauney
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a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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translated as "total work of art", "all-embracing art form" is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German word which has come to be accepted in English as a term in aesthetics.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works. His paintings were inspired by the musical work of Arnold Schoenberg
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Improvisation & composition
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the musical references Kandinsky used to describe a visual soundscape: canvases that enabled the viewer to hear the "inner sound" of color.
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Paul Klee
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a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included the Blue Rider, Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
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