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- Henri Matisse
- Leader of the Fauves
- Rejected the idea that painting had to imitate nature
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- The Woman with the Hat
- By: Henri Matisse
- Oil on Canvas
- Controversial, ordinary subject, anti-naturalistic color, and bold brushwork.
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- Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)
- By: Henri Matisse
- Colors contribute as much to the joyful mood as the figures do.
- Oil on Canvas
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- Family of Saltimbanques
- By: Pablo Picasso
- Fascinated with the subject of itinerant circus performers
- Rose Period
- Psychologically withdrawn figures on a desolate landscape
- Oil on Canvas
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- Le Desmoiseles D'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)
- By: Pablo Picasso
- He began to appropriate African images into his works (notice their faces resemble African masks)
- Bold subject matter and sized. Fractured forms.
- Oil on Canvas
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- Violin and Palette
- By: George Braque
- Analytic Cubism
- Oil on Canvas
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- Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
- By: Picasso
- Oil on Canvas
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- Ma Jolie (My pretty girl)
- By: Picasso
- Ma Jolie was the title of a song at a music hall Picasso attended
- Multiple representations: Language (black letters), Symbolic Meaning (treble clef), Abstraction (woman)
- Oil on Canvas
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- La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze)
- By: Picasso
- A collage composed of pasted elements.
- Evoked both place and acitivity.
- Quite mood broken by newspaper contents
- Pasted paper, gouache, and charcoal.
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- Mandolin and Clarinet
- By: Picasso
- Synthetic Cubism
- Idea of assemblage, combined found objects and nontraditional materials in 3D sculptures.
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- Street, Berlin
- By: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Expressionism
- The women are prostitutes
- Features harsh, raw colors, and tilted perpective as well as the prostetutes aim to provoke an emotional response in the viewer.
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- Self-Portrait Nudes
- Egon Schiele (Independent Expressionist)
- Pose suggestive of crucified Christ
- Limited color. Agitated pencil line
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- The Large Blue Horses
- By: Franz Marc (Blue Rider leader)
- Marc's work centered on animals as symbols of rebirth.
- Supremacy of Animal Spiritualy (belived by Marc)
- Oil on Canvas
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- Vasily Kandinsky
- Explored relationship between music and paintings.
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- Improvisation 28
- By: Vasily Kandinsky
- Must be viewed as if you're hearing music.
- Left side: depicts a destructive event
- Right side: Spiritual salvation
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- Three Women
- By: Fernand Léger
- A machine-age version of the academic reclining nude (Polished bodies + Rounded and dislocated forms)
- French Cubism
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- First manifesto (1909) was published in Le Figaro
- Italian Cubism
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- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
- By: Umberto Boccioni
- Italian Cubism
- Evokes an acient statue but its polished surface alludes modern machinery
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- Suprematist Painting (8 Red Rectangles)
- Kazimir Malevich
- Russian Cubism
- Suprematism (basic geometric shapes + limited range of colors).
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- Torso of a Young Man
- By: Constantin Brancusi
- Distills the figure into 3 essential metal cylinders-Impressive platform.
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- Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawe"
- Hugo Ball
- Photograph
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- Fountain
- By: Marcel Duchamp
- The original (this pic) is lost. Only replicas remain
- Porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint.
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- L.H.O.O.Q.
- By: Marcel Duchamp
- Pencil on reproduction of Leonardo de Vinci's Mona Lisa
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- Gallery 291
- By: Alfred Stieglitz
- Pictorial photography
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- The Flatiron Building, New York
- By: Alfred Stieglitz
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- Portrait of a german Officer
- By: Marsden Hartley
- Cubism: Juxtapostion of fragments and geometric forms)
- German Expressionism: Dramatic colors
- Tribute to his lover - symbolic
- Military imagery
- Oil on canvas
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- City Night
- By: Georgia O'Keefe
- Buildings reduced to simple geometric forms
- Exaggerated perspective
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- Villa Savoye
- By: La Corbusier
- Domino construction system
- Pilotis (slender columns)
- Curtain walls
- Ribbon windows
- Flat roof
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- Fallingwater
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Mills Run, PA
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- Elements of Architecture: The Skyscraper
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- Woolworth Building
- New York took a lead over Chicago in the development of the skyscraper
- Historicist favored over utilitarian approach
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- Proun Space
- By: El Lissitzky
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- Compostition with Yellow, Red, and Blue
- By: Plet Mondrian
- Horizontal and vertical lines
- Restricted color palette of primary colors
- Goal: search the universal beauty
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- Red and Blue Chair
- By: Gerrit Rietveld
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- Bauhaus Building, Dessau
- By: Walter Gropius
- Anhalf, Germany
- Steel frame construction
- Glass curtain wall
- Asymmetrical plan
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- Coffee and Tea Service
- By: Marianne Brandt
- Silver and ebony with Plexiglas cover for sugar bowl.
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- Composition
- By: Joan Miró
- Surrealism
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- Birth of Liquid Desires
- By: Salvador Dalí
- Surrealism
- Detailed painting style
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- Recumbent Figure
- By: Henry Moore
- Surrealist-Influenced biomorphic sculptural form.
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- Guernica
- By: Pablo Picasso
- Picasso was commissioned to create a painting for the Spanish Pavillion of the 1938 Paris Exposition.
- City of Guernica was bombed by Germans.
- Sober colors, Intense expressions.
- Universal plea against the brutality and the terror of war.
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- Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction
- By: Aaron Douglas
- Harlem Renaissance
- Mural
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- American Gothic
- By: Grant Wood
- Celebrated midwestern traditions and culture.
- Flemish Renaissance
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- Migrant Mother
- By: Dorothea Lange
- Photographers were hired to document the problems of farmers and migrant workers.
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- The Great City of Technotitlan
- By: Diego Rivera
- Painted for the National Palace in Mexico City
- Mural
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- The Two Fridas
- By: Frida Kahlo
- Frida painted many self portraits, here the Fridas are twins with a split ethnic identity (Mexican and German)
- At the time, she was divorcing Diego Rivera there was emotional suffering presenting in the pic (notice the blood and hearts, as well as a pic of a man)
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- Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef
- By: Francis Bacon
- Portrays a Pope flanked by sides of beef
- *Bacon-Beef*
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- Abstract Art in Five Tones and Complementaries
- By: Joaquín Torres-Garcias
- Inspired by Pre-Columbian art
- Oil on Board mounted on panel
- Abstraction + Inca imagery
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- Autumn Rhythm
- By: Jackson Pollock
- Abstract Expression
- Enamel on Canvas
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- Lavender and Mulberry
- By: Mark Rothko
- Oil on paper mounted on filberboard
- Encouraged meditation
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