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Title: Veteran in a New Field
Artist: Homer
Period: Realism
Location: United States
- Created near the end of Civil War, death to life
-More symbolism than most realism |
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Title:The Gross Clinic
Artist:Eakins
Period:Realism
Location:United States
-True realist, Tenebrism, not posed
-Infamous, it horrified |
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Title:The Thankful Poor
Artist:Tanner
Period:Realism
Location:United States
-Involved in Harlem Renaissance, Liberal thinker
-People in everyday life he grew up around |
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Title:A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg 1863
Artist:O'Sullivan
Period:Realism
Location:United States
-Photography, printed from negative
-Possibly tampered with, not realism, moved bodies |
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Title:Ophelia
Artist:Millais
Period:Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Location:England
-Inspired by Shakespeare, imaginary, whimsical
-Tableaux viviant (living pictures) |
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Title:Impression: Sunrise
Artist:Monet
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-on display in 1874, critic gave negative term impression
-something captured immediately, broken brushwork |
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Title: Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in sun)
Artist:Monet
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-interested in capturing certain light, painted over 30
-how light changed the subject, color theory |
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Title:St. Lazare Train Station
Artist:Monet
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-Capturing the changing technology in modern world
-Painted 10 times, like light through glass effect |
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Title:Paris: A Rainy Day
Artist:Caillebotte
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-more polished than most impressionism, capture moment
-Gentleman painter and financial benefactor to artists |
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Title:Le Moulin de la Galette
Artist:Renoir
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-working class artist, just capturing moment, history-sized
-Moulin = "windwil," processing of grain, turned club |
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Title:A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Artist:Manet
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-popular impressionist hangout, more upper class
-mirror brings the viewer in, visual discrepancy |
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Title:Ballet Rehearsal
Artist:Degas
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-referenced photography, self-taught, show emotion
-Japanisme, diagonals, asymmetrical compositions |
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Title:The Tub
Artist:Degas
Period:Impressionism
Location:France
-shelf making asymetrical, visual lines, Japanisme
-not a comment, just normal bath, not erotic |
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Title:The Bath
Artist:Cassatt
Period:Impressionsim
Location:France
-similar work to degas, barred from impressionist hangout
-first woman to have own exhibition in 1893 |
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Title: Nocturne in Black and Gold
Artist:Whistler
Period:Impressionism
Location:England
-More abstract, wanted to reflect music
-Nocturne= romantic composers; sued critic |
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Title:At the Moulin Rouge
Artist:Toulouse-Lautrec
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Bohemian lifestyle, responsible for capturing club
-breaks from impressionism with color, Japanisme |
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Title:Jane Avril
Artist:Toulouse-Lautrec
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-lithography (print making technique, oil and water)
-Doing can-can at Moulin Rouge, Japanisme, flat color |
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Title:A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte
Artist:Seurat
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Pointillism, good idea of color, color theory, study
-Inspired by Parthenon frieze, modern arcadia |
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Title:The Night Cafe
Artist:Van Gogh
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-exhibited at salon des independence, start to lose mind
-playing with color relationshops, Japanisme influenced |
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Title:Starry Night
Artist:Van Gogh
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Away from impressionism, color symbolism
-Cyprus tree, death, precursor to expressionism |
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Title:Vision after the Sermon
Artist:Gauguin
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-bohemian lifestyle, story from the Genesis
-Tree seperating color, reality and imagination |
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Title:Where Do We Come From? Where Are We?
Artist:Gauguin
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Seeking "Noble Savage", loathed modern world
-contemplation of life and death, symbolism |
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Title:Mont Sainte-Victoire
Artist:Cezanne
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Wanted to record nature with color, took years to finish
-Timelessness, doesnt indicate time or season |
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Title:Basket of Apples
Artist:Cezanne
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-2D and 3D elements on cloth and table
-Foreshadows cubism |
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Title:Walking Man
Artist:Rodin
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Held art back, public wasnt ready, called expressionist
-Interested in spontaneity of human movement |
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Title:Burghers of Calais
Artist:Rodin
Period:Post-Impressionism
Location:France
-Commissioners didnt like it, 11 castings around world
-Stylized bodies to be more expressive |
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Title:Jupiter and Semele
Artist:Moreau
Period:Symbolism
Location:France
-Art for art's sake, thought realism was limiting
-Sublime, inspired by dreams, perceived reality |
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Title:The Cyclops
Artist:Redon
Period:Symbolism
Location:France
-Haunted by imaginary, "Prince of mysterious dreams"
-Color betrays story, whimsical but demented |
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Title:The Scream
Artist:Munch
Period:Symbolism
Location:Norway
-Tried to capture despair, loneliness, desire, jealousy, etc.
-4 compositions in different mediums |
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Title:The Kiss
Artist:Klimt
Period:Symbolism
Location:Austria
-Focus on the unconscious mind, freeing by sex, drugs, etc
-Representing sexual liberation on history sized canvas |
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Title:Houses of Parliament
Artist:Barry and Pugin
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:England
-Gothic revival, symmetrical and balanced design
-Big Ben most accurate clock at that point in time |
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Title:The Opera
Artist:Garnier
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:France
-Designed so everyone could mingle
-Everything to be functional and beautiful |
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Title:Crystal Palace
Artist:Paxton
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:England
-1st mass produced grand structure made of cast iron
-Unadorned construction, not cloaked |
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Title:Eiffel Tower
Artist:Eiffel
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:France
-Disliked by many, wanted to be removed
-Built for 1889 Great Exhibitionm |
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Title:Guaranty (Prudential) Building
Artist:Sullivan
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:United States
-Cloaked with terracotta to protect and imprint it
-First masterpiece for skyscrapers |
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Title:Stairway, Van Eeetvelde House
Artist:Horta
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:Belgium
-Part of Art Nouveau, functional and beautiful design
-Sense of nationalism, meant iron to look organic |
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Title:Casa Mila
Artist:Gaudi
Period:19th Century Architecture
Location:Spain
-Meant to look like the ocean, waves, no straight walls
-Fireplaces reminiscent of sand castles |
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Title:The Woman with the Hat
Artist:Matisse
Period:Fauvism
Location:France
-Critic Louis Vauxcelles called it "fauves" (wild beasts)
-Wild color used, experimenting with color symbolism |
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Title:Red Room (Harmony in Red)
Artist:Matisse
Period:Fauves
Location:France
-experimentation with color, flattened piece
-playing with color contrast to be stronger reaction to red |
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Title:The Dance
Artist:Derain
Period:Fauvism
Location:France
-Primitivism: took culture and used it in other way
-color is focus, flat |
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Title:Street, Dresden
Artist:Kirchner
Period:German Expressionism
Location:Germany
-interested in contemporary life, claustrophoic feeling
-Thought to be looking at German woodblock prints |
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Title:St. Mary of Egypt
Artist:Nolde
Period:German Expressionism
Location:Germany
-Believed in flow, not stopping to eat or sleep
-Based on catholic myth, primitivism, animalistic |
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Title:Fate of the Animals
Artist:Marc
Period:German Expressionism
Location:Germany
-Color associated with feelings, non-legible animals
-apocalypse over innocent life, death is unescapable |
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Title:Woman with Dead Child
Artist:Kollwitz
Period:German Expressionism
Location:Germany
-derived from pieta, mother losing child, pity
-interested in contempory life |
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Title:Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Artist:Picasso
Period:Cubism
Location:France
-prostitutes on display for men to choose
-cuts forms into diagonal pieces, history sized canvas |
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Title:The Portuguese
Artist:Braque
Period:Cubism
Location:France
-Critic gave this piece the name of cubism
-High Analytic Cubism, no commentary |
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Title:Still Life with Chair Caning
Artist:Picasso
Period:Cubism
Location:France
-Collage (french word for "coller" meaning "to stick")
-mixed media, synthetic cubism, first collage |
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Title:Guitar
Artist:Picasso
Period:Cubism
Location:France
-not meant to be finished, made of cardboard, string, etc
-reminiscent of woman's body |
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Title: Bather
Artist: Lipchitz
Period: Cubism
Location: France
-1st artist to successfully transfer high analytic cubism into 3D, broken apart form and put back together |
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Title: The City
Artist: Leger
Period: Purism
Location: France
-Awe for modern warfare, technology, pure forms
-Thought WWI would bring utopian society after |
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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Artist: Boccioni
Period: Futurism
Location: Italy
-Desire to paint the new, disgustedd with the old
-Capturing the motion of a human inspired subject |
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Title: Armored Train in Action
Artist: Severini
Period: Futurism
Location: Italy
-Captured Futurism goals, inspiration of cubism
-Cleansing action of war, mass production, no death seen |
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Title: Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
Artist: Arp
Period: DADA
Location: Switzerland
-Came fro cubism, Picasso, collage, meant to be random
-Idea of "chance", presenting artistic control |
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Title: Fountain
Artist: Duchamp
Period: DADA
Location: United States
-Ready-made, changes it enough to call art
-Seeing on pedestal changes our perception of it |
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Title: Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada
Artist: Hoch
Period: Dada
Location: Germany
-Ridiculousness of the politics, portraits of fellow Dada
-Photomontage, indebted to Picasso's collage |
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Title: Guernica
Artist: Picasso
Period: Art as Political Response
Location: Spain
-Huge canvas, anti-war symbol for all
-Bull= brutality and darkness; stigmata; pieta; horse |
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Title: Fit for Active Service
Artist: Grosz
Period: Art as Political Response
Location: Germany
-Outspoken about how he disliked war and Germany
-Editorial cartoons held sense of fascination |
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Title: Night
Artist: Beckmann
Period: Art as Politcal Response
Location: Germany
-thought something good could come out of WWI, enlists
-Suffered from hallucinations and depression after |
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Title: The Treachery of Images
Artist: Margritte
Period: Surrealism
Location: Belgium
-Playing with our perception of reality, phallic object
-"If I had called it a pipe, I would have been lying" |
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Title: Object (The Luncheon in Fur)
Artist: Oppenheim
Period: Surrealism
Location: France
-Intro into Surrealism at 19 yr old
-Talked to Picasso and came up with idea |
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Title: The Persistence of Memory
Artist: Dali
Period: Surrealism
Location: Spain
-"Once you see it, you wont be able to forget it" -Gala
-Like a dream |
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Title: Painting
Artist: Miro
Period: Surrealism
Location: Spain
-Began as collage, played around with shapes on paper
-Inspired by cave paintings (called to all on basic level) |
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Title: Shop Block, The Bauhaus
Artist: Gropius
Period: Utopian Art Movement (Bauhaus)
Location: Germany
-Das Staatlich Bauhaus, where modern design comes from
-Only building that survived, designed to be functional |
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