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| Kirchner: Market Place With Red Tower |
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-Portrays an industrial city
-Diagonal lines
-Reduces color, with brighter streaks of orange |
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| Der Blaue Reiter members: |
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-An incorporation by artists of Oceanic, Iberian, and African influences in their work
-simplicity, naivity
-Get away from European static art |
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
-Kandinsky thought viewers should "feel their way through art" and that it should be an experience
-Saw his work as music |
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| Term associated with Kandinsky's work: |
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-Non-Objective
--Leaves the real world behind
--Not interested in real objects
--Moves closer to abstraction |
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| Title: The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors |
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-Even (Large Glass)
-Artist: Marcel Duchamp
-Date: 1915-1923
-he only found it complete when it was accidently shattered and put back together
-Bride in the upper pane controls the nine bachelors in the lower one
-Image of female sexual desire
-Bride emitts a sigh with her: commands, orders, authorations (three blank squares)
-bachelors portion: recognizable objects:
1. Menswear
2. Seven cones
3. Waterwheel
4. Chocolate grinder |
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-Artist: Klimt
-Date:1907
-While passionate and beautiful to begin with, upon closer inspection you see that it has and edge of tension
-The girls head is force uncomfortable to the side
-Her hand looks as if it is trying to tear his away
-They are kneeling dangerously close to the edge of the cliff |
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-Artist: Matisse
-Date: 1905-1906
-Style: abstract (fauvism)
-Combination of dynamic brushwork of Van Gogh and bold primary colors
-Objects are different colored then naturally are (trees, grass, even people)
-Movement evident in long flowing motion of trees |
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-Artist: Kandinsky
-Date: 1913
-{ossibly a coming of war prediction, or an apocolyptical prediction
-The figures are not what the viewer is supposed to be paying attention to
-We are supposed to be moved by the bold blasts of color that leap off te canvas |
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| Title: Les Demioselles de 'Avignon |
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-Artist: Picasso
-Date: 1907
-Influenced by Spanish and African art
-Suggests that women are not gentle and passive creatures like men might see them as
-Unintentional broke with Western ideas of space (accidental invention of cubism)
-Piercing gazes and angular |
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| Title: Violin and Palette |
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-Artist: Braque
-Date: 1910
-Style: cubism
-Still life not arranged on a table
-Various elements of the still life were broken down and placed in the same plane
-Cubism can be seen as taking a closer look at different aspects of the subject while eleminating space differences |
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-Analyzes natural forms, reducing into basic geometric parts on the 2 dimensional picture plane.
-Color almost non-existent except for the use of monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre
-Focus' on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world |
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-Pushing of several objects together
-Picasso first to use text in his artwork (to flatten the space)
-Use of mixed media; more than one type of medium in the same piece
-Has fewer planar shifts (or schematism), and less shading than analytical cubism
-Creates flatter space |
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-Analyzes natural forms, reducing into basic geometric parts on the 2 dimensional picture plane.
-Color almost non-existent except for the use of monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre
-Focus' on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world |
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| Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas |
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-Note how the women are ugly, and some are wearing African tribal masks
-We were supposed to feel disconnected from these prostitutes |
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| Ma Jolie, 1911-1912, oil on canvas |
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-Style: Cubism
-You can definitely tell that this was his lover playing an instrument |
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| Glass and Bottle of Suze, 1912, pasted paper, gouache, and charcoal |
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-Style: Cubism
-Important because now we can see that every day objects were able to become art |
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| Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting (Eight Red Rectangles), 1915, oil on canvas |
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-Style: Suprematism
-Movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (in particular the square and circle)
-Formed in Russia in 1915-1916 |
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-Found art, or found object (French: objet trouvé)
—Describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art
-Often because they already have a mundane, utilitarian function
-Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th-century |
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| Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint |
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-Style: Dada
-Movement primarily involved visual arts and graphic design
-Concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works
-Activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals
-Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications |
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-Surrealist technique involving spontaneous drawing
-Practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship
-Has taken on many forms
-Initially (and still to this day) practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz |
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| Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, oil/canvas |
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-Style: Surrealism
-Well-known piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch
-Epitomises Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time
-fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase
-Imagery predicts his transition to the scientific phase
-Occurred after the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945
-Can be read as a graphic illustration of Einstein's theory of relativity, depicting gravity distorting time |
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| Meret Oppenheim, Luncheon in Fur, 1936, fur-covered cup, saucer, spoon |
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-Style: Surrealism
-Presents a common object removed from its generally accepted function
-Even object naming confers an implied limited function
-Oppenheim’s humorous application of fur to the cup, spoon and saucer, also conveys a complex manifesto of linguistic relativity |
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