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Exam 3
1900-Now
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
07/27/2015

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Fauvism
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 is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
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Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life), Fauvism
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Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
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Braque, Violin and Palette, Analytic Cubism
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Picasso, La Bouteille de Suze, Synthetic Cubism
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Picasso, Mandolin and Clarinet, Synthetic Cubism
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Kirchner, Street, Berlin, German Expressionism
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Kandinsky, Improvisation 28, Der Blaue Reiter
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Severini, Armored Train in Action, Futurism
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Malevich, Suprematist Painting (Eight Red Rectangles), Suprematism
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Brancusi, The Newborn
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Hugo Ball Reciting the Sound Poem “Karawane”, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Dada
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Duchamp, The Fountain, Dada
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Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last

 

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Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, Dada

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Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, De Stijl
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Wright, Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Organic Architecture
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-Sur-Seine, France, International Style
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Oppenheim, Luncheon in Fur, Surrealism
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Dali, "Birth of Liquid Desires", Surrealism
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Miró, Composition, Surrealism
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Picasso, Guernica
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Moore, Recumbent Figure
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Bacon, Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef
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De Kooning, Woman I, Abstract Expressionism
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Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Abstract Expressionism
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Rothko, Lavender and Mulberry, Abstract Expressionism
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Analytic Cubism
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- multiple perspectives show simultaneously

 

- foreground fused with background space

 

- objects simplified to a series of planes

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Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Abstract Expressionism
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Rauschenberg, Canyon, Neo-Dada
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Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, Neo-Dada
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Futurism
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an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth and violence and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city.
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Dada
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an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about.


-Against WWI


-Dada = Picked at Random

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De Stijl
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Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam.


-Order

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Hamilton, Just What is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? British Pop Art
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Lichtenstein, Oh, Jeff … I Love You, Too … But …, American Pop Art
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Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, American Pop Art
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Judd, Untitled, Minimalism
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Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, Conceptual Art
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Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Conceptual and Performance Art
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Hesse, No Title, Process Art
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Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Earthwork
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Central Park, New York, Site-Specific Sculpture
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Chicago, The Dinner Party, Feminist art
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Mies van der Rohe and Johnson, Seagram Building, New York, International Style
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Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Organic Architecture
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Johnson and Burgee, AT&T Building, New York, Postmodern Architecture
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Foster, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong, Postmodern Architecture
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Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Postmodern Architecture
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Serrano, Piss Christ, Postmodernism
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Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), Postmodernism
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Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., Postmodernism
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Koons, Pink Panther, Postmodernism
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Ringgold, Tar Beach (Part I from The Women on a Bridge Series), Postmodernism
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Whiteread, House, Postmodernism
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Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, Postmodernism
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Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, Postmodernism
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Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Postmodernism
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Shonibare, How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies), Postmodernism
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Wenda Gu, China Monument: Temple of Heaven, Postmodernism
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Cubism
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one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.
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German Expressionism
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a cultural movement that is challenging to define as it is not distinguished by a singular style or method of creation, but rather is better described by both the mindset of the artist creating the work and the generation he or she lived in.
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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.
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Suprematism
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an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors.
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Duchamp submits The Fountain (DATE)
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1917
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World War II (DATE)
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1939-1945
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Yinka Shonibare’s How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies) (DATE)
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2006
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Organic Architecture
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a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site, that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.
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International Style
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 the name of a major architectural style that is said to have emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of modern architecture, as first defined by Americans Henry-Russell Hitchcock andPhilip Johnson in 1932, with an emphasis more on architectural style, form and aesthetics than the social aspects of the modern movement as emphasised in Europe.
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Surrealism
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  1. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
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Abstract Expressionism
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a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.
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Neo-Dada
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a minor audio and visual art movement that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. While it revived some of the objectives of dada, it put "emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work".
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Pop Art
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an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news.
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Conceptual Art
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sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
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Performance Art
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performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performancemay be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.
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Process Art
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an artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment where the end product of art and craft, the objet d'art, is not the principal focus.
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Earthwork
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an artistic work that consists of a large-scale alteration or modificationof an area of land in a configuration designed by an artist or of anartist's sculptural installation, as in a museum or gallery, of soil, rock,or similar elemental materials.
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Site-Specific Sculpture
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  1. Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.
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Feminist art
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refers to the efforts and accomplishments offeminists internationally to produce art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art.
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International Style
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a major architectural style that is said to have emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of modern architecture, as first defined by Americans Henry-Russell Hitchcock andPhilip Johnson in 1932, with an emphasis more on architectural style, form and aesthetics than the social aspects of the modern movement as emphasised in Europe. 
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Postmodern Architecture
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began as an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-dayarchitecture.
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Postmodernism
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 a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.
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Existentialism
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1. Existance precede essance

2. Meaning is found in the act of living

3. Anxiety/ Angst

4. Existential Joy

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