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Exam 4
Moderinism
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2011

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Term
[image]
Definition

The Artist's Studio

 

Louis Daguerre (1839)

 

Daguerreotype

 

image was printed directly on specially treated silver-plated copper sheet, there is no negative, and each image is unique. Lots of detail. 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Open Door

 

Henry Fox Talbot (1843)

 

calotype, paper negative

 

first photographic technique to produce negatives which can then be used to produce a number of positive prints onto specially sensitized paper. Rather soft effect.

Term
[image]
Definition

Harvest of Death

 

Timothy O'Sullivan (1863)

 

albumen print, wet collodion process

Term
[image]
Definition

Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter: Battle field at Gettysburg

 

Timothy O'Sullivan (1863)

 

albumen print, wet collodion process

Term
[image]
Definition

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

 

Julia Margaret (1867)

 

albumen print, wet collodion process

Term
[image]
Definition

Crystal Palace

 

England (1851)

 

first World Exposition in history

Term
[image]
Definition

Eiffel Tower

 

Gustave Eiffel (1887-89)

 

Paris

 

At almost 1000' high, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the world when it was made

Term
[image]
Definition

Types and Development of Man

 

poster made for the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904

 

Anthropometry, scientific racism

Term
[image]
Definition

The Snake Charmer

 

Jean-Leon Gerome (1870)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Birth of Venus

 

Alexandre Cabanel (1836)

 

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

The Stone Breakers

 

Gustave Courbet (1849)

 

Paris

 

Realism

Term
[image]
Definition

Olympia

 

Edouard Manet (1863)

 

Paris

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Bar at the Folies-Bergere

 

Edouard Manet (1881-2)

 

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Impression: Sunrise

 

Claude Monet (1872)

 

Paris

 

en-plein air= painting outside

Term
Definition

Haystacks series

 

Claude Monet (1890-91)

 

originally intended to make 2 works: one on a clear day and one on a cloudy day in order to explore effects of sunlight. Eventually made close to 30

Term
[image]
Definition

Moulin de la Galette

 

Pierre-Auguste Renior (1876)

 

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Mother and Child

 

Mary Cassatt (1890)

 

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

The Rehearsal Onstage

 

Edgar Degas (1874)

 

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Japaense Bridge

 

Monet (1905)

Term
[image]
Definition

Wisteria Bridge

 

Hiroshige (1855)

Term
[image]
Definition

Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gaugin

 

Vincint Van Gogh (1888)

 

Post Impressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Starry  Night

 

Vincent Van Gogh (1889)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Vision after the Sermon

 

Paul Gaugin (1888)

Term
[image]
Definition

Manao Tupapao (Spirit of te Dead Watching)

 

Paul Gaugin (1892)

Term
[image]
Definition

Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket

 

James Whistler (1877)

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist's Mother

 

Whistler (1871)

 

London

Term
[image]
Definition

Jane Avril

 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1893)

Term
[image]
Definition

The Scream

 

Edvard Munch (1893)

Term
[image]
Definition

Forever Free

 

Edomnia Lewis (1867)

 

Marble

 

Washington DC

 

Done to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation

Term
[image]
Definition

Thinker

 

Auguste Rodin (1880)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Burgers of Calais

 

Auguste Rodin (1884-89)

 

France 

 

Bronze

Term
[image]
Definition

Sussex Chair and Textile Design

 

William Morris (1878)

 

England

Term
[image]
Definition

Casa Batllo

 

Antonio Gaudi (1900-07)

 

Spain

Term
[image]
Definition

Wainwright Building

 

Louis Sullivan (1890-91)

 

St. Louis, MO

 

Sullivan was a founding member of Chicago School of Architecture

 

*First skyscraper

Term
[image]
Definition

Robie House

 

Frank Lloyd Wright (1906-1909)

 

Wright worked with Sullivan in Chicago; the style he pioneeerd is known as the Praire School

Term
[image]
Definition

Falling Water

 

Frank Lloyd Wright (1936)

 

cantilever, a beam anchored at only one end that allows for thins like projecting balconies

Term
[image]
Definition

Bauhaus

 

Germany (1925)

Term
[image]
Definition

Bauhaus Furniture and Decor

 

Germany

Term
[image]
Definition

Mont Sainte-Victoire

 

Paul Cezanne (1885)

 

France

 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Large Bathers

 

Paul Cezanne (1906)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Woman in the Hat

 

Henri Matisee (1905)

 

France

 

Names Wild Beast due to excess color

Term
[image]
Definition

Joy of Life

 

Henri Matisse (1905-6)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Science and Charity

 

Pablo Picasso (1897)

 

Spain

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Young Ladies of Avignon

 

Pablo Picasso (1907)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Portrait of David-Henry Kahnweiler 

 

Pablo Picasso (1910)

 

France

 

Analytic Cubism

Term
[image]
Definition

Glass and Bottle of Suze

 

Pablo Picasso (1912)

 

France

 

Synthetic Cubism

Term
[image]
Definition

Guernica

 

Pablo Picasso (1937)

 

made for the Spanish Pavilion

Term
[image]
Definition

Mandolin and Clarinet

 

Pablo Picasson (1913)

 

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Improvisation 28

 

Vassily Kandinsky (1912)

Term
[image]
Definition

Three Women

 

Ferdinand Leger (1921)

 

Purism

Term
[image]
Definition

Armored Train in Action 

 

Gino Severini (1915)

 

Italy

 

Futurism

Term
[image]
Definition

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

 

Umberto Boccioni (1913)

 

Italy

Term
[image]
Definition

Hugo Ball Recieting the Sound Poem "Karawane"

 

1916

Term
[image]
Definition

Fountain

 

Marcel Duchamp (1917)

 

USA

 

Readymade

Term
[image]
Definition

L.H.O.O.Q

 

Marcel Duchamp (1912)

 

 

Term
19th c. Europe and America
Definition

Industrial Revolution transforms science, economy, and society

 

Less need for agricultural work

 

Larger gap betwen rich and poor

 

Charles Darwin

 

Inventions of mass transportation

 

Photography and cinema develop

Term
Camera Obscura
Definition
idea popular sicne the late Renaissance, but no way of permanently fixing image. Problem: have to fix image on negatice and have to fix image on print
Term
Daguerreotypes
Definition
generally small size (and expensive), enclosed within a frame and were usually portraits
Term
Pictorialism
Definition
trying to create photographic images based on the same concepts of painting composition; photographs that look like paintings
Term
Wet Plate Process
Definition
glass negative was coated w/ wet collodion and had to be exposed and developed before it dried. Produces a glass negative, printed in special paper and coated with albumen
Term
Dry plate process
Definition
glass negatives pre-coated with collodion 
Term
Albumen Print
Definition
piece of paper coated with stuff and then dried, it seals the paper and makes a glossy surface. Then made sensitive to UV light. Then put in direct contact of negative
Term
Anthropometry
Definition
the "scientific" attempt to use photography to classify races and ethnicities according to facial and body types
Term
Modernity
Definition
idea that there is a decisive break between the past and the present; although you might look to the past for inspiration, you cannot look to the past to try to figure out what to do in the present because the world has changed so much
Term
Modernism
Definition
works that try to express the quality of modern life (especially urbanization and industrialization) through subject matter, style, or both. Usually based on a rejection of academic themes and styles as irrelevant and outmoded. The notion of the avant-garde (advance guard) is very important, i.e., a group that world in advance of mainstream artistic and social trends and forces them to evolve
Term
Rise of Impressionism
Definition

reform academic structure to allow more artistic freedom- more to do with modern life and looser style

 

Manet becomes unofficial leader

 

a group forms including Monet, Renoir, and Degas

Term
Japonisme
Definition
the craze for all things Japanese
Term
Art for Art's sake
Definition

Whistler

 

does not have to mean everything

Term
Art Nouveau vs. Arts and Crafts
Definition
both trying to transform society through art, specifically through the arts of daily life, architecture and the decorative arts
Term
Bauhaus Building
Definition

designed by Walter Gropius

 

a new type of art school established in 1919 and lasting until 1933, founded on the idea of good design in keeping with the modern industrial age

Term
Characteristics of Modernist
Definition

Functionalosm

 

Elimination of historical styles

 

Truth material

 

Architecture integrated into the landscape

 

Combination of modular elements

 

Union of art and technology

Term
Analytic Cubism
Definition

break objects into parts in order to analyze them, then put part back together in different order

 

the point is to make us quite aware that we are not looking at a depiction of something in the world but a flat canvas covered with paint

Term
Synthetic Cubism
Definition
combining painting with objects taken from life (newspaper, labels); breaking down the barriers between art and life
Term
Futurism
Definition
developed in Italy, combined the cult of technology and speed with Cubist style
Term
Dada
Definition
anti-everything
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