Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Modern Art Final
Suprematism, Constructivism, Dada, Merz, Surrealism, American Art, Abstract Expressionism
69
Art History
Undergraduate 3
06/28/2014

Additional Art History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
[image]
Definition

Malevich

Installation photo of 0, 10

1915

Suprematism

 

black square in corner mimics Russian Orthodox placement of religious iconography in top center- Lenninist socialism

Term
[image]
Definition

Malevich

Suprematist Compostion: White Square on White

1918

Suprematism

 

absence of feeling

Term
[image]
Definition

El Lissitzky

Proun 99

1925

Suprematism

 

architectural design, axiometric drawing

Term
[image]
Definition

Lissitzky 

Proun Room

1923

Suprematism

Term
[image]
Definition

Tatlin

Counter-Relief

iron copper wood rope

1915

Constructivism

 

founder of construcivism- assemblage of materials (industrial) aimed to integrate art to enhance lives.

Term
[image]
Definition

Tatlin

Model for Monument to the Third International

Wood, iron, glass

1920

Constructivism

 

meant to involve everyone in society- made by carpenters in a public space

meant to rotate once a day, month, year

was never built

Term
[image]
Definition

Rodchenko

Hanging Construction (cardboard)

1920

Constructivsm

 

mobile

collapsisble work of art 2d->3d

Term
[image]
Definition

Gabo

Column (wood, painted metal, glass)

1923

Constructivsm

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase no 2

1912

Dada

 

Cubo-Futurist in nature, he was mocking it

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

The Passage from Virgin to Bride

1912

Dada

 

sexualized machine

expressing sex as mechanized

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Fountain

1917

Dada

 

"found" objects upgraded to art by declaration of the artist

ready made objects

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Bottle Rack

1917

Dada

 

ready made object

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Bicycle Wheel

1913

Dada

 

assisted ready made object

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Tu m'

1918

Dada

 

comissioned for socialite

last painting 

Duchampian elements- corkscrew, pencil, bicycle wheel, tromp l'oeil tear

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

1915

Dada

 

bride on top (insecstoid figure) eminating sexuality

bachelors spinning around in chocolate grinder- can never get to her

Term
[image]
Definition

Duchamp

Box in a Valise

1930's

Dada

 

collection of miniatures of his works in a briefcase- portable retrospective 

Term
[image]
Definition

Picabia

Ideal

1915

Dada

 

part of his series of machine portraits- this is Steiglitz depicted as a broken camera and automobile brake

Term
[image]
Definition

Man Ray

Gift

Painted flatiron and tacks

1921

Dada

 

functional iron made non functional with tacks

Term
[image]
Definition

Man Ray

Untitled Rayograph

1922

Dada

 

sensetized paper

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jean Arp

Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

1916

Dada (Zurich & Berlin)

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Dada Head (wood)

1920

Dada

 

hat manequin- people are dummies

Term
[image]
Definition

Schwitters

Picture with Light Center (rope, wire, mesh, paper, oil on cardboard)

Merz

 

constructed someting beautiful from such lowly objects

Term
[image]
Definition

Schwitters

Merzbild 25A

1920

Merz

 

abstraction out of everyday objects

junk art- looks dirty

Term
[image]
Definition

Schwitters

Merzbau, Hannover

1931

Merz

 

installation (one of the first) of his lifes work

cathederal of erotic misery

Term
[image]
Definition

Breton, Tzara, et al

Equisite Corpse

1930

Surrealism

 

fold paper and each person draws a section

biomorphs-surrealist beings

Term
[image]
Definition

Arp

Objects Arranged According to the laws of Chance or Navels

1930

Surrealism

Term
[image]
Definition

Arp

Head with Three Annoying Objects

1930

surrealism

Term
[image]
Definition

Ernst

Ambiguous Figures

1920

Surrealism

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Ernst

Celebes

1921

Surrealism

 

machine like elephant

front and backside

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Ernst

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

1924

Surrealism

 

painting and sculpture

Term
[image]
Definition

Ernst

The Horde

1927

Surrealism

 

rubbing and scraping

premonition to WWII

Term
[image]
Definition

Miro

Nude With a Mirror

1919

Surrealism

 

cubist arms

Term
[image]
Definition

Miro

Carnival of Harlequin

1925

Surrealism

 

central horizon line

ladder, fish carcas, globes, eyeballs

Term
[image]
Definition

Miro

Painting

1933

Surrealism

 

mostly abstract, random shapes

Term
[image]
Definition

Miro

Object

1936

Surrealism

 

wood, stuffed parrot, perch

manequin leg

totemic

Term
[image]
Definition

Dali

Accommidations of Desire

1927

Surrealism

 

lion wont let him have what he desires (Gala)

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Dali

The Persistence of Memory

1931

Surrealism

 

ants, tree limbs, mesa

Term
[image]
Definition

Magritte

The Treachery of Images

1929

Surrealism

 

This is not a pipe

its a painting of a pipe

Term
[image]
Definition

Hopper

Early Sunday Morning

1930

Pre-War

Term
[image]
Definition

Magritte

The Human Condition

1933

Surrealism

 

painting of a painting of the outside 

questions how humans see the world

Term
[image]
Definition

Magritte

The Rape

1934

Surrealism

 

face as a womans body- men dont even see faces

mental rape

vagina dentata

Term
[image]
Definition

Oppenheim

Object (Luncheon in Fur) 

1936

Surrealism

 

unusable (Dada)

unclean

sexualized

Term
[image]
Definition

Giacometti

Woman with her throat cut

1932

Surrealism

 

sexual violence

fetishistic

Freudian

Term
[image]
Definition

Picasso

Girl Before a Mirror

1932

Surrealist tendencies

 

no shadow, multiple viewpoints in face

Term
[image]
Definition

Picasso

Guernica

1937

Surrealism

 

mural of Guernica in N. Spain where a facist plane dropped a bomb (new air warfare)

shows bloodied bodies, bull, lightbulb, eyeball

Term
[image]
Definition

Davis

Report from Rockport

1940

Pre War

Term
[image]
Definition

Gorky

The Artist and his Mother

1930

Pre War

Term
[image]
Definition

Gorky

The Liver is the Cock's Comb

1930

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Pollock

Guardians of the Secret

1943

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Pollock

Number 1A 1948

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

De Kooning

Woman I

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

de Kooning

Painting

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Rothko

No. 1

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Newman

Genesis- The Break

1946

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Newman

Onement 1

1948

Abstract Expressionism

 

zip- division between heaven and earth

Term
[image]
Definition

Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimus

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Sloan

Hairdresser's Window

1907

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Bellows

Cliff Dwellers

1913

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Riis

Five Cents a Spot

1889

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Hine

Children in a Carolina Cotton Mill

1908

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Stieglitz

The Steerage

1907

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Weber

Chinese Restaurant

1915

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Hartley

Portrait of a German Officer

1914

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Dove

Nature Symbolized no. 2

1911

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

O'Keeffe

Music- pink and blue II

1919

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Benton

City Building

1930

American Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930

American Art

Supporting users have an ad free experience!