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Survey of Western Art II
Test 4: Realism and Impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism art nouveau, 20th century
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Photography
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product of the industrial revolution
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19th century
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middle class is the main patronage, some can afford cameras
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realism
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art movement began in the mid 19th century. attempted to create objective representations of the external world. based on impartial observations of contemporary life. consciously democratic, including subject matter that had previously been considered unworthy of vulgar
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bourgeoisie
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the middle class
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modernism
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not an art movement "impressionism" example- phylosophy - 2 defining points - the 'here' and 'now'. the process of art - obvious strokes and creation of the piece
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salon des refuses
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salon of the reused art, 1863 additional exhibition of refused art from the french academic salon. when the public spoke up about what they wanted to see
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flaneur
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purposeful male stroller. observers of society-detached
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flaneur
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purposeful male stroller. observers of society-detached
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Japonisme
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influence of Japanese prints on 19th century western arts
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Impressionism
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Societe anonymedes artists - impressionist exhibitions. 8 exhibitions between 1874-1886. sketchiness in submitted paintings
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aestheticism
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art for arts sake. art without morals
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Avant Garde
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cutting edge, breaking away from the norm
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Post-impressionism
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Name given by Roger Fry. artists include, Cezanne, seurat, van gogh, gauguin and toulose-lautrec. no formal organization. followed impressionism's modernist interests and palette. added formal elements
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pointillism - divisionism
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optical mixing
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caricature
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distortion of facial features usually for comic effect
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lithography
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stone - printing process using a greasy pen on a stone surface; printing ink adheres only to the oily lines of the drawing many impressions can be made from a single stone plate.
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symbolism
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litterary movement; begun in France. rejected interest in nature of impressionism . main focuz is interior. man's soul or dreams. drawn to dreams, myths, the macabre and poetic
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art nouveau
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new art. arts and crafts brought together. beauty transforms the mundane. focus was strongly architectural and interior design. moves architecture into a more stream line approach, one step away from modern architecture.
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Fauvism
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wild beasts. group of artists who appeared to substitute raw energy for draftsmanship and technique. primary colors were dominant clearly influenced by van gogh and gauguin
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die brucke
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"the bridge" opposed to the "older, well-established powers" wannted to created a bridge to the future. influenced by Nietzsche. opposed to Bourgeoisie lifestyle. considered bohemians
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der blaue reiter
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the blue rider. focus was on visually expressing a spirituality that resided beneath the surface of the visual world. used color as a language. theosophy(the study of the philosophy of religion)
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analytic cubism
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is that in which space is reduced to a flat plane and the subjects look as if they were sliced into small strips which were put back together in shifting and overlapping planes and intersecting triangles of empty space
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synthetic cubism
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this is simply subism that is contructed of exterior materials, paper and other materials(college). provokes the question what is real and what is not real
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orphism
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a combination of fauvism and cubism, with a reference to the spirituality of color and the spirituality of flight
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futurism
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Italian movement. used cubism's formal discoveries to represent figures and machines in motion and to express a new universal dynamism . the machine was the dawn of a new era for it
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Suprematism
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a non representational style of art developed in Russian in the early 20th century. used severely simple geometric shapes or forms. extremely limited palette. goal: to convey that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling which can attach itself to no object
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Dada
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a reactionary movement to WWI Dada-ists believed reason and logic had been the cause of war. therefore, the only route to salvation was through the irrational and the intuitive
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surrealism
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literary movement founded by the poet Andre Brenton in 1924. met Freud in 1922-fascinated by the idea of the unconscious mind's control. surrealist manifesto was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality
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neo-plasticism
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sought to create, through abstraction, total environments that were so perfect they embodied a universal harmony. spiritual. Utopian values. nationalism would be obsolete
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constructivism
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functional art. goals of government. to keep communism going
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Bauhaus
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Utopianist concepts
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international style
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on every continent. simplified block style of concrete and steel
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abstract expressionism
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after WWII. no object or subjects
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[image]
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Title: The Stonebreakers

Arist: Courbet

Movement: Realism

Info: portayed as they are in reality. poor, poverty, low paying job. he depicts the harsh reality of the workers. pity for the middle class. what he witnessed with his own eyes.

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[image]
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Title: The Third-class carriage

Arist: daumier

movement: realism

info: showing the dignity of the lower class and also the harsh reality of it. This is a caricature but not comic. "lonley crowd". common and daily commute

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[image]
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Title: Nymps and a Satyr

Arist: Bouguereau

Movement: French Academic

Info: rebeling. mythological scene.overtly eroitc. classical erotic abandoment phychology. backdrop of nature

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[image]
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Title: Olympia

Arist: Manet

Movement: Realist

Info: This was accepted into the adaemy and the men who viewed it were nervous because Olympia was a mistress and most men had mistresses. This exposed the secret life of men to themselves

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[image]
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Title: A Bar at the Folies Bergere

Artist: Manet

Movement: Realism

Info: Skewed to show the paint on the canvas. and to show the beauty of the painting. The barmaid is real and shows a blank expression suggesting alienation. skew of the barmaid in the mirror may suggest a dual role of prostitute and barmaid

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[image]
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Title: The Orchestra of the Paris Opera

Artist: Degas

Movement: Impressionism

Info: Japonime inspired. view from the pit with the lower class. stage is slightly skewed along with the angular thrusts of instruments and the dancers' legs and arms. abrupt cropping and spatial contraction is japanese inspired.

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[image]
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Title: Wheatstack, Sun in the Mist

Artist: Monet

movement: Impressionism

Info: he was a serial painter of wheat stacks, same wheatstack at different times of the day. used complementary colors to make the image vibrate. feathery brushstrokes

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[image]
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Title: Luncheon of the Boating Party

Artist: Renoir

Movement: Impressionism

Info: leisure scene. cropped on the side, sloping lines. Japonism inspired. figures, and line. feathry brushstrokes. landscape in the back.

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[image]
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Title: Summer's Day

Artist: Morisot

Movement: Impressionism

Info: melancholy. bird's in cages. shows fashionalbly dressed figures not interacting, deep in thought.asymmetrical cropped composition

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[image]
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Title: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Arist: Gauguin

Movement: Post-Impressonism

Info: Painted to be his last paiting before he tried to commit suicide. shows birth, youth, old age. about the history of human kind

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[image]
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Title: Nocturne in Black and gold: the falling rocket

Arist: Whistler

Movement: aestheticism

Info: After the explosion of a firework, line, form, and color. Abstract painting visual music

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[image]
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Title: Mont Saint-Victoire

Arist: Cezanne

Movement: Post-Impressionism

Info: persuit of purity of art. japonism. shows cool and warm colors to show distance

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[image]
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Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Artist: Seurat

Movement: Post-Impressionism

Info: Pointalism/Divisionism. patterns, plays with perspective.

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[image]
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Title: Night Cafe

Arist: Van Gogh

Movement: Post-Impressionism

Info: painting from his emotions with color. uses red and green to express the terrible passions of humanity by making an acidic atmosphere

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[image]
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Title: Starry Night

Arist: Van Gogh

Movement: Post-Impressionism

Info: was painted in a mental institution for therapy. shows the wind in the sky and the movement of the tree in the trees

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[image]
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Title: At the Moulin Rouge

Artist: Tolouse-Lautrec

Movement: Post-Impressionism

Info: carticature, but not funny. degas influence (japonism). subject is off center. sloping lines. cropping. facepainted almost figures to show mood. lautrec in the background as a small guy

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[image]
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Title: Salome with the head of john the baptist

Arist: Beardsley

Movement: Symbolism

Info: from death comes lifes. death of john the baptist comes life of the plants

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[image]
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Title: The Scream

Artist: Munch

Movement: Symbolism

Info: The scream is comming from nature and the man is holding his ears to shield himself from it. the man has abandonment issues from the peopel walking away from him while hes having a nervous breakdown

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[image]
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title: The Kiss

Artist: Klimt

Movement: Symbolism

Info: shows the passion of the man and the women becoming one with the kiss thought the pattersn entertwining . it also shows danger, the women may not want the kiss and she is nearing falling off a cliff.

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[image]
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Title: The Thinker

Artist: Rodin

Movement: Symbolism

Info: michelangelo inspired. organic. molded not carved. large hands and feet shows the weight of the thinkers phycological load.

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[image]
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Title: The tassel house

Artist: horta

Movement: Art nouvaeu

Info: invention of iron opens up space. everyday objects get turned into beauty

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[image]
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title: Casa Mila

Artist: Gaudi

Movement: Art Nouveau

Info: carved out of stone, plasticity, the inside has just as movement as the outside with angled walls, everything inside was also created by gaudi

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[image]
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Title: The woman with the hat

Artist: Matisse

Movement: Fauvism

Info: Uses very vibrant primary and secondary colors to create the image. no use of black for shadows.

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[image]
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Title: The Red Studio

Artist: Matisse

Movement: fauvism

Info: Red is highly evocative color. its a flat shade throughout the entire room. the rest of the objects seem to pop out. the things that pop out are his acomplishments

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[image]
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Title: Street, Dresden

Artist: Kirchner

Movement: Die Brucke

Info: shows the busy streets of society, always pushing each other out of the way to get to the stores or shops

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[image]
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Title: Sketch I For "Composition VII"

Artist: Kandinsky

Movement: Der Blaue Reiter

Info: First non-representational art image. meant for the viewer to put together their own meaning of the colors

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[image]
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Title: Animal Destinies

Artist: Marc

Movement: Der Blaue Reiter

Info: showing animals meant for them to be pure and that they are trapped

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[image]
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Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Artist: Picasso

Movement: protocubism

Info: Its about the red light district in Barcelona. the fruit shows lust

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[image]
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Title: Guitar, Sheet Music, and wine glass

Artist: Picasso

Movement: Synthetic Cubism

Info: uses a collage to say that mass produced objects can be art

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[image]
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Title: The Portuguese

Artist: Braque

Movement: Analytical Cubism

Info: unfolding the 3D musician on to a 2D plane to show his truth as an object in space

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[image]
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Title: Disks of Newton

Artist: Kupka

Movement: orphism

Info: Draws upon the abstract power of music. the saturated palette recalls medieval stained glass

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[image]
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Title: Horse

Artist: Duchamp-Villon

Movement: Futurism

Info: trying to entwine a horse with a machine to represent horse power

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[image]
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Title: States of Mind I: Farewells

Artist: Boccioni

Movement: Futurism

Info: shows a train and shows the perpetual movement of all objects and energy by showing the train and the electric railroad signals and trussed steel towers

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[image]
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Title: Suprematist Composition: Airplane flying

Artist: malevich

Movement: suprematism

Info: shows the purity of color and the rectangle

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[image]
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Title: Fountain

Artist: Duchamp

Movement: Dada

Info: making and ordinary object and calling it art. made people question what is art. irrational

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[image]
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Title: 1 piping man

Artist: Ernst

Movement: dada

Info: machine parts cut out and painted to look like a man. doesn't make any sense and that is what Dada is all about.

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[image]
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title: I and the Village

Artist: chagall

Movement: Surrealism

Info: expressive representations, dreamlike, the goat represents his girl friend for unconditional live. it is about his childhood life in his dreams.

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[image]
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title: Guernica

Artist: Picasso

Movement: Surrealism

Info: It is about the bombing of a small market town full of women and children during the first strike of the blitzkrieg 7000 were killed. shows the horror of it all

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[image]
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Title: Persistance of Memory

Artist: Dali

Movement: Surrealism

Info: Showing how time could be an organic object. the clocks turn into pieces of cheese melting in the sun being eaten by the ants. and so is he

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[image]
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title: Composition with red, blue, and yellow

Artist: Mondrain

Movement: neo plasticism/de stijl

Info: an asymettrical peice of primary colors and white/black. he had harmonic understanding of math. trying to get rid of the human element and make everything perfect

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[image]
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Title: Monument to the third international

Artist: tatlin

Movement: constructivism

Info: building of the communist soviet union different shapes hold different branches of government. rotating levels. very idealistic and he couldn't even do real architecture.

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[image]
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Title: Bauhaus shop block

Artist: Gropius

Movement: Bauhaus

Info: it is trying to meet the needs of the 21st century. The students had to walk through other types of schooling like architecture and metalworking to get to their art classes, this may give them ideas for their art. big wide open spaces with large windows. steel made ths possible combines arts and crafts together

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[image]
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Title: Savoye house

Artist: Le Corbusier

Movement: international style

Info: streamlined, very regular shapes. opens up the walls with movable walls. domino house style 3 level of empty space, load bearing and form following function.

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[image]
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title: Autumn rhythm: number 30

Artist: Pollock

Movement: abstract expressionist

Info: used action painting method. its about the process of creating art. no subject matter

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20th century
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strongly influenced by science, philosophy and phycology
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salon d'automne
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exhibition in pairs in the autumn of 1905 an important venue for avant garde artists
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