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c. Henri, Sloan, Shinn, Luks, Glackens, Bellows
Hopper(?) |
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ASHCAN GROUP
d. subject matter? |
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| City life, Urban, Working class, Realism |
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ASHCAN GROUP
e. come from? |
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HOPPER
what mood characterizes his work? |
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-Silence, stillness, time is frozen.
-Isolation and Melancholy.
-Someone alone on travel, America that is on the move, but stills from it. |
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HOPPER
where does he draw inspiration? |
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Stieg, Stiechen, O'Keeffe, Waldo Frank,
Marin, Dove, Hartley, Paul Strand |
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| STIEGLITZ name/dates of his galleries? |
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-Gallery 291: 1902- 1917
-Intimate Gallery (1936) and American Place: 1917-1937. |
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STIEGLITZ
what journal did he publish?
when? |
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STIEGLITZ
European artists Stieg exhibited? |
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MARIN
style / typical subject matter? |
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Paintings of New York
Vibrating Images of the city |
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| DOVE style / typical subject matter? |
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Plant forms Vitalist
abstract, non objective
sun
paint and color |
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HARTLEY
style / typical subject matter? |
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Synesthesia
Homoerotic renderings of people
symbolic portraits |
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| What are SYMBOLIC PORTRAITS? |
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| abstracted portraits that represent people |
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| examples of SYMBOLIC PORTRAITS? |
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-I saw the figure 5 in Gold: Demuth
-Portrait of a German Officer: Hartley
-Alexis: O'Keeffe |
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O'KEEFFE
what 2 teachers influenced her? |
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Arthur Wesley Dow [most influencial]
William Merit Chase |
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O'KEEFFE
What subject matter was most important to her? |
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O'KEEFFE
how did critics respond to her work? |
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-They thought she was sexualized
-That her paintings represented “The innermost unfolding of a girls being like the germinating of a flower.. emotional forms beyond the reach of conscious design, beyond the grasp of reason”
(This was because Stieg exhibited nude photos of her so they had the preconceived notion of her) |
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DEMUTH
What Modernist movement is Demuth most closely associated with? |
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| Precisionism: Reductive style, cubist realism, no people. Simplization and angularization of shapes. |
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| STIEG what was the PHOTO SESSION? what part did Stieg play in it? |
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-Beginning of photos as art, not just portraits.
-group of them
-pictorialist style (soft, hazy) |
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STEIG
STEERAGE
date?
about it? |
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1907
Contrast of machinery and people
"The scene fascinated me..I stood spell bound. I saw shapes and pictures of shapes a new vision held me. Simple people. Escape" |
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STIEGLITZ
What other subjects is he associated with? |
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-Climate [pictoralism haze-y ness], street level
-Urban Environment from higher up, no nature or people
-Photos of Georgia O'Keeffe |
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-Hazy, romantic look.
-Women as embodiment of mystical romantic figure.
-Soft Focus |
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O'KEEFFE
what subject did O'Keeffe take on in the 1920's that Stieg objected to? |
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City Scenes.
He thought men weren't successful at selling them, so why would she be?
(she did sell one) |
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PICABIA
Describe his art in response to American culture? |
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Bodies that showed human subjects as machines
-"mechanomorphs" |
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DUCHAMP
What radical exhibition was he involved with?
what radical "art" did he produce for it? |
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Armory show
Nude Descending a Staircase
Vanity Fair: "it was discussed at dinner parties, at dances.. in editorials.. it caused more disputes then politics"
Mechanical nude, gender unknown |
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READY MADE?
what was it?
who did it? |
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Objects that were already made and turned them into art
Duchamps: The Fountain (urinal) |
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| What art movement did DUCHAMP and PICABA start in the U.S.? |
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-anti art movement
-fascinated by fast cars, fast women, machines, skyscrapers, popular entertainment
-their encounter with American modernity produced radically anti art gestures that left their mark on the subsequent history |
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PICABA
what was his work about Stieg? |
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Ici, c’est ici Stieglts foi et amour
Here is Stieglitz, faith and love, 1915
Stieg as a machine |
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ARMORY SHOW
other name?
date? |
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| International exhibition of American art 1913 |
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ARMORY SHOW
What artist attracted the most attention at the show? |
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| Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase |
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ARMORY SHOW
What role did Stieg play in the show? |
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ARMORY SHOW
Who was the only European representative? |
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Brancusi [the sculpture of the head]
(I believe...) |
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ARMORY SHOW
name some artists in the show |
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Van Gough, Duchamp, Picasso, Renior..
started out more classical then moved to modernism
(arent those European though? and werent there mostly US artists?) |
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ARMORY SHOW
what was the symbol of the show? |
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Massacusets flag with the tree on it.
Represented revolution |
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ARMORY SHOW
what impact did the show have on the US art scene? |
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| it allowed for a kind of bridging between the modernity of the city and the modernity of the art. |
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charles SHEELER
what media did his work embrace? |
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Machine age and its relationship to America
-Industrialization |
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SHEELER
who became an important patron of Sheeler in late 20's, early 30's? |
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AJ AYER (advertising agency)
-commissioned photographic study of FORD FACTORY
-“needed photographs of calm industrial grandeur that would express the nature of the enterprise as ford wanted people to see it”
-propaganda campaign, make ford happy
-industrial perfection, embraces machine age
-quality is coming through photos, perfection of forms, quiet, classical graduer
-Vanity fair: “in a landscape where size, quantity and speed are the cardinal virtues, its natural that the larges factory should come have the quality of Americas mega toward which the plous journey for prayer” |
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SHEELER
What was his influence to European Cubism? |
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SHEELER
What was his relationship to early American art forms? |
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-He wanted to find modernism in them
-"usable past"
-"our artist past is not as bleek as we once thought.. simplicity of our native traditions that foreshadow and are in harmony as our aesthetic”
-Acknowledges beauty of industrialism, found these objects beautiful. Simplicity of form, harkens back, a continuum of past.
-ex// Doylestown House |
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SHEELER
What photographer did Sheeler team up with to make a film? |
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SHEELER
Why might one call him a "Classicist"? |
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| He looked at the classics, architectual essence of the great art that influenced his modernism |
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| differences between SHEELER and STIEGLITZ' portraits of their wives? |
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Sheeler: Objective, don't see her face, not about the person, about the forms. An exercise of interesting shapes.
Architectural element to it
Roundness and smoothness of her skin
Stieg: Romanticized and sexualized O'Keeffe |
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SHEELER
was he a precisionist? |
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yes.
-His paintings of barns didn't show much brush work
-no reference to humans.
-Geometric |
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PRECISIONISM
what is it?
name two artists |
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Simplification and angularization of shapes, impersonal treatment, geometric, expressed business ethos in America, Cubist realism, no brush strokes, no people, favored buildings
-DEUMTH && SHEELER |
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Charles SHEELER and paul STRAND
-It was a short film about Manhattan
-contrast b/w ppl and machines
-The city
-Included stills |
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SHEELER
American Landscape |
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Industry doesnt need people
machines > people |
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SHEELER
what was he trying to tell his viewers about the relationship of modernism and earlier periods in U.S. art/craft production |
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-making connections back to American's early aesthetic
-combines old and new
-roots of American modernism in Americas cultural past
-usable past
-His dealer said: "If there can be a distinictive American quality in contemporary American paintings, it could be found in Sheelers. Clarity and purity like the American mind. Rejects sentimentality.." |
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john MARIN
Where did he spend a lot of his years? |
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MARIN
what european movement influenced him? |
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abstract expressionism.
William Merit Chase
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marsten HARTLEY
What European movements was he influenced by? |
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| Abstractionism? Synesthesia? |
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HARTLEY
Where in Europe did he go to view art? |
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HARTLEY
Warriors-- what does it celebrate? |
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soldiers, military
-shown in homoerotic way
-moodism and eroticism
-wanted to capture power, order, and vitality that he admired about Berlin |
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HARTLEY
describe his style |
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-soldiers, military
-shown in a homoerotic way
-moodism eroticism
-wanted to capture power, order, & vitality
-symbolist portraits
-abstract |
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HARTLEY
what painting by Hartley memorializes his friend/lover Karl von Freyburg? |
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Portrait of a German Officer
-symbols represent him
-checkerboard bc chess was his favorite game, ect..
-he died in war |
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HARTLEY
What famous American painter was he inspired by? |
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stieg circle
he was interested in plant forms, vitalist |
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charles DEMUTH
what was his relationship to European modernism? |
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| He draws on it, but makes it american |
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He was a precisionist
Simplification and angularization of shapes, impersonal treatment, geometric, expressed business ethos in America, Cubist realism, no brush strokes, no people, favored buildings |
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DEMUTH
I saw the Figure 5 in Gold |
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Inspired by a poem by his friend William Carlos
-about a fire truck moving through the city at night
-draws on cubism and futurism and makes them American |
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DEMUTH
symbolist portraits? |
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yes.
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold &&
My Egypt |
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ARENSBURG CIRCLE
who founded it? |
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| Walter Arensberg (and his wife too??) |
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ARENSBURG CIRCLE
name artists who were part of it |
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| how were STIEG and ARENSBERG different? |
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Arensberg was socially & intellectually on the inside. had salons and would host galleries
Stieg was jewish -- "other" |
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DADISTS
when, where, and who founded it? |
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New York
1915
Duchamp and Picaba |
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ARENSBERG
What famous painting did they purchase? |
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| Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase |
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DUCHAMP
what was his big scandal in 1917? |
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When he exhibited an upside down urinal and called it art.
"The Fountain"
-provacative, bi-gendered object, reference to male anatomy and womans uterus |
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DUCHAMP
The Fountain
significance of his signature? |
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| R. Mutt: character for comic books and Mott Iron works |
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DUCHAMP
What Journal did he publish in 1917? |
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Toutfait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
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DUCHAMP
The Fountain-- what was the painting in the background when Stieg photographed it? |
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who was Rrose Selavy and who photographed this person?
what was the message? |
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-Duchamp was Rrose Selavy
-it was his alter ego as he dressed up as a woman. He wanted to provoke the American public
-ManRay photographed it
-Suggests that gender is something that is socially performed rather than dictate by biology |
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MAN RAY
-what movement did he belong to? |
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DADA
Photographed Rrose Selavy |
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| MAN RAY what painting reflects the art and theory of Duchamp and in what way? |
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-Egg Beater as Woman
-woman figure represented by machinery |
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Florine Stettheimer
describe her work |
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| campy, characterized by artifice and wit, lightness, rococo. |
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| What is "camp sensibility"? |
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seeing the work in terms of a degree of artfice, stylization. iconography is personal, feminine, floral, familial.
figures are wieghtless, sinuous, and settings are theatrical |
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