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VCU ARTH 104
Exam 4
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/11/2012

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Woman with a Hat

Henri Matisse

1905

Modernism (Fauvism)

Autumn Salon

Delacroix, Gauguin, Van Gogh

Deliberate disharmonies of color

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The Joy of Life

Matisse

1905-06

Modernism (fauvism)

Traditional positions of nudes

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Street, Berlin

Kirchner

1913

Modernism

Die Brüche (The Bridge) - group

Women are prostitutes

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The Outbreak

Kathe Kollwitz

1921

Modernism

The Peasants' War - series of prints

Black Anna

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Self Portrait with an Amber Necklace

Paula Modersohn-Becker

1906

Modernism

Looked to Gauguin

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The Large Blue Horses

Franz Marc

1911

Modernism

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Used to be Barbizon painter

Abandoned people, painted animals

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The Blue Mountain (Der Blaue Berg)

Kandinsky

1908-09

Modernism

The Blue Rider

Book-Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Trained as lawyer, Moved to Munich to paint

Russian folk art influence

Cezanne-mountain brush strokes

4 horseman of Apocolypse

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Improvisation 28 (Second Version)

Kandinsky

1912

Modernism

Painting and music

Arnold Schoenberg - no rest in his music

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Self Portrait

Picasso

1901

Cubism

Blue period

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Family of Saltimbanques

Picasso

1905

Cubism

Rose period

acrobats-outcasts

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Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

Picasso

1907

Cubism

Iberian/African masks

Prostitutes

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Houses at L'Estaque

Georges Braque

1908

Faw Fauves at Autumn Salon in Paris

Rejected by Autumn Salon - called "little cubes"

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Violin and Palette

Braque

1909

Analytic cubism

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Ma Jolie

Picasso

1911-1912

Analytic cubism

"My Pretty One"

Music note?

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Glass and Bottle of Suze

Picasso

1912

Synthetic cubism

Simple elements synthesized into larger wholes

Collage

Playing w/ still life

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Homage to Blériot

Robert Delaunay

1914

Mix Fauvism w/ Cubism

Celebrates modern life

Orphism

"Simultinaity"

Bleriot - aviator - first to cross english channel

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Three Women

Fernand Leger

1921

France

Near death experience in WWI - switched from abstract

Grid

Mass production

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni

1913

Futurism

Italy

Manifesto - 1909 - Marinetti

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Dynamism of Dog on Leash

Balla

1912

Futurism

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Suprematist Composition (Eight Red Rectangles)

Kaimir Malevich

1915

Suprematist

Russia

1st non-representational art

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White on White

Malevich

1918

Suprematist

Russia

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Corner Counter-Relief

Vlad Tatlin

1915

Synthetic Cubism

Russia

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Architetonic Painting

Popova

1917

Suprematist

Russia

All series have same title

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Hugo Ball reciting the sound poem Karawane

1916

Dada

Switzerland

Voltaire - opened in 1916

undermined art

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Nude Descending a Staircase

Marcel Duchamp

1912

Spread Dada to USA

People hated painting --> switched to readymades

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Fountain

Duchamp

1917

"Art should appeal to intelect"

Rejected by Salon of independent artists

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Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

Duchamp

1912

Dada

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Snow in New York

Robert Henri

1902

Ashcan School

USA

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The Flatiron Building

Alfred Stieglitz

1903

German born

Photo-Sucession Group

Started Gallery 291

Armory Show, 1913

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Portrait of a German Officer

Marsden Hartley

1914

Karl von Freyburg - officer/lover

Funeral piece

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Proun Space

El Lissitzky

1928

Created fr Great Britain Art Exhibit

Constructivism

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The Grey Tree

Piet Mondrian

1911

Dutch Modernist

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Pier and the Ocean

Piet Mondrian

1915

Not non-representational

Modernism

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Composition w/ Yellow, Red, and Blue

Mondrian

1927

Balance

De Stijl

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Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier

1929-30

Outside Paris

International style

He was also theorist

mixed greek and modern elements

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Bauhaus Building

Walter Gropius

1925-26

Dessau

Hitler closed schools

Modernism

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The Persistence of Memory

Dali

1931

Paranoid-critical method

Self-portrait

anxiety

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Object (Luncheon in Fur)

Meret Oppenheim

1936

Chinese Gazelle fur

attraction/repulsion

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Torso of a Young Man

Constantin Branusi

1924

Rodin's asst

Thought W. sculpture too materialistic

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Recumbant Figure

Henry Moore

1938

Strong belief in materials

positive/negative space

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Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

Alexander Calder

1939

Familiar w/ Dada, surrealism, engineering

Kenetic mobiles

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Red Canna

Georgia O'Keefe

1924

Wife of Stiegletz

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American Gothic

Grant Wood

1930

American Regionalis painting

ather/daughter

optimistic view of midwest

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MIgrant Mother

Dorothea Lange

1936

Farm securities administration (paid artists to doc. hardship)

Dignified

Florence Thompson

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Aspects of Negro Life

Aaron Douglas

1934

Alain Locke-philosopher-New Negro Mov.

FAP commissioned it

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Couple Wearing Raccoon Coats w/ a Cadillac

James VanDerZee

1932

New Negro

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Migration Series: During World War Great Migration North by Southern Negroes

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Harlem community art center

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Man, Controller of the Universe

Diego Rivera

1934

Paris-friends w/ Picasso/Siqueiros - synthetic cubism

Italy - murals/frescos

Mexic0- mayan murals

Commissioned by American for NY, rejected - too socialist

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The Two Friends

Frida Kahlo

1939

Married Rivera

Breton called her surrealist

Paralyzed bus accident

Painted after divorce

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Falling Water, Mill Run, PA

Frank Lloyd Wright

1937

Materials from locality

Tree trunk built in

Said houses should be IN not on landscape

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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

Pollock

1950

Alcoholic

Went to psychologist - access subconscious

Gestural abstract expressionism

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The Seasons

Lee Krasner

1957

Gestural abstract expressionsim

Married Pollock

Earth Green series

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Woman 1

Willem de Kooming

1950

Pentimenti - scraping over painting

Some say attack on women

Female nude

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Mountains and Sea

Helen Frankenthaler

1952

Mixture of color field and guestual

Pour paint - let it bleed

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Canyon

Robert Rauschenberg

1959

Assemblage

most famous for combines

"Gap between art and life"

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Target with Four Faces

Jasper Johns

1955

Dada-ish questions art

Assemblage

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Just What is it that makes today's houses so different, so appealing?

Richard Hamilton

1955

Independent group

London

Thrown out of London Academy for having low standard

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Jeff... I love you too... but...

Roy Lichtenstein

1964

Pop Art

USA

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Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol

1962

pop Art

USA

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Untitled

Donald Judd

1967

Minimalism

Called "3-D objects"

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Rope Piece

Eva Hesse

1969-70

Minimalism

Born to German Jews in '36

Absurdity of Life

Rope dipped in Latex

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