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04/09/2017

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Nicolas kalmakoff had obsessions with
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Obsessions with martyrdom, asceticism, spirituality, sexuality, religion, and Satan
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In 1905,a friend and actor remarked that Kalmakoff insisted that he saw the ____ and showed the man drawings to prove his story
Definition
devil
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[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Satan, 1923. Charcoal.
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[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. The Women of Nadjis, 1923. Pastel.
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Kalmakoff's resplendent compositions of bright colors, elongated forms, and expressive line are certainly reminiscent of __________
Definition
the Secessionists and Art Nouveu
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horror vacui
Definition
art that fears empty space
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_____ pervades Kalmakoff’s body of work, and he portrayed women as both sexually irresistible and dangerous
Definition
misogyny
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Islamic connection: Nadjis-people regarded as ________
Definition
ritually unclean
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[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. The Victim, ca. 1925.
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Describe "The victim"
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The androgynous male “victim” appears as the crucified Christ, however, the cross is replaced with the silhouette of the femme fatale
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[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Stage Design: The Serpentine Crypt, 1910. Gouache on card
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The serpentine crypt is influenced by ___ and ____ art and Kalmakoff's obsession with ______ iconography
Definition
nordic, celtic, Luciferien
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[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Costume Design: Salome, 1908. Gouache on card
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What is most important about Salome, 1908?
Definition
This costume design is from a production that was so ribald that it ruined the career of a young starlet, Vera Kommissarjevsky, and led to her demise
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Heavenly Wrath, 1915. Lithograph.
Term
During the late 18th and early 19th century, Russia was embroiled in conflict
_________ were on the rise
Definition
Socialist movements
Term
Describe Heavenly Wrath
Definition
A “visionary” image of war which perceives the conflict in images of divine judgment and wrath
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Wrath of War, 1917.
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[image]
Definition
Nicholas Kalmakoff, Household Ghosts, 1927, oil on canvas.
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The _____ were the personification of hunger that lingered near cesspools and latrines
Definition
gaki
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A human could be reborn as a gaki, but such reincarnation could be avoided by _________
Definition
practicing asceticism
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[image]
Definition
Kalmakoff, The Chapel of the Resurrected: The Triumph of Man, 1927. Oil on board
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Chapel of the Resurrected is a splendid example of_______
Definition
Visionary Art
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The demons in Chapel of the Resurrected have no ______ source
Definition
canonical
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[image]
Definition
Kalmakoff, The Darkness, ca. 1940. Oil on board
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Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) sparked the _________ which enthralled admires who, in the post war re-enchantment of the 1960s, were hungry for spiritual content and narrative form
Definition
Visionary Art movement
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, Metamorphosis of the
Flesh, oil and tempera o/board, 1949
Term
Ernst saw his _____ as a spiritual mentor and the former recalled the later sharing wisdom, values, and spiritual truths through song and story
Definition
father
Term
Ernst’s Fuchs grandfather was a strict ________ who wish above all things for his sons to become Rabbis
Definition
Orthodox Jew
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Fuchs always considered the Bible the _______ (from a creative and expressive standpoint)
Definition
pinnacle of knowledge
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, The Passion, oil and tempera o/board, 1948
Term
Fuchs was moved by the _____ story and was inspired by “mystical visions” of Christ
Definition
Christ
Term
Already in his early work (The Passion), one can observe Fuchs’s contemplations of __________ that would guide his work.
Definition
divinity, putrification; birth, death; purity, eroticism—paradoxes
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, Metamorphoses of Lucretia, oil and tempera o/board, 1958
Term
Metamorphoses of Lucretia recalls a common motif __________ as mythohistorical moment that coaxed Rome into rebellion
Definition
“The Rape of Lucretia”
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In Metamorphoses of Lucretia, Fuchs paints the suicidal moment as a __________
Definition
transcendent transformation
Term
Nicolas kalmakoff had obsessions with
Definition
Obsessions with martyrdom, asceticism, spirituality, sexuality, religion, and Satan
Term
In 1905,a friend and actor remarked that Kalmakoff insisted that he saw the ____ and showed the man drawings to prove his story
Definition
devil
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Satan, 1923. Charcoal.
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. The Women of Nadjis, 1923. Pastel.
Term
Kalmakoff's resplendent compositions of bright colors, elongated forms, and expressive line are certainly reminiscent of __________
Definition
the Secessionists and Art Nouveu
Term
horror vacui
Definition
art that fears empty space
Term
_____ pervades Kalmakoff’s body of work, and he portrayed women as both sexually irresistible and dangerous
Definition
misogyny
Term
Islamic connection: Nadjis-people regarded as ________
Definition
ritually unclean
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. The Victim, ca. 1925.
Term
Describe "The victim"
Definition
The androgynous male “victim” appears as the crucified Christ, however, the cross is replaced with the silhouette of the femme fatale
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Stage Design: The Serpentine Crypt, 1910. Gouache on card
Term
The serpentine crypt is influenced by ___ and ____ art and Kalmakoff's obsession with ______ iconography
Definition
nordic, celtic, Luciferien
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Costume Design: Salome, 1908. Gouache on card
Term
What is most important about Salome, 1908?
Definition
This costume design is from a production that was so ribald that it ruined the career of a young starlet, Vera Kommissarjevsky, and led to her demise
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Heavenly Wrath, 1915. Lithograph.
Term
During the late 18th and early 19th century, Russia was embroiled in conflict
_________ were on the rise
Definition
Socialist movements
Term
Describe Heavenly Wrath
Definition
A “visionary” image of war which perceives the conflict in images of divine judgment and wrath
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicolas Kalmakoff. Wrath of War, 1917.
Term
[image]
Definition
Nicholas Kalmakoff, Household Ghosts, 1927, oil on canvas.
Term
The _____ were the personification of hunger that lingered near cesspools and latrines
Definition
gaki
Term
A human could be reborn as a gaki, but such reincarnation could be avoided by _________
Definition
practicing asceticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Kalmakoff, The Chapel of the Resurrected: The Triumph of Man, 1927. Oil on board
Term
Chapel of the Resurrected is a splendid example of_______
Definition
Visionary Art
Term
The demons in Chapel of the Resurrected have no ______ source
Definition
canonical
Term
[image]
Definition
Kalmakoff, The Darkness, ca. 1940. Oil on board
Term
Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) sparked the _________ which enthralled admires who, in the post war re-enchantment of the 1960s, were hungry for spiritual content and narrative form
Definition
Visionary Art movement
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, Metamorphosis of the
Flesh, oil and tempera o/board, 1949
Term
Ernst saw his _____ as a spiritual mentor and the former recalled the later sharing wisdom, values, and spiritual truths through song and story
Definition
father
Term
Ernst’s Fuchs grandfather was a strict ________ who wish above all things for his sons to become Rabbis
Definition
Orthodox Jew
Term
Fuchs always considered the Bible the _______ (from a creative and expressive standpoint)
Definition
pinnacle of knowledge
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, The Passion, oil and tempera o/board, 1948
Term
Fuchs was moved by the _____ story and was inspired by “mystical visions” of Christ
Definition
Christ
Term
Already in his early work (The Passion), one can observe Fuchs’s contemplations of __________ that would guide his work.
Definition
divinity, putrification; birth, death; purity, eroticism—paradoxes
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, Metamorphoses of Lucretia, oil and tempera o/board, 1958
Term
Metamorphoses of Lucretia recalls a common motif __________ as mythohistorical moment that coaxed Rome into rebellion
Definition
“The Rape of Lucretia”
Term
In Metamorphoses of Lucretia, Fuchs paints the suicidal moment as a __________
Definition
transcendent transformation
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, The Temptation of the Victor, watercolor, 1950
Term
____ (Eros and Thanatos) are always two sides of the same coin for Fuchs
Definition
Sexuality and death
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, Psalm 69, tempera o/board, 1949/60
Term
universal spirituality across different religions is common theme in all of Otto’s work
Definition
syncretism
Term
Especially _____ and _______ stand out as major influences in Otto’s paintings
Definition
Buddhism,Christianity
Term
[image]
Definition
Otto Kadlecsovics, The Last Flame, oil o/canvas, 1979
Term
Flame of title is the flame of ____; _____ as creator of life
Definition
life,woman
Term
[image]
Definition
Otto Kadlecsovics, Nirvana I, oil o/canvas, 1979
Term
She associated with surrealists (Max Ernst, Georges Bataille, Dalí, Breton), but here contributions are woefully ignored
Definition
Leonora Fini
Term
[image]
Definition
Leornora Fini, The Sphinx, Oil on canvas, 1942
Term
Often considered the first erotic nude of a male painted by a woman
Definition
The Sphinx
Term
[image]
Definition
Leornora Fini, Le Carrefour D’Hecate, Oil on canvas, 1977-78
Term
the Greek goddess associated with Magic and Witchcraft
Definition
Hecate
Term
What does Le Carrefour D'Hecate
Definition
Implies initiation and transfiguration
Term
[image]
Definition
Leornora Fini, Le train, Oil on canvas, 1975
Term
She was known to have intimate relationships with woman
Definition
Leonora Fini
Term
[image]
Definition
Michel Henricot, Le Prince et la mort, Oil on canvas, 1973
Term
[image]
Definition
Michel Henricot, Le Prince et la mort, Oil on canvas, 1973
Term
[image]
Definition
Johfra, The Guardian of the Pearl, Oil on canvas, 1971
Term
[image]
Definition
Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych (Open), ca. 1504. Oil on wood
Term
[image]
Definition
Johfra, Unio Mystica, Oil on canvas, 1973
Term
[image]
Definition
Ernst Fuchs, The Transfiguration of the Resurrected, 1961-1982.
Term
[image]
Definition
Johfra, Visions of Hermes Trismegistos, Oil on canvas, 1985
Term
[image]
Definition
Johfra, Witch’s Sabbath, Oil on canvas, 1977
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