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Art History of the 20th Century
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Red Room

Matisse

1910

Fauvism

Shown at the Salon d'automne

Flatness in color, but 3-dimensionality still achieved

Matisse leader of fauvism (was lawyer turned artist)

Liberated Color

Fauves=wild beasts of color

Term
[image]
Definition

St. Mary

Nolde

1910

Fauvism

Belonged to "The Bridge" Group of German Expressionists

Wanted to "bridge the gap" between the old and new

Depicts St. Mary's (prior to conversion) and her anti-pilgrimmage to Jerusalem

Men flock towards her with desires for sexual favors

Known as degenerate art by the Nazis

Term
[image]
Definition

Improvisation #28

Kandinsky

1912*

Blue Rider German Expressionist

First Example of Non-Objective Art

Not an abstraction, because it is a non-object

Association between color and musical notation

Took cubism into its natural conclusion: the non-objective

Authored "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"

 

 

Term
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Definition

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

Picasso

1907*

Developmental Cubism

First cubist piece

Influence of African Art Seen

Compression of Space

Figures are not cubes, but torques

Term
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Definition

Still Life with Chair Caning

Picasso

1912

Synthetic Cubism

Begins the practice of collage

Brings Non-Fine Arts Materials to a fine-arts context

The Uppermost portion has an analytic cubist still life

Term
[image]
Definition

Guernica

Picasso

1937

Analytic Cubism

Decades separate this piece from earlier works

Based on Spanish War

A Response to fascism and totalitarian regimes

Shows how suitable cubism is to modern art

Illustrates human values

First time in his artistic life that art was about the context of the world, and not just himself

Term
[image]
Definition

The City

Leger

1919

*Not Reviewed

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Armored Train

Severini

1915

Italian Futurism

Old Italians, short lived movement

All about violence, dynamism, and movement

Shows military train on the move to kill people

Futurists use the visual language of cubism and add dynamism and movement

Movement dies at WWI

The futurists believed war was a great cleanser

Term
[image]
Definition

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Boccioni

1913

Italian Futurism (Sculpture)

Follows the tradition of sculpture, because it is a figure

A moving form, not posing

"So" Italian because of the movement in the piece

Forms like those in Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (Torques)

Term
[image]
Definition

The Fountain

Duchamp

1917*

Dadaism

Dadaism: anti-art

Example of a Ready-Made

Influenced by WWI

Meant to challenge the politicians

Term
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Definition

Night

Beckmann

1919

German Expressionism

Not a member of either principal German Groups (Bridge/Blue Rider). Independent of movement

Post WWI response to what he was seeing in Germany (rise of various political parties)

Showed what happened to people who disagreed with those in power

Term
[image]
Definition

War Monument

Barlach

1925

*Not Reviewed

Term
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Definition

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

De Chiricho

1914

Metaphysical Painting

Italian, but not a futurist

Surrealist vibe, but not surrealism

Eerily Silent

 

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Definition

Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale

Ernst

1924*

Veristic Surrealism

Meticulous Realism of things that cannot be seen

Mixed media piece

Andre Breton authors the Surrealist Manifesto on this date

Term
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Definition

The Persistence of Memory

Dali

1930

Verristic Surrealism

hyperrealism of imaginary things

Colored photographs of really strange wild things

Term
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Definition

The Treachery of Images

Magritte

1930

Verristic Surrealism

"This is not a pipe, it is a picture of a pipe."

 

 

Term
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Definition

Two Frieda's

Kahlo

1940

Veristic Surrealism*

*Does not identify herself as a surrealist, because she doesn't paint her dreams, she paints her reality

No distinct "ism;" where do you place her and why?

Mexican

Term
[image]
Definition

Painting

Miro

1933

Spanish Surrealism

Absolute Surrealism

Employs Automatism (method in which the artist suppresses the conscience and allows the unconscious mind to create); forms that result are often biomorphic and amoeba-like

 

Term
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Definition

Bird in Fight

Brancusi

1930

Futurism*

*No Distinct "ism"

Absolute surrealist qualities

Italian Futurist qualities

Biomorphic forms out of Bronze

Gives truth to materials

Romanian

 

Term
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Definition

Composition

Mondrian

1930

"De Stil" (the style)

Self defined as "Neoplasticism)

Utopian, cerebral, and intellectual in nature

Response to cubism and WWI

Uses only primary colors, black, white, and 90 degree angles

Term
[image]
Definition

Painting

Bacon

1942

Expressionism

Post Modernism

Expressionist vibe, figural

It is impossible to truly understand the meaning of his work without the context of his experience with the bombings of the war, and the knowledge of what people were subjected to in the concentration camps

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Definition

Number 1

Pollock

1950*

Abstract Expressionism

Post-Modernism

NYC replaces Paris as the Art Capital of the world due to WWII

This was a triumph of American Painting

Two aspects of the NY School of Abstract Expressionism: gestural painting and color field

Example of gestural painting

His process became primary, he abandoned the paintbrush and opened everything up

Term
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Definition

Woman

De Kooning

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Post-Modernism

Gesture painter (NYC School of Abstract Expressionism)

Term
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Definition

Untitled

Rothko

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Post-Modernism

Color Field Painter

Seeks to find the metaphysical and spiritual in color fields

Responds to the temper of the time (like gestural painters)

Places the primacy of the individual as number one (like gestural painters)

Term
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Definition

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

Newman

1950

Abstract Expressionist

Post-Modernism

Colorfield Painter

Translates to Man, Heroic and Sublime

Zip Strips: the vertical lines of light on the canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Bay Side

Frankenthaler

1960

*Abstract Expressionism

*Influenced by Abstract expressionism, but developed her own unique style to it

Was NOT a colorfield painter

Dyed/Stained the canvas, paint in the canvas instead of on it

Post-Painter Abstractionist or 2nd/3rd Generation Abstractionist

Wasn't into theory like the previous abstractionists

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Red Blue Green

Kelly

1960

Minimalism

Example of hard edge painting

Purely design

 

 

Term
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Definition

Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?

Hamilton

1956

 Pop Art

Post-Modernism

British Artist, not American

British Commentary Collage looking at the materialism and flourishing in America, post World War (look at all the cool stuff you can buy in America right now)

Historically significant/big, but not physically large

This piece named the pop-art movement

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Definition

Flag

Johns

1955

Pop Art

Post-Modernism

A move towards realism

A Bridge piece from abstraction to word pop

Paints things that are recognize able, but by their very nature, are two-dimensional

Term
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Definition

Coca Cola

Warhol

1960*

Pop Art

Post-Modernism

Pop-Art celebrates what we know

Commercial Art

Term
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Definition

Hopeless

Lichtenstein

1960

Pop-Art

American

Combatted Dekooning and Polluck's styles

Pointilist

Term
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Definition

Tropical Garden

Nevelson

1960

*Not Reviewed

Term
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Definition

Supermarket Shopper

Hanson

1970

Photo-Realsim

Legacy of Pop Art, Realism, and deification of popular culture

Sculpture

Super Realism

Depicted the average person

Term
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Definition

Spiral Jetty

Smithson

1970*

Earth Art

Post-Modernism

Reacts against the materialism of the art world

Idea that nature will reclaim itself and it will become obliterated

You Cannot Own it. 

 

 

Term
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Definition

Dinner Party

Chicago

1979

Feminism

Exemplifies first generation (1970's) feminism

All about biological differences, reclaiming "her-story in his-story"

Piece honors women in history that history has obliterated

Triangular shape= form for the divine female (biological)

Each plate has a flowering vagina

 

 

Term
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Definition

Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face

Kruger

1980

2nd Generation Feminist Art

Less about biological differences, more about intellectual, art historical theory

All about the idea of who is active: the subject or the viewer

The active person is always more powerful

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Definition

Backs

Abakanowicz

1980

Neo-Expressionist Sculpture

No heads or chests

Works with non-fine arts materials

Emotional, visceral response t her work

Raises the question: "Is she a girl, a feminist, and are only women feminists?"

 

Term
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Definition

Negredo

Kiefer

1980

European Neo-Expressionist

European vs. American intellectual traditions are vast, as seen in the complexity differences in the images

Response to WWII

 

Term
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Definition

Pink Panther

Koons

1980

Neo-Pop

Kitsch

Does not "make" his own art

 

Term
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Definition

Holy Virgin Mary

Ofili

1980

Neo-Expressionist

Post-Modern Art

African, living in London

Fixes Elephant dung to the works

Raisis issues of cultural identity and how we read works, and issues of sensorship 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Suprematist Composition

Malevich

1915

Suprematism

Pioneers this movement

Russian suprematist movement influenced by cubism and futurism

Informed in responding to WWI and the Russian Revolution

Cerebral, intellectual, utopian movement

Depicts an Airplane flying

Term
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Definition

Untitled

Judd

1969

Minimalism

Sculpture that is produced in the minimalist vein is sometimes referred to as primary structures

 Product-Like Quality: hundreds of versions of the same thing

Term
[image]
Definition

Marylin Diptych

Warhol

1962

Pop Art

People were commodified

Icon of female

Sexuality and Sensuality

Term
[image]
Definition

The Walk Home

Julian Schnabel

1985

American Neo-Expressionism

Emotional and Subjective

Recalls the work of gestural abstractionists like Pollock and deKooning

Thick, mosaic like texture

 

Term
[image]
Definition

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

Bueys

1960

German Performance Art

 

Term
What is the title of Kandinsky's publication?
Definition
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Term
Define and provide an example of Absolute Surrealism
Definition

Biomorphic Forms

Miro's Painting

Term
Define and provide an example of Veristic Surrealism
Definition

Detailed Realism

Dali's Persistence of Memory

Term
Two Names for Mondrian's Style
Definition

Neoplasticism

De Stijl (The Style)

Term
What are the 3 Phases of Cubism
Definition

Developmental (1907-1910)

Analytic (1910-1912)

Synthetic (1912-1914)

Term
What are the Russian Avant-Garde Movements?
Definition

Suprematism

Constructivism

 

Ex. Suprematist Composition by Malevich

Term
Who is the author of the surrealist Manifesto?
Definition
Andre Breton
Term
Identify a Political Work by Picasso
Definition
Guernica
Term
Who Pioneered the style known as piruria metaphysicia (metaphysical painting)?
Definition

Giorgio de Chirico

Ex. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Term
Who is the author of the Futurist Manifesto?
Definition
Marinatti
Term
What is the definition of a Ready-Made and provide an example
Definition

Sculpture that was made out of already-made materials

Belonged to the Dada movement

Ex. The Fountain

Term
Where and when did Dadaism originate?
Definition

Zurich, Germany

WWI

Term
What was the name of the artist to go into non-objectivism
Definition

Kandinsky

Ex. Improvisation #28

Term

What was the exhibit that brought modern art to the United States?

 

Definition
Armory Show of 1913
Term
What did "the bridge" mean?
Definition

German Expressionist movement that was supposed to span the distance of all artists and close the gap between the old and the new

Ex. St. Mary of Egypt Among the Sinners by Nolde

Term
Define Expressionism
Definition
A Deliberate exaggeration or distortion of line and color to elicit an emotional response
Term
What was the idea of what art was at this time?
Definition
Art was the intentional mark-making process by humans
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