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20th Century Art History
Mid term LFR
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/20/2012

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Peggy Guggenheim

Pollock

Modernist abstraction

-first time he makes work quickly with large gestures

-creates huge piece in a few hours

-relationship to canvas completely different --> canvas on floor, stretched after finished

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Automatic Drawing

Andre Masson

Automatist Surrealism

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Battle of the Fishes

Andre Masson

Automatist Surrealism

-poured sand on glue

-used paint globs

 

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Water of the Flowery Mill

Arshile Gorky

 

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Boise en Valise

Marcel DuChamp

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Hofmann
Abstract Expressionism
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[image]
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Nocturne

Joan Miro

-all over applicaton of line

-fills in shapes of overlapping lines

-"critters"

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Casagemas in Death

Picasso

Blue Period

-Picasso's friend shoots himself in head

-influenced by van Gogh

-hyper focus on misfits

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Circus Family

Picasso

Rose Period

-misfits of society

-lonely life, no home, not attached

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The Frugal Repast

Picasso

Blue Period

-lifeless, gaunt figures

-engaged in everyday tasks

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The Liver is the Cock's Comb

Gorky

Abstract Expressionism

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van Doesburg

De Stijl

-goes from representational drawing to geometric shapes

-progressive abstraction from Cubist form

-reevaluating color, shape, lines, and planes-->purifying them

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Van Doesburg

De Stijl

-goes from representational drawing to geometric shapes

-progressive abstraction from Cubist form

-reevaluating color, shape, lines, and planes-->purifying them

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Abstract Speed

Balla

Futurism

-continual motion

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[image]
Definition

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Balla

Futurism

-breaks down movement of body

-represents energy/ atmospheric effects

-solid things as they are moving through space

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[image]
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Flight of the Swallows

Balla

Futurism

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[image]
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Speed of the Automobile

Balla

Futurism

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[image]
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Street Light

Balla

Futurism

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[image]
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Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences

Balla

Futurism

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Development of a Bottle in Space

Boccioni

Futurism

-only get sense of shape from moving around the sculpture

-goes from nothing to something

-something dematerialized that materializes as you move around the piece

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Dynamism of a Cyclist

Boccioni

Futurism

 

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Dynamism of a Soccer Player

Boccioni

Futurism

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Boccioni

Futurism

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The City Rises

Boccioni

Futurism

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The Laugh

Boccioni

Futurism

-creates sense of energy of whole scene

-reverberation effect--everything effects everything else

-any action will release chain of events

-feels like cackle that permeates the room

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Unique Form of Continuity in Space

Boccioni

Futurism

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Girl Running on A Balcony

Futurism

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Blue Dancer

Severini

Futurism

 

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Dynamic Heiroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin

Severini

Futurism

-good example of simultaneoty of views

-viewer puts woman together

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Deer in the Woods

Expressionism

1912

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Composition IV

Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Composition V

Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Berlin Street Scene

Kirchner

Expressionism

-no eyes--not about seeing outward, communicating inward expression

-everyone isolated in crowd

-wealthy people are out to be seen, but no one cares

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Girl Under a Japanese Parasol

Kirchner

Expressionism

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Two Women in the Street

Expressionism

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Kirchner

Expressionism

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Adolf Loos

Kokoschka

Expressionism

-pays attention to hands, prominent position in painting

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Die Windsbraut (The Tempest)

Kokoschka

Expressionism

-woman painted with higher level of representation

-seems like she os sleeping, snuggled against man, peaceful

-man looks dead, bloody/gashed, lifeless

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[image]
Definition

Blue Horse I (Der Blaue Reiter)

Marc

Expressionism

-style of abstraction influential

-in Munich

 

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The Large Blue Horses

Marc

Expressionism

-use of primary colors

-blue=masculine,robust,spiritual

-red=brutal/heavy, neutral, essential

-yellow=feminine, gentle, serene

-lots of curves, no sharp lines

-painter of animals--in harmony with nature

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Mask Still Life

Expressionism

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The Dream

Beckmann

Expressionism

 

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Hoch
Dada
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Primitivism

1910

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Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

Arp

Dada

-choice vs chance

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Human Concretion

Arp

Surrealism

-biomorphic

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Deposition

Beckmann

Expressionism

-feels stressful, violent

-very compressed space

-viewer feels uncomfortable

-human drama

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Crucifixion

Dali

Surrealism

 

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Lobster Telephone

Dali

Surrealism

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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War

Dali

Surrealism

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The Persistance of Memory

Dali

Surrealism

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Demuth

My Egypt

American Modernism

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The Figure 5 in Gold

Demuth

American Modernism

-poem lines suspended for individual contemplation but then come together to form a whole

-accessible subject matter

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Goat

Dove

American Modernism

-first non-objective paintings

-maintains American experience

-departure point=nature

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Bicycle Wheel

Duchamp

Dada

 

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Fountain

Duchamp

Dada

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Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q.

Dada

-"she has a hot ass"--explains why she's smiling

-doesn't matter if it's real or not to the people

-adds insult to injury by defacing reproduction of Mona Lisa and not real thing

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Nude Descending a Staircase

Duchamp

Dada

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The Bride Stripped Bare by her Brother's Even

Duchamp

Dada

-machine of suffering

-bride on top, line=clothes, bottom=bachelors

-imagery of lower half=masturbation

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Why Not Sneeze Rrose Selavy?

Duchamp

Dada

-selavy=cie la vie (that's life)

-Rrose=cupid

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Bottle Dryer

Duchamp

Dada

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Ernst

Europe after the Rain

Surrealism

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The Eye of Silence

Ernst

Surrealism

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Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale

Ernst

Surrealism

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Painting No 5

Hartley

American Modernism

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Portrait of a German Officer

Hartley

American Modernism

 

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Indefinite Invisibility

Tanguy

Surrealism

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Personal Values

Magritte

Surrealism

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Pipe

Magritte

Dada

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The Empire of Lights

Magritte

Surrealism

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The Gift

Man Ray

Surrealism

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4 Part Corpse Drawing

Man Ray, Tanguy, Miro, Morise

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Lower Manhattan (from Top of Woolworth Building)

Marin

American Modernism

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St Paul's Manhattan

Marin

American Modernism

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Alfred Stieglitz

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Black Iris

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Definition

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No IV

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

1930

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit No IV

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

 

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Oriental Poppies

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Definition

Red Poppy

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Red Snapdragons

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Sky and Clouds

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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The Shelton with Sun Spots

O'Keeffe

American Modernism

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Merz Picture 25A-The Star Picture

Schwitters

Dada

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Equivalent

Stieglitz

American Modernism

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Equivalent

Stieglitz

American Modernism

-reflects emotional experience

-wants to draw you in

-does not want to influence viewer's experience

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Through Birds Through Fire but Not Through Glass

Tanguy

Surrealism

 

Term
Realism Theory
Definition
-work of visual art should look like what it is meant to show
-incorporates way of showing things that is familiar to viewer in cultural context
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Kitsch
Definition
non genuine, inauthentic
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essentialist
Definition
-photos unique, privileged information
-assumed photographic information is correct
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conventionalist
Definition
-photos are human constructs -they're no more real than other kinds of representation
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Fauvism
Definition
-derived from French word "fauve" which means wild beast -dematerialization, nothing is privileged over anything else, NO illusion -Cezanne, Seurat=analytical -van Gogh, Goghan=expressionistic
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Broken Touch Fauvism
Definition
general impression-viewer does not look for further connections
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Diebrucke
Definition
-connection of like-minded people who were working in different styles -no stylistic similarities -opposition to academic art -derivative of Impressionism -expression of inner meaning through outer force
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Futurism
Definition
-illustrates motion,time and space -simultaneity of views -dynamic qualities of everyday life -"dynamicism" -exploring formal and spatial effects of motion, rather than their source
Term
Marinetti's Manifesto
Definition
-dynamic sensation -movement and light destroy materiality of bodies -breaks down movement of body -atmosphere effects solid things as they are moving through space
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landscape faceted
Definition
breaks down every visible surface into flat planes
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discrete planes
Definition
separate from one another, defined
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flat planes
Definition
lack of depth
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Arras
Definition
sharp dividing lines
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floating contour lines
Definition
lines free floating and exaggerated; not attached
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passage
Definition
semi-transparent planes
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Collage
Definition
-contour lines separate from shapes -using conventional techniques to create sense of volume -monochromatic palette -NO color
Term
Synthetic Cubism
Definition
-how we experience objects in reality -relationship between space and time -glueing different materials to canvas -displacement -overlaps are disorienting, not sure where you are spatially -not implying a surface, its explicit -shuffling and shuttling between surface and depth -elements essentially decorative in themselves not to adorn but identify, locate, and construct
Term
frottage
Definition
rubbing, used to create texture
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Exquisite Corpse Drawings
Definition
piece of paper passed around to a bunch of people, respond to it, free association
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Green Stripe

Matisse

Fauvism

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Black Square

Malevich

Suprematist

-squares do not exist unless geometric laws are applied

-theoretical underpinings add to purity

-mathematics is a pure science

-Pure, constant, NOT variable

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Definition

Morning in the Country After a Snowstorm

Malevich

Suprematist

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The Woodcutter

Malevich

Suprematist

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Broadway Boogie Woogie

Mondrian

de Stijl

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Definition

Mill in Sunlight

Mondrian

Fauvism

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[image]
Definition

Woman with a Flowered Hat

Matisse

Fauvism

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The River Seine at Chatou

Maurice de Vlaminick

Fauvism

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Ma Jolie

Picasso

Analytical Cubism

1911

-full integration of figure and ground

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Demoiselles d'Avignon

Picasso

Rose Period

-lots of geometrization

-luring in client

-seductive poses-prostitutes

-stepped away from narrative--focuses on forms and formal qualities of picture

-influenced by African masks/primitivism

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Definition

Girl with the Mandolin

Picasso

Cubism

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Definition

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Picasso

Cubism

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Still Life with Violin and Pitcher

Braque

Cubism

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Le Portugais (The Emigrant)

Braque

Cubism

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Still Life with Chair Caning

Picasso

Synthetic Cubism

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The Woman with the Guitar

Braque

Synthetic Cubism

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Still Life on a Table: "Gillette"

Braque

Synthetic Cubism

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Champ de Mars: The Red Tower

Delaunay

Analytic Cubism

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Color and Space

Sonia Delaunay

Analytic Cubism

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Ambroise Vollard

Picasso

Analytical Cubism

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Definition

Accordionist

Picasso

Analytical Cubism

1911

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Castle at La Roche-Guyon

Braque

Analytical Cubism

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[image]
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Fruit Dish, "Quotidien du Midi"

Braque

Synthetic Cubism

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[image]
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Still Life with Bowl and Fruit

Picasso

Synthetic Cubism

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Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs

Braque

Synthetic Cubism

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