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Art History 103
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2012

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gustave courbet
the stone breakers

1849

france

realism
- tribute to working class, preperation for haussmanization

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Edouard Manet
Olympia
1863
French
Realism
- newspapers criticized. used a painting by Titian for inspiration
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James Abott McNeil Whistler
Nocturne in Black and Gold; The Falling Rocket
1875
American

Impressionism
- scene of fireworks falling in London

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Edgar Degas
The Ballet Rehersal (Adagio)
1876
French
Impressionism
- big empty space

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Gustave Caillebotte
Paris: A Rainy Day
1877
French
Impressionism
- haussmanization, everything is moving, constant change
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Edouard Manet
A Bar at The Folies-Bergere
1881 - 1882
French
Impressionism
- at popular Paris caberet, impressionism snapshot
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Claude Monet
Wheatstack, Sun in the Mist
1891
French
Impressionism
- 40 done like this to show different light and shadow effect
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Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-1886
French
Post-Impressionism
- shown at last impressionist exhibit in 1886, pointillism/divisionism, fake frame to show nothing is moving
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Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night

1889

Dutch

Post-Impressionism
- believed that when people died, they turned into stars

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautre
At The Moulin Rouge
1893-1895
French

Post-Impressionism
- feels like you're a part of the activities

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Paul Cezanne
Basket of Apples

1895
French
Post-Impressionism
- everything started as a geometric shape, inspiration for cubism

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Paul Gougin
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
1897

French
Post-Impressionism
- christianity

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Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893
Norway

Symbolism
- norway in the background, represents psycological turmoil

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Henri Rousseau
The Dream
1910
French
Symbolism
- artisit never left france or saw the jungle. whimsy and danger at the same time
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Henri Matisse
The Joy of Life

1905-1906
French
Fauvism
- this is what fauvism should be. sums up european art in one painting. somewhere between tradition and future

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Ernest Lugwig Kirchner
Street, Dresden
1908
German
Die Brucke (Expressionism)
- this was his reality and people should know that it should not be that way
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Emil Nolde
Saint Mary of Egypt Among Sinners
1912
German
Die Brucke (expressionism)
- mary magdalane. ugliness of human sin
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Vasily Kandinsky
Sketch 1 for Composition VII
1913
russian

der blaue reiter (expressionism)
- music, physical to the eye and psychological effect

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Franz Marc
Animal Destinies
1913
German
Der Blaue Reiter (Expressionism)
- summed up war best
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Paul Klee
The Nieson
1915
German
Der Blaue Reiter (Expressionism)
- natural beauty. 9inch by 7 inch. Judaism and Islam represented
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Oskar Kokoschka
The Bride of The Wind
1914
Austrian
Expressionism
- his romantic life. mistress. night time sky. clouds/fabric/ocean
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Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907
Spanish
Proto-Cubism
- one of most significant paintings of 20th century. Red light distric in Barcelona
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Georges Braque
The Portuguese
1911
French
Analytic Cubism
- no color so it will only appeal to emotion. sailor playing an instrument
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Pablo Picasso
Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass
1912
Spanish
Synthetic Cubism
- the battle has began, the battle with braque
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Fernand Leger
The City
1919
French
Cubism
- fast pace of modern technology and society. positive image
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Umberto Baccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913
Italian

Futurism
- compared to greek statue but less human. wanted to loock technologically advances

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Gino Severini
Armored Train
1915
Italian
Futurist
- make war look good, cold, and bloodless
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Kazimir Malevich
Supremitist Composition: Airplane Flying
1915
Russian
Supremitism
- symbolizes the reaction to air travel. shapes moving
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Vladimir Tatline
Monument to the 3rd International
1919-1920
Russian
Productivism
- twice the size of the empire state building, red for communism, would spin constantly
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Alexander Rodchenko
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1925
Russian
Constructivism
- to get people excited about government
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