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12/15/2016

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  • Henri Matisse
  • Leader of the Fauves
  • Rejected the idea that painting had to imitate nature
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  • The Woman with the Hat
  • By: Henri Matisse
  • Oil on Canvas
  • Controversial, ordinary subject, anti-naturalistic color, and bold brushwork.
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  • Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)
  • By: Henri Matisse
  • Colors contribute as much to the joyful mood as the figures do.
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Family of Saltimbanques
  • By: Pablo Picasso
  • Fascinated with the subject of itinerant circus performers
  • Rose Period
  • Psychologically withdrawn figures on a desolate landscape
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Le Desmoiseles D'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)
  • By: Pablo Picasso
  • He began to appropriate African images into his works (notice their faces resemble African masks)
  • Bold subject matter and sized. Fractured forms.
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Violin and Palette
  • By: George Braque
  • Analytic Cubism
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
  • By: Picasso
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Ma Jolie (My pretty girl)
  • By: Picasso
  • Ma Jolie was the title of a song at a music hall Picasso  attended
  • Multiple representations: Language (black letters), Symbolic Meaning (treble clef), Abstraction (woman)
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze)
  • By: Picasso
  • A collage composed of pasted elements.
  • Evoked both place and acitivity.
  • Quite mood broken by newspaper contents
  • Pasted paper, gouache, and charcoal.
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  • Mandolin and Clarinet
  • By: Picasso
  • Synthetic Cubism
  • Idea of assemblage, combined found objects and nontraditional materials in 3D sculptures.
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  • Street, Berlin
  • By: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Expressionism
  • The women are prostitutes
  • Features harsh, raw colors, and tilted perpective as well as the prostetutes aim to provoke an emotional response in the viewer.
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  • Self-Portrait Nudes
  • Egon Schiele (Independent Expressionist)
  • Pose suggestive of crucified Christ
  • Limited color. Agitated pencil line
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  • The Large Blue Horses
  • By: Franz Marc (Blue Rider leader)
  • Marc's work centered on animals as symbols of rebirth.
  • Supremacy of Animal Spiritualy (belived by Marc)
  • Oil on Canvas
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  • Vasily Kandinsky
  • Explored relationship between music and paintings.
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  • Improvisation 28
  • By: Vasily Kandinsky
  • Must be viewed as if you're hearing music.
  • Left side: depicts a destructive event
  • Right side: Spiritual salvation
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  • Three Women
  • By: Fernand Léger
  • A machine-age version of the academic reclining nude (Polished bodies + Rounded and dislocated forms)
  • French Cubism
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  • First manifesto (1909) was published in Le Figaro
  • Italian Cubism
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  • Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
  • By: Umberto Boccioni
  • Italian Cubism
  • Evokes an acient statue but its polished surface alludes modern machinery
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  • Suprematist Painting (8 Red Rectangles)
  • Kazimir Malevich
  • Russian Cubism
  • Suprematism (basic geometric shapes + limited range of colors).
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  • Torso of a Young Man
  • By: Constantin Brancusi
  • Distills the figure into 3 essential metal cylinders-Impressive platform.
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  • Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawe"
  • Hugo Ball
  • Photograph
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  • Fountain
  • By: Marcel Duchamp
  • The original (this pic) is lost. Only replicas remain
  • Porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint.
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  • L.H.O.O.Q.
  • By: Marcel Duchamp
  • Pencil on reproduction of Leonardo de Vinci's Mona Lisa
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  • Gallery 291
  • By: Alfred Stieglitz
  • Pictorial photography
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  • The Flatiron Building, New York
  • By: Alfred Stieglitz
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  • Portrait of a german Officer
  • By: Marsden Hartley
  • Cubism: Juxtapostion of fragments and geometric forms)
  • German Expressionism: Dramatic colors
  • Tribute to his lover - symbolic
  • Military imagery
  • Oil on canvas
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  • City Night
  • By: Georgia O'Keefe
  • Buildings reduced to simple geometric forms
  • Exaggerated perspective
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  • Villa Savoye
  • By: La Corbusier
  • Domino construction system
  • Pilotis (slender columns)
  • Curtain walls
  • Ribbon windows
  • Flat roof
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  • Fallingwater
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Mills Run, PA
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  • Elements of Architecture: The Skyscraper
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  • Woolworth Building
  • New York took a lead over Chicago in the development of the skyscraper
  • Historicist favored over utilitarian approach
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  • Proun Space
  • By: El Lissitzky
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  • Compostition with Yellow, Red, and Blue
  • By: Plet Mondrian
  • Horizontal and vertical lines
  • Restricted color palette of primary colors
  • Goal: search the universal beauty
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  • Red and Blue Chair
  • By: Gerrit Rietveld
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  • Bauhaus Building, Dessau
  • By: Walter Gropius
  • Anhalf, Germany
  • Steel frame construction
  • Glass curtain wall
  • Asymmetrical plan
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  • Coffee and Tea Service
  • By: Marianne Brandt
  • Silver and ebony with Plexiglas cover for sugar bowl.
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  • Composition
  • By: Joan Miró
  • Surrealism
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  • Birth of Liquid Desires
  • By: Salvador Dalí
  • Surrealism
  • Detailed painting style
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  • Recumbent Figure
  • By: Henry Moore
  • Surrealist-Influenced biomorphic sculptural form.
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  • Guernica
  • By: Pablo Picasso
  • Picasso was commissioned to create a painting for the Spanish Pavillion of the 1938 Paris Exposition.
  • City of Guernica was bombed by Germans.
  • Sober colors, Intense expressions. 
  • Universal plea against the brutality and the terror of war.
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  • Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction
  • By: Aaron Douglas
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Mural
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  • American Gothic
  • By: Grant Wood
  • Celebrated midwestern traditions and culture.
  • Flemish Renaissance
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  • Migrant Mother
  • By: Dorothea Lange
  • Photographers were hired to document the problems of farmers and migrant workers.
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  • The Great City of Technotitlan
  • By: Diego Rivera
  • Painted for the National Palace in Mexico City
  • Mural
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  • The Two Fridas
  • By: Frida Kahlo
  • Frida painted many self portraits, here the Fridas are twins with a split ethnic identity (Mexican and German)
  • At the time, she was divorcing Diego Rivera there was emotional suffering presenting in the pic (notice the blood and hearts, as well as a pic of a man)
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  • Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef
  • By: Francis Bacon
  • Portrays a Pope flanked by sides of beef
  • *Bacon-Beef*
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  • Abstract Art in Five Tones and Complementaries
  • By: Joaquín Torres-Garcias
  • Inspired by Pre-Columbian art
  • Oil on Board mounted on panel
  • Abstraction + Inca imagery
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  • Autumn Rhythm
  • By: Jackson Pollock
  • Abstract Expression
  • Enamel on Canvas
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  • Lavender and Mulberry
  • By: Mark Rothko
  • Oil on paper mounted on filberboard
  • Encouraged meditation
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