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Art History III
Third Test
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/06/2012

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Fauvism

Henri Matisse

Woman in the Hat

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Fauvism

Henri Matisse

Harmony in Red

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Fauvism

Andre Derain

The Dance

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German Expressionism

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street, Dresden

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German Expressionism

Emil Nolde

Saint Mary of Egypt...

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German Expressionism

Vassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28 (2nd version)

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German Expressionism

Franz Mare

Fate of the Animals

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Proto-Cubism

Pablo Picasso

Gertrude Stein

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Proto-Cubism

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

 

multiple vantage points, trying to unfold the firgure of 3-D object- reference to African Art?

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Cubism

Synthetic 

Pablo Picasso

Still Life with Chair-Caning

(random parts and building something up)

 

first collage and assemblage, as a fine art. 

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Cubism

Synthetic

Georges Braque

The Portuguese

 

Co-founder of period. Switched works with Picasso, finished each other's works, signed each other's works

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Cubism

Synthetic

Georges Braque

Bottle Newspaper

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Futurism

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2

 

color pallet of the cubists, but hated each other. emphasis on motion

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Futurism

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

 

inspiration from photography, but do not think it is an artform

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Futurism

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

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Gino Severini

Armored Train

Definition

Futurism

Gino Severini

Armored Train

 

reference to trench warfare

Term

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Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

Definition

DaDa

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

 

strips away the function

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Marcel Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare...

Definition

DaDa

Marcel Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare...

 

randomness. on a window-don't look at the object, but through the object

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Jean Arp

Collage Arranged According to Laws of Chance

Definition

DaDa

Jean Arp

Collage Arranged According to Laws of Chance

 

 

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DaDa

Hannah Hoch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife...

 

Photomontge

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Kurt Schwitters

Merz 19

Definition

DaDa

Kurt Schwitters

Merz 19

 

uses made up words, means trash or escarpment

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DaDa

Man Ray

Cadeau

 

no longer has specific function

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Surrealism

Biomorhpic 

Joan Miro

Painting

 

push representational, if any at all

 

Automatism- automatic painting, letting the brush go and see what happens, not too much thought

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Surrealism

Max Ernst

Two Children are Threatened...

 

connection back to dada with ready made object. could escape the very dimensions

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Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

Definition

Surrealism

Naturalistic

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

 

about the way in which our memory is another key to the altered state of consciousness. doesn't follow physics. 

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Surrealism

Naturalistic

Salvador Dali

Paranoic Critical Method

 

wants to incite in himself intellectual freedom, dreaming, hallucinating when you're clinically paranoid.  inbetween conscious and unconscious. 

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Surrealism

Naturalistic

Rene Magritte

The Treachery of Images

 

not a pipe, representation of a pipe

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Surrealism

Meret Oppenheim

Object

 

engage our consciousness in such a way that makes it surrealist

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American Cubism

Marsden Hartley

Portrait of a German Officer

 

no irregularity that cubism had. symbolic portrait

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American Cubism

Stuart Davis

Lucky Strike

 

visual jazz

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American Cubism

Aaron Douglas

Noah's Ark

 

Harlem Renaissance- movement of African-American artists, collaboration especially in theatre and music

references to jazz, slavery, ku klux klan, european modernism

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Precisionism

Charles Demuth

My Egypt

 

fragmenting planes, wanted to get rid of the sloppiness of european modernism, analytic, industral look

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Precisionism

Georgia O'Keeffe

 

citizen of global community, worked with whats happening today. 

 

Alfred Stieglitz- lover??

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Suprematism

Kazmir Malevich

Suprematist Composition

 

all value, all color, all line. primary colors, how far can you branch out by still maintaining stability in first squares

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Suprematism

Constructivism (Sculpture)

Naum Gabo

 

two planes intersecting, necessary conditions for there to be a column, x,y,z extension and limit

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Suprematism

Productivism (Architecture)

Vladimir Tatlin

Monument to the 3rd International

ladimir Tatlin

Monument to the 3rd International

 

only models, emphasis on materials and constrction method, media/information center

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De Stijl

Piet Mondrain

Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow

 

destills peace, no diagonals

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De Stijl

Gerrit Rietveld

Schroder House

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The Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

Shop Block

 

interinfluence between students

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The Bauhaus

Marcel Breuer

Tubular Chair

 

result of direct interaction

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The Bauhaus

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Glass Skyscraper

 

never actually built, inspiration

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Early Modern Architecture

International Style

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye

 

maximize funcion, minimize work

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Early Modern Architecture

Art Deco

William van Allen

Chrysler Building

 

need to deal with wind load, race for tallest building

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Early Modern Architecture

Naturalism

Frank Lloyd Wright

Kauffman House

 

Organic architecture, reflect/intergrates landscape around it

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Social Realism

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

 

Photjournalism, documentation, dust bowl

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Social Realism

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

 

city, isolation and depression

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Social Realism

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration of the Negro No 40

 

documentation of community

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Social Realism

Regionalism

Grant Wood

American Gothic

 

reserved endurance

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Social Realism

Regionalism

Thomas Hart Benton

Pioneer Days and Early Settlers

 

history of missouri

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Social Realism

Mexican Muralism

Diego Rivera

History of Mexico...

 

about community, being a public artform

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Social Realism

Mexican Muralism

Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas

 

married to Diego, not surrealism, reality

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The Great Depression
Definition
1929-1941
economic crisis
buying credit
stock market crash
dust bowl
hoover vs fdr
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World War I
Definition
1914-1918
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
1900- interpretation of dreams
unconscious mind, id ego superego
why do people make art?
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Albert Einstein
Definition
Ammus Mirablilis (miracle year 1905)- writes 5 papers (3 themes), Brownian Motion, atoms and molecules, Photoelectric Effect, Quantum Mechanics, Special Theory of Relativity, space, time and light.
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Cezanne's Passage Technique
Definition
open shapes to create spatial ambiguity
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Filiippo Marinetti, Manifesto
Definition
1909- Futurism

poet and a playwright- graphed on to visual arts. centered on italy. pro-italy. pro-war. loved technology. get rid of the past, burn the library.
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Hugo Ball, Manifesto
Definition
1916- Dada
during and after the war. dada is not a form of art at all, is anti-art. reflect the irrationality of the world. there is no mean to the world. 'poison gas german used, killed 500,000 french and english, but same gas also killed 500,00 germans' general sense of lost, doubt, but not an actual protest against the world.
Term
anti-art
Definition
didn't mean anything in the first place, now its gone
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Andre Breton, Manifesto
Definition
1924- Surrealism
belief in a superior reality. can we bring the unconscious mind to the surface? two main keys 1) the dream 2) the disinterested play of thought (stream of consciousness, random thought)
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The Armory Show
Definition
1913- American Cubism
brings culture into america. pre wwi. reflects idea that america is now on a global stage.
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Neoplasticism
Definition
what is physically there is line and color, abstracted them to primaries
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