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12/07/2017

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Joan Sloan 

1907

Hairdresser's Window

 

Am Mod

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[image]
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Marsden Hartley

Portrait of a German Officer

1914

 

Am Mod

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[image]
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Charles Demuth

My Egypt

1927

 

Am mod

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[image]
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Blanche Lazzelle 

Painting no 1

1925

 

Am Mod

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[image]
Definition

Blanche Lazzelle

1939

1934

Campys W Va University Morgantown

 

Am Mod

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[image]
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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

1936

 

Am Mod

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[image]
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Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930

 

Am Mod

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[image]
Definition

Diego Rivera

Zapatista Landscape

1915

 

Mex Mod

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[image]
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 Diego Riviera

The Fertile Earth

1926-27

 

Mex Mod

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[image]
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Frida Kahlo

Two Fridas

1939

 

Mex Mod

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[image]
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Hans Hoffman

The Wind

1944

 

Ab Ex

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[image]
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Lee Krasner

Composition

1939

 

Ab Ex

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[image]
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Jackson Pollock

pasiphae

1943

 

ab ex

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Jackson Pollock

Lavender Mist

1950

 

Ab Ex

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William de Kooning

Excavation

1950

 

Ab Ex

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[image]
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 William de Kooning

Woman and Bicycle

1952-53

 

Ab Exp

 

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Mark Rothko

Maroon on Blue

1957-60

 

Ab Ex

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Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimus

1950-51

 

Ab Ex

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David Smith

Home of the Welder

1945

 

Ab Ex

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David Smith

Cubi XII

1963

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Henry Moore

Recumbent Figure

1938

 

Sculpture

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[image]
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Barbara Hepworth

Landscape Sculpture

1944

 

sculpture

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[image]
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Nuam Gabo

Linear Construction

1942-43

 

Sculpture

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Alberto Giacometti

City Square

1948

 

Sculpture

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Alberto Giacometti

Figure from Venice XII

1956

 

Sculpture

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Helen Frankenthaler

Mountains and Sea

1952

 

Post Painterly Abstraction NYS 2nd Gen

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Joan Mitchell

George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but it got too Cold

1957

 

Post Painterly Abstraction New York School Second Gen

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Richard Hamilton

Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?

1956

 

Pop Art

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Robert Rauschenberg

Bed

1955

 

Pop Art

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Louise Nevelson

Sky Cathedral/Southern Mountain

1959

 

Pop Art

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Roy Lichtenstein

Whaam!

1963

 

Pop Art

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Andy Warhol

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

1962

 

Pop Art

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Andy Warhol

Gold Marilyn Monroe

1962

 

Pop Art

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Frank Stella

Die Fahne Hoch!

1959

 

minimalism

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Tony Smith

Die

1962

 

Minimalism

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Maya Lin

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Washington D.C.

1980-82

 

Modernist Legacy

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Maya Lin

Wavefield, Storm King Sculpture Park, NY

2007-08

Term
American Impressionism
Definition
Usually living in artist colonies in the 20th Century. Bright colors, home life, infl. by cezanne. Usually painted in vibrant impasto and depicted the upperclass.
Term
The Bauhaus
Definition
A movement starting in 1919, focusing on the simple unification of design and art, focusing on machinery and mass production. Known for keeping materials in their raw form.
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Armory Show 1913
Definition
One of the biggest shows in NY ever at that time, showcasing the avant-garde of Europe.
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Camera Work
Definition
journal published 1903-17. showcased artistic american photography
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Gallery 291
Definition
Managed by Alfred Stieglitz, helped bring photography up to standards of painting, and showcased new avant garde work from europe.
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The Ashcan School
Definition
1900-15,- gritty urban, dark palette. pursued honesty and direct results from experience. Wanted new forms of realism. Made after Impressionism.
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White-line wood block technique.
Definition
1915. Championed in Provincetown, MA, by artists such as Blanche.
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Precisionism
Definition
loosely connected to art deco. More like the realist art of manet and courbet. Not a realist becauseof characterizing america. "Cubist-Realist." influenced magic realism of pop art.
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American Regionalism
Definition
Isolated to painting images of agro, midwest. "American Gothic." Response to the great depression, ended in ww2. Intermission between abstract and academic art. Stieglitz contrasted against. Modernism not yet defined in America.
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Mexican Muralists
Definition
Such as Diego Riviera. Offered an alternative to non-rep abstract after europe. 1920-1950. Influenced American Regionalism in the New Deal Era.
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Great Depression
Definition
Event in 1929-1939 caused by drop in stock market. Heightened the interest in political works. New Deal programs gave artists Federal Roc and funding. Changes in radio affecting how much media was able to reach the masses.
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Works Project Administration
Definition
Employed millions of people in public works projects. Involved smaller section, Fed Projects One, involved in large cultural projects.
Term
WW2
Definition
boosted american economy and helped put us at the center of the modern art scene. created abstract expressionism at the end.
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action painting
Definition
a technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock, and formed part of the more general movement of abstract expressionism.
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drip technique
Definition
allowing the paint to drip and splatter from the brush, almost unintentionally.
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color-field painting
Definition
color is the subject itself; free from brushwork, albers, rothko, newmann. late 1940-50.
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existentialism
Definition
the concept that something only has meaning if the self gives meaning to it; changed the direction of art. Art as an expression of the artist.
Term
Carl Jung, collective unconscious.
Definition
u know it
Term
stain painting
Definition
helen frankenthellar/pollock
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kinetic sculpture
Definition
Alexander Calder
Term
British Pop Art
Definition
Such as Hamilton, "Just What Is...", commentary on advertising happening in america. brought it away from religious images
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silkscreen print technique
Definition
-_-
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assemblage
Definition
three dimensional elements emerging from the substrate.
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Combine
Definition
Robert Rauschenberg, obejctsdirectly into painting
Term
Clement Greenburg, Formalism
Definition
Formalism; using formal elements to discuss and analyze works of art. Cohesivebalance in comp, real or abs. Failed value = failed visual balance.
Greeburg was a champ of pollock.
1. Could not be sculpture
2. could not be dramatic
3. not not be rep

flatness and supports were exclusive to painting
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postmodern
Definition
reflective and rejecting constructs of truth that modernism sought
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