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Art History Midterm 2013
20th Century Art History
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
03/01/2013

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ART NOUVEOU 

Aubrey Beardsley

Salome with the head of John the Baptist

1893

-haunted by Romantic visions, erotic decadent

-grotesque eroticism

-based on oscar wilde play

-stepdaughter holding head of John the Baptiste

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ART NOUVEAU

Gustav Klimt

Death and Life

1908

-left is death

-grim reaper, grunning

-covered in dark robe, covered with cross symbols

-right, women flowerbed

-newlife, baby, women womewhat undressed

-grim reaper after them

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ART NOUVEAU

Antoni Gaudi

Casa Mila

1912

-apartment house

-continous movement of sculpture volumne

-alternation of void and sculpture mass

-sense of organic growth


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ART NOUVEAU

Victor Horta

Tassel housE

1892

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ART NOUVEAU

Hoffman

Palais Stoclet

1905

-flat walls

-rectangular structure

-linear flow

open materials

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ART NOUVEAU

Munch

The Scream

1893

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ART NOUVEAU

Munch

Puberty

1895

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ART NOUVEAU

Ferdinand Hodler

Night

1889

-self portrait of being woken by death

-autobiographical

-represents the very essense of night and death as opposed to a specific incident

-natural order of things


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ART NOUVEAU

Kubin

Butchers Feast

1900

-phantacism

-women as destroyer theme

-fin-de-siecle

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Romanticism/ Impressionist

Rodin, Iris [messenger of gods]

1890-91

-energetic towards the audience

-movement makes the sculpture seem larger

-standing alone to show bold sexuality

-missing limbs= dramatic and violent movement

-showing lack of prudness and fearlessess

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FAUVES/FAUVISM

Matisse

luxe, calme, et volupté

1904-05

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FAUVES/FAUVISM

Matisse

joie de vivre [joy of life]

1905-06

-free to use color independently

-building structure of abstract color shapes and lines

-emphatic strokes

-striking complimentary colors

-mystical fantasies

-Van Gough similar colors


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FAUVES/FAUVISM

Matisse

blue nude

1907

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FAUVES/FAUVISM

Derain

London Bridge

1906

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FAUVES/ FAUVISM

Derain

Turning road, l' Estaque

1906

 

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FAUVES/ FAUVISM

Vlaminck

picnic in the country

1905

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FAUVES/ FAUVISM

VLAMINCK

portrait of Derain

1906

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FAUVES/ FAUVISM

DUFY

Street decked with flags, le Havre

1906

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GERMAN EXPRESIONISM

Kollowitz

Death seizing a woman

1934

-mother protecting the child

-death comes from behind

-subtle

-death squeezing the air out of her

-poignant

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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Kollowitz

Lamentation  [in memory of Barlach, Grief

1938

-showing artist's own grieveing

-in memory of her dead son

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BRUCKE

Kirchner

Market Place with Red Tower

1915

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BRUCKE

Nolde

Prophet

1912

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BLAUE REITER

Marc

Fate of AnimalS

1913

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BLAUE REITER

Klee

Hammamet - Mosque

1914

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AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISM

Schiele

Death of the Man

1911

-doppleganger

-intensity

-jagged brushtrokes

-father destroyed sketchbook

-wide pregnant died of disease

-he died 3 days later

-rigid forms, fear and terror

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AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISM

Kokoschka

Murderer, Hope of Womankind

1909

-play

-modern avant garde movement

-highly disturbing and ineffcting

-man kills the woman, woman losing strength

-man to conquer, woman as beast

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ROUMANIAN

Brancusi

Sleeping Muse

1909-10

-reacting to gravity

-heaviness of sleeping

-- subtle

- minimalism

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ROUMANIAN

Brancusi

Beginning of World

1920 

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ROUMANIAN

Brancusi

Torso of Boy

1924

-geometric form

-object of machine-like precision

-theme of androgyny 

-both phallic and female anatomy

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ROUMANIAN

Brancusi

Endless Column

1937-38

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BLUE PERIOD

Picasso

La Vie

1903

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ROSE / PINK PERIOD

Picasso

Saltimbanques

1905

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CUBIST

Picasso

Women of Avignon

1907

-five women

-two d

-simplcity

-angularity

-one holding skull

-one has an african mask

-death

-momento mori

-nude

-flattened

-disoriented composition

-nose are in profile, eyes are presented full faced 

-theme of sexuality

-expressionist and exorcisming art 

-eubject of prostitution=Manet's Olympia 


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CUBIST

Braque

Houses at L’Estaque

1908

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CUBIST

Duchamp

Nude descending Staircase

1912

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CUBIST

Picabia

Catch as Catch Can

1913

-Wrestler fascination

-bare hands, full contact

-bodies in motion

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ANALYTIC CUBIST

Braque

Portuguese – Emmigrant

1911

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ANALYTIC CUBIST

Picasso

Still Life w/ Chair Caning

1912

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ORPHIC CUBIST

Leger

Contrast of Forms

1913

-planar tubes shapes composed w/loose watch of color

-linear contours

-metallic looking

rhythmic arrangements like gear of machine

-shapes unrepresenational, later same shapes used for landscape and figures


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ORPHIC CUBIST

Robert Delaunay

Eiffel Tower

1910  

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ORPHIC CUBIST

Robert Delaunay  

Homage to Bleriot

1914 

-Chevruel color wheel

-egyptian falcon god

-airplane

-in honor of aviator

-circular=propellor

-personal experience of city of Paris

 

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ORPHIC CUBIST

Sonia Delaunay

Blanket,

1911

-Pieced together with scraps after birth of baby

-exploration of geometric shapes

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ORPHIC CUBIST

Sonia Delaunay

Simultaneous Dress various dares

1911

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FUTURISM

BALLA

street light

1909 

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FUTURISM

BALLA

mercury passing in front of the sun

1914

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FUTURISM

SEVERINI

dynamic hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin

1912

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FUTURISM

SEVERINI

spherical expansion of light centrifugaL

1914

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FUTURISM

BOCCIONI

Farewells

1911

-arrivals and departures at train station

-vibrating and curving patterns

-interwoven lines and facets to create tension and velocity

-Picasso and Braque use of numbers and letters

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FUTURISM

BOCCIONI

unique forms of continuity in space

1913

-human form may be at foundation, but abstract form

-moving in two dimensions

-dramatic mid-stride

-arms missing 

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RAYONISM

LARIONOV

Blue Rayonism

1913

-Crossing of reflected rays from various objects

-tools are color and line

-represented 'true freeing of art' 

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SUPREMATISM

MALEVICH

eight red rectangles

1915

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SUPREMATISM

MALEVICH

white square on white

1918

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SUPREMATISM

EL LISSITZKY

proun room

1923

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CONSTRUCTIVIST

TATLIN

model for the monument to the third communist international

1919-20

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CONSTRUCTIVIST

RODCHENKO

hanging construction

1920

-Nests of circles

-moving slowly in air currents

-interest in math and geometry

-actual movement

-fascination with space travel

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SYMBOLISTE 

Redon

Eye Balloon

1882

-artist meant for it not to be representational

-dreamlike quality

-watching

-may be spiritual

-ambition to succeed

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POST EXPRESSIONIST

Munch

Evening on Karl Johan Street

1892

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FAUVE

Matisse

La Serpentine

1909

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CUBIST

Picasso

Man With Hat

1912

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FUTURIST

Balla

Abstract Speed

1913

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FUTURIST

Severini

Sea Dancer

1913

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FUTURIST

Boccioni

Those Who Go

1911

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FUTURISM

Boccioni

Those Who Stay

1911

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DE STIJL

Mondrian

Pier and 

ocean

1914

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DADA

Duchamp

The Fountain

1917

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DADA

Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q

1919

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BLAU REITER

Klee

Twittering Machine

1922

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

Pollock

Autumn Rhythm

1950

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Blaue Reiter

Kandinsky

Composition VII

1913

-musical composition

-inner necessity/artists emotions to world

-themes of cosmic conflict/renewal

-colors, shapes and lines colliding over pictorial field

-explosive assemply

-glyph of boats and oars= biblical flood

-washes in brilliant color

-sense of spontaneous freedom

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Bleau Reiter

Marc

Fighting Forms

1914

-liked to paint animal themes

-impending war affected abstraction

-two dominant shapes: red and black

-red can be eagle, beak and claw-like shapes

-animals showing emotions and expression

-image of war represented by bird of prey

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Kupka

Discs of Newton

1911-12

-interest in religion and astrology

-abstract world of vibrating and rotating color circles

-referred to as musical shapes

-not borrowed from 'visual sphere.'

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Rayonism

Larionov

Rayonist Composition: Domination of Red

1912-13

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Cubism

Picasso

Ma Jolie

1911-12

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Purism (Cubist)

Le Corbusier

Still Life

1920

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DADA

Sophie Taebuer

Dada Head

1920

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Surrealist

Oppenheimer

Object

1936

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Cubism 

Lipchitz

Nude with Guitar

1928

-total assimilation of figure and  guitar-object

-arms and legs are guitars

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