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Night Cafe

Van Gogh

Post impressionism
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Mahana No Atua (day of the god)

Gauguin

Post impressionism
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The dance Of Life

Edvard Munch

Post Impressionism
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The green dining room

William morris

Post impressionism
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Staircase of the Maison Tassel

Victor Horta

Post impressionism
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The kiss

Gustav Klimt

Post impressionism
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The Woman in the Hat

Matisse

Fauvism
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The Joy of life

Matisse

Fauvism
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Ma jolie

Picasso

Cubism
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Glass and bottle of Suze

Picasso

Cubism/futurism
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States of mind the farewells

Boccioni

Futurism
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The Unique forms of continuity in space

Boccioni

Futurism
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The large blue horses

Franz Marc

Impressionism
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Hugo Ball photographed at the cabaret voltaire

DADA
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Cut with the kitchen knife DADA through he last weimar beer belly

Hannah Hoch

DADA
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Have no fear-he's a vegetarian

john Hartfeild

DADA
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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow

Mondrian

Destijl
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Shcroder house

Gerrit thomas Reitveld

Destijl
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The Bauhaus and shop block

Walter Gropius

Bauhaus
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Tubular chair

Marcel Breuer

Bauhaus
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Wall hainging

anni albers

Bauhaus
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Homage to the square

Josef Albers

Bauhaus
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The horde

Max Ernst

Surrealism
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The persistance of memory

Dali

Surrealism
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Fur covered cup

Meret Oppenhiem

Surrealism
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NO. 61 Brown blue brown on blue.

Mark Rothko

Abstract
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Canyon

Robert Rauschenberg

Abstract
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Woman 1

Willem De kooning

Abstract
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ESSAY QUESTION IMAGE 1

improvisation 28

Kandinsky

expressionism

Relates to nature and landscape. intense color line and shape, mostly primary shapes. Intended to be seen as if you are hearing a symphony, responding instinctively and spontaneously.
The contours of shapes remain incomplete, as if open, and line and color function independently of one another.
He saw his art as a part of a wider political program in opposition to materialism of western society. focussing on accurate rendering of physical world is a materialistic quest.Art should not depend on physical reality
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ESsAY IMAGE #2

Autumn Rhythm

Pollock

Abstract

thin paint applied to blank canvas. Action painting. Nonrepresentational.lays flat on the floor instead of an easel.The artist also used sticks, trowels, knives—in short, anything but the traditional painter's implements—to build up dense, lyrical compositions.There's no central point of focus.Spontaneity was a critical element.Though Pollock claimed he had full control of the paint.
It has a design that is characterized by rhythm, variety, and unity.The colors and shades used (black, white, brown, and turquoise) are all found in nature. Inspired by jazz, as Pollock was a big fan.
Work shows no trace of cubism, lacks hierarchical arrangement, every area of piece is equally energized. shows clearly its process of making (like Kandinsky). New level of physical involvement from artist. He and Kandinsky both were among the most important break through artists of modern art.
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Impasto
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paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible
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Theory of Simultaneous Contrast
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may happen when opposing colors are placed in close proximity to each other. Text may appear to vibrate, or cast a shadow. Eye strain and fatigue will result if a viewer focuses on a document displaying similar properties for an extended time period.

Some color combinations, such as red text on a blue background, cause illusions when positioned together.
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William Morris and Company
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He was a committed Socialist whose aim was that, as in the Middle Ages, art should be for the people and by the people

In 1861 he founded his own firm, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (from 1875 Morris & Co.), which produced stained glass, furniture, wallpaper and fabrics etc.
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Arnold Schoenberg, atonal music
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music that lacks a tonal center, or key
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Differences between Analytic and Synthetic Cubism
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Analytic cubism breaks up the subject into little facets. Synthetic cubism works with collage.
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Cabaret Voltaire
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Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings on February 5, 1916 as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes

Events at the cabaret proved pivotal in the founding of the anarchic art movement known as Dada.
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Cantilever
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A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end
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Automatism
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spontaneous verbal or motor behavior; an act performed unconsciously.
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Frottage
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laying a piece of paper on a structured surface and making a rubbing of its texture with a pencil
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Grattage
Definition
Richly textured, relief-like materials such as wood, wire mesh, pieces of broken glass, and cord were placed under a canvas primed with numerous layers of paint. The individual layers of paint were scraped from the canvas pressed onto the textured object using a palette knife or spatula
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Biomorphism
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Biomorphist art focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology
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From Kandinsky’s essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1912:

“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Definition
He wanted his art to be seen as a symphony responding instinctively and spontaneously to each passage and then to the total experience.
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From the Futurist Manifesto, 1909:

“So, with faces smeared in good waste from the factories – a plaster of metal slag , useless sweat and celestial soot – bruised arms bandaged, but undaunted, we declare our primary intentions to all living men of the earth:
Definition
1. We intend to glorify the love of danger, the custom of energy, the strength of daring.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched with a new form of beauty, the beauty of speed. A race car adorned with great pipes like serpents with explosive breath… a roaring motorcar, which looks as though running on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace.”
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Marcel Duchamp in an unsigned editorial on the Fountain, 1917:
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Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hand made the fountain or not is of no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
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Jackson Pollock on his painting, c. 1950:
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“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting…When I am in the painting, I am not aware of what I am doing…There is pure harmony.”
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some compare and contrast for essay
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there are some parallels. Kandinsky is heading toward an "overall" kind painting, one where forground/background no longer exist, where there there is not literal allusion to things in nature, where the paint literally has an "all over" democratic quality. But, still, in Improvisation 28, Kandinsky remains rooted in the natural world. A definite landscape is implied, with a horizon, hills, buildings, etc. He has made an abstracted landscape.

Pollock's painting, while perhaps conveying a feeling of Autumn in various ways, is a completely abstract image, with a deliberate lack of any illusionistic devices; the paint is just the paint -- it's not attempting to create illusion of form. Though you could argue that the raw canvas is "behind" the paint, still the painting is not about foreground and background.
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