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Gardners Art through the Ages Sem 2 part 2
Covers 18th century Neoclassicism to Modernism until 1945
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/15/2015

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Les Demoiselles d'Avigon

Pablo Picasso

Cubism

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Le Moulin de la Galette

Pierre-Auguste Renior

Impressionism 

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Improvisation 28

Vassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Green Living Room

William Morris

Symbolism and Art Nouveau

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Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying

Kazimir Malevich

Modernism

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Still Life with Chair Caning

Pablo Picasso

Cubism

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Oath of the Horatii

Jaques-Louis David

Neoclassicism

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Nude Descending a Staircase

Marcel Duchamp

Cubo-Futurism

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Nocturne in Black and Gold

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Impressionism 

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Night Cafe

Vincent Van Gogh

Post-Impressionism

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Napoleon at the Plague House at Jaffa

Antoine-Jean Gros

Romanticism

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Still Life in Studio

Daguerre

Photography

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Saint-Lazare Train Station

Claude Monet

Impressionism

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Rue Transnonian

Honore Daumier

Realism

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Robie House

Frank Llyod Wright

Modernism

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Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

Romanticism

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Portrait of a German Solider

Marsden Hartley

Cubism and Expressionism

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Pilgrimage to Cythera

Antoine Watteau

Rococo

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The Persistance of Memory

Salvador Dali 

Surrealism

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The Nightmare

Hnery Fuseli

Romanticism

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The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

Symbolism/ Art Nouveau

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The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur

Realism

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The Gleaners

Jean Francois Millet

Realism

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The Stone Breakers

Gustave Courbet

Realism

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The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

Modernism

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, from Los Caprichos

Francisco Goya

Romanticism

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The Slave Ship(Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Romanticism

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A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

Joseph Wright of Derby

Enlightenment

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Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode

William Hogarth

Rococo

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Death of Marat

Jacques-Louis David

Neoclassicism

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Grand Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Romanticism(Orientalism)

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

Post-Impressionism

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Luncheon on the Grass

Edouard Manet

Realism

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At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Post-Impressionism

 

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Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cezanne

Post-Impressionism

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The Apparation

Gustave Moreau

Symbolism/ Art Nouveau

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The Scream

Edvard Munch

Symbolism/Art Nouveau

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The Gates of Hell

Auguste Rodin

Symbolism/ Art Nouveau

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Woman with the Red Hat

Henri Matisse

Fauvism

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Street, Dresden

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Expressionism

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Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

Dada

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The Treachery of Images

Rene Magritte

 Dada 

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Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

Piet Mondrion

De Stijl

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The Enlightenment
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The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason) is an era from the 1650s to the 1780s in which cultural and intellectual forces in Western Europe emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism rather than traditional lines of authority. 

Influence on Art:

- scientific topics

- focus on classical art

- "great men and great deeds"

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Grand Tour
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The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men. They would learn and aquire artistic Taste on their trip learning how to think about each building, painting, and sculpture. Common sites were: Rome and Vennis 
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Sublime
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 A quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. An example of something Sublime is a painting of a burning house, the viewer understands that the event is tragic and scary but knows it is not actually happening and thefore they can feel safe but also experience the previous feelings. 
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Avant-Garde
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traditionally used to describe any artist, group or style, which is considered to be significantly ahead of the majority in its technique, subject matter, or application. This is a very vague definition, not least because there is no clear consensus as to WHO decides whether an artist is ahead of his time, or WHAT is meant by being ahead. To put it another way, being avant-garde involves exploring new artistic methods, or experimenting with new techniques, in order to produce better art.
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Pointillism
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  1.  a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.
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Modernism
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a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
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Arts and Crafts Movement
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The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that flourished in Europe and North America between 1880 and 1910. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and it often used medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and has been said to be essentially anti-industrial. Its influence was felt in Europe until it was displaced by Modernism in the 1930s and continued among craft makers, designers and town planners long afterwards.
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Fauvism
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Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde movements and is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
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The Armory Show
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refers to the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Artthat was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the first large exhibition of modern art in America. introducing astonished Americans, who were accustomed to realistic art, to the experimental styles of the European avant garde, including FauvismCubism, and Futurism. The show served as a catalyst for American artists, who became more independent and created their own "artistic language."
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Futurism
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 Futurismcelebrated advanced technology and urban modernity. Committed to the new, its members wished to destroy older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life - the beauty of the machine, speed, violence and change.
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De Stijl or Neoplasticism
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advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.
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