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IHUM Exam 3
Impressionism --> Post Modernism
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/13/2016

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Term

Cezanne

Definition

Post Impressionism

French

"everything can be reduced to the cylinder, Sphere, and Cone"

Co-founder of Modernism

Faces and landscapes have geometric shapes

Left-brained

Color Patches

Loose brush stroke, heavy dark lines to define. makes pics pop

Series paintins (from Impressionism)

No emotion.

Opposite of Van Gogh.

INSPIRES: Picasso and Modrian

Term
Mont St. Victoire
Definition

Post IMpressionism

Cezanne

[image]

Geometry, color patches

Plays with perspective

Things in foreground look futher

Catches that look with dark outlining.

Rejection of formal perspective.

also has series paintings of this

Term
Still Life with Peppermint
Definition

P.I.

Cezanne

[image]

 Bird's eye view AND eye level. vases level... cloth isnt

Term
Van Gogh
Definition

Post Impressionism

Dutch

Mantic -- all about interest in color and atmospheric

Arbitrary color. A colorist.

uses color that is expressive in an individual way--for emotional expression.

Painful Childhood.

Fell in love with his cousin.

Feels misunderstood...

Cuts off part of his ear bc of fight with Gogh Gan, cuts off other part of ear and gives to a prostitute.

Writes letters to Theo, his brother.

INSPIRES: Matisse and Munch

Term
The Potato Eaters
Definition

Post Impressionism

Van Gogh

[image]

uses color to communicate

skeletal, rodent faces.

liken our existence to something so inhumane

characature

Term
Starry Night
Definition

Post Impressionism

Van Gogh

[image]

characteristic of his love of color (blue, yellow)

Impasto -- thick painting

looked up at heavens and saw how BIG God is, how small we are

felt vulnerable

tree of grieving

Term
The Night Café
Definition

Post Impressionism

Van Gogh

[image]

 

the place where one could lose their soul

lonely people

perspective/proportion

yellow - sickening.

 

Term
The Sunflower
Definition

Post Impressionism

Van Gogh

[image]

depressing.

expressive. poignant

 

Term
The Cornfield
Definition

Post Impressionism

Van Gogh

[image]

last painting of his life.

Term

Clyde Monet

Definition

Impressionism

 

French

"Money is only an eye, but what an eye!" - Cezanne

new perspectives

Not much symbolism

"What the eye sees, not what the mind knows"

Instainaty: quickly paint outdoors to get elements of light and shadow

En plein aire - painting outside

loose brush strokes

series painting

capturing light

instainaty

Term

Sunrise Painting

Definition

Impressionism

Monet

[image]

only the impression to have this painting

 

Term
Rouen Cathedral Series
Definition

Impressionism

Monet

[image]

different seasons

paint EXACTLY the way he sees things

discovered shadow doesn't have black

shadows are navy blue

Term
Woman with a Parasol
Definition

Impressionism

Monet

[image]

Monet's wife

clouds

Term
The Water Lilies, The Nymph
Definition

Impressionism

Monet

[image]

rich, deep colors. clouds, trees, skies.

Term
The Water Lilies, The Nymph
Definition

Impressionism

Monet

[image]

rich, deep colors. clouds, trees, skies.

Term

The Boating Party

Definition

Impressionism

Renoir

[image]

Monet would never paint this! (people)

loves to paint people

roundness of females

 

Term
At the Moulin de la Galette
Definition

Impressionism

Renoir

[image]

Moulin = windmill

 

Term
The Cradle
Definition

Berthe Marisot

Impressionism

 

 [image]

trained by Manet

her sister and niece

Term
Children at the Beach
Definition

Impressionism

Mary Cassatt

[image]

Cassatt goes to Paris to paint (American)

saved impressionism. (rich Railroad father)

Term
Breakfast in Bed
Definition

Impressionism

Mary Cassatt

[image]

loves to paint women with children

Term
Gates of Hell
Definition

Impressionist Scultping

Rodin

[image]

most academic work

inspired by Dante's Inferno - Pergatory.

opposite of Gates of Paradise (michelangelo?)

Up top: The Shades. Pergatory.

The Thinker.

Rodin revives Bernini's sculpting

 

Term
Age of Bronze
Definition

Impressionist

Rodin

[image]

Rodin's beginning art work

people thought he truly casted a man's body

Term
The Burghers of Calais
Definition

Impressionist

Rodin

[image]

English defeated Calais... 

Burgher's offered themselves instead of their ppl killed

Queen of England was touched and let them go

But didn't say until they walked to the gallows.

rough casting

Term
The Waltz
Definition

Impressionism

Camille Claudel

[image]

Perisan

LOVED Rodin

lived in institution bc she got pregnant, abortion... 

Rodin never knew.

Pain in her sculptings.

Term
Puberty
Definition

Post Impressionism

SUB: Expressionism

Munch

Inspiration: Van Gogh

[image]

creepy, looming shadow...

vulnerable stare

awkward body lengths

Term
The Scream
Definition

Post Impressionism

Expressionism SUB

Inspiration: Van Gogh

Munch

[image]

agoraphobia

Van Gogh influence with swirl, color.

feel the sound waves

 

Term
The Dance of Life
Definition

Post Impressionism

Expressionism

Inspiration: Van Gogh

Munch

[image]

white dress: anticipating what life will be like

red dress: how life really is

black dress: what has been experienced in life.

Term
Self Portrait with a Burning Cigarette
Definition

P.I.

Expressionism

Inspiration: Van Gogh

Munch

[image]

Term
The Dance of Life (later in time)
Definition

Sub of Expressionism

Fauvism

Matisse

 [image]

cusion-y

unrealistic, like wild beasts dancing

the primative cultures, with dancing and rituals

helping one FEEL.

Term

Fauvism

Definition
wild beast
Term
The Green Stripe
Definition

Sub of Expressionism

Fauvism

Matisse

[image]

his wife

green=love

makes own colors with symbolism

dual perspective

Term
Icarus
Definition

SUB of Expressionism

Fauvism

Matisse

[image]

cut out black shadow

only background is blue paint.

Term
Modernism
Definition

Quality is less significant than being the first to do something.

A race to being avante-guard--the first

1. Art is a set of arbituary rules that can be changed by artist at will (no rules)

2. What you eye sees as reality is not the only option

3. Art can be a purely formal exploration by the artist--of line, shape, color, emotion, etc.

Term
Cubism
Definition

"fracturing reality" time has passed.

Time--not a single moment in time bc time is only an element

Space--everything occurs on one plane

Form--analyzing form by breaking it into shapes.. reduce to geometric shape.

Term
Les Demoisells d'Avignon
Definition

Cubism

Inspired by Cezanne

Picasso

[image]

showing emotion through time

prostitutes

fruit=fertility (ironic)

Kuros pose--Greek for men.

Term
Guernica
Definition

Cubism

Inspired by Cezanne

Picasso

[image]

The Bomb in Spain for testing

No soldiers, killed civilians

5 things:

Bull=Brutality

Eye=light bulb-technology, God is watching

Person on ground with broken sword.

Horse with missle in his mouth

Reference to Michelangelo's Pieta.

Term
Girl with Mandolin
Definition

Cubism

Inspired by Cezanne

Picasso

[image]

movement in time

 

Term
Girl before a Mirror
Definition

Cubism

Inspired by Cezanne

Picasso

[image]

perspective - both profile and side of her face

movement

looks like turning of mirror

Picasso rejects representational bc of the WWI.

Arbitrary color.

 reduction of figures into geometry.

Term
Persistence of Memory
Definition

Surrealism

Dali

[image]

irrational topics painted rationally

no geometric, but what's in the subconscious

Term
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Definition

Surrealism

Dali

[image]

fell in love with himself by his reflection

Term
Destino
Definition

Dali

Surrealism

Disney and Dali

Surrealist movie

Term

Broadway Boogie Woogie

 

Definition

Post-Modernism

Inspired by Cezanne

Mondrain

[image]

geometric, cylinder.

Term
Post Modernism
Definition

Post WWII

Everything is possible, nothing is certain

Truth is created, rather than discovered.

the world is hopeless

Let's play with the nonsense.

Term
White Angel Breadline
Definition

Post-Modernism

Great Depression

[image]

lack of power, helplessness of the time

Term
Migrant Mother
Definition

Dorothea Lange

Great Depression

Dust Bowl

[image]

need to move from the dust bowl

nickname of places people gathered: Hoovervilles

Term
Magritte (artist)
Definition

post-modernism

Dada


Pipe.

it's not a pipe...but a picture of a pipe.

Dada means nothing... that's what this is all intending

Term
Lavendar Mist
Definition

Pollock

Post Modernism

Abstract Expressionism

[image]

not aware of what he's doing while painting

pure harmony with painting

nothing recognizable

every drip is deliberate. 

creation of art, not necessarily the product.

Term
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue
Definition

Newman

Minimalism

Post Modern

[image]

Term
The Fountain
Definition

Duchamp

Dadaism

Urinal.

Bricolage and ready-made (objects are)

art can be whatever.

Term
Pop Art
Definition

Post Modernism

Influenced by Dada

Marilyn Monroe

Campbell's Soup

Rebellion toward traditional art

purposefully selects "low brow" material

contains content from media, advertising,

materialism is a fact

Nation of Shopping.

Main Artisit: Andy Warhol 

Term
Ralph's Diner
Definition

Photo Realism

Ralph Goings

[image]

take a picture, go home and paint it to look real

Term
Quartet
Definition

Goings

Photo Realism

[image]

Term
Quartet
Definition

Goings

Photo Realism

[image]

Term
Tourists II
Definition

Verism

Duane Hansen

[image]

used fiber glass to sculpt, then paint, then put clothes on it.

Term
Little Bay in Sydney Australia
Definition

Land Art

Christo and Jean Claude

[image]

Term
Nietzsche
Definition

1. German

2. Superman - Will to Power

3. Nazi's inspired by this.

4. Religion makes one weak

5. "God is dead."

6. Religion is a slave morality

7. NIalism came from this, rejecting religion= meaningless life

8. inspired by Darwin

Term
Darwin
Definition

1. New findings: Primitivism

2. Apes grew to us

3. So Nietzsche said we can become superman.

Term
Freud
Definition

no truth outside of logic

belief in God is an excuse on reason why we don' know

Igo

Religion: Childish.

subconscious.

Term
Rachmaninoff
Definition

Post Romantic

big hands

 

 

  • "Piano Concerto #3" (nick-named "The Rach-3)

 

 

  • "Rhapsody on Theme of Paganini."
  • piece from Paganini upside down on the piano. 
Term
Elgar
Definition

English

"Nimrod"

Enigmatic variations... cuts and pastes variations. 

Term
Stravinsky
Definition

Modernist

Russian

Schoenberg's 12-tone Row

"Rite of Spring"

dissonance

his music created riots 

Term
John Cage
Definition

433 

silence.

Term
T.S. Elliot
Definition

1. called X Pat

Modernist.

"We are the Hollow Men" poem

  For Thine is the Kingdom
    
    For Thine is
    Life is
    For Thine is the
    
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.


Here we go round the prickly pear
    Prickly pear prickly pear
    Here we go round the prickly pear
    At five o'clock in the morning.

 

Term
Wilfred Owen
Definition

Dulce Decorum Est

sweet and glorious to die for ones country...nope.

gas boy.

Owen fought WWI

Term
The Great Depression
Definition

Fatalism - expression of pessimism (happens as a result of WWI)

Hoovervilles

Oakies - people that try to leave the Dust Bowl

The New Deal - Roosevelt ended it by creating jobs

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Hoarding money

Gold standard - more printed money than gold

 

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