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Impressionism to minimalism
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Scene of modern life, hallmark of impressionism is painting outside

is critiquing painting itself thats why its flat, emphasizing that its just paint on canvas

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 8 impressionist exhibitions
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Claude Monet: en plein air=in plain air, done outside. spontaneous impression of a fleeting moment.
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Claude Monet: loose brushstrokes convey a sense of energy
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Claude Monet: Industrialization and urbanization.

Sketch of the sunrise at a harbor in france, trying to capture a fleeting moment in time. style was shocking because it seems abrievated

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Claude Monet: optical effects=. pulling from turner's artworks-colors and light
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mary cassatt: american artist trained at PAFA, moves to Paris in 1866 and becomes a part of the impressionist circle
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: famous for showing scenes of modern entertainment
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir:"the frog pond" was painting side by side with Monet
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Mary Cassatt: domestic life, influenced by photography and japanese prints-big sploches of unmodulated color, high horizon line, no linear perspective, no more illusion of space
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Edgar Degas: considered an impressionist because of his style and subject matter-his methods were not impressionist
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Edgar Degas: push pull effect between left and right side
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: 1877 files lawsuit against John Ruskin
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Georges Seurat: salon des independants
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Georges Seurat: pointillism
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
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Vincent van Gogh:
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Vincent van Gogh: Theo van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh: brushstrokes trying to capture the turbulence of his mental state
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Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin: cloisonnism
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Paul Gauguin: the "primitive"
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Paul Cezanne: Passage=passage of one shape into another.

borrowing familiar subject matter. its unfinished. constantly shifting canvas going from 2d to 3d-push pull effect. Likes to confuse the shapes

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Paul Cezanne:

trying to reconcile 3d shapes with 2d surface. objects reduced into their most essential forms-shapes. uses big swatches of colors to show different planes. creates an architecture of color. push pull effect

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Paul Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne: sees it as the true shapes that makes up the landscape
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Auguste Rodin:

interested in how light reflected off of certain planes, surface, leaves a trace of the artists hand-we know it was hand made. Impressionist subject because its capturing glimpse of a moment

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Gustave Moreau: 1886 "Symbolist Manifesto", Nabis- a prophet of symbolism.

agreeing to dance seductively to see the decapitated head of john the baptist.

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Edward Munch:

heavily influenced by gauguin and van gogh. color, line, and brushstrokes.

boardwalk is an element of modern life, internal experience, using color line and brushstrokes to convey emotion

 

 

portrait of munch himself showing when he was separated from his friends on the boardwalk-showing his emotional turmoil

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Edward Munch:

religious and repressed upbringing which is why he does alot of negative religious work done after his mother's death. snake like brushstrokes go with theme. Femme fatale-fatal female, the destroyer.

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Edward Munch:femme fatale-red shows danger, lust tempation. Black shows sad woman. snake brush strokes of woman trying to engulf the man. shows the cycle of life,
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Henri Rousseau: Sigmund Freud. images from imagination
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Gustav Klimt: Explosion of the middle class. escapism back to the world of luxury from real world issues. uneasiness in figures and space, uncomfortable embrace. eroticism, sense of danger and unease that connects to the tensions in europe
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Henri Matisse: Fauve=french for "wild beast".

bright arbitrary unrestrained color. shapes and lines not important only color. different colors not shading, provide the structure of the figure. shocking applications of color-just color as background, influence of cezanne, shows planes of shapes by putting colors next to each other

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Henri Matisse: avant garde=

artist who were always on the frontline of the trend, being on the cutting edge and always questioning society

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Henri Matisse:

manefesto of what matisse believed about art=reference to impressionism-a putdown of art that "takes you to another world", imitating cezanne, push pull effect, no illusion of depth

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Henri Matisse: wanted his work to be as comfy as an arm chair, south of france. trying to find harmony between color and line.
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Henri Matisse: harmony between color and line
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Andre Derain:

influenced by matisse and cezanne. Snake like gauan

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Andre Derain:

fauvism is the basis for expressionism.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:

braking up the planes of reality and then flatening them on the canvas. 4 techs. steep perspective-horizon line is much higher. social fragmentation.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:

he's a really stable form in the pic. while the model is the opposite, implying that he created the model, brings the issue of the model to the forefront-that models were treated as sexual objects for artists to use

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:anxiety, primative mask like faces
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Emil Nolde:

was a die brueke artist for a year but his later work is influenced by that. likes paint religious subject matter. 4 techs. influenced by wooden masks from africa and oceana focuses on the oarfices like masks do. breaking the face down into simplified planes.

grotesque when compared to other religious works=crude,

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Kathe Kollwitz:social activist.

trying to force emotion in her audience, upfront subject matter. universal theme of greek loss and death. etching and lithograph. juxatposition of gentle lines on lifeless child and harsh gnarled lines on the mother. pieta influence-mary holding the christ

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Kathe Kollwitz:

lithograph, after ww1 she lost her son and grandson. line quality, tone, expression of the people. universal theme of death and loss

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Egon Shiele:

prolific artist-paints over a thousand pieces during his short life. grotesque and tormented and erotic- death of his father due to syphilis, was exhibited with van gogh and the symbolists

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Wassily Kandinsky: Der Blaue Reiter.

two leaders of the group. shared interests-abstracted forms, prismatic color, local art forms,

influenced by glass paintings, horse and rider represent a moving forward to a more transencent existence

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Wassily Kandinsky: "concerning the spiritual in art" how color affects the viewer in emotional and visual states. wants his art to be like music, -all objects in this world have no real substance, their made up of molecules
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Wassily Kandinsky:

not completely abstract, each color has its own feeling, uses painting to create a rhythm and harmony. uses color like music notes

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Wassily Kandinsky: Synesthesia-seeing color and mixing it up with other senses, complete abstracton
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Pablo Picasso: picasso moves from spain to france because paris is the center of the art world.

Blue Period(1901-04)=

painted everything in blue because he was depressed because is best friend kills himself due to a failed love affair. romantic, maternal love, despair

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Pablo Picasso: Rose Period(1905-07)=brighter, rosey tone. less detailed and specific, growing abstraction. almond shaped eyes like Iberian Sculpture
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Pablo Picasso:

interested in so called "primative" cultures. siberian art, face is mask like. subject is picasso's friend, becomes more abstract over time

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Pablo Picasso: African/Primative Period(1908-09).

originally titled the brothel, bodies reduced to masses, body is broken down to all of its essential shapes, supposed to capture the basic essence of the real world. unmodulated color flatens the pic. push pull effect, ambiguity of space, no real background area.

interested in showing lower classes. colonialism is going on right now-uneven balance of power as related to prostitutes

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Pablo Picasso: analytic cubism.

first true cubist artwork, break down objects to their basic shape and then putting them back onto a flat canvas, although abstract always contains some sort of object from the real world, influenced by cezanne.

seems weird because there's no linear perspective, cubist thought you could give a more true view by not limiting objects to one perspective

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Pablo Picasso: Analytic Cubism 1909-1912
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Georges Braque:

influenced by cezanne, analytic cubism-almost always use brown and grey, not fully abstract,

used to be a fauvist, both him and picasso invented cubism

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George Braque: fairly monocrimatic, analytic cubism, has a man and his guitar
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Pablo Picasso: Synthetic Cubism-collage=

making objects from material from the real world. ambiguity, push pull effect, pointing out that painting is a construction

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Henri Matisse: was a fauvist. ambiguity of space, cubism
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Julio gonzalez
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Giacomo Balla: Marinetti "manifesto of futurism".

showing motion by showing multiple views. try to show emotion to speed and dynamism

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Umberto Boccioni:

futurism=change in space and time, political goals

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Gino Severini:

speed and dynamism of real lifer are the focus, train critical to war efforts

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Marcel Duchamp:

movement, passage of time, monocrimatic, decontructing the figure of a woman-wasn't trying

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Jean Arp:

spontinaity, derived from the senselessness of wwI, and to convey a sense of wonder-magic

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Marcel Duchamp:

readymade=mass produced object only slightly altered by the artist, placed in the art world by the artist, art is what you are told it is*

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Marcel Duchamp:

readymade, is art for the sole reason that he chose the object, signed it, and forced to viewer to see it as art-new thought for that object.

mutt-popular comic strip at the time and mott was a plumbing company

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Marcel Duchamp: distain for conventional art
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Marcel Duchamp: he was a crossdresser
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Man Ray:

tacks added and psychological aspect, dada themes, leads us towards the next movement, threatening quality. assisted readymade

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Man Ray: assisted readymade=a little more manipulation than normal readymade. threatening quality
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Hannah Hoch: photo montage=photo collage. right before hitler but after WWI. critique of the weimar republic
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Man Ray, etc.: automatic drawing
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Meret Oppenheim:

use juxtapositions to get at an inner reality, similar to dada because its shows the absurdity of social norms

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Joan Miro: famous for mobiles. dream analysis
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Paul Klee: fantasy composition.
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Max Ernst: originally a dada artist and against machines.
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Dorothea Tanning:
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Rene Magritte: the pipe is not a pipe its a picture of a pipe
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Rene Magritte:
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Salvador Dali:
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Salvador Dali:
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Max Beckmann: Neue Sachlichkeit=
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Piet Mondrian: De Stijl=
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Constantin Brancusi:takes it to court and wins the right to call it art
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Stuart Davis:
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Charles Demuth: says that america's great feat is naturalization, etc.
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Arthur Dove:
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Arthur Dove:
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Georgia O'Keeffe: can't escape essentialism
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Georgia O'Keeffe:
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Georgia O'Keeffe:

her reaction to essentialism. Proving that she can be something other than delicate

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Edward Hopper:

used more of a traditional, naturalistic style but the overall shapes are simplistic. City and modern life connected to being isolated

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Edward Hopper:

simplified but naturalistic, modern city subject matter. being surrounded by other people but may not be interacting. Artist likes to emphasize the emptiness of the space

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Grant Wood: starts a regionalist group. representing a rural area. gothic is a classic european style, uses a realist style, going back to traditional art
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Grant Wood: american identity
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Thomas Hart Benton: tapping into mannerism=el-greco, folk music is coming to life
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Diego Rivera:

wanted to create paintings that were accessible to everyone and connected to mexican heritage, Mayan relief sculpture style mixed with renaissance fresco, rejecting european style

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Frida Kahlo:

Frida is german and latino and this is her trying to reconcile that . Her heart belongs in two different places

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Jackson Pollock:

taught by benton. artifical looking figures, horizon line tilted upwards to portray anxiety and inner turmoil

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Jackson Pollock: S-ID.interested in exploring the unconscious. elements taken from his own dreams, new interest in the process of painting, influenced by surrealists
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Jackson Pollock: completely abstract. when looked at you think about the artist. action painting
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Jackson Pollock: medium specificity-2d. paint is an arena in which to act not redesign the world
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Willem de Kooning: sweeping brush strokes, gestural abstraction
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Helen Frankenthaler: SID color/chromatic abstraction=apply color that eliminates gestures, reducing
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Helen Frankenthaler: similar to gesture in medium specificity, just lets the paint delute and soak in-not just paint on the canvas but paint in the canvas, also done on the floor
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Morris Louis: puts canvas back on the easel, lets paint drip down
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Mark Rothko:thinks color is a powerful doorway to other realities

he thinks that any reference to the real world in paintings is bad. uses contrasts in color to portray basic emotions, chromatic abstraction

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Barnett Newman: using color to express basic human emotion
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Richard Hamilton: critique of consumerism, levels of low art=magazine clipings.
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Andy Warhol:

showing her as an object for worship-gold background how religious figures were shown in the past-comparing her to byzantine art. Showing her as a consumer product. Silk screen

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Andy Warhol: silkscreen print=. endless cycle of consumerism, loss of originality in visua-originality is conceptual
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Roy Lichtenstein: Benday dots=red, yellow, blue, black, and white the only colors used. uses mechanical technique but does it by hand-creating something, taking low art and making it high
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Roy Lichtenstein: mechanized looking gesture-making fun of jackson pollack
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Claes Oldenburg: soft construction, critiquing the consumer, low art being high art
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosie van Bruggen: using familiar everyday objects and making us look at them differently
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Donald Judd: he called is objects a specific object, didn't make it just came up with the concept, industrial metals
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Carl Andre: abstract, makes the artist anonomus
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Carl Andre: messing with us because were allowed to step on it-not what were used to with art
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Dan Flavin: is it a sculpture, is it a painting
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Richard Serra:invasive, sound is amplified
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