Alice Barber Stephens, The Female Life Class

• american painter, illustrator,print maker, Harper's magazine
• classes at pennsylvania fine art school
• studied in Paris and visted Italy
• Document new spaced for women in modernity

Susan MacDowell Eakins, Portrait of Thomas Eakins

• realism

Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic

• Contraversial because the doctor had blood on hands (Victorian Period)

Berthe Morisot, Mother and sister of the Artists

• Critique of urbanization
• considered agreeable looks at middle calss
• kept working after marriage and children
• sketch aesthetics
• impressionism

Mary Cassat, Mother and Child

• american born to wealthy family
• settled in Paris
• painted working class women, upperclass women
• mixed wall patterns influence by Japonese art (Japonisme)
• impressionism

Mary Cassat, Women in Black at the Opera

• Opera = modernity, city life

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self Portrait as "New Woman"

• epitomized the new woman 
• academy julian in paris
• photographer and illustrator of official government portraitts

Charles Dana Gibson, "Gibson Girl" images

• epitome of the "new woman"
• atheletic, nature loving, talented artist and musician
• well educated, out in public life
• atheletes and scientists
• still...women had to look feminine

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Class in American History, Hampton University

• Document HBCU education
• depicts westernization of Native Americans
• problematic because supports notion that European=civilized
• not influcence of Victorian dress

Georges Braque, the Portuguese

• cubism

Picaso, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

• seen as the beginning of cubism, 1907

Gabriele Munter, Meditation

• German expressionist
• hinter glasmerie= paintings viewed through glass
• tribute to Russian folk art
• helped found blue rider

Franz Marc, the Large Blue Horses

• der blaue reiter= subsection of German expressionism

Sonia Delaunay, Simultaneous Contrasts

• Dada= art mov't before surrealism, child like reaction to trauma of WWI, whimisical, absurd, began in Zurich, Switzerland
• color harmonies= best modernity expression
• influenced by cubism and russian folk art

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

• very influencial dada artist

Sonia Delaunay, applique coat

• simultaneous dress: patterns of abstract form, reaction to boring fashion, embrace female body
• clothing=signifer of modernity
• dada, cubist inspired

Hannah Hoch, DADA-dance

• German, photo montages (collages)
• aligned dada with revolutionary movements
• "found" images
• role of women included

Jean Arp, Grande Collage

• dada, Zurich
• duo-collages (husband and wife collaboration)
• embroidery, weavings

Liubov Popova, Painterly Architectonics

• Russian avant garde
• cubism influenced
• sharp edges

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self Portrait with Amber Necklace

• independent German expressionist
• worked with nude female
• influenced by Paul Gaugain
• symbolist

Gauguin, Two Tahitian Women

• focus on primitivism
• stock broker who lost job
• post-impressionist
• influenced by symbolism (spirit related, mystical, dream like

Gwen John, A Corner of the Artist's Room

• welsh artist
• influenced by impressionism
• solitary images of women

Susan Valadon, Blue Room

• reclining figures relate to orientalism
• has books on bed
• self portrait about her experience as an art model
• post impressionist color
• focus on body and emotional states
• odalisque figure=recline women
• different because not of a sexual nature for the male gaze

Maria Fortuny, The Odalisque

• example of oriental depiction of Harem scene
• pornographic postcards

Alphonse Marie Muche, Model reclining on the couch in Mucha's studio

• odalisque

Frida Kahlo, the Broken Column

• Mexican surrealist
• married to Diego Rivera
• 1st celebrity artist figures

Laura Carrington, Self Portrait (The White House inn)

• English born, Mexican artist
• Surrealist
• revert back to childhood (Hobby Horse)
• nervous breakdown relayed in work

Kathe Kollwitz, the Outbreak

• Black anna
• German expressionism
• progressive focus on social problems
• documented challenges of working class

Camille Claudel, the Waltz

• French
• partner of Rodin
• emotional and lyrical quality to work

Auguste Rodin, the Thinker

• working in paris
• emotion through gesture

Auguste Rodin, Burghers of Calaise

• Christian martyrs

Marie Laurencin, Group of Artist

• in Picasso's circle
• cubist
• know for group portraits

Romaine Brooks, Self Portrait

• "New Woman"
• cross dressed
• Flanear= female dandy, dressed well, lived in city

Man Ray, Coco Chanel

• created brand off of her life
• cross dressing women
• Chanel N 5

Georgia O'Keefe, Blue and Pink II

Alfred Steiglitz, The Street

• 291 gallery that introduced modernist and avante garde art and photography to United States
• founded Photo cession group
• "Photowork" photo journal

Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage

• visible dividing line between classes

Walter Pach, Interior View of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913

• modernist exhibit that introducted art to the United States
• American critics disliked avant garde

Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms

• English abstract sculptor
• part of "Abraction Creation" sculptor group
• critics of surrealism
• biomorphic

Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure

• Influenced by non Western art, like Mexican

Brancusi, Bird in Space

• Influenced by Romanian Folk art
• Romanian man

Remedios Varo, Celestial Pablum

• Surrealism
• born in Spain, lived in Mexico
• women always alone, evokes sense of isolation