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Two Women at a Bar
Pablo Picasso.1902.oil on canvas
-blue (symbolist movement-melancholy)
-economic distress
cubist
-poetic vulnerability |
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La Vie
Pablo Picasso.1903.oil on canvas.
-deals poetically with the theme of life cycle.
-stages of human existence (from young love to weary disillusionment and maternity) Blue period
-personal allusions
-his sister/friend recently committed suicide |
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Family of Saltimbanques
Pablo Picasso.1905.oil on canvas
-Rose Period
-cubist
-more extravagant pathos of his blue period
-strange gypsy tribe of entertainers, half mournful, half heroic
-profoundly poignant witness to alienation
-like a dream
from vision;not reality
-metaphor for Picasso's sense of his own artistic isolation
-circus performers condemned to a wandering existence (fate of humanity) |
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Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Pablo Picasso.1905-06.oil on canvas
-failed to render the face to his satisfaction and left it unfinished
he returned to re-paint the face in a completely different style transforming it into a stiff but powerfully expressive mask |
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso.1907.oil on canvas
-revolutionary
-preoccupation with classical figuration
-anatomies are vault-like spaces
-pink and ochre coloration of a roman fresco painting
-two heads on far right are completely out of character
-inspired by french Congo and African art
-geometric , angular pink bodies
realism to total abstraction
-primitive forms
-metaphor of love and death
cubist-elements of broken glass
-freudian psychology to radical feminism
-5 figures could relate to femmes fatales of the late 19th century symbolist allegory |
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Three Women
Pablo Picasso.1908-09.oil on canvas.
-cubist
-"the materialization of a new space"
-space that separated objects from each other
-he transformed expressionist energies into something controlled, consistent |
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Women's Head
Pablo Picasso.1909.Bronze
-analytic cubism
-choppy/abstract facial forms
-cubist texture |
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Violin and Palette
Georges Braque.1909-10.oil on canvas.
-his style is very similar to Picasso
-still life, lower half seems crystallized as a glittering continuum of fragmented form and faceted space.
-witty cubism
-trompe-l'oeil technique to render the nail, complete with shadow, that held thje palette on the wall
-juxtaposing a bit of renaissance illusion-ism with cubism (symbolic representation / pure abstraction) |
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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
Pablo Picasso.1910.oil on canvas
-picasso caught up with Braque and applied the analytical method
-shimmering atmosphere of silvery facets
-intersecting angles define surfaces as transparent
-architectural scaffolding and its space as indeterminately shallow
-dissolve shifting colors, even flesh tones
-monochrome style, mechanization of form |
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The Portuguese
Georges Braque.1911,oil on canvas
-his mandarin phase that manged to hold to an exquisite tension the observed subject, and independent formal invention
-emphasized touch and a brushstroke that stood out in assertive texture and relief
-small loaded strokes, giving body to an elevated formal concept in palpable medium
-fragmented
-musical instruments and atomical allusions
-cerebral and sensuous elegance
-stenciled lettering on surface of cubist pictures for the first time
-trompe-l'oeil imitation of wood grains and varied textured effects |
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Guitar
Pablo Picasso,1912.sheet metal and wire.
- synthetic cubism
-bas-relief by using industrial materials
-3-D openwork, shallow space
-interpreting planes found in analytic pictures
-cubist irony |
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Still Life with Chair Caning
Pablo Picasso.1912.oil and pasted oilcloth on canvas surrounded by rope.
-collage- one of the most fertile and liberating techniques ever conceived in modern art
-he took the logic of imitating the banal aspects of the physical environment further
-dual realities |
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Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso.1921.oil on canvas.
-figures recall classical theme taken from iconography of the "commedia dell'arte"
-A pierrot at the left is playing woodwind, a harlequin at the center plays guitar, and a monk at the right, masked like his fellow performers, sings from sheet music in his lap.
-interlocking jigsaw puzzle
-theatrical brilliance in color
-sinister distortions
-dreamworld/surrealism |
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Man with a Guitar
Jacques Lipchitz.1915.Limestone.
-cubist sculpture
-chunky, geometric forms
-powerful, yet elegant forms
-creates vertical, ascending rhythm of light masses set in opposition, not unlike compact setbacks of skyscraper architecture |
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Large Horse
Raymond Duchamp-Villon.1914.Bronze
-combining fragments of identifiable horses anatomy -head, neck, hoof-with machine forms
-straining , and muscular animal energy
-early high point in cubist sculpture |
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Simultaneous Contrasts:Sun ans Moon
Robert Dulaunay.1913.oil on canvas.
-From Cubism to Abstract Art (Futurism, suprematism, De Stijl.)
-based on cubist principles
-new heresy in the form of abstract color paintings
-fused spectrum colors of Fauvism with Cubist design and created pure color abstraction that Apollinair later called Orphism.
-using soft circular forms to interpret mystical intensities of radiant light
-geometric/dynamic |
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Amorpha:Fugue in Two Colors
Frank Kupka.1912.oil on canvas.
-abstract color painting
circular/triangular segments |
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The City
Fernand Leger.1919.oil on canvas.
-he had an apprenticeship in analytic cubism
-lightly tinted color planes
-fixed shapes and silhouettes suggesting machine parts
-powerful
-brilliant synthesis of detached aesthetic objectives and preoccupation with machine imagery |
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Nude Descending a staircase No.2
Marcel Duchamp.1912.oil on canvas
-mood of nihilism
-scandalized the American public at the Armory Show in NY in 1913.
-working with cubist convention
-He exploited extra-pictoral associations
-his figures in motion symbolize the coercive sense of the new mechanical factors at large and their dehumanizing effect |
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Merz Construction
Kurt Schwitters.1921.Painted on wood, wire and paper.
-collage of wasted materials
-commentary on a shredded and disintegrated postwar society
(dadaist point of view) |
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Merz Construction
Kurt Schwitters.1921.Painted on wood, wire and paper.
-collage of wasted materials
-commentary on a shredded and disintegrated postwar society
(dadaist point of view) |
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The Cellist
Antonio Giulio Bragaglia.1913.Gelatin silver print.
-futurism
-the blurred image or "evanescent form" constituted a more accurate or dynamic record of continuous movement
-a succession of discrete, static "poses" |
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Dynamic Hieroglyphics of the Bal Tabarin
Gino Severini.1912.oil on canvas.
-revival of interest in color
-he repudiated the beiges, grays, and tans of Braque and Picasso in favor of brilliant palette that made the initial Cubist mood of chromatic repression seem antiquated |
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Unique Forms of Continuity
Umberto Boccioni.1913.Bronze
-the classic futurist sculpture
-evocation of power and speed
-massively muscled human form in spiraling scallops of metal that reinforce the impact of continuous motion
-epitomize Marinetti's phrase "A roaring automobile, which appears to run like a machine gun, is more beautiful that the Victory of Samothrace" |
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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Giacomo Balla.1912.oil on canvas.
-witty depiction of motion |
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The Traveler
Liubov Popova,1915.oil on canvas
-abstract art in Russia
-Russian Avant-garde movement (women members)
-she mastered form and space with futurist dynamism, but also made them a vehicle for her own special talents as a colorist.
-total abstraction (died at 35) |
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Women before an Advertisement Column
Kasimir Malevich.1914.collage and oil on canvas
- termed the collage "nonsense realism"
-combined abstract structure and tromp-l'oeil fragments of actuality cut out with shears, all reassembled in a new and incoherent syntax.
-painted squares and rectangles become the basis of a purely abstract art |
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Suprematist Painting (eight red rectangles)
Kasimir Malevich.1915.oil on canvas
-suprematism was the most revolutionary conception to date in modern art
-free art from the ballast of objectivity
-turned small scaled colored rectangles into a planetay imagery evoking a sense of sublime boudlessness |
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Untitled (Green Stripe)
Olga Vlado,orova Rozanova.1917.oil on canvas
-vertical green stripe |
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Suspended Construction in Space
Alexander Rodchenko.1920.Wood
-minimalist sculpture
-stripped down, nonreferential construction
- avant-garde movement |
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Head of a Women
Naum Gabo.1917-20. construction in celluloid and metal.
-art must adapt itself to modern technology and the nonobjective style of Malevich's detached abstractions |
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Composition with red, blue, and yellow
Piet Mondrian.1930.oil on canvas.
-De Stijl "the style" (abstracting strategies of Cubism)
-Abstract Reality - he replaced small squares in his compositions with simplified grids whose broad connecting planes were painted evenly in brilliant primary colors.
-used background of pure white |
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I and the Village
Marc Chagall. 1911.oil on canvas.
-Da Da and fantastic art
-nostalgia-soaked art, based on memories of his native village
-cubist structure
-introduced a metaphor into modern painting, pictorial arrangements of images that obsess me
-fantasy |
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The soothsayer's Recompense
Giorgio de Chirico.1913.oil on canvas.
-dream imagery
-romantic landscape
-diminutive figures
-contains random aspects that we recognize, but we can't see the connection |
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The Seer
Giorgio de Chirico.1915.oil on canvas
-"metaphysical world"
-conflicting vanishing points
-contrast of deep shadows and intense light
-strange ominous atmosphere
-mannequin figures-emotional numbness |
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Arrangement According to the Laws of Chance (collage with square)
Jean Arp.1916-17.torn and pasted papers on paper.
-dada
-"accidental poems"
-threw pieces on the paper randomly. |
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Bottle Rack (Bottle Dryer)
Marcel Duchamp.1914.Galvanized iron readymade
-he elevated to the level of an art object
-dada |
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The Passage from Virgin to Bride
Marcel Duchamp.1912.oil on canvas.
-mechanical form and imagery
-erotic content
-suggests human organs transposed into machines, alluding clearly to automated male and female sexual organs and activities |
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The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Marcel Duchamp.1915-23. oil, lead wire, foil, dust, varnish on glass.
-"love machine"
-the intricate invention can't be understood
-objects in the form of the readymade
-complex iconography |
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Bicycle Wheel
Marcel Duchamp, replica of a lost 1913 original. bicycle wheel on a wooden stool.
-used and disused products
-visual indifference
absence of good or bad taste
ironic intelligence |
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L.H.O.O.Q
Marcel Duchamp.1930.replica of 1919 rectified readymade. (Mona Lisa)
-mustache drawn on upper lip of Mona Lisa
-french name sounds like elle a chaud au cul, "she's got hot pants"
-scandalous |
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Tu m'
Marcel Duchamp.1918.oil and graphite on canvas.
-mural-like work
-shadows cast several readymades and is a tromp-l'oeil
-(safety pin is real?)
-irony and visual conceit |
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Remember Uncle August, the Unhappy Inventor
George Grosz. 1919.oil on canvas.
-his origins were German expressionism.
-savage satires on the corrupt bourgeoisie, clergy, military, and bureaucracy of Berlin that are grotesque, subhuman, and altogether memorable.
-breaking away from traditional collage
-politically driven topics (anti-capitalist ideas) |
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Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Hanna Hoch.1919.collage of pasted papers.
-she used photographic images directly
-dramatic mode of registering their crushing indictment of capitalism and militarism in the period between wars.
-da da |
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Merzbau
Kurt Schwitters.Hannover. 1924-33.
-gradually assembled a vast constructivist sculpture in his own house.
-building up with junk until it penetrated the ceiling and towered into the second story.
-dada
-he shellacked everything together
(making the room solid)
-he escaped to liverpool, Britain where he rebuilt the merzbau |
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A little Sick, the Horse
Max Ernst.1920.Tempera on cardboard.
-machine forms
-strange apparatuses, and geological strata
-imagery an hallucinatory potential
-protest and scandal
body parts form the horse
-random bird
-title was added later
-dove is his alter-ego
-Sigmund Freud's ideas were very important |
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The Elephant Celebes
Max Ernst. 1921.oil on canvas.
-broiler-bodied moster crowed with a synthetic cubist contruction and swinging cow skull headed tail that could be a stove-pip or trunk.
-smoky emission
-fish flying in the sky
enormous tusks
-female nude thats headless in foreground |
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The Two Children are threatened by a Nightengale.
Max Ernst.1924.oil on wood, with wood construction.
-made the year surrealism was launched.
-terror of children
-realistic dream images
women running
-man on roof
-bird
fence coming outside of the frame
-the frame is a cabinet
-guy tries to grab the real doorknob
-doesn't make sense even though we recognize individual elements |
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Iroquois Landscape
Andre Masson.1943.oil on canvas
-surrealism:the resolution of dream and reality
-metamorphic hybrids/swift lines/cursive brush marks/anatomical and mythic drawings
-animal violence
-fishes
-analogues of human passion, reflecting artist's troubled preoccupation with destiny and his vague but profound belief in the symbolic unity of all things
-element of chance
-inspired by indians
-arbitrary name
(a fish or an eye) |
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The Hunter
Joan Miro. 1923-24. oil on canvas.
-inspired by picasso
-element of letters
-strange shapes have surreal relationships to each other |
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To 100,000 Doves
Max Ernst.1925.oilon canvas
-painting based on his drawing
-pattern from rubbing textures that inspired surrealists (frottage)
(stucco wall)
-uses element of chance |
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Europe After the Rain
Max Ernst.1940-42. oil on cnavas.
-everything is destroyed
-things are in different formations (corpses)
-used decalcomanis: a process used to put colors on the surface and rub it with paper.
-decomposed bodies
-examples of techniques-abstract forms of inspiration |
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The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali.1931.oil on canvas.
-He was influenced be De CHirico
-had childhood influenced that influenced his style
-He believed he was a re-creation of his dead brother
-he saw a dead bird on the ground eaten by ants and it stayed with him his whole life
-was thrown out of academy
-he paints like a dutch master in a strange way
-upside-down watch with ants crawling out of it
-realistic landscape with mountains but you can't define the cast shadow
-board suspended on landscape
-watch hanging over the branch
-organic form sitting in space and it changes to a bone shape that is mysterious
-dali was crazy-married to gala, they had dinner and his bri-cheese melted slowly.
-in his mind elements of that were represented in his painting
backside of the clock, time, devouring the dead bird |
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:Premonition of Civil War
Salvador Dali.1936.oil on canvas.
-naturalistic style
-decomposed hand grabs female breast
-can see tendons on neck
-skeleton like foot stands on backside of torso.
-man behind the hand
-the thing rests on a box
-element of gruesome (like the spanish civil war)
-space framed |
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The Human Condition 1
Rene Magritte.1943.oil on canvas
-painting within a painting
--philosophical surrealist work
-easel and transparent canvas that manage to thoroughly confound depicted art and natural landscape
-question of reality |
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The Empire of Lights
Rene Magritte.1954.oil on canvas.
-night and day in one landscape
-degree of thinking that makes him intriguing |
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The Lovers.
Rene Magritte.1928.oil on canvas.
-figures are hiding from each other
-love makes you blind
-his mother committed suicide (mother drowned with a scarf) |
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Object
Meret Oppenheim.1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.
-first women surrealist artist |
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Poetic Object
Joan Miro.1936.Assemblage of stuffed parrot on wood perch, stuffed with silk stocking with velvet garter and doll's paper shoe suspended in hollow wood-frame, derby hat, hanging cork ball, celluloid fish, and engraved map.
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The Invisible Object (Hand's holding a void)
Alberto Giacometti.1934-35.Bronze
-female figure with breasts seated.
-her shoulders and arms are attached to the chair.
-she seems to be holding an invisible object
-her feet are tiny and out of proportion
-there's a panel on them so you can only see her toes
-she cannot move |
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Women with her throat cut
Alberto Giacometti.1932.Bronze
-early work
-several versions
-small joints so you can move it a bit
-different size versions
-windpipe in throat, a ribcage, spine, and her legs
-very violated women (rape/murder?)
-relation between title and object directs interpretation |
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Human Concretion
Jean Arp.1933.Stone
-very organic
-reference to human anatomy
organic cur-linearity thats less relating to human form, has its own pedestal |
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Capricorn
Max Ernst.1964.Bronze
-goat-like creature from zodiac and is manly
-he holds up an instrument that looks like a giant toothbrush
-barrier on his feet (seems like he's behind it)
-a bird sitting on him
- possibly a mermaid in the foreground (female)
-she has a long neck and strange head
-another larger bird |
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Bull's Head
Pablo Picasso.1942. Assemblage of bicycle saddle and handlebars.
-visual imagination
-he liked bull fights |
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Three Women at the Spring
Pablo Picasso. 1921.oil on canvas.
-has classical influence because of color
-distorted proportions (hands)
-holding greek containers
(gigantic arm large foot)
-their clothing has vertical lines almost like greek columns |
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seated Bather
Pablo Picasso.1930.oil on canvas.
-figures head is a praying mantis because of his divorce with his wife
-influenced by surrealists |
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Model and Surrealist Sculpture
Pablo Picasso.1933,Etching.
- series of prints
-lines and distortions (breasts)
-figure fused together with chair shape (like Giacometti's) |
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Girl Before a Mirror
Pablo Picasso.1932.oil on canvas.
-his relationship with blonde haired girl
-women in mirror
-she might be pregnant
- he lost interest in her
-influenced by Matisses patterns |
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Listening to the Living
Matta.1941.oil on canvas.
-year war breaks out
-volcanic eruption
-animals and humans swirl in chaos
-faces can be seen in different ways
-commentary on the war in Europe |
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