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Henri Matisse
The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
1906
An example of primitivism; A response to Gauguin’s The Spirit of the Dead Watching, which was a response to Manet’s Olympia. |
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Ernst Kirchner
City Street
1907
Headed the Die Brücke, the other primary group of German Expressionists. |
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Pablo Picasso
Mademoiselles d’Avignon
1907
Considered the first cubist painting; response to Matisse’s Blue Nude, which started an intense rivalry between the two |
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Georges Braque
Landscape at La Ciotat
1907
Shows evolution from Fauvist style to his influence from Cézanne such as the use of passage |
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Georges Braque
Houses at L’Estaque
August 1908
After seeing Picasso’s Mademoiselles, Brauque begins to experiment with the implications of cubism |
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Pablo Picasso
Ma Jolie
1911-12
An example of hermetic cubissm, which uses signs in place of actual pictorialization |
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Pablo Picasso
Still life with Violin and Fruit
1912-13
An example of synthetic cubism |
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Henri Matisse
The Conversation
1909
An example of Matisse pushing the concept of “decorative” to the extreme, with all the blue making the painting difficult to behold |
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Henri Matisse
Le Bonheur de vivre
1905-06
First example of Matisses finially achieving a synthesis of the four trends of Postimpressionism |
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Henri Matisse
La Chevelure from Poésies de Mallarmé
1932
During his Nice Period, doesn’t show corporality, but, like Mallarme’s poems, the spaces left blank have an effect on the meaning |
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Umberto Boccioni
Elasticity
1912
An example of futurism, where they are learning sytax of cubism, but make formal capacity of it fit their signifiers of speed |
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Giacomo Balla,
Swifts, Paths of Movement and Dynamic Sequences,
1913
An example of futurism, where they are learning sytax of cubism, but make formal capacity of it fit their signifiers of speed
In the same fashion as Marey’s chronophotography |
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
Zang Tumb Tumb: Adrianopoli Ottobre
1912
The first collection of “free word poetry
Using a set of expressive typographic and orthographic variations and an unstructured spatial organization…tries to express the sights, soun |
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Otto Dix
Skat Players (later titled: Car playing War Cripples)
1920
An example of the ambiguity where Dix shifts from Dadaism to the Neue Sachlichkeit |
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Hannah Hoch
Cut with a Kitchen Knife….
1919
An example of the Dada collage |
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Raul Hausman
The Art critic
1919-20
An example of Berlin dada montage that intends to undermine the emerging mass cultural power of the Weimar publication industry (pg 168 bottom L) |
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John Heartfield
Hurrah, die butter ist alle!
1935
Demonstrates Heartfield’s fusion of opposites (p. 168-9) |
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Giacamo Balla,
Abstract Speed: the car has passed
1913
An example of futurism, where they are learning sytax of cubism, but make formal capacity of it fit their signifiers of speed
The first official abstract painting |
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Georges Grosz
Daum marries her pedantic automaton george
1920
An example of Dadaism |
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László Moholy-Nagy
Photogram
c. 1940
Claims to have invented this technique
Competed with Man Ray for invention, would redate in order to predate |
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László Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus Balconies
1926
Shows one of the emerging perspectives, worm |
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Piet Mondrian
Still life w. Gingerpot II
1912
Trying to demonstrate laws of painting not of nature; attempt at analytic cubism-futher faceting of planes |
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Piet Mondrian
Tableau 2, with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Grey
1922
Flatter planed, faceting , stumbling, further reduction of color palette, moving to the monocracy of hermetic |
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Kazimir Malevich
Supremist Painting: White on White
1918
Example of Russian Constructivism |
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Kazimir Malevich
Cow and Violin
1913
The third cow in abstract painting
The end of cubism (??) |
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Fernand Léger
The Smokers
December 1911-1912
After seeing analytic cubism, thought that the curve was just a tense line, and thus fell within the same language |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Tricolor Monochrome Triptych: Pure Red Color, Pure Blue Color, Pure Yellow Color
1921
The end of painting |
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| you know what this shit looks like |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Non-objective painting No. 80 (Black on Black)
1918
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Aleksandr Gerasimov
Lenin on the Tribute
1930
An example of Soviet Socialist Realism |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Power Station
1929
An example of the commercialization of Soviet thought |
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| its a fucking power station |
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Aleksandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky,
Wrapper for Nasha Industriia (Our Industry) caramels from the Krasnyi Oktiabr’ (Red October) factory
1923
After the Socialist economy began to reallow some captitalism in their economy, artist began to supp |
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Rene Magritte
The Treason of Images (This is not a pipe)
1928-29
An example of surrealism, doubling |
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Cadavre Exquis
Man Ray, Joan Miro, Max Morise, Eves Tanguy
Nude
1926-27
Example of the many collaborations between surrealists artists to see what the collective unconscious would discover
Psycic automatism
The idea of life as a series of unpredicta |
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Max Ernst
Célèbes or Der Elephant von Celebes
1921
Demonstrates schizophrenic art
Six drives the govern mentally ill: expression, play, ornamental elaboration, patterned order, obsessive copying, and symbolic systems (the pattern of which was said to |
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Man Ray
André Breton’s Slipper Spoon
1934
Signified objects |
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| you know this one too---spoons?! |
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Georgio de Chirico
The Uncertainty of the Poet
1913
Would later be an inspiration to surrealist painters; inspired Carrà
Strong attention to form
Pittura metafisica---his discovery has been recognized as an integral element of Italian avant garde thi |
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Rene Magritte
The Lovers
1928
Surrealism-connected to the uncanny and doubling (repetition) and the sixties term “simulacrum”
Plays on the idioms of advertising and the ambiguities of language and representation |
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Salvador Dali
Illuminated Pleasures
1929
Surrealism
At this point, was starting to get too commercial |
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Max Ernst
Le train engourdi from la femme 100 têtes
1929
An example of collage, which became crucial to the definition of the surrealist image
“introduced an entirely original scheme of visual structure
Juxtaposition of two or more less disparate rea |
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El Lissitsky
Town
1919-20
Oil and sand on plywood
Student of Malevich, helped found the Unovis School
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