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Unit 3 Keywork- Patrice Boyer
ARH2051.601 History of Visual Art II
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/07/2008

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Claude Monet

Impression: Sunrise

1872

Impressionism

 

  • Supported by the people
  • First Painting to be labeled as immpression
  • Painting refelects the upheval, confusion, in the city itself. Society is in a state of flux.
  • He is not depicting forms but rather how the light affects on forms.
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Edouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

1882

Impressionism

 

  • Are looking at her state of consiessness and the way she wishes she could talk to her customer.
  • She is trapped
  • Trappize to create a unsetalling feeling that you would have exsperienced in a bar
  • She has a deeper sense of self. She is in thought and it creates a emotional involvement.
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Edgar Degas

Ballet Rehearsal

1874

Impressionism

 

  • Carvaggio of impressionism
  • Movement is mimiced by staircase and dancers
  • Famous Coriographer. He only showed male coriographers
  • He painted the painting from a photograph
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge

1892-1895

Impressionism

  • Shows uglyness of cafe life, thus ugly characters
  • Painting is unbalanced, the same as the life was
  • Very superficaial people, very impersonal life of a cafe
  • Henri was born with a birth defect that kept his legs from forming.
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George Seurat

A Sunday on the La Grande Jatte

1884-1886

Post-Impressionism

 

  • 3 dogs, 8 boats, 38 people and 1 monkey which could mean the women holding it is a prostitute
  • The painting use pointillism; points of primary colors
  • Seurat shared the impressionist interest in analyzing light and color
  • Seurat created a rhythmic cadence by the place of the figures that harmonized the entire composition.

 

 

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Paul Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

1902-1904

Post-Impressionism

 

  • Sense of permanance by useing geometric shapes.
  • Uses blues to make it recede and warmer colors to bring it forward.
  • Very little reference to human life.
  • He analyzed lines, planes and colors of nature.
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Henri Rousseau

Sleeping Gypsy

1897

Symbolism

  • Creates uneasyness of being vonerable
  • Paintings are primative, reduced down to niave simple forms
  • Henri was a novice but had a natural talent for design and imagination.
  • Rousseau was said to be primative without leaving Paris.
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Antoni Gaudi

Casa Mila

Barcelona, Spain

1905-1907

Arts and Crafts Movement

  • Has a rythem to it, not static
  • Inspired by Moorish-Spanish and Catalonia architecture
  • Antoni felt his buildings was symbolically a living thing
  • The building may reflect the excitement that swept Spain following the 1879 discovery of Paleolithic cave paintings.
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Reliquary guardian figure

Kota, Gabon

19th century

African Art

  • Geometric form compose this artwork.
  • The gleaming surface is said to repel evil
  • Geometric ridges, borders, and subdivisions add texture
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"Beautiful Lady"

Dance mask

Senufi, Ivory Coast

Late 20th century

 

  • Mask act outside of reality
  • Men sometimes wore the mask
  • The masks are belived to hold ancestoral and bush powers that combat witchcraft and sorcery
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Henri Matisse

Woman with the Hat

1905

Fauvism

  • Color played a key role inconveying meaning
  • The women is Matisse's wife
  • The whole painting consistes of patches and splotches of colors
  • With pure colors came stronger reactions

 

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Picasso

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

1907

Cubism

 

  • Has eliminated perspective
  • Many angles are shown at once
  • This opened the door to new methods of represented forms and space
  • Picasso creates tension between repersentation and abstraction
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Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

1913

Futurism

 

  • Speed and force are placed in a sculptural form
  • Creates a sense of power
  • Seems as thought the sculpture is gliding forward
  • Was the first of the kinetic sculpture
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Hannah Hoch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife

1919-1920

Dada

  • Some other Dada artists appear in the photomontage
  • It seems haphazard, but it was a carefully thought about arrangement
  • She promoted Dada by the prominently place lettering
  • The photomontage states that women and Dada had the power to destabilize society
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Pablo Picasso

Guernica

1937

Cubism

  • Very analytical cubism, sharp edges to symbolize terror
  • Sign of peace now but originally created to show the horrors of war and the German bombing of Guernica
  • Allows viewer to interpret work, does not offer his own intent.
  • The bull overlooking the destruction represents brutality and darkness
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Salvador Dali

The persistence of Memory

1931

Surrealism

  • Influenced by Vermieer
  • Got idea for painting when he look at some cheese melt and thus he made everthing melt
  • Landscape his from his home in Spain, Catalonia
  • The watches seem to be organic and in decay
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Rishard Hamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?

1956

Pop Art

  • Modern day Adam and Eve surrounded by the objects that they would have in the garden of Eden
  • Moon makes reference to the space race
  • Progress and success are brought into question.
  • Started in Britian

 

 

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Robert Rauschenberg

Canyon

1959

Pop Art

  • His insperation comes from zen budisum
  • He combines intersperse painted passages with sculptural elements
  • He grew up in an enviornment devoid of images
  • The viewer is forced to find meaning in randomness
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Definition

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

1962

Pop Art

  • Technique used is silk screen
  • He thinks of her as a saint
  • Eliminates any personalization from the artist
  • Garish colors give the painting a masklike quality
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Definition

Audrey Flack

Marilyn

1977

Superrealism

  • Same objects seen in Northern Renaissance
  • All makes reference to vanity and mortality
  • Takes photo image and projects it then paints it
  • Makes you discuss how photography constructs reality
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Judv Chicago

The Dinner Party

1979

Feminist Art

  • Thirten plates on each side makes reference to the Last Supper, A Witches Convent
  • Famous women on base with 13 historical women on each side
  • Plates are in the shape of vaginas
  • Triangle is ancient symbol for women
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Definition

Cindy Sherman

Untitles Film Still #35

1979

Feminist Art

  • Concerned with the gaze and that influences how women look and feel about themselves
  • Takes a movie scene, dresses as the character and then takes photo to take control of how she is seen
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Definition

Judwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson

Segram Building

New York

1956-1958

Postmodernism

  • completely unified and cohesive space.
  • Very little walls inside, set back from the street and seems isolated.
  • it appears to rise rom the pavement on stilts
  • Amber glass gives it a richness found in few of the surrounding buildings
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Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Bilbao

Spain

1997

Deconstructivism

  • Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • Emphasizes the environment.
  • Architecture follows design that emphasizes deconstruction
  • The interior floats and flows only guided by light and dark cues
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Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas

1939

Surrealism

  • Deeply personal painting that touches the viewers sensual and psychological memories
  • The connected hands and shared artery suggest different sides of the artists personality
  • Painting contains the struggle of mexicans during the 20th century

 

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Waters

1936-39

Naturalism

  • The design reaches out and captures the expansivness of nature
  • He blends the buildings interior with the exterior to create dynamics and fluidity
  • The contrast in textures enlivens its shape
  • Wright's message was space, not mass
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Definition

Alberto Giacometti

Man Pointing

1947

Abstract Expressionism

  • Sculpture is alienated, solitary, and lost in the world's immensity
  • Speaks to the pervasive despair in the aftermath of the world war
  • Giacometti best expresses the spirit of existentialism
  • Made from bronze
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Definition

Jackson Pollock

Number I (Lavender Mist)

1950

Abstract Expressionism

  • Pollock emphasizes the creative process
  • Painting consists of drips, spatters and dribbles
  • The energetic skein draws the viewer into the lacy spider web
  • Pollocks painting style earned him the name "Jack the Dripper"
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Definition

David Smith

Cubi XIX

1964

Abstract Expressionism

  • Auto worker who worked with steel.
  • Believed metal had no art historical context.
  • Represented modernity and power.
  • Creates texture on the surface with steel wool
 
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Rober Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970

Deconstruction

  • Challenges notion of where art be shown.
  • Does not want it maintained to show deconstruction and decay.
  • Got the idea one day when he saw son abandon machinary left by a company who tried and failed to extract oil from the site
  • He choose a spiral because of the way the salt coats the lack.
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Definition

Nam June Paik

Global Groove

1973

New Media

  • Painting through television
  • Renaissance goal of teaching with art.
  • Created the possibility of manipulating video in real time
  • Was originally commissioned to be broadcast over the UN satellite
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Definition

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Stairway, No.2

1912

avant-garde

  • Duchamp's figure in motion down a staircase in a time continuum reveals the artist's indebtedness to Cubism and Futurism
  • No desernible figures
  • Forces the viewer to draw their own conclusions
  • Was first shown in the Armory Show of 1913
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