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20TH CENTURY Flashcards

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CASA MILA

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Antonio gaudi

Art nouveau

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ART NOUVEAU

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Curved lines

Floral and other natural forms

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EIFFEL TOWER

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Gustav Eiffel
New structures
Made originally for world exhibition

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THE GUARANTY BUILDING

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Louis Henry Sullivan
New structures
The Chicago school: invented skyscrapers, “form follows function”

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DE STIJL

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Simple, geometric ideas of Mondrian

Not enclosed in as ingle cube–functional space projects from cubic center

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SCHRODER HOUSE

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Gerrit riectveld
Modern
Boring, sterile

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ART DECO

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Streamlined
Symmetrical design
Simplified shapes in shallow relief
Found I trains, cars, jewelry, and buildings 
Curved corners
Smooth, sleek, repetitive
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CHRYSLER BUILDING

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William van Allen

Art Deco

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INTERNATIONAL STYLE

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Steel, reinforced concrete, glass in large sheets
Flat roofs
Absence of ornaments
Impersonal appearance
Dependent of Fabric and prefabricated parts

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SHOP BLOCK

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Walter Gropius
International style
Bauhaus

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VILLA SAVOYE

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LeCorbisiee 
Typical modern house
All white and glass 
Raised up 
Geometric
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NOTRE-DAME-DU-HAUT

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LeCorbusier
Weird church
Looks like a boat
Strange glass windows that are small

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GLASS HOUSE

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Phillip Johnson

Stupidest house ever

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SEAGRAM BUILDING

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Ludwig mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
Skyscraper
“Less is more”

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SEARS TOWER

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SKIDMORE OWINGS AMD MERRILL

Multiple blocks built on top of each other

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ORGANIC STYLE

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Grows from needs of people and nature of land
Not boxy, no symmetrical design,free flow of space
Psychological needs as well as physical

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FALLING WATER

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Frank Lloyd wright 
Living room=center of the house
Bedrooms are small and on second floor
Draws family together 
Cantilever
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

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Frank Lloyd wright
Eccentric design
Circular
Journey through the museum

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EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE

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Novel materials
Formal innovation
Unusual massing

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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

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Joern Uzton
Shaped like sail boat or waves
On coast

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TRANS WORLD AIRLINES TERMINAL, KENNEDY AIRPORT

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Eero Saarinen
Juts out
Looks like sydney opera house

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POSTMODERN

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Reaction against modern
Hated restricted, sterile, impersonal feel
Complex and eclectic

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POMPIDOU MUSEUM

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Richard Rogers
Weird modern set place by all the thrift stores
Pipes and vents in the outside

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DECONSTRUCTIVIST

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Disorients the viewer
Challenges assumptions about architecture
Fragmentation and manipulation of buildings skin
Disorder, dissonance, imbalance, asymmetry, unconformity, and irregularity

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN SPAIN

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Frank Gehry
Weirdly shaped,
Light lobby to contrast harsh modern art

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MAN POINTING

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Giacometti

existential art

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UNEASY LIFE

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Jean Dubuffet
existential art
Art brut=art that is rough, coarse, and brutal
Looks like child’s paintings

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Jackson Pollock

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Jack the dripper

Abstract expressionism

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WOMEN I

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Kooning
Pin up girl
Issues with mother
Abstract expressionism

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Mark Rothko

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Abstract expressionism

Sunset guy

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RED BLUE AND GREEN

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Ellsworth Kelly
Hard edge
Straight up boxes of colors with no blurring
Ugly

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VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL

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Maya Lin

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PERFORMANCE ART

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Intersection of art and life
Act of art more important than finished
Dada influenced

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CUT PIECE

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Yoko Ono

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THE ARTIFACT PIECE

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James Luna

Native American

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CONCEPTUAL ART

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Real work of art is the idea not the product

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ONE AND THREE CHAIRS

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Joseph kosuth

Conceptual art

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MARYLIN MONROE DIPTYCH

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Andy Warhol

Pop art

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CLAES OLDENBURG

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Soft sculpture

Pop art

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Roy Lichtenstein

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Pop art

Benday dots

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THE DINER

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George segal

Plaster casts in ordinary setting

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MARYLIN

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Audrey flack
Vanitas painting
Super realism

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BIG SELF PORTRAIT

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Chuck close
Paints
Up close so you see every flaw

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SUPERMARKET SHOPPER

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Duane Hanson
Super realism
Casts of people and he dresses them up
Commentary on America

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SPIRAL JETTY

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Robert smithson
Environmental art
Mimics molecular shape of salt

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SURROUNDED ISLANDS

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Christi
Likes to wrap things
Environmental art

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THE DINNER PARTY

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Judy Chicago
39 seats for famous women
Suggestive plates
Tablecloths represent their lives 
Embroidery, food, and china=women's traditional role
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BACKS

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MAGDELENA ABAKONWICZ
slumps backs 
No gender
All individuals from same mold
Defeat
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AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT

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Installations

Quilts of individuals who died from aids

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POSTMODERN

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Reaction against modern

Wide variety of styles

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PINK PANTHER

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Jeff koons

Weird

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Guerrilla girls

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Worked for women’s rights in the art world

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