Abstraction Flashcards
Artistic elimination of rational visual association
Abstraction
Work: Nude descending a staircase
Marcel Duchamp
Types of Cubism
Analytic
Synthetic
Stripping away analytic details
Analytic cubism
Russian painter and art theorist
Wassily Kandinsky
Subject in their most basic geometric shape
Cubism
Real piece of paper over painted depictions of od paper
Synthetic cubism
Leader of cubism
Georges Braque
Father of Collage
Pablo Picasso
First forayed in cubism
Marcel Duchamp
Black and white with primary colors, rectangular forms and asymmetry
DE STIJL
Radical simplification
Piet Mondrian
Periods in Picasso’s art
Collage
Simultaneity of art
Blue Period
Rose Period
Who worked on GUERNICA?
Pablo Picasso
Which artist is more associated with Dadaism and Surrealism
Marcel Duchamp
World seen from a number of different viewpoints
Georges Braque
Overlapping planes (shared color)
Synthetic cubism
An architectural landmark whose inside has no static accumulation but dynamic and changeable open zone
Schroder House, Holland
Deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement from the past
Modernism/ Modern style
Synthesis of technology, craft and design aesthetics, w emphasis on functional design
Bauhaus design movement
Founder of Bauhaus school
Walter Gropius
Pioneer for skyscrapers
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Father of the Skyscraper
Louis Sullivan
Father of Modernism
Louis Sullivan
An assymetrical single story building
German Pavillion
What are the general features of Bauhaus architecture?
Shuns ornamentation and favors functionality
Asymmetry and regularity over symmetry
Director of cabinetmaking workshops at Bauhaus
Marcel Breuer
3 phenomena that confronted architects to have International Style
Increasing dissatisfaction
Economical creation
New building technologies
Work primarily on Residential designs
Frank Lloyd Wright
“God is in the detail.” “Less is more”
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The first use of curtain - walling was done in this building
Bauhaus buildings, Dessau
Worked on the Wainwright building
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function”
Louis Sullivan
Developed in Europe and US (20s & 30s)
International Style
Work by Frank Lloyd Wright; built on waterfalls
Falling Water, Pennsylvania
Work by Frank Lloyd Wright; Circular form spiral down
Guggenheim museum, NY
Ridiculing and destroying idea of Art
Dadaism
Expression of the subconscious
Surrealism
Work: the Column
Frida Kahlo
Became a leading figure in International Style
Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)
Coined by Harold Rosenberg
Action Painting
Popular imagery derived from commercial sources, mass media, and everyday life
Pop Art
Functional architecture devoid of regional character
International Style
Show feelings and emotions; applied paint rapidly with force
Abstract expressionism
Surrealist artist; work: Persistence of memory
Salvador Dali
Geometric abstraction over recognizable object
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