Abstraction Flashcards

1
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Artistic elimination of rational visual association

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Abstraction

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2
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Work: Nude descending a staircase

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Marcel Duchamp

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3
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Types of Cubism

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Analytic

Synthetic

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4
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Stripping away analytic details

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Analytic cubism

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5
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Russian painter and art theorist

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Wassily Kandinsky

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6
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Subject in their most basic geometric shape

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Cubism

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7
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Real piece of paper over painted depictions of od paper

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Synthetic cubism

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8
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Leader of cubism

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Georges Braque

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9
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Father of Collage

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Pablo Picasso

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10
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First forayed in cubism

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Marcel Duchamp

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11
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Black and white with primary colors, rectangular forms and asymmetry

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DE STIJL

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12
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Radical simplification

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Piet Mondrian

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13
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Periods in Picasso’s art

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Collage
Simultaneity of art
Blue Period
Rose Period

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14
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Who worked on GUERNICA?

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Pablo Picasso

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15
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Which artist is more associated with Dadaism and Surrealism

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Marcel Duchamp

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16
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World seen from a number of different viewpoints

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Georges Braque

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17
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Overlapping planes (shared color)

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Synthetic cubism

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18
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An architectural landmark whose inside has no static accumulation but dynamic and changeable open zone

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Schroder House, Holland

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19
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Deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement from the past

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Modernism/ Modern style

20
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Synthesis of technology, craft and design aesthetics, w emphasis on functional design

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Bauhaus design movement

21
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Founder of Bauhaus school

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Walter Gropius

22
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Pioneer for skyscrapers

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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

23
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Father of the Skyscraper

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Louis Sullivan

24
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Father of Modernism

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Louis Sullivan

25
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An assymetrical single story building

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German Pavillion

26
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What are the general features of Bauhaus architecture?

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Shuns ornamentation and favors functionality

Asymmetry and regularity over symmetry

27
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Director of cabinetmaking workshops at Bauhaus

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Marcel Breuer

28
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3 phenomena that confronted architects to have International Style

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Increasing dissatisfaction
Economical creation
New building technologies

29
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Work primarily on Residential designs

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Frank Lloyd Wright

30
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“God is in the detail.” “Less is more”

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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

31
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The first use of curtain - walling was done in this building

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Bauhaus buildings, Dessau

32
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Worked on the Wainwright building

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Louis Sullivan

33
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“Form follows function”

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Louis Sullivan

34
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Developed in Europe and US (20s & 30s)

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International Style

35
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Work by Frank Lloyd Wright; built on waterfalls

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Falling Water, Pennsylvania

36
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Work by Frank Lloyd Wright; Circular form spiral down

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Guggenheim museum, NY

37
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Ridiculing and destroying idea of Art

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Dadaism

38
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Expression of the subconscious

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Surrealism

39
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Work: the Column

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Frida Kahlo

40
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Became a leading figure in International Style

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Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)

41
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Coined by Harold Rosenberg

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Action Painting

42
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Popular imagery derived from commercial sources, mass media, and everyday life

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Pop Art

43
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Functional architecture devoid of regional character

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International Style

44
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Show feelings and emotions; applied paint rapidly with force

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Abstract expressionism

45
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Surrealist artist; work: Persistence of memory

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Salvador Dali

46
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Geometric abstraction over recognizable object

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OP ART