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April 16th Quiz Flashcards

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World War I

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  • 1914-1918

- Revolved around Europe

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Symbolists and Decadents

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Year: 1895
Location(s): France and Belgium
Sugar, opium, absinthe- influences of Pre-Raphaelite influences

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Dada movement

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  • 1912
  • Anti-art movement
  • Influence of ridiculous brutality of World War
  • Dadaists embrace anarchy, irrationality
  • Found object, question’s artist’s role, nature of art
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Hannah Hoch

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  • 1889-1978
  • an originator of the photomontage
  • German Dada artist
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Henri Matisse

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  • 1869-1954
  • Fauvism art style
  • French artist
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Die Brucke

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  • German, “the bridge”
  • An early 20th century German Expressionist art movement under the leadership of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • The group thought of itself as the bridge between the old age and the new
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German Expressionism

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  • 1900-1920
  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Pure abstract
  • Spirit through color, line, space, form
  • Influence of science
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Emil Nolde

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  • 1867-1956
  • German Danish Artist
  • Expressionist artist
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Wassily Kandinsky

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  • 1866-1944

- Pioneer

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Pablo Picasso

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  • 1881-1973
  • Spanish artist
  • Cubism style - distortion painting - shatter glass and put it all back together
  • Also involved with surrealism
  • Formatted expressionism
  • Founder of Cubism
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Primitivism

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  • late 19th century
  • Western Art Movement that borrowed visual forms from non-western and prehistoric ideas
  • prominent artists that were inspired by this were Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin
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Analytical Cubism

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  • 1909-1912
  • early form of cubism which focused on geometric shapes and heavy use of monochromatic colors
  • created by Picasso and Braque
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Synthetic Cubism

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  • 1900-1920
  • Synthesizes new objects from collage of parts
  • Play with illusionism, flatness
  • Attack on artistic convention
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Surrealism

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  • 1920s
  • Deals with dream and reality
  • Arose after WWI
  • Represent the unconscious mind
  • Inspired by Freud and Jung
  • Naturalistic surrealism
  • Realistic dreamscape
  • Concrete irrationality
  • Fusion of Symbolism
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Giorgio De Chircio

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  • 1888-1978

- Pre-surrealist

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Salvador Dali

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  • 1904-1989
  • Surrealist painter
  • Takes us from reality into a world of uncertainty
  • Partnered with hitchcock for the film Spellbound
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Rene Magritte

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  • 1898-1967
  • Belgian surrealist
  • Influence on The Beatles
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De Stijl

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  • aka Neoplasticism
  • Utopian movement in The Netherlands
  • Attempt to reach “the universal” through pure plastic art
  • Reduced few colors, lines, shapes
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The Bauhaus

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  • 1919-1933
  • A school of architecture in Germany in the 1920s under the aegis of Walter Gropius, who emphasized the unity of art, architecture, and design
  • Was founded with high hopes to house the poor after WW1 and to find good uses for mass production
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Walter Gropius

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  • 1883-1969
  • Son of an architect
  • Studied in Munich about the same time as Lang
  • Successor of Hermann Muthesius
  • Worked briefly wit LeCorbusier and was familiar with the works of such artists as Wasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian
  • Became the guiding spirit of the Bauhaus and was concerned about developing Muthesius’ ideas
  • Favored mass-produced housing, desiring to assemble low-cost units in varied combinations of several basic forms
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Le Corbusier

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  • Savoye House (1929)
  • German architect
  • Believed in designing houses which were perfectly suited to the occupant
  • Influential in the ideas of Germany’s school of design, the Bauhaus
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William Van Alen

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  • 1883-1954
  • American Architect
  • Known for his work on the New York Chrysler Building
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Art Deco

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  • 1920-1930s
  • Influenced by cubism and shatter angles
  • Rich, sumptuous material
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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  • 1867-1959
  • American Architect
  • Sought to develop organic unity of planning structure, materials, and site
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Marcel Duchamp

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  • 1887-1968
  • Topsy turvy physics art style
  • Dry art and readymades

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