April 16th Quiz Flashcards
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World War I
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- 1914-1918
- Revolved around Europe
2
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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
10
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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
17
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Rene Magritte
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- 1898-1967
- Belgian surrealist
- Influence on The Beatles
18
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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
23
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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
