Art History 102 UNL Exam 3 Flashcards
Dada
-anti-technological
-anti-rational
Armory show
An exhibition of modern art held at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory in February-March 1913. Showcased examples from recent European art movements.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (?-ism)
-draws from futurism and cubism
-got into the armory show
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, aka Man Walking (Futurism)
-showing movement
Futurism
early-20th-century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.
Synthetic Cubism (Collage Cubism)
phase color was reintroduced and collage elements, such as newspaper clippings, were pasted onto the surface. Picasso’s Still-Life with Chair Caning is one of the first examples of Synthetic cubism.
Pablo Picasso, Still-Life with Chair Caning (Cubism)
-synthetic cubism
Analytical Cubism
-monochromatic
-“analyzes” representation
-divides art into component parts or “signs” (e.g. tone, line)
-recombines them according to ideas based in “art” rather than “nature”
Pablo Picasso, Girl with Mandolin (Cubism)
-Analytical cubism
-Art has an intellectual, rational appeal via form
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Cubism)
-prostitutes
-“primitive”
Synaesthesia
when one sort of sensation (such as hearing a sound) produces another (such as seeing color)
Der Blaue Reiter
German artists in this group sought to create art that was spiritual, expressionist, and (in the case of Kandinsky) abstract.
die Brücke (movement)
The artists of Die Brücke rejected the sentimental realism which had dominated late 19th-century German painting in favor of an expressive art using bright, non-descriptive colors and forms derived from non-western as well as German medieval art, and processes such as woodcut.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden (Expressionism)
The artist expresses this through the use of jarring colors, simplified shapes and slashing brushmarks to depict the crowded city center
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation #28 (Expressionism)
-titled his paintings Improvisation, or Composition or Impression, followed by a number.
- In these early abstract pieces, there are still forms that suggest some of the elements in his earlier paintings: buildings, hills, (upper right), and a figure on horseback (upper left).
Henri Matisse on his art
-whole arrangement of the painting is expressive
-painting should enhance/ complete life and be a comfort
Henri Matisse, La Bonheur de Vivre (expressionism)
-uses color and composition to express sensual pleasure
Les Fauves
- Literally, “the wild beasts.” Term used by a critic to describe the paintings of Henri Matisse and other artists
- “Fauvism”is characterized by the use of bright, non-descriptive color and slashing brush strokes.
Symbolism
-primarily a literary movement: Manifesto published 1886
-rejection of everyday, contemporary world
-interest in trans-historical myth; interior states, the visionary
Primativism
- Paul Gauguin’s interest in Tahitian art is an example of primitivism, as is Ernst Kirchner’s interest in early German woodblock prints.
- more deeply spiritual and more sincerely expressive
- it was often based on false assumptions about the art and the cultures in which it was produced.
Japonisme
- French term used to describe the interest in Japanese arts and crafts
-Japanese woodblock prints by artists such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Kiyonaga were of special interest to impressionist and post-impressionist artists
- use of vivid and unmodeled colors
Divisionism/Pointillism
- Terms used to describe Georges Seurat’s method of applying paint and the color theory behind it.
- if primary colors are set side by side on the canvas, they are blended by the eye into a secondary color that appears more intense
-color is placed next to its complement, the line where the two meet will display an intense contrast.
Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching (Post-Impressionism)
-shows a belief that the dead lingers on connected to the spirit of a living person
Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon (Post-Impressionism)
-red color chosen for expressiveness
-Gauguin took to the region because he saw it as “primitive”–uncorrupted and pure.
Vincent Van Gogh on color as expression
“Because instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily, in order to express myself forcibly”
Paul Gauguin on his art
The impressionists study color exclusively insofar as the decorative effect, but without freedom, retaining the shackles of verisimilitude.
Vincent Van Gogh, Night Cafe (Post-Impressionism)
-tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green
-color itself is expressive
Vincent Van Gogh, Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (Post-Impressionism)
-japonisme
-This work is a free copy of Ando Hiroshige’s Great Bridge,
Paul Cezanne, Mt. Ste.-Victoire (Post-Impressionism)
-made at least 70 images of Mont Saint-Victoire, near his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southeast France
Monet’s ideas
Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Paul Cezanne on his art
-We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.
- -color is used structurally to reveal solidity of objects
-painting is seen as a flat “map” of topography of objects in the world
- the solidity of objects, and their relation to each other, are empirically determined: seeks his realization
