Art In London Flashcards
Artist
Title
Art Movement
Importance
Braque
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantlepiece
Analytical Cubism
It’s radical, image is flat, monochromatic colors, introduction of text to images, bits and pieces of clarinet, deconstructing and reconstructing images
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Duchamp
Fountain
Dada 1916-1923
First Ready Made and Duchmap felt he didnt have to make his own work but he chose it and changed the meaning of the form by changing a urinal into a fountain. Readymades influence art.
Movement
Definition
Analytical Cubism
In the analytic phase (1907–12) the cubist palette was severely limited, largely to black, browns, grays, and off-whites. In addition, forms were rigidly geometric and compositions subtle and intricate. Cubist abstraction as represented by the analytic works of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris intended an appeal to the intellect. The cubists sought to show everyday objects as the mind, not the eye, perceives them—from all sides at once.
Movement
Definition
Dada
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature
Movement
Definition
Synthetic Cubism
Brings back colors and makes things look more recognizable and Cubism ends with the onset of World War I
Movement
Definition
Futurism
Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper…saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just before the outbreak of the First World War. What the Futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology.
Like cubism on speed, first movement to have a manifesto!* Very shortlived with fascists artists.
Movement
Definition
De Stigl (1917-1931)
De Stijl was a circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals
Think Mondrian
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Salvador Dali
Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
Surrealism
Revolution from Reason, Free association and dream analysis, development of psychiatry
Movement
Definition
Surrealism
Surrealism was launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet André Breton with the publication of his Manifesto of Surrealism. Breton was strongly influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud identified a deep layer of the human mind where memories and our most basic instincts are stored. He called this the unconscious, since most of the time we are not aware of it. The aim of surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life. Surrealism also aimed at social and political revolution and for a time was affiliated to the Communist party.
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Miro
Painting (1927)
Surrealism
Revolution from Reason, Free association and dream analysis, development of psychiatry
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Pablo Picasso
Nude Women with Necklace (1932)
Cubism
Everything Picasso does is related to a woman in his life.
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Matisse
The Snail (1953)
Represents happiness in life and enthusiasm, painted paper put on canvas
Artist
Title
Movement
Judd
Untitled (1980)
Minimalism
Movement
Description
Minimalism
a movement in sculpture and painting which arose in the 1950s, characterized by the use of simple, massive forms.
Movement
Definition
Conceptualism (Idea Art)
Idea is more important than the finished work. Visual presentation can be secondary.
Think of Duchamp Fountain or the glass of water is a tree.
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Martin Creed
The Lights Going On and Off (2000)
Conceptualism
He wants to create order in a world thats chaotic
Artist
Title
Movement
Importance
Damien Hirst
A Thousand Years (1990)
Freeze
About Life, death, birth and decay
Artist
Title
Movement
Damien Hirst
For the Love of God (2007)
Freeze
Artist
Title
Movement
Tracey Emin
Baby Things (2008)
Freeze
