Artsist And Artworks Flashcards
Post-Impressionism: Artist + artwork 1
Cézanne: Large bathers
Description of 1
There are a group of large, disproportioned nude women in the foreground. Women and trees crate a triangular composition. The triangular shape is inverted at the bottom in the women’s arms. The lake/river in between the two pieces of land is almost the same colour as the sky creating a flat space.
Post-Impressionism: Artists + artwork 2
Van Gogh: The Night Café
Description of 2
Depicts the interior of a pool café. Majority fo the panting is the sulphuric yellow colour of the cafe floorboards. Then there is a sickly green billiard table outlined in harsh black lines. Beside the table is a man blankly. The lower yellow walls and dark red walls above that lead to a green ceiling. Around the walls are tables with a few people at them.
Post-Impressionism: Artist + artwork 3
Gauguin: Vision After the Sermon
Description of 3
The ground is red and flat , there is very little dimension. There are women lining, from the top left corner to the bottom right. Some are praying. Protruding from the bottom right of the canvas is a tree. It creates a diagonal line through the canvas. In the top right there is a winged man fighting another person.
Fauvism: Artist + artwork 4
Matisse: harmony in red
Description of 4
Lots of red. Red table cloth, red walls. Lemon on the table balanced by small lights outside the window. Open window showing that it is nighttime outside. Blue pattern on the wall follows on to the tablecloth. On the far right, there is a maid with a white apron arranging fruit in a bowl.
Die Brücke: Artist + artwork 5
Kirchner: five women in the street
Description of 5
Shows five women dressed in dark, expensive-looking clothing. The painting has a sickly green hue to it. The woen are elongated and angular.
Der Blaue Reiter: Artist + artwork 6
Marc: blue horses
Description of 6
A closeup of 3 blue horses. Background is red hill with a bit of green. Curves of the hills repeat the curves of the horses. No space
Cezanne: Artist + artwork 7
Braque: houses at L’Estaque
Description of 7
All forms have been simplified. There is a tree, rocks and buildings that have all be stacked on top of one another rather than arranged behind and in front of one another. There is no depth/ perspective
Analytical cubism: Artist + artwork 8
Braque: the Portuguese
Description of 8
Dull: brown, green, grey and ochre are seen. A figure in the centre has been distorted using the facets. The figure is a man playing guitar which can be seen through the clues of the soundhole and the strings
Synthetic cubism: Artist + artwork 9
Picasso: still life with chair canning
Description fo 9
An image of chair canning and other drawn objects. It is framed with real rope.
Dada: Artist + artwork 10
Arp: collage with squares arranged according to the laws of chance
Description of 10
Squares of different colours were dropped at random were glued to a surface to create a collage
Dada: Artist + artwork 11
Duchamp: fountain
Description of 11
A urinal signed by Duchamp placed on a plinth and put in a museum.
Surrealism: Artist + artwork 12
Micro: carnival of harlequin
Description of 12
Room with table and window. Room is filled with insect like creatures and doodles/toys
Surrealism: Artist + artwork 13
Dali: the persistence of memory
Description of 13
Very realistically painted. A block on the left with a branch , with clocks drooped over the edges as if fabric. The clock at the bottom left corner is covered in flies. In the centre is a face-like creature with long eyelashes. Another clock is draped over it. In the background d us an ocean and a mountain to the right
