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Barron's: Chapter 22 - Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Art Flashcards

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Time Period

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  • 1900-1980
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Movement, Dates, and Major Artists

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  • Fauvism: c. 1905; Matisse
  • Expressionism: 1905-1930s; Kollwitz
    • The Bridge: 1905; Kirchner
    • The Blue Rider: 1911; Kandinsky
  • Cubism: 1907-1930s; Picasso, Braque
  • Constructivism: 1914-1920s; Stepanova
  • Dada: 1916-1925; Duchamp
  • DeStijl: 1917-1930s; Mondrian
  • Mexican Muralists: 1920s-1930s; Rivera
  • International Style: 1920s-1930s; Le Corbusier
  • Surrealism: 1924-1930s; Kah;p, Oppenheim, Lam
  • Harlem Renaissance: 1930s; Lawrence
  • Abstract Expressionism: Late 1940s-1950s; DeKooning
  • Pop Art: 1955-1960s; Warhol, Oldenburg
  • Color Field Painting: 1960s; Frankenthaler
  • Happenings: 1960s; Kusama
  • Site Art: 1970s-1990s; Lin, Smithson
  • Postmodern: 1975-today; Venturi
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Essential Knowledge

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  • New philosophies, particularly those by Freud and Einstein, spread throughout the world. These views were supplemented by a new understanding of worldwide cultures
  • modern movements include expressionism, cubism, surrealism, etc.
  • women artists become more recognized
  • artists publish manifestos
  • artists and architects use new materials such as acrylic, earthworks, and cantilevers
  • commercial galleries become important. museums open and display art. art sells to an ever widening market
  • artists work for private and public institutions to a sometimes critical public
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Goldfish

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  • Henri Matisse
  • 1912
  • oil on canvas
  • Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Fauvism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Color
    • Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
    • Dedication Page of Blanche and Castile and Louis IX
    • Mori, Pure Land
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Improvisation 28 (second version)

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  • Vassily Kandyinsky
  • 1912
  • oil on canvas
  • Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Expresisonism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Composition
    • David, The Oath of the Horatti
    • Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
    • Giotto, Lamentation
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Self-Portrait as a Soldier

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  • Ernst Kirchner
  • 1915
  • oil on canvas
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
  • Expressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Self-Portraits
    • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Saskia
    • Vigee Le Brun, Self-Portrait
    • Kahlo, The Two Fridas
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Memorial Sheet for Karl Lieknecht

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  • Kathe Kollwitz
  • 1919-1920
  • woodcut
  • Private Collection
  • Expressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Memorials
    • Taj Mahal
    • The Sphinx and the Pyramids
    • Terra-Cotta Warriors
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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  • Pablo Picasso
  • 1907
  • oil on canvas
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Cubism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Group Figures
    • Velazquez, Las Meninas
    • Basquiat, Horn Players
    • Sultan Muhammad, Court of the Gayumars
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The Portuguese

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  • Georges Braque
  • 1911
  • oil on canvas
  • Art Museum, Basel, Switzerland
  • Cubism
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The Kiss

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  • Constantin Brancusi
  • 1907-1908
  • limestone
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  • Cubism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Schematic Human Forms
    • Anthropomorphic Stele
    • Female Deity from Nukuoro
    • Ikenga Shrine
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The Steerage

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  • Alfred Stieglitz
  • 1907
  • photograph
  • Private Collection
  • Photo-Secession
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Disadvantaged Persons
    • Turner, Slave Ship
    • Courbet, The Stone Breakers
    • Rodin, The Burghers of Calais
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Fountain

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  • Marcel Duchamp
  • original 1917, this version 1950
  • china with black paint
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  • Dada
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Object

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  • Meret Oppenheim
  • 1936
  • fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Surrealism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Found Objects
    • Camelid Sacrum
    • Duchamp, Fountain
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The Two Fridas

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  • Frida Kahlo
  • 1939
  • oil on canvas
  • Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
  • Surrealism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Self-Portraits
    • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
    • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Saskia
    • Vigee Le Brun, Self-Portrait
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The Jungle

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  • Wilfredo Lam
  • 1943
  • gouache on paper mounted on canvas
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Surrealism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Art Inspired form Diverse Cultural Traditions
    • Petra
    • Golden Haggadah
    • Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
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Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

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  • Varvara Stepanova
  • 1932
  • photomontage
  • Museum of the Revolution, Moscow, Russia
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Social Commentary
    • Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
    • Sherman, Untitled #228
    • Walker, Darkytown Rebellion
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Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

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  • Piet Mondrian
  • 1930
  • oil on canvas
  • Private Collection
  • DeStijl
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Composition
    • Su-nam, Summer Trees
    • Navigation Chart
    • Martinez, Black-on-black ceramic vessel
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Kaufmann House “Fallingwater”

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 1936-1939
  • reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass
  • Bear Run, Pennsylvania
  • Prairie Style
  • Cross-Cultural Connections: Homes
    • Jefferson, Monticello
    • Ryoan-ji
    • House of the Vettii
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Villa Savoye

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  • Le Corbusier
  • 1929
  • steel and reinforced concrete
  • Poissy-sure-Seine, France
  • International Style
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Houses
    • House of the Vettii
    • Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
    • Alhambra
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Seagram Building

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  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
  • 1954-1958
  • steel frame with glass curtain wall and bronze
  • New York
  • International Style
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The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49

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  • Jacob Lawrence
  • tempera on hardboard
  • 1940-1941
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Social Criticism
    • Salcedo, Shibboleth
    • Smith, Lying with the Wolf
    • Quick-to-See-Smith, Trade
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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park

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  • Diego Rivera
  • 1947-1948
  • fresco
  • Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City
  • Mexican Muralists
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Historicism
    • Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
    • Raphael, School of Athens
    • Olmec Style Mask
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Woman, I

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  • Willem de Kooning
  • 1950-1952
  • oil on canvas
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Images of Women
    • Manet, Olympia
    • Titian, Venus of Urbino
    • Neshat, Rebellious Silence
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The Bay

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  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • 1963
  • acrylic on canvas
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  • Color Field Painting
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Nature
    • Su-nam, Summer Trees
    • Hokusai, Great Wave
    • Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow
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Marilyn Diptych

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  • Andy Warhol
  • 1962
  • oil, acrylic, silkscreen enamel on canvas
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Pop Art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Human Identity
    • Tlatilco Female Figure
    • Rodriguez, Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
    • Neshat, Rebellious Silence
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Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

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  • Claes, Oldenburg
  • 1969-1974
  • cor-ten steel, aluminium, and cast resin, painted with polyurethane enamel
  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Pop Art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: War and Battle Commemorations
    • Column of Trajan
    • Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
    • Siege of Belgrade
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Narcissus Garden

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  • Yayoi Kusama
  • first seen in 1966
  • installation of mirrored balls
  • Venice
  • Happenings art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Human Identity and Image
    • Sherman, Untitled 228
    • Wall Plaque from Oba’s Palace
    • Narmer Palette
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Spiral Jetty

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  • Robert Smithson
  • 1970
  • mud, salt crystals, rocks, water coil
  • Great Salt Lake, Utah
  • Site art
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Spirals and Circular Constructions
    • Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates
    • Great Serpent Mound
    • Stonehenge
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House in New Castle County

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  • Robert Venturi, John Rauchm and Denise Scott Brown
  • 1978-1983
  • wood frame and stucco
  • Delaware
  • Postmodern Architecture
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Homes
    • Jefferson, Monticello
    • Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
    • LeCorbusier, Villa Savoye
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abstract

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  • works of art that may have form, but have little or no attempt at pictorial representation
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action painting

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  • an abstract painting in which the artist drips or splatter paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create the work
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assemblage

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  • a three-dimensional work made of various materials such as wood, cloth, paper, and miscellaneous objects
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biomorphism

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  • a movement stressing organic shapes that hint at natural forms
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cantilever

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  • a projecting beam that is attached to a building at one end but suspended in the air at the other
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collage

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  • a composition made by pasting together different items onto a flat surface
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color field painting

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  • a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color
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documentary photography

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  • a type of photography that seeks social and political redress for current issues by using photographs as a way of exposing society’s faults
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earthwork

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  • a large outdoor work in which the earth itself is the medium
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ferroconcrete

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  • stele reinforced concrete; the two materials act together to resist building stresses
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frottage

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  • a composition made by rubbing a crayon or a pencil over paper placed over a surface with a raised design
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happening

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  • an act of performance art that is initially planned but involves spontaneity, improvisation, and often audience participation
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harlem renaissance

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  • a particularly rich artistic period in the 1920s and 1930s that is named after the African-American neighborhood in New York City where it emerged. it is marked by a cultural resurgence by African-Americans in the fields of painting, writing, music, and photography
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installation

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  • a temporary work of art made up of assemblages create for a particular space, like an art gallery or a museum
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mobile

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  • a sculpture made of several different items that dangle from a ceiling and can be set into motion by air currents
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ready-made

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  • a commonplace object selected and exhibited as a work of art
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silkscreen

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  • a printing technique that passes ink or paint through a stenciled image to make multiple copies
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venice biennale

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  • a major show of contemporary art that takes place every other year in various venues throughout the city of Venice; begun in 1895

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