Ch24: Turn of the Century; Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse. Flashcards
“Degererate Art”
Is a translation of the German term Entartete Kunst used by Hitler for art that didn’t fit his definition of good German art, which included most modern art. By 1937 some 16,000 artworks had been removed from museums and galleries in Germany.
Duchamp- Fountain, 1917, Ready-Made.
*Duchamp- Replica of L.H.O.O.Q. Paris 1919, From “Boite-en-Valise”
*Le Corbusier- Notre-Dame-du-Haut. Ronchamp, France, 1950-1954.
*Picasso- Study with seven figure fo Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, March-April 1907.
*Rietveld- Schroeder House. Utrecht, Netherlands, 1923-1924.
*Wright- Falling Water. Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936.
*Wright- Robie House. Chicago 1909.
Abstract Expressionism
An American post–World War II art movement (1940-60). A New York school of painting.
Phase I: Action painting, Phase II: Color feild painting.
Abstract=Not Realistic
Expressionism=Expression of inner feeling
Action painting
Sometimes called “gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.[1] The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. Pollock was one of the first.
American Scene Painting
1920-1930s. Rejecting European modernism and abstraction, American Scene painters wanted to create a largely realistic style in the depiction of subjects and scenes related to Amrican life. (Regionalists, Social Realist)
An exhibition mocking modern art (1937)
Called Entartete Kunst, with 650 confiscated works by about 112 artists, opened in Munich on 19 July 1937, and then toured Germany, Austria, and Poland. More than three million people saw the exhibition.
Analytic Cubism
Picasso and Braque. Analytic Cuism fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms.
1) Fragmented Background & Foreground
2) Multiple view point
3) Dull Muddy Colors
*Art Nouveau
a French school of arts. An international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. Orenamental style compose of curvilinear, organic forms that was a European wide response to industrialization and the prevalance of the machine.
Assemblage
A artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together *found objects. *During Surrealist movement, it suggest alternate reality.
At that time the German term for Bauhaus was?
“house of construction”
At the beginning of the 20th century, __________ breakthroughs not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the nature of reality itself.
Scientific
Automatism
Where the artist attemps to disengage conscious control in the creative act. During Surrealist movement.
Best known among the Fauve artists was __________.
Matisse
Betrayal of Images, The
1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte.
Bird in Space
Is a series of sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian sculptor. The original work was created in 1923.
Bird in Space court battle
In 1926-27, Bird in Space was the cause of a court battle due to the piece being taxed by U.S. Customs.
Blaue Reiter, Der
Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911-1914 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they felt, had spiritual values that could counteract the corruption and materialism of their age.
Boccioni- States of Mind: The Farewells, 1911.
Boccioni- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913,
Brancusi- Bird in Space 1924. 127.25cm high
Brancusi- Bird in Space 1928. Unique cast 54x8.5x6.5”
Brancusi- Golden Bird. 1919-1920
Brancusi- Maiastra. 1912
Brancusi- Sleep. 1908
Brancusi- Sleeping Muse I. 1909-1910
Brancusi- The Newborn. 1915
Braque- House at L’Estaque, 1908.
Braque- Violin and Pitcher, 1909-1910.
Brucke, Die
German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1905 to 1913. Artist (Kirchner & Nolde) intention to creat a bridge between their own art and modern revloutionary ideas, and between what was traditional and what was new in art.
Cantilever Construction
Cantilever construction is when a horizontal architectural element, projected into space, has vertical support and coutner balancing weight inside the building. Wright pioneered the use of reinforced concrete and steel girders for cantileverconstruction in large buildings.
Collage
A work of art formed by pasting fragments of printed matter, cloth, and other materials (occasionally three-dimensional) to a flat surface.
Color Field Painting
2nd phase of Abstract Expressionism 1950-1960s. Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. Typically calm and inwardly direction and is capable of evoking a meditative, even spiritual, response. Rothko.
Cubi XXVII
Stainless steel sculptures built from cubes, rectangular solids and cylinders with spheroidal or flat endcaps by David Smith, 1963, example of Modernism.
Cubism
- First branch* of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, subject seen from differnt angles simultaneously was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, where flat shapes of color resemble object,remained vital until around 1918, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.
Dada
“anit-art” 1915-1923, Dada (movement) was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.
Forms include Ready-Made(Appropriation)
Dali, Salvador
1904–1989. known as Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
De Stijl
Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic (Mondian) movement founded in 1917-1931. Sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour, fostered “equilibrium of opposites”.
Drip technique
Is a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas. This style of action painting.
Duchamp: “Boite-en-Valise”
Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise, or box in a suitcase, is a portable miniature monograph including sixty-nine reproductions of the artist’s own work. Between 1935 and 1940.
Expressionism Def
When an artist expresses an inner feeling.
Fauvism
First Paris at the Salon d’Automne. Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a short-lived and loose group(Matisse) of early twentieth-century (1905-198) Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities **vivid color, and vigorous patterns and unusual color combinations. **
Futurism
Boccioni. Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the (1909-1929) early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.
Guernica
Synthetic-Cubism. Is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the atrocity bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
Harlem Renaissance
Was a cultural movement by African-Americans in the Harlem area 1924-1930s. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”
Lawrence(Simplified forams and flat colors) , Van Der Zee (Photographs), Douglas (Synthetic Cubism).
In Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, multiple viewpoints and the flattening of space were to be characteristic of __________ painting.
Cubist
In the early 1920s, __________ became one of the first Western artists to paint in a pure, abstract manner.
Mondrian
In the early years of this century, one city was viewed as the center of modernism; and one artist in this city is still for us the modern artist. Who is the artist and what is the city?
Pablo Picasso/Paris.
International Style
The International style is a major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s after WWI.
Kahlo, Frida
1907-1954 was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, who is best known for her self-portraits. Surrealist.
Kahlo- The Broken Column. 1944.
Kahlo- Thinking about Death. 1943.
Kandinsky, Vassily
Expressionism. Wassily? 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Member of the Bauhaus 1922-1933. Left the New artist Association to form the Blue Rider 1911-1914.
Kandinsky- Blue Rider, 1903,
Kandinsky- Improvisation no. 30 (Warlike Theme), 1913.
Kandinsky- Open Green
Kandinsky- Panel for Edwin R. Campbell no. 4 Formally painting no. 201 WINTER. 1914.
Kandinsky- Several Circles, No 323. 1926.
Kollwitz- Death and a Woman Struggling for a Child,1910, Etching.
Kollwitz- Pieta III, 1903, Lithograph.