Chapter 24 Flashcards
What are the Fauvists?
Meaning “wild beasts,” it emphasized painterly bold color.
Who was Henri Matisse?
He painted “Portrait of Madam Matisse,” “Joy of Life” and “Red Room” He was a landscape, portrait, and fauve artist.
Who painted “Whetting the Scythe?”
Kathe Kollwitz
What style did Kathe Kollwitz use?
Woodcut
What did Ernst Ludwig Kirchner paint?
“Street” and “Self Portrait as Soldier.”
What was the group “die Brucke?”
Bridging old age with new age German expressionism. It focuses on wrenching distortions of form and ragged outlines with agitated brushstrokes. Kirchner began it.
What was the group “der Blaue Reiter?”
A movement beginning with Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc that aided in beginning abstract art.
Who was Vassily Kandinsky?
He began “Der Blaue Reiter” and has an interest in the color blue and horses. He painted “Improvisation 28” which uses color juxtapositions.
Who was Franz Marc?
Founded “Der Blaue Reiter” along with Kandinsky. He painted animals and assigned symbols to color (Blue meaning manly and Yellow being feminine). He painted “Fate of the Animals.”
Who painted “Fate of the Animals?”
Franz Marc
Who painted “Improvisation 28?”
Vassily Kandinsky
Who was Egon Schiele?
He painted “Nude Self-Portrait, Grimacing” with gouache and watercolors. He often painted emaciated body, twisted limbs, and grimacing.
What is Cubism?
Simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and collage.
What is Primitivism?
Borrowings from primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.
Who painted “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?”
Pablo Picasso
Who was Pablo Picasso?
An analytical cubist artist who painted “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
What is Analytical Cubism?
Painterly analysis of the structure and form of an object. It’s static, there is no movement, and it’s broken down to geometric forms. Color is monochromatic.
Who was Georges Braques?
an analytic cubist who painted “The Portuguese” who twists the viewer’s perception of 2D and 3D space. He was the first to begin synthetic cubism.
What is synthetic cubism?
Constructed paintings from objects such as cut paper and other objects.
Who began synthetic cubism?
Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso
What was the first synthetic cubist painting?
Still life with Chair Canning
Who created “Still Life with Chair Canning?”
Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso.
Who painted “Girl Before Mirror?”
Pablo Picasso
Who created “Three Musicians?”
Pablo Picasso
Who created “Guernica?”
Pablo Picasso
What is Italian Futurism?
It began with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It’s a lot of motion. They saw war as a cleansing agent to get rid of the past. They glorified war. They advocated for the destruction of museums, libraries and other cultured objects. They were a modern movement.
Who was Umberto Boccioni?
He was a painter and sculptor. He sculpted “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” and promoted motion. He painted “Street Enters House” and “Elasticity.”
What is Orphism?
A style begun by Robert Delaunay that makes art seem like music!
Who was Robert Delaunay?
A colorful artist that began Orphism which is a style of cubism that promotes the use of color and music. He painted “Homage to Bleriot.”
What did Umberto Boccioni want to portray in his works?
Power, movement, and energy.
Who was Giacomo Balla?
An Italian Futurist artist who painted “Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash” to capture motion.
Who painted “Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash?”
Giacomo Balla
What is Dada?
Cynicism and Pessimism inspired art movement that is spontaneous and intuitive. It’s nonsensical. “What is art?”
Who was Marcel Dunchamp?
The most influential Dadaist who produced “ready made” pieces such as “L.H.O.O.Q.” and “Fountain.”
Who made “Fountain?”
Marcel Dunchamp.
Who created “L.H.O.O.Q.?”
Marcel Dunchamp
Who was Kurt Schwitters?
A German Dadaist and collage artist who arranged trash and fragmented objects into an art piece. He created “Merz.” Merz is a generic title he used for all of his collage work.
Who created “Merz?”
Kurt Schwitters.
Who invented the Rayograph?
Man Ray
What is the Rayograph?
A form of photography of placing objects such as the thumbtacks, coil of wire, and other circular forms used here-directly on a sheet of photo-sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
What is a metaphysical painting?
Images that transcend their physical appearance. “Song of Love.”
Who created metaphysical painting?
Giorgio de Chirico with his “The Disquieting Muses” and “The Song of Love”
Who painted “Disquieting Mueses?”
Giorgio de Chirico
Who painted “Song of Love?”
Giorgio de Chirico
What is “nonrepresentational painting?”
Abstract art.
What is the Armory Show of 1913?
It began the development of American modern art.
Who was Salvador Dali?
Spanish surrealist painter who painted “Persistence of Memory.”
Who painted “Persistence of Memory?”
Salvador Dali
Who was Rene Magritte?
A Belgian surrealist painter who used motifs rendered in a realistic manner to put a disjunctive feel against the object. He painted “Treachery of Images” which is “This is Not a Pipe.”
Who painted “Treachery of Images?” (This is not a pipe).
Rene Magritte
Who was Joan Miro?
Spanish surrealist whose work contained fantasy and hallucination. His work “Painting” includes spontaneous and intuitive expressions of the little-understood.
Who painted “Painting?”
Joan Miro
Who was Piet Mondrian?
An artist who painted “Pure plastic” paintings consisting of primary colors locked int o a grid of intersecting vertical lines. He painted “Composition of Red, Blue, and Yellow.”
Who was Paul Klee?
Primitive surreal artist who expressed feelings through color, form and line. He painted “Twittering Machine.”
Who painted “Composition of Red, Blue and Yellow?
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian was famous for what?
His simplistic surrealistic paintings such as “Composition of Red, Blue and Yellow.”
Who painted “Twittering Machine?”
Paul Klee
What is Neoplasticism?
A movement begun by Piet Mondrian that takes objects and moves them down to their most simplest form such as “Composition of Red, Blue, and Yellow.”
Who was Edward Hopper?
An American artist who painted scenes of contemporary everyday American life. He concentrated on general genre scenes of American city-life that everyone could relate to such as his painting “Nighthawk.”
Who painted “Nighthawk?”
Edward Hopper
What did Edward Hopper paint?
“Nighthawk” and scenes that everyone could relate to.
Who was Grant Wood?
He began the art movement of Regionalism. He was an American Scene painter who painted scenes from Iowa like “American Gothic” (Farmer and daughter) as a reaction against modernism.
What is Regionalism?
Scenes focusing on American subjects and reactions to modernist abstraction.
Who painted “American Gothic?”
Grand Wood
Who was John Sloan?
An American artist who painted scenes of American life. He focused his artwork on the working class. He painted “Six Avenue and 30th Street.”
Who were “the Eight?”
eight painters who gravitated into the circle of influential and evangelical artist and teacher Robert Henri. Henri urged the eight to make “pictures from life.”
Who began the Eight?
Robert Henri
Who was Arthur Dove?
An American modernist who exhibited their work in the Armory Show of 1913. He was one of the first to produce a completely nonobjective canvas. He captured nature as organic and growing.
Who painted “Nature Symbolized No. 2?”
Arthur Dove
What is Precisionism?
Focused on the machine’s “precision” and importance in everyday life. It associates with synthetic cubism.
Who was Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler?
Two artists who began the Precisionism movement.
Who was Charcles Demuth?
He reduced objects down to geometric shapes. He painted “My Egypt” (two grain elevators).
Who painted “My Egypt?”
Charles Demuth.
Who painted “New York, Night?”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Who was Georgia O’Keeffe?
A Precisionist painter who reduced her paintings to simple planes and stripping the subjects to their purest forms such as in “New York, Night.”
Who was Thomas Hart Benton?
A Regionalist artist who painted scenes from Missouri. He painted “A Social History of the State of Missouri.”
Who painted “A Social History of the State of Missouri?”
Thomas Hart Benton
Who was Frida Kahlo?
Mexican painter who painted self-portraits of her psychological pain and human existence. She painted “The Two Fridas.”
Who paitned “The Two Fridas?”
Frida Kahlo.
Who was Diego Rivera?
A Marxist Mexican Muralist painter who painted murals of figures in Mexican history.
Who was John Steuart Curry?
He painted life in Kansas. He was a Regionalist.
Who was Kasimir Malevich?
Pioneer of the Suprematist movment. He painted Geometric shape paintings such as “Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying.”
Who painted “Black Square?”
Kasimir Malevich
What was Suprematism?
It focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors.
Who were the Mexican Muralists?
Diego Rivera’s promotion of mural paintings of Mexican culture.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A cultural movement of African-American art.
What is Bauhaus?
A German modern school that promoted the use of Arts and Crafts and Modern art.
