Chapter 3: Oh Fuck Flashcards
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Symbolism
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- Many of the symbolist ideas can be traced back to prominent poets of the time
- Baudelaire’s concept of poetic imagination and symbols
- Mallarme’s ideas of imitation rather than depiction
- Verlaine’s musical verse and diction
- While some symbolist used more traditional painting styles and subjects others continued to push the accepted art forms to fine new ways to express their dream like ideas
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Lily’s bae
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- Cyclops, Odilon Redon (1895-1900)
- Depicts a mythic story of a cyclops who is in love with a sea nymph
- there is no water around the nymph but rather arbitrary color and pattern that flattens out the space making it more ethereal and dream like.
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Acid trip
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- Gustave Moreau, The Apparition (1876)
- depicted in a very decorative ethereal space
- Moreau paints a biblical story of Salome having tortured visions of John the baptist’s severed head that she asked for after he rejected her
- Female figure are beginning to be depicted as Femme Fatale, or the fatal woman/temptresses
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why don’t you just carry a key tho
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- I lock the door upon myself, Fernand Khnopff (1891)
- The Symbolists and Pre-Raphealites like to paint red haired models
- the piece is full of death symbolism, the figure both represents the artists dead sister and a medusa figure while the window opens up to an empty city scape
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Pre-Raphealite
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- The Pre-Raphealite movement was looking to revive medieval work and its ideals
- because of the lack of market interest in biblical work some artist would resort to classical imagery to appeal to patrons
- The style returned to traditional painting methods but used older subject matter that was still seen as outcast work
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successful hoeing
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- Edward Burne-Jones, King Cophetua and the Begger Maid (1884) -depicts a temptress female figure
- Edward took inspiration from late medieval and early renaissance work
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basic bitch goddess
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- Astarte Syriacca, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1877)
- Dante decided to depict a middle eastern goddess in order to make the piece more desirable to patrons
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Les Sad People
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- Les Miserables, Paul Gauguin (1888)
- image of van gogh is seen in the background along with a floral pattern that could be a wallpaper or the artists vision
- space is undefined in background
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Paul Gauguin
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- Born in 1848 and died in 1903
- Gauguin was originally a sailor and after some time he moved inland to be a banker, during this time he married a danish woman and had five kids
- Gauguin had always been an amateur artist but after the bank closed he decided to work in art full time, even separating from his family to travel to Paris where he met Van Gogh.
- The two worked closely together influencing one another, they even moved to a rural town to form a art community on their ideals. they two soon parted way when Van Gogh tried to kill him later one of their many arguments
- Gauguin later went in search of primitive life so he moved to Tahiti to paint the native people
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peeps got turnt after church
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- Vision after the sermon, Paul Gauguin (1888)
- Jacob fighting with an angel
- the canvas in divided diagonally with more peasant women in the left bottom corner
- the ground is red, clearly indicating that it is a dream
- captures the visionary aspect of deeply religious people
- contour lines appear throughout his work
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shopping bitches
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- Market in Brittany, Emile Bernard (1888)
- heavy contour lines are influenced by stained glass
- no horizon line, view pointed is higher up and tilted downwards
- image is cropped and has similarities with vision after the sermon
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omg gauguin is da shit
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- The Talisman, Paul Serusier (1888)
- Paul was one of many of Gauguin’s followers
- his piece is a study of a forest path, but it uses such intense color blocking and arbitrary color that it becomes heavily abstracted
- it is considered to be the first abstract work
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they’re a band now
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- Nirvana [portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan], Paul Gauguin (1890)
- the main figure in the chair is stylized, almost resembles a mask
- painting brings to light the invisible private thoughts of the seated man, shown as the woman standing behind the chair
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you jelly bruh
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- Are you Jealous?, Paul Gauguin (1892)
- Gauguin had gone looking for a civilization untouched by modern ideals, leading him to Tahiti
- the figures are more detailed in observed form and values but the background is still blocked in arbitrary colors
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I got high on native chicks and I think Im in love now
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- Be in love and you will be Happy, Paul Gauguin (1890)
- a wood relief that Gauguin made while in Tahiti
- Gauguin had fallen in love with the people and the environment
- in 1893 Gauguin returned to Paris with a Tahitian girlfriend and his friends organized and exhibit of his new work
- the exhibit failed and his girlfriend left him for a younger frenchman
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what am I doing? I regret so much. pls kill me.
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- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Paul Gauguin (1897)
- In 1895 Gauguin returned to Tahiti but later moved to an even more remote island of Hiva-Hoa
- there he made this piece out of stitched together pieces of burlap.
- While the piece has strong hints at the cycle of life and death Gauguin firmly denies that it has any meaning whatsoever
- the old figure on the far left mirrors that of the huddled figure in “Be in love and you will be happy”
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VINCENT VAN GOGH
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-Born 1853 died 1890 -Van Gogh had always been an eccentric child and in order to keep him grounded his parents tried to get him work as a picture salesman, a pastor and a missionary, he failed at all three -he later went to pairs in 1886 and met Gauguin, the tow got along and influenced each other until a fight where Van Gogh tried to kill Gauguin and later cut off his own ear and presented to to a prostitute -He was institutionalized for his safety and continued making art. in 1890 he killed himself having had no success as an artist, he died in his younger brother Theo’s arms.
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im a bab
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- The Garden of the Presbytery at Neunen, Winter-Vincent Van Gogh (1884)
- This piece was made while Van Gogh was still trying to be Minister
- while the work is fairly observational Van Gogh’s usual emotional aspect comes through in the branches of the trees.
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but first let me take a selfie
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- self portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh (1888)
- After dropping out of seminary, Van Gogh met Gauguin and began learning from him
- His portrait not only uses his notable brush strokes but also flat color fields inspired by Gauguin
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day bar
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- Night Cafe, Vincent Van Gogh (1888)
- Van Gogh uses arbitrary color to create an unsettling atmosphere, everything has a bright sickly glow to it
- the perspective is set just to high for us to be part of the space naturally causing a strange disconnect between the viewer and the cafe, yet the manager stares right at us.
- Van Gogh represents the lights in the cafe with short thin brush stokes circling each light fixture, giving the idea of a harsh glow.
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the cloudy day
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- The starry night, Vincent Van Gogh (1889)
- Made while in a mental institution, the piece shows a scene from the window of Van Gogh room
- Van Gogh believed that when someone died they became a star, which could suggest that by focusing so much on the night sky he was thinking of his own death.
- the Cyprus tree also suggest this as it was not commonly grown in the are where he lived.
- there is also a church steeple shown possible a reference to his religious upbringing.
- the piece is alive with movement and color, and creates foundations to the expressionism movement.
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the slump of death
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- The Dance of Life, Edvard Munch (1899-1901)
- Night scene in Norway during the summer when the sun does not set
- woman in red is the temptress, young woman in white is just entering the dance of life, older woman in black is leaving the dance of life
- moon reflection in water can be crucifix or phallic symbol
- painting deals with faith and sex, though munch himself was not religious
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i cry evrytiem
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- The Cry (scream), Edvard Munch (1893)
- there are three different versions of this piece
- madness ran in Munch’s family and he was scared of losing his sanity
- figure is screaming, but also holding its ears as if nature is screaming back
- the bridge signifies a transition between two different stages of life
- the sky is brilliantly colored due to a volcanic eruption in Sicily
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and then he left cause he doesn’t like veggies
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- Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, James Ensor (1888) -Political/ socialist rally
- Christ is entering towards the background in the crowd -faces of the people resemble masks
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who sleeps naked these days
* Night, Ferdinand Hodler (1890)
* center figure with dark mass on his chest is experiencing a nightmare or perhaps sleep paralysis
* depiction of dreams fits right into expressionism
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Expressionism
* Expressed personal angst and feelings
* expressionist paintings were all about the self or the artist
* personal perspective is the focus
* utilized arbitrary color to express inner emotion or atmosphere of a scene
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smoochies get weird: may i please have my face back
* The Kiss, Edvard Munch (1902)
* Munch thought that relations with women were toxic and took away ones individuality, and made the faces joined to show this
* phallic psychosexual nonsense
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woooo! im white
* Poster for La Revue Blanche, Pierre Bonard (1894)
* Poster for art Publication/ journal
* the woman holds a copy of it while the tiny man points to it
* proportions are very strange
* forms are solid color fields
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twisty zephyr
* Whirlwind, Felix Vallotton (1894)
* lines and curves suggest wind or swirling smoke as the girl hides behind her mother for protection from the elements
* the figures are flattend by fields of flat patterns
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bros before hoes
* Misia and Vallotton, Edouard Vuillard (1899)
* many layered patterns throughout the painting flatten the images of the interior space
* resembles the colorful patterns of matisse
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GET UP PAULA
* Sun Rays-Paula, Berlin-Alfred Steiglitz (1889)
* Photo was used as a new artistic medium
* the photo still uses pattern like paintings of the time did
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my wife is a chameleon and likes to be the color of the wall.
* Dining Room on the Garden, Pierre Bonnard (1934-35)
* strangely hidden woman could be Bonnard's wife, whom he had a very strange marriage with
* colors are exaggerated and block out the objects in space
* sea and sky are almost the exact same color, showing atmospheric blending
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I can't do the can can. I have bad knees.
* Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1893)
* posters were collectible from the time they were printed
* posters were turned into pieces of fine art
* Jane is seen from the side dancing and a musician takes up the foreground and framing the image
* inspired by japanese prints
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you gonna need a light box for that
* Trace Horse, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1888)
* shows horse being brought to switch places with a horse who is already tired out from pulling the wagon
* street scene of France
* the cobblestone creates a natrual source of pattern
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Mulan was too busy being a badass to go to the fucking theater
* At the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1892)
* the intense lighting from the gas lamps gives the people strange coloring.
* the image is cropped most noticeable on the face of the woman on the right
* Vienna chairs and clothing of the patrons speak to the time period
* strangely short man in background is Toulouse-lautrec
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BUTTCHEEKS
* After the bath, Suzanne Valadon (1901)
* female artist, taught by Degas
* Very graphic colors, black outlines, very pictorial
* female faces away from the viewer, but not in the way an odalisque would
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SUZANNE VALADON
* holy crap its a female artist
* Suzanne grew up as a street kid, then became a prostitute and a model for many artists.
* she was very intelligent and watched the painters at work which informed her own artistic career
* at one point was married to Eric Satie the composer
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
* lived in Mont-Matre and was ensconced in the nightlife
* was familiar with all of the prostitutes and less savory characters
* he was raised in a very wealthy family but after an accident as a child stunted his growth he became an outcast, it was with the underbelly of Parisian society that he found a home
* broke both legs as a child, resulting in his legs never growing properly. His upper body was completely normal but his legs were permanently damaged
