Dada, Surrealism, North American Modernism Flashcards
Artist: Duchamp
Title: Fountain
Date: 1917
Style/Country: Dada, France
Significance: example of a readymade that outraged many people, based on the belief that an artist can completely remove themselves from the creation of the art.
Artist: Joan Miró
Title: The Farm
Date: 1921
Location: NGA
Style/Country: Surrealism, Spain
Significance: emphasizes the shapes that make up an object rather than how they appear in nature. objects aren’t proportional to each other, moon is out during the day, dreamlike.
Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers
Date: 1940
Style/Country: Surrealism, Spain
Significance: very abstract, washed background with a range of earth tones, the back dots seem like constellations.
Artist: Calder
Title: Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Date: 1939
Style/Country: Surrealism, USA
Significance: One of the first examples of a mobile, biomorphic shapes based on nature, sculptures dont resemble a single identifiable thing.
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Persistence of Memory
Date: 1931
Style/Country: Surrealism, Spain
Significance: dreamscape, subject matter wouldn’t be seen in real life, but can still be identified, the cliffs are based from his hometown, uses a lot of double images.
Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe
Title: The Shelton with Sunspots
Date: 1926
Style/Country: Modernism, USA
Significance: the sunspots incorporate photography into her art, celebrates the hustle and bustle of the city, but also contradicts the reduction of nature and flowers of her previous work. comments on industrialization.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Title: Migration #1: During the World War There Was a Great Migration North by Southern African Americans
Date: 1940
Location: Philips Collection
Style/Country: Modernism, USA
Significance: none of the people are identifiable, and everyone is the same to represent the everyman. series is very truthful, but based on what lawrence heard from family members and friends.
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Title: The Two Fridas
Date: 1939
Style/Country: Surrealism, Mexico
Significance: self-portrait, traditional spanish clothes on the left and european clothes on the right, dreamscape similar to dali with the sky. depicts her feeling of unrest after her divorce.
