EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY-MODERNISM Flashcards
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FAUVISM
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French critiqued it as wild beasts
Bold colors
Oversimplification
2-D
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WOMEN WITH THE HAT
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Henry Matisse Fauvism Colors used wherever Bold brushstrokes Bright colors doesn't matter where they are used
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LONDON BRIDGE
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Andre Derain
Fauvism
Used color in untrue ways
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DIE BRUCKE (the bridge) GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
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Negative
Bold brushstroke
Lots of colors
Alienation
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IMPROVISATIONS
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Kandinsky Der Bleu Reiter(the blue rider) Non representational Not reality No real form Only colors
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DIER BLUE REITER (the blue rider)
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Spiritual affects if color
German
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SAINT MARY OF EGYPT AMONG SINNERS
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Emil Nolde
Die Brucke
Prostitute surrounded by men
Not pretty or glorified
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SEATED YOUTH
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Wilheim Lehmbruch Expressionist sculpture Slumped shoulders Elongated form Anguish
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WAR MONUMENT
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Ernst Barlach Expressionist Sculpture Floats in limbo Looks like a canon/torpedo/bullet Soul escaping? Calls attention to the head via the rigid economy Dying would about to be awakened
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GERTRUDE STEIN
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Picasso Cubism Face front on Nose on side Sharp hairline in forehead
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CUBISM
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Geometrical forms Renaissance tradition of perspective Multiple perspectives Influenced by cezanne two types: analytic cubism and synthetic
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Analytic Cubism
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Limited colors
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Synthetic cubism
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Rich
Colorful
Decorative
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LES DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNON
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Picasso cubism Prostitutes Composite view Fractured colors Naked
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THREE MUSICIANS
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Picasso
Cubism
Synthetic cubism
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GUERNICA
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Picasso Horse=people Lightbulb=eye Tail looks like flame Broken sword=trying to fight against bombs In a bunker Newsprint Canon coming out of the horses mouth Women with child=pieta bull=Spain? Greek chorus with lamp Balanced lie bs
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THE CITY
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Fernand Leger Cubism Nothing human Colorful Geometric shapes
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DESTIJL, NEOPLASTICISM, POST CUBISM
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Abstract Geometric Primary colors Black and white Reject fluid decorative
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COMPOSITION IN RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW
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Mondrian
Neoplasticism
Theosophy
Hate this one
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PRECISIONISM
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Industrial and mechanical subjects No living beings Geometric shapes Realism w/ abstraction Influenced by cubism
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THE UPPER DECK
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Sheeler
Precisionism
Lines and repetition of shape
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JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT
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O’Keefe
Precisonism
Suggestive
Dark, vibrant colors
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FUTURISM
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Italian
Machines and speed
Passage of time
Influenced by cubism
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UNIQUE FORMS OF CONTINUITY IN SPACE
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Boccioni futurism Captures essence of movement Statue Fluid Not true to human form
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NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
Duchamp
Futurism
Captures movement
Barely able to make out form
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DADA
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Crazy art for a crazy world
Out of disgust for WWII
Mocks culture
Anti-art movement
Influenced by Freud
Believed in the irrational
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FOUNTAIN
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Duchamp
Dada
Urinal
Signed R. Mutt 1917
Makes no sense
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SURREALISM
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Subconscious
Dreamlike
Juxtaposition
Freudian
"Realistic style"
Andre Breton created it
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THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
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Dali
Surrealism
Flies and ants eating clock
Random landscape
Dead tree branch
Fetus=self portrait
Melting
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OBJECT
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Oppenheim
Surrealism
Tea cup covered in fur
Useless
No purpose
sexual?
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I AND THE VILLAGE
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Chagall
Surrealism
Jewish born in Russia moved to France them New York when the nazis came
Closeness with nature
He is the green man
Childhood is shown
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SUPREMATISM
Simple geometric shapes
Pure aesthetic
No connection to material
Total abstraction
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SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION: AIR PLANE FLYING
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Malevich
Suprematist
No connection to real life
Feeling of flying
Squares
Simple colors (black white red and yellow)
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MONUMENT TO THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
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Tatlin
Constructivism
Russian
Gov building
Three sections (hierarchy of power)
Glass and iron
Functional/propaganda
Communication center
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CONSTRUCTIVISM
Russian
Sculpture using geometric forms
Total abstraction
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ORGANIC SCULPTURE
Used abstract, organic shapes
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BIRD IN SPACE
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BRANCUSI
Organic sculpture
Essence of things
Doesn't look like a bird
Essence of flight
Reduce things
Beauty of simplicity
Capture idea
Joyous
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RECLINING FIGURE
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Henry Moore
Organic sculpture
Abstract
Plays with negative space
Essence of things
Outdoors
Interested in form/shape/color/lines
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NIGHTHAWKS
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Edward hopper
American
Basic with little detail
Abstract qualities with pattern and space
Negative or positive
Mixed emotions
Chicago
Lonely or nah
1942 feeling of alienation
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AMERICAN GOTHIC
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Grant wood
Regionalism
Not a portrait used his dentist and sister as models
Not satire
Show disconnection of family
No emotion
He looks at viewer she looks off
American gothic=style of building
Patterns pull together painting
Structured
Reduce
Captures what it's like to be an American
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NO. 49 FROM THE MIGRATION OF THE NEGRO
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Jacob Lawrence
Harlem Renaissance
Show horror
Whites are larger than blacks
Segregation
No faces on blacks=no identity
Feeling of invisibility or lack of personality
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MOBILE
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Kinetic art
Movement
Hands through wire
Moves with wind and air
Primary colors
Black and white
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ANCIENT MEXICO
Diego rivers
Mexican art
Fresco
Indigenous vs Spanish conquistadors
