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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

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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

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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

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Russian
Sculpture using geometric forms
Total abstraction

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ORGANIC SCULPTURE

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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

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Diego rivers
Mexican art
Fresco
Indigenous vs Spanish conquistadors

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