Exam 1 Flashcards
Woman in Blue with Child
Vuillard
Nabis Movement (loose renderings and use of patterns next to a flat color)
A woman is on her bed holding a child
Emphases the use of decoration and patterns
Was influenced by Japanese printmaking and Gauguin(use of color none realsitic way)
The space is tilted
La Revue Blanche
Bonnard
Nabis Movement
Inspired by Japanese printmaking
Invited by publisher to make this (wife is the woman posing)
Magazine allows educated people to discuss political topics
Shows a young boy handing a woman walking down a street a maganzine and she isn’t taking it
Is a lithograth
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
Toulouse-Lautrec
Was an important influence in poster art
Is a lithograth inspired by Japanese printmaking
Moulin Rougue is a dance hall and was named because it had a red windmill in front of it
La Goulue was considered greatly and was known for doing the can can dance
Tropon
Van De Velde
Art Nouveau Movement (showed new art, very decorative quality)
Company made egg based protien extracts
Designed organtic shapes that are simple in design
The goal was to show something natural and intersting
Emile Tassel Residence
Horta
Art Nouveau
Is painted at the main enterance
Floor has dramatic curvings in tile
Wall has dramatic curvings turning into each other
Horta was an archetech and artist
Poster for the first secession exhibition
klimt
Vienna Secession (rejected academy and wanted experimental art, wanted broader form of art)
Used mythological figures (athena holding the head of madusa)
On the hercules is battling a minitar
The kiss
Klimt
Vienna Secession
Originally called the lovers
Decorative form of erotic theme
Could think it was dangerous
Used shadows for face and flat patterns
flower moteph at the bottom
Done dramaticly
Background is a gold pigment
Woman with a hat (madame matisse)
Matisse
Fauvism
Was good at making an object simple with color
Used untrue colors to represent objects
Colors used probably are how the light reflected on objects
Is more about the color then the object
The Joy of Life
Matisse
Fauvism
Used color expressivly
Used french models
Inspired by tittian
Great interest in human form
This is the first work of his career
The Pool of London
Derain
Fauvism
At the autumn salon
Used bold lose colors
Used color to define a picture
Can see the tower bridge
Young Lady with an Umbrella
Lumière and Lumière
No movement
Thought about the importance of color
Wasn’t in complete color or relistic
was autochrome - color photo processes when potatoes were died and other techniques were used
Friedrichstrasse
Kirchner
Die Brücke (likes simplistic rendering, regretted the past)
Shows ordinary life in the city that he didn’t like
used non-natural color (unpleasent)
suggests the street is crowded
The women are prostetutes.
Three nudes-dune picture from nidden
Schmidt-rottluff
No movement
Used unrealistic colors
Simplified the figures
Put the figures with plans
More interested in forms on other forms
Fränzi Reclining
Heckel
Die Brücke
Is a wood cut print
Made of two colors
Not neatly cut out
Franzi is the model posing and is a young girl to show perity and nonceruption
Composition VII
Kandinsky
Der Blaue Reiter
wanted to create work that more then visually pleasing
wanted color to have taste and sound
one of 10 compositions
believed in a new spiritual age was coming in 2000
called a compostiion refering to music
didnt want the title to give it another meaning
Large Blue Horses
Marc
Der Blaue Reiter
Liked painting animal forms
Agreed with kandinsky about spiritual connection and color
said animals give us a better connection with the world
none natural colors (yellow-female spirit, red strong color, combination of female and male, blue -male spirit)
horses part of landscape but are free to move around it
Violin and Palette
Braque
Analytic Cubism
Shows the importance of plains
loosing te recononizable features of the object
sees multiple views at once
sees light and shadow
limited color so people didn’t look for meaning
Man with a pipe
Picasso
Analytic Cubism
Can see the pipe
Dense in the center in the vertical
Experimental with oval canvases
Signed it in upper right
Luie Vocel called this cubism
Glass and Bottle of Suze
Picasso
Synthetic Cubism
Actual label from a bottle
Black paper for light and shadow
charcoal to add texture
glass is drawn on
Guitar
Picasso
Synthetic Cubism
Is carboard, canvas, string, pencil markings
shows he understands a guitar
folded carboard suggest a shelf
