Exam 2 Flashcards
Homage to Blériot
Delaunay
Orphism (more colorful then cubism, formal flat composition with color expressful)
Celebrated French pilat Louis Blériot
Celebrating the new technology age
Circles move toward airplane propelors
Distemper - paint process that pigments are mixed with a blender
Simultaneous Dress
Delaunay-Terk
Orphism
Dynamic artwork and color
Is a moveable artform
Inspired by her blanket
Opened a simultaneous bouteque
Blue Dancer
Severini
Futurism
Saw the different plains as movement
Suggesting individual forms are showing motion
Is from one view
Used sequence to enfisize light and movement
Unique Form of Continuity in Space
Boccioni
Futurism
Most mature realisation of movement
Suggest form interupted by the envirnment
Form is disturbed by movement
Suprematist Composition (White Square on White)
Malevich
Suprematism
Meant to communicate with the subcontus
White paint on a slightly different white paper
See tilted square makes us want to react
Proun 19D
Lissitzky
Constructivism (interested in nonpresentational, wood, glass)
Created 3D on a flat surface
Suggests walls and floors but aren’t defined as that
Shows forms floating in space
Has cardboard attacted to the surface
Somewhat inspired by the cubist
Untitled Advertising Poster
Rodchenko
Productivism
Advertising for books
Made her look like a working woman
Triangle form going from her mouth to the words
Geometric orientation with a photo
Composition (The Cow)
Van Doesburg
De Stijl
Wanted visual harmony not spiritual or visual pleasure
Imagined art and decorative forms would blend
Thought that artist who used color for feelings tried to hard
Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue
Mondrian
Neoplasticism
Very minimal colors
Very neatly balanced but simple
Universal beauty was important
Not interested in the decorative quality
No center point
Didn’t want it to have meaning
Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator)
Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus
The light would make it 3D
Believed light and color would remodel space
When light hits it it creats shapes on the walls
Figures in Space: Study for The Triadic Ballet
Schlemmer
Bauhaus
Rejected realist theater
Meant to abstract the human form into geometric shapes
People called figurines to be moved under his control
Three part act yellow pink and black
Based on the idea of unbalanced
Wall Hanging
Albers
Bauhaus
Interested in variation of small forms
Small amounts of color
The rows never repeat
Meant to be displayed on a wall
Chair
Breuer
Bauhaus
Discovered tubler steal can be bent
Was mass produced
Was the director of the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus School
Elefantenkarawane
Ball
Dada
Was carried to the stage in his costume
Performed two sound poems
Said the human figure was ugly and was disappering from art
Wanted to use precivilized sound
Collage Arranged According to The Laws of Chance
Arp
Dada
Is torn and placed paper
Said that the paper fell in a spot randomly
Suggest the artist removed himself from the piece
Fountain
Duchamp
Dada
Was a ready made object
Started to wonder if you could make something nonaesthetically pleasing
Suggest the concept is more important then visual appearance
Prussian Archangel
Heartfield and Schlichter
Dada
Made of a German military uniform
Has a paper meshi pigs had and body is stuffed
Said to understand you have to go through numerous military training
Praeger Strasse
Dix
Dada
Interesting in the mistreating of people
Is a collage
Shows war cripples
Directly experienced the first world war
the mystery and melancholy of a street
de chirico
metaphysical painting
didnt paint anything realistic
acheticeture inspired by italy
minipulated perspective
two children threaten by a nightengale
ernst
surrealism
inspired by childhood experiences
captured the iconogerfy of panic
painted with 3D images
alice in 1941
ernst
surrealism
used decalomania
added elements after
was inspired by alice’s adventures in wonderland
the enigma of desire
dali
surrealism
used traditional techniques to make 3D forms
refered to it as hand made photography
influenced how we use the word surreal
refers to his mom in the piece(obibus concept)
the treachery of images
magritte
surrealism
more interested in the poetic form then uncontus
shows a pipe say not a pipe
suggests art is fiction
cordoba spain
cartier-bresson
disliked artifisal settings
captured the disisive moment
didnt want to be seen
spring showers
stieglitz
photo secession
would wait till the photo was most aestethic
more interseted in views then people in them
balzac- the open sky
steichen
photo secession
trying to envoke an artist emotion
rodan believed steichen captured the mood of the sculpture
