Exam II Flashcards

Virgin with the Dead Christ
1300-1325
Rhineland, Germany

El Greco
Opening the Fifth Seal
1614

Fuseli
The Nightmare
1781

Redon
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity
1882

Moreau
The Apparition
1876

Cezanne
Mt. Ste.-Victoire
1887

Ensor
Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889
1888

Van Gogh
The Blue Cart
1888

Bernard
Breton Women in a Meadow
1888

Gauguin
The Vision after the Sermon
1888

Serusier
The Talisman
1888

Gauguin
The Yellow Christ
1889

Gauguin
Be in Love and You Will Be Happy
1889

Ensor
Intrigue
1890

Van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
1890

Toulouse-Lautrec
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
1891

Toulouse-Lautrec
In Bed
1892

Gauguin
Spirit of the Dead Watching
1892

Gauguin
What, Are You Jealous?
1892

Toulouse-Lautrec
Jane Avril
1893

Beardsley
The Climax
1893

Munch
The Storm
1893

Munch
The Cry
1893

Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge
1895

Munch
Madonna
1895

Munch
Death in the Sickroom
1895

Munch
Self-Portait in Hell
1895

Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897

Rousseau
War
1898

Cezanne
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
1899

Picasso
La Vie
1903

Guimard
Desk
1903

Matisse
Luxe
1905

Vlaminck
Portrait of Guillame Apollinaire
1905

Matisse
Woman with the Hat
1905

Matisse
The Open Window, Collioure
1905

Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse
1905

Derain
The Mountains at Collioure
1905

Signac
View of Port of Marseilles
1905

Vlaminck
The Restaurant at Bougival
1905

Picasso
Family of Saltimbanques
1905

Tiffany
Lilly Lamp
1905

Matisse
The Joy of Life
1906

Picasso
The Harem
1906

Gaudi
Casa Batllo
1906

Derain
Charing Cross Bridge
1906

Becker
Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace
1906

Klint
No. 1
1906

Picasso
Gertrude Stein
1907

Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1907

Kirchner
The Street, Dresden
1908

Braque
Houses at L’Estaque
1908

Matisse
Red Room
1909

Klimt
The Kiss
1909

Delaunay
St. Severin
1909

Kirchner
Bathers at Moritzburg
1909

Kirchner
The Garden of Love
1909

Braque
Violin and Palette
1910

Rousseau
The Dream
1910

Kirchner
Self-Portrait with Model
1910

Picasso
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
1910

Braque
The Portuguese
1911

Delaunay
The Red Tower
1911

Boccioni
Caricature of a Futurist Evening in Milan
1911

Kandinsky
Composition IV
1911

Kandinsky
Autumn II
1912

Balla
Girl Running on a Balcony
1912

Nolde
The Candle Dancers
1912

Picasso
Still Life with Chair-Caning
1912

Picasso
Still Life with Bottle of Suze
1912

Delaunay
Electric Prisms
1913

Delaunay
Simultaneous Contrast: Sun and Moon
1913

Balla
Speeding Car + Light
1913

Boccioni
The Dynamism of a Soccer Player
1913

Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913

Kandinsky
Untitled Improvisation III
1914

Marc
Fighting Forms
1914

Severini
Armored Train
1915

Macdonald-Wright
“Conception” Synchromy
1915

Epstein
The Rock Drill
1915

Epstein
The Rock Drill (Torso)
1916
Orientalism
Imitation or depection of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures by writers, designers, and artists in the West.
artiste maudit
a cursed artist (one that deals with mental illness, physical illness, suicide)
expressionism
art that is a result of the artists’ unique inner or personal vision, often includes an emotional demension
The Breton
ancient Celtic ethnic gorup in Brittany, France
Catholicism
Unique language
Cloisonnism
bold, flat colors surrounded by thick, black outlines
non-local color
not optically correct coloring (not like what a photoraph would record)
synthetism
forms reduced to their essential outlines, vibrant coloring
The Nabis
“The Prophets” in Hebrew
younger followers of Gauguin
talisman
a small object worn or kept for its magical powers
The Belle Epoque
The Beautiful Era
futher industrial growth
prosperity and realative peace amongst nations
Parisian nightlife at its peak
La Revue Blanche
avant-garde literary publication of 1890s
each issue came with a print
Art Nouveau
“New Art”
Style of the Belle Epoque
Curving, organic forms
agoraphobia
intense fear or panic attacks
fear of being in placing where escape is hard to get
femme fatale
deadly woman
19th century stereotype of a woman who destroys men’s lives
decadence
an interest in the morbid, macabre, neurotic with elegant form (in art)
lack of taste and morals (in culture)
Outsider Art
untrained/non-traditional aritsts of all kinds (including children and the insane), those outside the academic art world
fin de siecle
“end of the century”
anxiety, morbitity, distrust of capitalism, emerging studies of neurosis
Les Fauves
“Wild Beasts” named by critic
The Salon d’Automne
Started in 1904 by Matisse and others
Features paintings made in the summer months so they weren’t as dreary
lots of retrospectives
plasticity
malliability of the material (in sculpture)
describes 3D, sculpture-like characteristics in painting
saltimbanques
wayward circus performer
phallocentric
made by a heterosexual male for a similar audience
zeitgeist
spirit of the times
analytical cubism
analyze a subject from multipe view points, condensing them again to make them flat