Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstraction Flashcards
Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: The Joy of Life
Date: 1906
Style: Fauvism
Country: France
Significance: Comments on the history of art, people aren’t accurately proportioned according to space, uses landscape like a stage, references bachhanel of the Andrians
Artist: Matisse
Title: The Red Studio
Date: 1911
Style: Fauvism
Country: France
Significance: no logical or linear space, foreground squishes into the background, uses red to call attention to the surface, not meant for emotion.
Artist: Picasso
Title: The Young Ladies of Avignon
Date: 1907
Style: Cubism
Country: Spain
Significance: unproportional faces/bodies, masks on the prostitutes suggest they are inhuman and uncivilized, women present their bodies aggressively, in your face painting, mean to cause controversy
Artist: Picasso
Title: Still Life With Chair Caning
Date: 1912
Style: Cubism
Country: Spain
Significance: collaged with rope and wallpaper material, very abstracted rendition of a still life, looks at subjects at every perspective at once, meant to confuse
Artist: Picasso
Title: Guernica
Date: 1937
Style: Cubism
Country: Spain
Significance: representation of the spanish civil war, guernica = small town that was bombed, eliminatino of color to suggest a solomn event, anti-war statement, the bull is distorted to suggest something wrong in spain, lines on horse symbolize newspaper words, feels senseless violence
Artist: Kandinsky
Title: Composition VII
Date: 1913
Style: Abstraction
Country: Russia
Significance: expresses music through sound and time, not meant to be understood, conveys emotions when listening to a song for the first time, bold colors, sometimes rough or smooth strokes
Artist: Mondrain
Title: Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow
Date: 1940
Style: Abstraction
Country: Netherlands
Significance: carefully planned and measured, very conservative, searching for spiritual knowledge
