Final Flashcards
Fauves
French for “The Wild Beasts”, Matisse promenant artist. Inspired by post impressionalists.
German Expressionism
1905-1915.
Emphasizes feelings and emotions over objective depiction
Dramatic colors
Rough, crude, brushwork
Simplified or distorted forms
-Cubism
1907-1914
Rejection that art should follow nature
Emphasize the 2 dimensional aspects of the canvas
Break subject down into its most basic geometric shapes
Multiple Vantage points.
Pablo Picasso
Futurism
(1909-1916)
-Dada
1916-1920s
-Surrealism
1920s-1930s
De Stijl
(1917-1931)
American Regionalism
(1920s-1940s)
Abstract Expressionism
(1940s-1960s)
Pop Art
(1950s-1960s)
Minimalism
1960s
The early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color
Analytical Cubism
The late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
Synthetic Cubism
the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the first large exhibition of modern art in America.
Armory show
a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction
Prairie School Style
ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called “retinal art”. (Micheal Duchamp)
Readymade
Putting photos together to make up a story
Photomontage
an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily.
Automatism
any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
Kinetic Sculpture
a technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock.
Action painting
style of American abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s that features large expanses of unmodulated color covering the greater part of the canvas. Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko were considered its chief exponents.
Color Field
an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects.
Assemblage
an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock
Earthwork
Styles that favored abstraction
Fauvism (non naturalistic color and simple oval faces)
Cubism
Dada?
German Expressionism
Futurism
Some Surrealism
Styles that favored naturalism
Photography
American Regionalism
Pop Art (mostly)
Surrealism (some)
Non representational
Minimalism
Abstract Impressionism
Color Field
Action Painting
First artist who did non representational painting: Kandinsky
De Stijl
German Expressionism
Some Biomorphic Surrealism
What social economic events were going on in the 20th century that affected art? Which movements specifically were affected by world events?
WWI
Dada
De Stijl
American Regionalism
WWII
abstract expressionism
Great Depression
Photography
Spanish Civil War
Picasso- Guernica
Vietnam War
Consumerism
Pop Art
Conceptual Art
Dada (nothing is hand made anymore)
Feminism

Henri MaJsse, Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1908-1909
Fauvism

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin, 1913
German Expressionalism

Wassily Kandinsky, ComposiJon IV, 1911
German Expressionalism

Georges Braque, Houses at l’Estaque, 1908
Cubism

Georges Braque ,The Portuguese, 1911
Analytical Cubism

Alfred SJeglitz, The FlaJron Building, 1903
Photography

Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
Futurism


 Frank Lloyd Wright, robie house, 1909
Prairie School Style

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, original produced 1917
Dada, Readymade

Salvador Dali, The persistence of memory, 1931
Surrealism

Joan Miró, Painting, 1933
Automatism

Piet Mondrian, Tableau 2 with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Grey, 1922
De Stijl

Kinetic sculpture Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939

ConstanJn Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1924

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Analytical Cubism

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942
American Regionalism

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 Action painting
Abstract Impressionalism

Mark Rothko, Blue, Orange, Red, 1961
Color field
Abstract impressionalism

Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 1943-1959

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955-1959
Assembledge

Richard Hamilton, What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956

Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963

Donald Judd, UnJtled, 1967
minimalism

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Miami, 1980-1983
site spacific
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. …
What is site-specific work?