Final Flashcards
Henri Matisse
Woman With a Hat (Madame Matisse)
1910
Work is characterized by bold color
Influences by Gauguin
Had an interest in the nude female form
Is his wife in an elaborate hat
Creating his wife the way he sees her not the way the world does
The hat isn’t detailed and isn’t of interest
Vasily Kandinsky
Improvisation 28
1910
Anything from the real world should not be understood as the subject matter
Uses the senses to describe color
Called some of his works compositions and some improvisations
Improvisations - spiritual conflict
Compositions - mose planned and take a longer period of time
Not interested in making beautiful compositions
Pablo Picasso
Ma Jolie
1910
An image of a woman holding a guitar
Shows many views can’t tell the original form anymore
Ma Jolie was a term that goes with one of his mistresses named Ava
The geometric forms echo the reality
Can see light and shadow that help show the flatness
Pablo Picasso
Glass and Bottle of Suze
1910
Blue oval is the table
Circle and trapezoid is the glass
Made of discarded paper
Built up paper to show what he knows about the subject
Showed ordinary things in life
Opened peoples eyes to collage as a way of art
Gino Severini
Dynamism of a Dancer
1910
Futurist was a group of 5 artist
See movement and repeated forms
See different views of the woman
Each part of the woman has different light to them
Look sort of 3D
Added a lot of bright color
All of the views are from the front
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Painting (Eight Red Rectangles)
1910
Total abstract
Achieved through rectangular forms
Is part of cubism
Didn’t want to represent anything
Suggest that if you put the basic building blocks together it will make a rise in us
Believed we would feel something
Hugo Ball
Karawane
1910
Was a pianist
Was a sound poem
Became known as sound art
Was wearing a strange costume and had to be carrier on stage
Was concerned that journalism destroyed language
Wanted to return us to the realm of childhood
Jean Arp
Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
1910
Didn’t want to create traditional art
Tor pieces of paper glued them where they fell
Did this went a painting made him angry
Nothing overlaps
Might have moved the pieces
Has a sort of cubist quality
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
1910
Took a toilet and remade it into a fountain and summited to the hanging committee
Was part of that committee
Was making a statement
Signed a fake name
Suggested that one doesn’t need to make something but to recreate something
Max Ernst
Alice in 1941
1950
Applied red and orange color to a paper and then pushed that against something and took it off
Interested in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
Said woman are simple so they are able to access the self contis more easily
Jackson Pollock
November 30, 1950 (Autumn Rhythm)
1950
Said he was partly in control of the paint
Aloud friends and associates to name his pieces
Was said he did action paintings
Would drip and fling the paint around the piece
Never knew what was the top and what was the bottom
Described as abstract expressionism
Robert Rauschenberg
Canyon
1950
Used the world as his palette
Suggested that art and life can’t be fully separated
Incorporated collage elements
Embraced that paintings should have 3D forms
Includes family photos and public photos (of his son and statue of liberty)
Includes trash
Made up of things that have to do with his life but didn’t tell a narrative
Roy Linchenstein
Mad Scientist
1970
Uses dots to create colors in scales
Comics usually have dialogues and don’t make sense by themselves
Reorients our way of thinking about the comic book
With male figures is usually about war and female about love
Donald Judd
Untitled
1960
Artist are interested in geometric abstract
minimalist-all about 3D art forms
new art forms are not sculptures but 3D art
each unit is attached to the wall and equally away from the wall
arangment of 10 because it isn’t symbolic
is what it appears to be
Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Chairs
1960
Part of a major movement call conceptual art
conceptual art- its more about meaning then that artwork
suggesting that we are progressing from the real to the bigger picture
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
1960
early work he brough earth to his work late work he brought work to earth
works are designed for a specific location
called landart
nothing is brought in for piece all from location
said the earth corrects itself when something happens to it
created this thinking that the area will arode
used spiral because its associated with things like snails and universe (big and small)
can be seen as a symbol for life
knew people would not go see it
said it was not to be restored or adjusted
Nam June Palk and Charlotte Moorman
TV Bra for Living Sculpture
1960
moorman liked experimental concert works
as she played the chello the tv screen schanged
the idea was to turn tv into an interactive thing
paik had a fixation on breast
they were reacting to the high art forms
Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
1980
womans rights started the womans liberation movement
woman artist didn’t get recognition
woman were not considered to be artist
didn’t want males last name so changed to the city she was born
established the womans art program
encouraged her students to make cunt imagery
wanted to create art that taught people about the history of woman
thought she would make a place setting of 25 but became 39 same as last supper
13 on each side
shaped in a triangle like a vagina
1038 names assosicated with this because of the titles
hoped the object would be influencal
place settings go counter clockwise
had a former slave as one of the guest at the table only black woman with a place setting
Sherrie Levine
After Walker evans #3, 1936
1980
Copied works because she wanted to create famous works as her own
challenging the idea of originality
argued she was not any less original then walker evans
no such thing as a original in photography
