Final Flashcards
Art Nouveau
Architecture
Traits:
- Highly detailed
- Inspired by natural forms
- Gaudi
Early Modern
Architecture
Traits:
- PreFabricated windows and doors
- Verticallity, simplification
Beaux-Arts
Architecture
-Bottom floor is rougher
Prairie Style
Architecture Only in the US
Traits:
- flat lines resemble flat of a prairie
- organic architecture
- related to nature
- Intergrated to landscape
- conceals the entrance, buildings resaled against ground, porches reach out,
- horizontal elements
- rows of windows
- low pitched roofs
- unifies nature
- materials are the decoration
- simplified, emphasized horizontals, hand crafted, flat plain on wall
- steel exposed, walls are ceramic tiles, red brick, red sandstone, pink mortar, steel framed
Artists:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Impressionism
Painting and Sculpture
France
Traits:
- impression or sketch
- affects of light and how it affects color
- expression and emotion through color
- brighter palates
- strong brushstrokes
- solid unified forms
- exaggerated/flattened space
- divisionism, pointalism
- personal expression
Subjects:
- middle class
- industrial
- modern life
- breaks down colors
- landscapes/dots
Artists:
Post-Impressionism
Painting and Sculpture France
- New subjects
- Expresive color
- Distorted or abstracted forms
- Exaggerated or flattened space (Tension between 2D and 3D)
Artists:
Van Gogh
- strong brushstrokes, expressive, personal
- symbolism
- bright colors
Cezanne
-simple geometric objects
Expressionism
Norway
Traits:
- distortion
- mask-like
- simplicity
- abstract
- emotion
- symbolism
Subjects:
- psychology
- people in cities, lonely, violent
- negative views toward women, corrupting, sexual
Artists:
- Munch
Fauvism
France
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
Color
- unrealistic, richness, bold, vibrant, random, independent, broad planes
Brushstrokes
- strong, wild, uncontrolled brushstrokes
Other
- linear quality
- flattened space
- distorted, abstracted forms
Subjects:
- modern life
- Open Windows, Woman w/Hat
German Expressionism - The Bridge
Germany
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- saturated hues
- very abstract
- geometric shapes, angular, simplified
- unified structure
- jagged forms
- perspective tilted, exaggerated
- flattening of space, cramped and confined forms
- strong emotion
Subjects:
- negative aspects of society, criticizes society
- psychology
- urban life
- prostitutes
- connection from old world to new world
German Expressionism - The Blue Rider
Germany
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- Color is unrepresentational, pure, evokes movement, rythym
- color-musical harmonies, harmony of the world
- form and color are independent
- not as negative
- nature
- mystical inwardness
- subjective, imaginative, insights into patterns
Artists:
- Kandinsky, Franz Marc
Analytical Cubism
France
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- the artist breaks it down into individual parts
- look for one or two parts that show representation
- most spaces blend together
- Picasso used shadows, different tones of color, value
- Braque uses straight lines around figure, adds letters and numbers
- Picasso uses right angles around figure, representational and meaning words
- monotonous color scheme
- painting and life connection
Synthetic Cubism
France
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- Influenced by collage
- Trying to reconnect painting to life
- paste things on and paint on top of them
- more continuous lines for the forms
- more color and textures in the work
- makes people reality
- cubism made you piece everything together and figure out what they wanted
- parts seem both in front and behind things in space
- lack of consistency with objects in space
- breaks from tradition with space
Examples of Art:
- Picasso, Three Musicians,* more color and more outlines of figures
Dynamic Cubism
France
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- shatters form
- metallic
- sequential photography
Artists:
Marcel Duchamp
Cubism
France
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- very modern
Picasso
Blue Period:
- limited hues, blue
- sad and depressed
- figures tall and slenderRose Period:
- lighter pinks, soft colors, experimented w/colors/ more hues
- 3-D forms
- subjects happier
- acrobats and entertainersPrimitive Period
- less hues
- monochromatic
- geometric in form
Sculpture
- geometric planes
- different materials* cardboard, string, wire, wood, glass
- 3-D forms
- machines
- expression
- obvious transparency
- voids in sculpture, breaks up shapes
- non-representational
- angled planes
- rectangular shapes
- contrasts of light and shadows
Orphism
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- little representation
- related to music
- simultaneous contrasts
- arcs of color
- harmonies of music: color
- color, movement, fragmentation
Artists:
Robert and Sonia Delauney
De Stijl
Netherlands
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
Architecture - flat planes, geometric shapes, no decoration
- proportion, simplification
- vertical and horizontals
Futurism
Italy
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- speed important
- war, moving forward, progress, violence
Rayonism
Russia
Painting
Traits:
- optics, ray of light reflecting on and off of objects
- completely non-objective
- bright color
- forms shattered into individual brushstrokes
- fragmenting form
Suprematism
Russia
Painting and Sculpture
- *Traits:**
- non-objective, simplified
- geometric shapes
- “means nothing”
- emotions and feelings in art
- non-sense realism
- in-material world
- spiritual
- infinity
- “attempt to free art to represent any object”
- elemenates depth and 3-D
- sensation of color and form
Artists and Works:
Kasimir Malevich, Black Square on White
Constructivism
Russia
-Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- geometric shapes
- abstract
- integrate life w/art
- wood, metal, plastic
- sculpture was practical and functional
- relief constructions*plaster, broken glass, wood, new materials
- Hanging things on corners
- Functionality
- respect material
Fantasy Art
Germany, France
Traits:
- dream-like
- child-hood memories
- unrealistic
Artists:
- Paul KleeTwittering Machine
- Marc ChagallI and the Village, 1911, Fantasy Art, France
Pittura Metafisica
Italy
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- metaphysical pictures, about other realms
- conceptual reality
- mannequins, surreal, unusual reality
Artists:
- Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
DaDa
Europe
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- Irrationality
- Chance, probablity, uncontrolled composition
- Readymade, organic shapes
- rubbed floor boards, accidental image
- conceptual, bio-morphic, looks vaguely like it could represent something, ambiguous, mysterious
- airbrush technique
- art is about the mind
Artists:
Kurt Schwitters
Marcel Duchamp
Surrealism
Europe
Painting and Sculpture
Traits:
- geometric shapes, biomorphic shapes, ambiguous
- different interpretations
- bright color
- flattened space
- unreal, another dimension of reality, dreams
- automatisim: absence of control, comes from the mind, subconscious
- chance
- uses ready-mades, called found objects
- Improvisatinal- abstract
- Illusionism- magical realism
- away from conscious control
Artists:
- Joan MiroHarlequin’s Carnival
- Max ErnstWhole TownEurope After the Rain
- Andre MassonAutomatic Drawing
- Yves TanguyMama, Papa is Wounded!
Picasso
Blue Period Rose Period Primitive Period Neo-Classicism France Spain

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Early Modern Architecture

Beaux-Arts

Beaux-Arts

Beaux-Arts

Prairie Style

Prairie Style

Impressionist

Impressionist
Impressionist

Post-Impressionism

Post Impresionism

Post-Impressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism

Fauvism

Fauvism

Fauvism

German Expressionism
The Bridge
German Expressionism
The Bridge

German Expressionism
The Bridge

German Expressionism
The Bridge

German Expressionsm
The Blue Rider

German Expressionism
The Blue Rider

German Expressionism
The Blue Rider

Analytical Cubism

Analytical Cubism

Analytical Cubism

Synthetic Cubism

Synthetic Cubism

Synthetic Cubism

Dynamic Cubism

Cubism

Cubism

Orphism

Orphism

De Stijl

De Stijl

Futurism

Futurism

Futurism

Futurism

Rayonism

Rayonism

Suprematism

Suprematism

Suprematism

Constructivm

Constructivism

Constructivism

Pittura Metafisica

Pittura Metafisica

DaDa

Surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism