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Art Nouveau

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Architecture

Traits:

  • Highly detailed
  • Inspired by natural forms
  • Gaudi
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Early Modern

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Architecture

Traits:

  • PreFabricated windows and doors
  • Verticallity, simplification
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Beaux-Arts

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Architecture

-Bottom floor is rougher

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Prairie Style

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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

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Impressionism

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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:

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Post-Impressionism

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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

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Expressionism

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Norway

Traits:

  • distortion
  • mask-like
  • simplicity
  • abstract
  • emotion
  • symbolism

Subjects:

  • psychology
  • people in cities, lonely, violent
  • negative views toward women, corrupting, sexual

Artists:

  • Munch
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Fauvism

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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
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German Expressionism - The Bridge

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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
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German Expressionism - The Blue Rider

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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
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Analytical Cubism

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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
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Synthetic Cubism

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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
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Dynamic Cubism

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France

Painting and Sculpture

Traits:

  • shatters form
  • metallic
  • sequential photography

Artists:

Marcel Duchamp

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Cubism

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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
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Orphism

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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

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De Stijl

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Netherlands

Painting and Sculpture

Traits:

Architecture - flat planes, geometric shapes, no decoration

  • proportion, simplification
  • vertical and horizontals
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Futurism

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Italy

Painting and Sculpture

Traits:

  • speed important
  • war, moving forward, progress, violence
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Rayonism

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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
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Suprematism

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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

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Constructivism

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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
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Fantasy Art

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Germany, France

Traits:

  • dream-like
  • child-hood memories
  • unrealistic

Artists:

  • Paul KleeTwittering Machine
  • Marc ChagallI and the Village, 1911, Fantasy Art, France
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Pittura Metafisica

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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
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DaDa

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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

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Surrealism

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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!
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Picasso

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Blue Period Rose Period Primitive Period Neo-Classicism France Spain

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Art Nouveau

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Art Nouveau

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Early Modern Architecture

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Beaux-Arts

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Beaux-Arts

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Beaux-Arts

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Prairie Style

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Prairie Style

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Impressionist

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Impressionist

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Impressionist

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Post-Impressionism

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Post Impresionism

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Post-Impressionism

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Expressionism

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Expressionism

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German Expressionism

The Bridge

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German Expressionism

The Bridge

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German Expressionism

The Bridge

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German Expressionism

The Bridge

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German Expressionsm

The Blue Rider

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German Expressionism

The Blue Rider

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German Expressionism

The Blue Rider

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Analytical Cubism

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Analytical Cubism

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Analytical Cubism

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Synthetic Cubism

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Synthetic Cubism

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Synthetic Cubism

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Dynamic Cubism

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Suprematism

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Suprematism

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Suprematism

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Constructivm

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Constructivism

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Constructivism

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Pittura Metafisica

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Surrealism

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Surrealism

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Surrealism

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