Final art Flashcards
1
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Eduard Manet
A
- Bar woman painting
- not quite impressionist but getting there
- more detailed in front and much more impressionist in the back
- not mythological
2
Q
Monet
A
- Color
- wide brushstrokes and color
- waterlillies
- glowing colors
- captures a moment in time
3
Q
Renoir
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- painted happy people
- scenes of city life
- social scenes- women having conversation, middle class people in calm settings
- play of light on surface of people and objects
4
Q
Degas
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- always practicing never in performance
- ballerinas
- floor boards
- subjects seem to be unaware
5
Q
Mary Cassatt
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- brought impressionism to America
- mothers and children
6
Q
Georges Seurat
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- The Circus
- pointillism
7
Q
Paul Gaugin
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- Tahiti
- religious scenes
- bright colors
- flatness
8
Q
Cezanne
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- very geometric
- sacrifice realism for art
- still life
9
Q
Van Gogh
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- juxtaposition of bright complementary colors
- short nervous brushstrokes
- depressed, torments
- thick layers of paint typically
10
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Matisse
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- fauvism- wild beast; broke with traditional color and form
- bright colors
- red room paintings
- more leisurely and happy
11
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Munch
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- the scream
- German expressionist
- tortured and kinda eerie
12
Q
Picasso
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- cubism
- intellectual reality
- strange angles and planes
- shapes and figures distorted
13
Q
Mondrian
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- geometric line and primary color
- landscape but in squares and lines
- intersections
- primary colors
14
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Chagall
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- Russian Jew
- used both kinds of cubism
- fairtale quality
- green fiddler
15
Q
Dali
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- interested in morphing things
- used symbolism
- each element is photorealistic
- if you can’t tell entirely what it is it’s probably him
- melting clocks
16
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Magritte
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- liked to play mind tricks
- lots of blue sky and clouds
17
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Kahlo
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- not surrealist-painted her own reality
- self-portraits
18
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Duchamp
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- dada movement (if it looks like graffiti or is making fun of art or is just an ordinary object)
- trying to take art off it’s pedestal
19
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Hopper
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- themes of light and dark
- nighthawks
20
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O’Keefe
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-up close and personal with flower
21
Q
Pollock
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-duh
22
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Motherwell
A
shapes
23
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Frankenthaler
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-thinned paint to get washes of color
24
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Rothko
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- rectangular and square fields of color
- lazy rectangular figures of color
- hazy, blurry edges
25
Johns
-flag
26
Rauschenberg
-dead animals
27
Warhol
soup and soda cans
- famous people
- very iconic
28
Hockney
- british pop art
| - minimalist- lots of flat colors
29
Rodin
- sculptor
- things come out of their materials
- rough texture
- human figure
- odd placement
- assymetrical
30
Smith
- minimalist of sculpture
- metal geometric shapes
- shiny metal
31
Calder
-mobiles
32
Oldenburg
-soft and oversized everyday objects
33
Moore
- reclining figures
| - influenced by Meso-American art
34
Lin
- earth sculptor
| - Vietnam war memorial
35
Cristo and Jeanne-Claude
-wrapped things in fabric
36
Nevelson
wood, recognizable objects,
37
Wright
- naturalistic style
| - integration of building and site
38
Mies van der Rohe
- no ornamentation
- steel and glass
- can see the framwork
39
Gehry
- deconstructionist
- metallic
- curivlinear shapes
- looks like it melted in the microwave
