Final art Flashcards
1
Q
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
A
- 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
Q
Matisse
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- fauvism- wild beast; broke with traditional color and form
- bright colors
- red room paintings
- more leisurely and happy
11
Q
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
Q
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
