Image Info Flashcards
Jasper Jones
Target with Plaster Casts
1955
Neo-Dadaist
Surfaces are lush and painterly; famous for incorporating media as encaustic and plaster relief.
Etant Donnes
Marcel Duchamp
Last work
Look through door to view
Gas lamp sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t
Moving water
Willed de Kooning
Woman 1
1950 Biomorphic shape of a woman Dutch American abstract expressionist Post WWII abstract expressionism or action painting
Jackson Pollock
Influential American painter
abstract Expressionist
Drip painting
Francis Bacon
Head Surrounded by Beef
1954
Fascinated by butcher shops
Work is an anti-catholic statement about mortality
Frieda Kahlo
The Two Frieda’s
1939
Mexican painter
Was crippled in car accident as teenager
Work reflects suffering
Max Ernst
L’Ange du Foyer
1937
Primary part of Dada and Surrealism movements
Political statement
Salvador Dali
Birth of Liquid Desires
1931
Surrealistic
“Paranoid-critical” approach
Conveying deepest psychological conflicts to the viewer to elicit apathetic response
Henry Moore
Recumbent Figure
1938 Abstractions of human figure Mother and child or reclining figures Suggestive of human body Yorkshire
Piet Mondrian
Composition of yellow, red, and blue
1927
Modernist
Important to De Stijl art movement
Non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater
Edgar Kaufmann House 1937 PA American architect Organic architecture Designed more than 1000 structures
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye
1928 France
Swiss-French architect
Pioneers what is now modern architecture
Georgia O’Keeffe
City Night
1902 oil on canvas
American modernist
Began with commercial art
Constantin Brancusi
Torso of a young man
1924
Essential
Pure form
Modernism
Kashmir Malevich
Suprematist Painting, Eight Red Rectangles
Russia 1915 Art theoretician Geometric abstract art Reds are winning
