Ma Jolie Flashcards

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Who did the earliest training of Picasso in the arts?

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His father Jose Ruiz y Blasco who was an art professor

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Where was Picasso born and when?

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Malaga, Spain 1881

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When did Picasso enroll in the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid?

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When he was 16 years old

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What was Picasso’s new individual style influenced by at the end of the 19th century?

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By Symbolism and Art Nouveau and also the works of El Greco and Francisco Goya

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When did Picasso make his first trip to Paris?

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In 1900

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When was Picasso’s Blue Period?

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From 1901 to 1904

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What do Picasso’s paintings from his Blue Period focus on?

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On the human figure

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What is one of Picasso’s most recognizable work from his Blue Period?

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The Old Guitarist

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When was Picasso’s Rose Period?

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From 1904 to 1906

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What were Picasso’s subjects during his Rose Period?

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Acrobats and harlequins

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Who did Picasso travel with to Catalonia in the summer of 1906?

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Fernande Olivier

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Who did Picasso begin a close association with in 1908?

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Georges Braquee

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What did Braque and Picasso create?

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Cubism

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Why did the collaboration between Picasso and Braque end in 1914?

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Because Braque enlisted in the army

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Where did Picasso get a chance to see artworks from Africa and the Pacific Islands?

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At the Ethnographic Museum of the Rocadero in Paris

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The influences of art from Africa and the Pacific in Picasso’s paintings were made obvious in what painting?

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His 1907 Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

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What piece can be seen as a foundational piece in the development of Cubism?

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Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

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Who did Picasso begin a close association with in 1916?

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Who did Picasso marry?

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Olga Koklova

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What was the exception to Picasso’s refusal to express his political beliefs through his art?

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Guernica 1937 which depicted the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War

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Where was Guernica viewed?

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At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York

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What was one of Picasso’s most famous sculptures?

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The Chicago Picasso located in Daley Plaza, Chicago

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What is Ma Jolie?

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My pretty girl, the refrain from a popular song as well as Picasso’s nickname for his lover at that time, Marcelle Humbert

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When did Marcelle Humbert die?

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In 1915 of tuberculosis

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What colors were used in Ma Jolie?

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Grays, browns, and cream-colored highlights as well as black lines

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What can we see in Ma Jolie?

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A triangle in the lower right section of the painting, six vertical strings in the center of the compositions as well as four fingers, part of an arm and a bent elbow to the right of the triangle

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When was Ma Jolie painted and what have art historians labeled the piece?

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It was painted from 1911 to 1912 and has been labeled as High Analytic Cubism

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When did Cubism flourish?

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From 1908 to 1914

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When was Analytic Cubism?

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The works of Picasso and Braque from 1909 to 1911

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What was Analytic Cubism?

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Where paintings based on traditional subjects dissected the formal elements of these subjects and placed them rearranged on the canvas

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When was Synthetic Cubism?

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In 1912

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What was Synthetic Cubism?

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When the artists incorporate objects such as wallpaper, newspapers and fabrics into multimedia works

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What artists besides Braque and Picasso were involved in Cubism?

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Juan Gris and Fernand Legar

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What four movements did Cubism influence?

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Constructivism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism

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What Mexican muralist painter was inspired by the formal qualities of Cubism?

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Diego Rivera

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Who was Picasso married to when he died?

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Jacqueline Roque

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What salon did the group of artists identified as Cubists participate in?

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Salle 41 at the 1911 Salon des Independents

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When was Ma Jolie?

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In 1911 and 1912

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Who did Picasso study under his father?

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The works by the Old Masters and drawing from plaster copies of Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures

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What did the Royal Academy of San Fernando place an emphasis on?

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The naturalistic depiction of space and idealized representations of the human body

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Where did Picasso and Olivier go in 1906?

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To Catalonia

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What did Picasso paint in the years after World War One?

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A more classical style, often depicting women in classical poses

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What two mediums did Picasso use for reductive works?

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Wood and stone

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What was Chicago Picasso a challenge to?

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Traditional public statues in Chicago which generally represented famous individuals in a naturalistic fashion

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How many marriages did Picasso have?

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Two

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Who did Picasso like to affairs with?

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His models

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Picasso has become the stereotype of the?

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Bohemian male artist

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Who was Picasso married to when he died in 1973?

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Jacqueline Roque

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What was Marcelle Humbert better known as?

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Eva Gouel

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What do black lines in Ma Jolie create?

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Geometric shapes

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Where does the text that spells Ma Jolie lie in the composition?

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At the bottom center of the composition

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Which side of the composition in Ma Jolie is darker?

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The upper left which when paired with the light cream-colored highlights on the right creates a sense of depth

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What did Picasso try to question with Ma Jolie?

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The value of representing three-dimensional space and the significance of a painted image of a person

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What salon did Cubism appear at?

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Salle 41 at the Salon des Independents

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What Mexican muralist painter was inspired by the formal qualities of Cubism?

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Diego Rivera

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How did Diego Rivera encounter Cubism?

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While living in Paris during World War One