Modern Art #1 Flashcards
Art NOUVEAU
BEARDSLY HOFFMANN
CHERET MUCHA
TOULOUSE GAUDI
GUIMARD ENDELL
HORTA BEHRENS
KLIMT TIFFANY
- begins in France & England
- ANTI-HISTORICAL style
- high degree of organicism
- sweeping lines & whiplash curves
- tendril- like forms
- vegetal forms
- woman’s body = art objectsymbol of ART NOUVEAU in France
- NATURE & NATURALISM as opposed to Industrial Manufacture
Salome with the Head of John
1893 (print)
aubrey BEARDSLEY (printmaker)
art NOUVEAU
- Illustrator for playbill Salome (hired by Oscar Wilde)
- SS: directly influenced by Japanese prints
- negative space
- black & white
- lines (modernized)
Loie Fuller
1893 (litho)
jules CHERET
art NOUVEAU
- Fuller - actress and celeb of her time
- SS: MOTION expressed with colors + human form
- through curved + diagonal lines
- curve of the femal body + her dress
Divan Japonaise
1893 (litho)
henri TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
art NOUVEAU
- 1st to use typography as design element
- SS: litho Jap influence - high horizon line + diagonals
- MASTER PRINTMAKER for Lithography
Moulin Rouge
1893 (litho)
henri TOULOUSE LAUTREC
art NOUVEAU
- psycological undertones
- SS: Jap litho prints/ Psycology- painted faces of dancers showing even the “freaks” are two-faced.
1st to use typography as a design element
The Enterance to the Metro Station
1898-1901 (architecture)
hector GUIMARD
art NOUVEAU
- Crystal Palace London
- SS: glass + iron molded to look vegetal, organic detail
Tassel House
1893 , Brussels (architecture)
victor HORTA
art NOUVEAU
- SS: Town House - iron moldings/ curves in painted walls
The Kiss
1908 (painting)
gustav KLIMT
art NOUVEAU
- Mural (40’) in dining room Palais Stocket
- intellectual idea - humanized the imagery ; influenced by BIZANTINE art- gold leaf/ highly patterned/ flatten image
- SS: New World Experience = depicted life for the future
Palais Stocklet
1905 , Brussels (architecture)
josef HOFFMANN “Mr. Rectangular”
art NOUVEAU
- AN but doesnt show characteristics - Art DECO before his time
- SS: marble + copper outer shell / AN style iron work
Medee
1896 (poster)
alphonse Mucha
art NOUVEAU
- Play poster
- SS:
Atelier Elvira
1905-7 (architecture)
antoni GAUDI
art NOUVEAU (modernism)
- Spanish tech: carved stone/ iron work(vegetal)/ ceramic work
- GAUDI designed everything with gothc influence
- SS: Facade is carved stone - NO 90o angles
Atelier Elvira
1897 , Munich (architechture)
august ENDELL
art NOUVEAU
- SS: Applied design - added to an already existing structure
AEG logo
1908
peter BEHRENS (logos + labels guy)
art NOUVEAU
- 1st Industrial artist
- SS: 1st real logo made (cooperate - electric company) with industrail design
Lamp
1900
louis COMFORT TIFFANY (lamp guy)
art NOUVEAU
- SS: used FAVRILE GLASS - iridescent art glass ; color ingrained in the glass itself
end of the century art
MUNCH
ENSOR
- People who have become less human
- Influenced by SIGMAN FROYD
- underlining psycology of society + themselves
- Dark + Twisted
Death of Marat
1927 (painting)
edvard MUNCH
end of the century art (modern)
- Modern and Impressionist mark making + ambiguous shadows (dark + death)
- SS: Autobiographical- depicts naked lady has killed him
- warped view of women
Sick Room
1885
edvard MUNCH
end of the century art (modern)
- SS: Mask like faces - uses dark/rich color + line quality = deep emotion
- Figuresprogress towards the viewer to create a sens of anxiety
- Autobiographical
Masks Confronting Death
1888 (painting)
james ENSOR
end of the century art
- SS: Skeleton = Death
- not a mask : you never know when death is coming
- even when its right infront of you
- not a mask : you never know when death is coming
Christ Entering Brussels
1889 (painting)
james ENSOR
end of the century art
- SOCIETY @ LARGE!!! (anxiety)
- Sceen of “Carnival”
- SS: The Judgement being near
- Christ coming to confornt the 2facers
- Christ is last in the scene = turning back to christianity
french expressionism
ROUAULT
- 1st MODERN artist to bring religion back to art
- Nature vs Industry
- uses symbols of society : ie clowns (represents Blue Collar)
- use of paint and pallet knives to show EMOTION
- INDEPENDENT EXPRESSIONIST
- direct influence of Gothic Stained Glass
- segmentation : stained glass
Head of Christ
1905 (painting)
georges ROUAULT
end of the century art
- Returning to religion
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Prostitute Before a Mirror
1906 (painting)
georges ROUAULT
french EXPRESSIONISM
- SS: Prostitute = Society’s Ill (sympathetic) + blue depressing emptiness
The Old King
1919 (painting)
georges ROUAULT
FRENCH EXPRESSIONISM
- SS: Body segmentation - gothic stained glass
The Joy of Life
1905 (painting)
henri MATISSE
FAUVISM (french expressionist)
- Traditional figure
- SS: high key color - transtions with color to keep the eye moving
Woman with the Hat
1905
henri MATISSE
FAUVISM (french expressionist)
- Portait of his wife
- SS: contrasting brush strokes from figure vs background
- freed up color + lines
- Portrait of Mme. Matisse / the green line*
- 1905* (painting)
henri MATISSE
FAUVISM (french expressionist)
- SS: color blending of the background + middle ground to flatten pictoral space
Blue Nude
1907 (painting)
henri MATISSE
FAUVISM (french expressionist)
- SS: Odalique ; disfiguration of the form: African Art influence
- London Bridge*
- 1906 (painting)*
andre DERAIN
FAUVISM
- SS: symbols his move to London to get out from under MATISSE’s shadow
- The Last Supper*
- 1909 (painting)*
emile Nolde
german expressionism
- Color + restricted space = deepens psychologically
- SS: Christ looks near death(green/yellow) - Nolde related to this for he was poisioned a month before.
Chirst Among the Children
1910
emile Nolde
german expressionism
- Children need love - Adults need power
- SS: Against iconic tradition - back to the viewer + robe dense blue darker than the sky
- The Prophet*
- 1912 (woodcut)*
emile Nolde
german expressionism
- SS: uses medium to express intense emotion
- Street Dresden*
- 1908 (painting)*
ernest KIRCHNER
DIE BRUCKE
- everything is for sale
- SS: 2 well dressed prostitutes walking street: glamour + danger ; intimacy + alienation
- clashing colors heighten excitement + alienation
- Street Dresden*
- 1908*
ernest KIRCHNER
DIE BRUCKE
- SS: heightened color/ mask-like faces/ vacant eyes - pschological alienation by modernization
- Two Men at a Table*
- 1912(painting)*
erich HECKEL
DIE BRUCKE
- SS: doubt + distrust ; suffering christ - anxiety + despair
- Russian Beauty in a Landscape*
- 1902 (block print)*
vasily KANDINSKY
BLUE RIDER
- SS: AMORPHOUS SHAPE(unformed) / color/ line/depth to make it infinite
- Composition iv*
- 1911 (painting)*
vasily KANDINSKY
BLUE RIDER
- SS: AMORPHOUS SHAPE(unformed) / color/ line/depth to make it infinite
Composition vii
1913 (painting)
vasily KANDINSKY
BLUE RIDER
- SS: 4th dimension - space + time
- Great Flood
- Angel of Last Judgement*
- 1908 (painting)*
- vasily KANDINSKY*
- BLUE RIDRER*
- SS: HINTERGLASMALERI- behind the glass painting
- Blue Horses*
- 1911 (painting)*
- franz MARC*
- BLUE RIDER*
- SS: deep emotion in color: masculinity + spiritual
- Deer in Forest*
- 1913*
franz MARC
BLUE RIDER
- SS: PEOPLE HUDDLED TOGETHER AGAINST TO ENERGY OF SOCIETY
- ANIMALS FATE*
- 1913 (PAINTING)*
- Battling Forms*
- 1914 (painting)*
- franz MARC*
- BLUE RIDER*
- SS: combative energy
- Garden Zoological Garden*
- 1912 (painting)*
auguste MACKE
BLUE RIDER
- SS: fuck it
- Erma Bossi at the Tea table with Kandinsky*
- 1908 (painting)*
MUNTER
BLUE RIDER
- SS: KANDINSKY devoted- he in the holy corner (grey instead of red
- Marainne von Werfkin*
- 1909 (painting)*
MUNTER
BLUE RIDER
- SS: HINTERGLASMALERI
