Modern ARTS Styles Of Modern Art Flashcards

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MODERN ART
STYLES OF MODERN ART

Enumerate

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• Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Cubism
• Surrealism
• OP art
• Abstract Expressionism

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It was developed in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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IMPRESSIONISM

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Its name was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, __________.

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IMPRESSIONISM ; Impression Sunrise

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IMPRESSIONISM

  • is characterized by _______, __________, ______________, ordinary subject matter and unusual visual angles
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Visible brushstrokes, light small touches colors, subtlety of tone/shades

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IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionist is a style in which?

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the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.

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IMPRESSIONISM

Artists painted outdoors to catch a ___________________________________.

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particular fleeting impression of color and light

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IMPRESSIONISTS

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• Claude Monet
• Pierre-August Renoir

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ARTIST

He influenced the development of Impressionism.

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Claude Monet

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ARTIST

He painted everyday objects.

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Claude Monet

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ARTIST

Claude Monet’s style in paintings

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His style in paintings used variation of colors and lights and captured them by the daily seasonal changes in nature. This is the reason why he became one of the well-known landscape painters in the history of art.

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ARTIST

Impression Sunrise, painted in 1872

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Claude Monet; Impressionist

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ARTIST

Impression Sunrise, medium _____

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Oil paint; Impressionism

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ARTIST

He loved to show the effect of sunlight on flowers and figures.

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Pierre-August Renoir

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ARTIST

They painted the French countryside and river scenes.

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Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley; Impressionist

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ARTIST

enjoyed painting ballet dancers and horse races.

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Edgar Degas; Impressionist

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ARTIST

painted women doing everyday things.

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Berthe Morisot; Impressionist

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WORKS

It is one of Renoir’s largest and most ambitious compositions.

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Bal du moulin de la Galette; Impressionist

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WORK

What does Bal du moulin de la Galette depicts?

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Pierre-August Renoir; Impressionist

  • The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette.
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WORK

It shows a _______________, a _______________, and a __________.

Location: Musee d’ Orsay, Paris
Medium: Oil on Canvas

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richness of form, fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.

• Bal du moulin de la Galette; Renoir; Impressionism

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What is EXPRESSIONISM?

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An artistic movement where artists express their innermost feelings rather than to represent the external world.

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It focuses on capturing emotions and feelings with the use of vivid colors and bold strokes.

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EXPRESSIONISM

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___________ and ______________ in colors were used to convey the deep pain of the subject

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Swirling lines and sharp contrast in colors; EXPRESSIONISM

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EXPRESSIONISTS

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• Edvard Munch
• Vincent Van Gogh

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ARTIST

A Norwegian painter and printmaker who pioneered the Expressionism Movement in modern painting.

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Edvard Munch

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ARTIST

Edvard Munch’s paintings are characterized by what?

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an intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes displaying man’s dark side.

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ARTIST

He used brilliant colors to depict death, agony, anxiety, and human suffering.

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Edvard Munch

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WORK

  • depicts the battle between the individual and society.
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“The Scream”; Edvard Munch; Expressionism

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WORK

Location: National Gallery and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Medium : Oil, tempera, and paste on cardboard

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The Scream; Edvard Munch; Expressionism

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ARTIST

He was considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt.

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Vincent Van Gogh; Expressionism

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ARTIST

The style and content of his paintings involved a _______, __________, _________, and used an __________, _________________ of paint and _______________ to express subjective emotions.

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fusion of dramatic, imaginative, rhythmic, impulsive, gestural application of paint and symbolic colors

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WORK

One of the most recognized pieces of art in the world.

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“Starry Night”; Vincent Van Gogh; Expressionism

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WORK

painted in 1889 from a room in the mental asylum at Saint-Remy where was recovering from mental illness and his ear amputation.

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Starry Night; Van Gogh; Expressionism

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WORK

Analysists of ___________ emphasize the symbolism of the stylized cypress tree in the foreground, linking it to death and the expressionist’ eventual suicide.

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Starry Night; Van Gogh; Expressionism

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Is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and George Braque which employs geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms.

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CUBISM

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What is CUBISM art?

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The artist tries to show all sides of an object and reduces recognizable images to geometric forms

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Compared to jigsaw puzzle

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Cubism

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TWO MAIN TYPES OF CUBISM

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• Analytical Cubism
• Synthetic Cubism

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  • The first stage of the Cubism movement was called __________________.
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Analytical Cubism

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What kind of art style is Analytical Cubism?

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In this style, artists would study or analyze the subject and break it up into different blocks.

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They would look at the blocks from different angles. Then they would reconstruct the subject, painting the blocks from various viewpoints.

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Analytical Cubism

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  • This stage of Cubism introduced the idea of adding in other materials in a collage.
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Synthetic Cubism; second stage of Cubism

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Artists would use __________, ___________, and _________ to represent the different blocks of the subject.

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Synthetic Cubism; Colored paper, newspapers, and other materials

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This stage also introduced brighter colors and a lighter mood to the art.

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Synthetic Cubism

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CUBISTS

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• Pablo Picasso
• George Braque

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ARTIST

He was the first to use such unrealistic style.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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ARTIST

He was the leader of a new movement in art called cubism.

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Pablo Picasso

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WORK

Guernica, 1973

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Pablo Picasso

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WORK

What does Guernica shows?

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Shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon innocent civilians.

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WORK

__________ is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Guernica

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ARTIST

Founder of cubism

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George Braque (1882 - 1963)

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George Braque is a leading exponent of this art form.

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Collage cubism

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___________ is a technique of pasting up cut and pasted scrap materials drawn or painted upon to create representedational meaning.

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Collage cubism; George Braque

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WORK

Medium : Cut-and-pasted printed and painted paper, charcoal, pencil, and gouache on gessoed canvas

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GUITAR, 1913; George Braque; Cubism

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OP ART also known as?

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also known as optical art, a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions.

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Many referred to it as kinetic art because the effects that cause illusions include vibrating colors, lively patterns, and concentric colors.

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OP ART

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The patterns _____________ and cause it so see movement.

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OP ART; disturb the eye

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4 characteristics of Op Art:

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• Exist to fool the eye.
• It is not meant to represent reality
• It is not created by chance
• Op art relies on two specific techniques

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CHARACTERISTICS OF OP ART

OP compositions create a sort of visual tension in the viewer’s mind that gives works the illusion of movement.

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Exist to fool the eye

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CHARACTERISTICS OF OP ART

Op art relies on two specific techniques;

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  • perspective and careful juxtaposition of color.

The color may be chromatic (identifiable hues) or achromatic (black, white, or gray)

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OP ARTISTS

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• Victor Vasarely
• Maurits Cornelis Escher

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ARTIST

Accepted as a “grandfather” and leader of the Op Art movement

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Victor Vasarely

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ARTIST

Born: April 9, 1906
Died: March 15, 1997
Nationality: Hungarian-French

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Victor Vasarely

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WORK

Title: ZEBRA,1937
Style: OP Art
Dimensions: 52 x 60 cm

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Artist: Victor Vasarely; OP Art

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ARTIST

Graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.

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Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP Artist

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ARTIST

Born: June 17, 1898
Died: March 27, 1972
Nationality: Dutch

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Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP Artist

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WORK

Is a lithograph print that depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply.

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RELATIVITY; OP ART

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WORK

Artists: ___________
Created: December 1953
Dimensions: 27.7 cm x 29.2

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Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP ART

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A movement that grew out of dada.

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SURREALISM

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An art movement inspired by ____________.

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Scientific research; SURREALISM

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Fascinated by the studies of renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud

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SURREALISM

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SURREALISM portrays what?

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Portrays the reality and intensity of the subconscious mind filled with strange images.

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Its name came from the term “_________,” with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered mental state.

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super realism; SURREALISM

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Features of Surrealistic Art

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• Dream-like scenes and symbolic images
• Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity
• Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions
• Distorted figures and biomorphic (abstract) shapes

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SURREALISTS

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• Salvador Dali
• Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim

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ARTIST

He was one of the most famous Spanish-Catalan surrealist painters in the 20th century and an icon of the Surrealist movement.

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Salvador Dali

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ARTIST

Born: May 11, 1904
Died: January 23, 1989
Nationality: French

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Salvador Dali; SURREALIST

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WORK

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY can be interpreted as?

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This painting can be interpreted as a mockery setting of time passing, the passage from birth to death, the way of life.

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WORK

The soft watches are in effect all stopped. Time has become elastic, like the pocket watches. The memories, the image of these watches, deform to become soft things, malleable, where time no longer counts.

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The Persistence Of Memory; Salvador Dali; Surrealism

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WORK

This also reflects the passage to eternity, the symbolic death.

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The Persistence Of Memory; Salvador Dali; Surrealism

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ARTIST

She was the only Surrealist who had any authority on psychoanalysis.

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Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim

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ARTIST

Swiss painter and sculptor

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Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; SURREALIST

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WORK

It is viewed by many as the definitive surrealist object.

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LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; Surrealism

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WORK

Both tea and fur were (then as now) a mark of _________, sipped and worn by refined ladies. The combination, however, distinctively uncivilized.

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civilization

– LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; Surrealism

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WORK

Artists : _________________
Medium : Fur-covered cup
Created : 1936
Location : The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; LUNCHEON IN FUR

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ARTIST

Born: October 6, 1913, Germany
Died : November 15, 1985
Nationality: Swiss

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Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; SURREALIST

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Is a term used to describe new forms of abstract art that developed in America around the late 1940s and 1950s.

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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It produced paintings that are abstract but expressed the artist’s _________.

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State of mind; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is also called “___________,”

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action painting

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is characterized as?

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It is characterised by non-objective imagery that appeared emotionally charged with personal meaning.

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Key characteristics of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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• Unconventional application of paint, usually without a recognizable subject

• Emotional expression dripping, smearing, slathering paint on canvas

• Spontaneous, automatic and subconscious creation

• Vivid colors

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS

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• William De Kooning
• Jackson Pollock

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ARTIST

He is a Dutch-born painter and decorator who went to New York and became one of the most consistent longest-lived abstract expressionists.

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WILLIAM DE KOONING

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ARTIST

WILLIAM DE KOONING developed what style?

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He developed a style where he employed fierce and slashing brushstrokes.

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ARTIST

Born : May 11, 1904
Died : January 23, 1989

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WILLIAM DE KOONING; Abstract Expressionist

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WORK

What does WOMAN I reflects?

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It reflects the age-old cultural ambivalence between reverence for and fear of the power of the feminine.

– WILLIAM DE KOONING; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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WORK

Artists: _____________
Medium: Graphite, Pastel, Crayon, Oil Paint
Created: 1950 - 1952

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WOMAN I

– WILLIAM DE KOONING; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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ARTIST

An American painter and labelled as “Jack the Dripper”.

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JACKSON POLLOCK

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ARTIST

Born: January 28, 1912
Died: August 11, 1956
Nationality: American

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JACKSON POLLOCK

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Describe JACKSON POLLOCK

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He made a revolutionary breakthrough by abandoning the paintbrush altogether.

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WORK

It was sold in May 22 2006 for $140 million, a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until April 2011.

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NO. 5

– JACKSON POLLOCK; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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WORK

Artists: Jackson Pollock
Medium : Fiberboard
Created: 1948

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NO. 5

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WORK

its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso and the photographer Dora Maar at Paris Café.

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LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim