Module 6 Flashcards
Self-Portrait, 1917
Modernist
Alice Bailly (1872-1938)
Swiss
Representative of: Fauvism (color), Futurism (hand shape)
Cubism,
This aesthetic movement was a style of abstract art that developed in Russia by Russian Cubo-Futurists Mikhail Larionov & Natalia Goncharova, it was one of Russia’s first abstract art movements
Rayonnism - Russian
Aspects: spikes
This aesthetic movement is characterized by fragmented subject matter deconstructed in such a way that it can be viewed from multiple angles simultaneously. Pioneered by Pablo Picasso, etc.
Cubism
This aesthetic movement is characterized by strong colors and fierce brushwork.
Fauvism
This aesthetic movement is characterized by a focus on the technical progress of the modern machine age, dynamism, speed, energy, vitality, and change.
Futurism
Portrait of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, 1913
Alexsei Alekseevich Morgunov
References A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet.
Portrays Russian avant-guard artist and writer of the Rayonism manifesto.
Portrait of Mikhail Larionov, 1913
Natalia Goncharova - Russian
Reconstructed face element of cubism, spikes element of rayonism.
Grimaces in Art: Natalia Goncharova and Larionov in makeup for Futurist theatre, 1913
They are both interested in futuristic theatre which is an important outlet during the Russian modernist movement.
Peasants, 1911
Natalia Goncharova - Russian
Example of her primitivism and love mixing modern art with peasant culture, Russian icons with folk art.
Laundry, 1912
Natalia Goncharova - Russian
Domestic subject, cubism.
Sets for Le Coq d’Or, 1914
Scene 1
Natalia Goncharova - Russian
Colors of fauvism with the spikes of Rayonism.
Sets for Le Coq d’Or, 1914
Scene 2
Natalia Goncharova - Russian
Mixes the color of fauvism with folk art.
This was a ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe directed by Sergei Diaghilev
Ballets Russes
He was the director of the Ballet Russes in Paris.
Sergei Diaghilev - Russian
Romeo and Juliet, Chamber Theatre, Moscow, 1921
Alexandra Exter - Russian
She produced set and costume design for this play. seen here.
Portrait of a Philosopher, 1915
Liubov Popova - Russian
Russian avant guard leadership fell to Popova when Goncharova and Larinov moved to Paris.
Cubism. Revue philos, ties to Paris.
sets for Vsevolod Meierhold’s production of The Magnanimous Cuckold, Moscow, 1922
Liubov Popova - Russian.
Tale of love and jealousy. Popova also - modern graphic design, material, and fabric design.
Design for Sports Clothing, 1923
Varvara Stepanova - Russian.
With Rodchenko wrote the productivist manifesto. Tech meets art, functional to society. Here we see her sport design in bold red and bold stripe patterns.
Worpswede, Germany
The Worpswede artist’s colony
in Germnay: From farming village to a source of inspiration. They wanted to escape the industrial city and find solace in the country.
Murnau, Germany
Where Gabriele Münter, and Wassily Kandinsky resided together.
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian in Germany
He was the teacher and long-time companion of Paula Modersohn-Becker. Wrote the Blue Rider Almanac. Lived together in Murnau.
The Blue Rider Almanac
German
The Blue Rider was an association of artists located in and around Munich. Spiritual. The art group was founded by Wassily Kandinsky among others. This Almanac produced by Kdninsky included folk art.
Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace, 1906
German
Paula Modersohn-Becker - German
Themes of nudity, primitive religions/earth mother.
Self-Portrait on her Sixth Wedding Day, 1906
German
Paula Modersohn-Becker - German
this is actually 5 years into her marriage, she portrays herself as pregnant, she is not.
Reclining Mother and Child, 1906
German
Paula Modersohn-Becker -
German
Monther and newborn.
Linda Knoklin describes this as transcendental, animal-like.
Boating, 1910
German
Gabriele Münter - German
Depicts Münter is subordinate but essential, rounded shapes and primary colors, a triangle with Kandinsky in the middle.
Snow and Sun, 1911
German
Gabriele Münter - German
A view around Murnau
Beautiful color, thick strong line
Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin, 1909
German
Gabriele Münter - German
Strong colors, much like the subject. She was a fellow and famous painter who lived in Murnau.
Kandinsky and Erma Bossi after Dinner, 1912
German
Gabriele Münter,
(German)
She is listening intently to what he is saying. You can see the bavarian folk art decor.
The Country Road, 1909
German
Marianne von Werefkin
(German)
painted in Murnau
colorful, peasant scene
Self-Portrait, 1924
German
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
She works heavily in graphic media B&W focuses on the proletariate subject, revolution, and then passive states after the death of her son in WW1
Death Clutches a Woman, 1934
German
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
based in part of the dance of death theme of German lore.
Homeworker, Asleep at the Table, 1909
German
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
The beauty of common man.
Weavers Cycle, 1893-1897: March of the Weavers
German
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
Her cycle of the failed revolution of the Weavers is done in a cycle of 6 prints. This one is of their march.
Never Again War, 1924
German
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
A famous poster of hers. She took a passivist stance and used her art and voice.
Mourning Parents, 1924-1932, Military cemetery at Essen, Belgium
(German)
Käthe Kollwitz
(German)
Took 18 years to complete, men and women in isolation with their feelings after the loss of her son in WW1.
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-20
Hannah Höch
German
She was the leading female member of the Dada movement in Germany. aligns herself with women’s political empowerment, piecing together after war, hypocrisy within the doctrines.
The movement formed in Germany, centered in Berlin, after WWI often satirical, human, social commentary.
Dada
German
Group of Artists, 1908
French
Marie Laurencin
French
Influenced by the art movements of the time
portraits include picasso, dog frikka, Fernande Olivie, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and the painter, Marie Laurencin.
A visual trend in abstract art spearheaded by Sonia & Robert Delaunay that derived from Cubism and gave priority to light and color.
Orphism - French
La Prose du Transsibérien
French
Book - French
milestone of the artist’s books, poetry and abstract art. collab by Blaise Cendrars (poem) and Sonia Delaunay (art)
Electric Prisms, 1914
French
Sonia Delaunay
French - Orphism
Representation of electric street lights
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913
Sonia Delaunay
French
Book Cover
Designs for Clothes and Citroen B12, 1925
French
Sonia Delaunay
French
She goes from painting to being a badass textile and clothing designer. synonymous with luxury and independent women.
costume design: Costume for Cleopatra, 1918
French
Sonia Delaunay
French
Chernichova in the title role of Cleopatra, 1918
French
Sonia Delaunay
French
Image of the actress wearing the custume.
Adam and Eve, 1909
French
Suzanne Valadon
French
Assertive sexulity
The Blue Room, 1923
French
Suzanne Valadon
Large woman, domestic setting, Matisse like.
Romaine Brooks Self-Portrait, 1923
French
Romaine Brooks
Expatriate in Paris
Lifelong companion of Natalie Barney.
Lesbian Art, ribbon of legion,. She hosts a writer salon.
Nathalie Clifford Barney, L’Amazone, 1920
French
Romaine Brooks
Expatriate in Paris
Famous for the “amazon” paintings, this is her lover, but she often paints famous lesbian artists of her time.
Una, Lady Troubridge, 1924
French
Romaine Brooks
Expatriate in Paris
This is one of the rich lesbians she painted.
Elizabeth de Gramont, Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre, c. 1924
Romaine Brooks,
Expatriate in Paris
Elizabeth is a French writer and lover of Barney.
Self-Portrait in Automobile, 1917
Tamara de Lempicka
French
Art Deco Style
She has a Paris studio
Duchesse de La Salle, 1925
Tamara de Lempicka
French
Tuxedo
Janet Flanner, c. 1925
photo) (French
Berenice Abbott,
Expat. paris.
Photographer.
Flanner was an american journalist and correspondant of the New Yorker
Jane Heap, Paris, 1927
photo) (French
Berenice Abbott, Expat. paris. Photographer. Heap is the publisher of The Little Review
The Little Review
was what and published by whom?
Published by Jane Heap
English journal in Paris with MANY famous contributors.
She was an English, Avant-guard. First woman elected to the Royal Academy.
Laura Night
Self Portrait With Nude, 1913
English
Laura Knight
A challenge to the life study rules for women. Challenged by critics. Key work in female self-portraiture.
Self-Portrait in Red Blouse, c. 1900
English
Gwen John
English
Slade art school in London. John Quinn was a collector, her only one.
A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris, 1907-9
English
Gwen John
English
She modeled for Auguste Rodin’s The Whistler Muse and was his mistress.
Vanessa Bell, Self-Portrait, 1912
English
A radical and leading member of the Bloomsbury group. Married to Clive Bell. Affairs with Roger Frye and Duncan Grant. Virginia Wolf’s sister. Related to Julie Margaret Cameron.
Bloomsbury
Group of english writers, artists, and intellectuals in England c. 1904. Defined by a sexual atmosphere. Urban family. Woolfs and Bells.
Virginia Woolf
English
Leading member of the Bloomsbury group. Artists need 500 bp a year and a room of their own. Hogarth Press. TS Elliot. Human relations shift.
Roger Fry
English
A catalyst to bringing modern art to England. Affair with and collaborated with Vanessa Bell. Organized the Second (and first) Post-Impressionist Exhibition, London, 1912. He founded the Omega Workshops.
Who wrote Room of One’s Own, in 1929?
Virginia Woolf.
English
Bloomsbury Group.
Virginia Woolf Knitting, c. 1911-12
Vanessa Bell
English
Domestic environment
Considerable agitation.
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, London, 1912
Vanessa Bell
English
Depicts the Matisse room at the Exhibition organized by Roger Fry.
Duncan Grant Painting, c. 1920
Vanessa Bell
English
Companion for 50 years, although she never divorced Clive Bell.
He was an English writer and historian. Member of Bloomsbury Group. Subject to many Vanessa Bell portraits. Economist.
Lytton Strachey
English
Lytton Strachey, 1913
English
Vanessa Bell
English
Lytton Strachey, 1916-17
English
Dora Carrington
Lived together with Partridge, her husband, and Strachey who was also in love with Patridge. Carrington took her life after Strachey’s death.
Bathers in Landscape, 1913
English
Vanessa Bell
Dust jacket for Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, 1929
English
Vanessa Bell
She designed several jackets for her sister Virginia Woolf.
Omega Workshops, 1913-1919
English
Founded by Roger Fry.
Bell and Grant were other directors.
Modernist arts and crafts movement. Produced furnishings, items of clothing and textiles, etc.
She was a decorative artist and associated with the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.
Dora Carrington
English
Charleston: Exterior, Plan. Garden, Sitting Room
English
Home in Sussex of Vanessa Bell, her children, and Grant (sometimes Clive Bell), Grant’s lover David Bunny Garnet. Everything was decorated by the artists there. Many visitors from those mentioned in the lectures.
Charleston, Exterior
English
Simple, pond in front with flat windows and tiled rooftop. Empty farmhouse.
Charleston: Plan
English
Reflection of the odd relationships. People with rooms: Bell (Vanessa and Clive), Grant, Keynes,
Charleston: Gardens
English
Inspired by southern Europe. Exterior wall was built by Grant and Bell and designed by Fry. Sculptures, mosaics, Mediterranean plants, for painting.
Charleston: Sitting Room
English
Represents the decorative arts of the Bloomsbury group, as created in the Omega Workshops.
This was who commissioned
Laura Knight to help promote female recruitment in the ordinance factory during WWII. She did 17 commissions.
War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC)
Women of Britain: Come Into the Factories, 1941
Philip Zec
Recruited women, labor shortage due to WWII
Female empowerment for the benefit of the war effort.
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, 1943
Laura Knight
Largest oil painting in the entire WAAC collection. The largest single-figure portrait acquired during the war.
Corporal J.D.M Pearson, GC, WAAF, 1940
Laura Knight
Strong portraits of women in the war movement. She is the first woman to receive the George Cross.
The Nuremberg Trial, 1946
Laura Knight
In Germany, Knight requested that this piece be commissioned by WAAC. departure from realism. The rear and side walls are showing a ruined city. Ever present. Nuremberg as it is now.
Who was Blaise Cendrars?
He was the writer of the poem for La Prose du Transsibérien and collaborator with Sonia Delaunay.
Who was Maurice Utrillo?
Son of Suzanne Valadon
He was an artist at the time more well known than his mother.
