Steiglitz & Rise of Modernism Flashcards
Alfred Stieglitz
photographer, gallery owner, proponent for early American modernism
move towards abstraction
committed to elevating status of photography to art form
Gallery 291
291 Gallery
important exhibition site for bringing European art trends to US
exploration of form, diverse styles
Alfred Stieglitz
Armory Show
1914
International exhibition of Modern art, invested in coversation between America and Europe
purpose - legitimize modern art, demonstrate evolution
huge success, triggered dialogue about art
generates scandal and spectacle, breaks with tradition
Alfred Steiglitz
The Steerage, 1907
changes the way we look at photography - more of an art form
reliance on immigrants for subject
strong lines
Francis Picabia
ici c’est Stieglitz, 1915
Stieglitz depicted as the broken camera, bellow off
Gear shift and parking break in background - Stieglitz stuck in neutral, stuck in the past, looking to an older ideal
Marsden Hartley
The Ice Hole, Maine, 1908
Influenced by Ryder
early work closer to impressionism
Marsden Hartley
Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
portrait of his lover - fragments pulled together that relate to indivdual
layering of form, abstract and referential
initials, flags, regalia
abstract element, color, movement, dense
Marsden Hartley
Indian Fantasy, 1914
aware of European developments in art
using abstraction, expresionistic tendencies, cubism
Georgia O’Keefe
Special no. 9, 1915, charcoal on paper
command of the medium, abstract
part of Stieglitz’s circle, can’t believe woman painted it
Georgia O’Keefe
Light Coming on the Plains 1, 1917
strategy of light and sound
making visible what isn’t
Arthur Dove
Yachting, 1912
organic, external world, modeling, illusionism
first American to construct completely abstract painting
plays with idea of music and vibration of sound - things that can’t be depicted
Max Weber
Woman in Tents
1913
most committed to cubism in Stieglitz’s group
strategry of spacial division
Max Weber
New York, 1913
crowded space, collage
Max Weber
Chinese Restaurant, 1915
synthetic cubism, collage
divided space
Max Weber
New York at Night, 1915
analytical cubism, fractured points of view
John Marin
Lower Manhattan, 1922
watercolor, clarity of color & surity of line
John Marin
Woolworth Building no. 31, 1912
at time Woolworth building was tallest structure in country
sense of wonder, intertest in technology, modernity
movement in lines, city is alive
breaking down of light and form, abandonment of traditional painting
Arthur Davies
Unicorns
1906
dream like, visionary landscape, unnatural colors
Davies helps bring Armory show over to America
Joseph Stella
Brooklyn Bridge, 1918 - 1920
interested in engineering elements, machine made, tribute
undulation of color, cubist influence but recession in space
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1911
created spectacle at Armory show
looks nothing like a nude, break down of forms
wanted to liberate imagination for his viewers to show what art can do, complete breakdown from naturalism
