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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge

1892, Post Impressionism

Oil on Cardboard

Washington, D.C.

He lived and worked near Moulin Rouge

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge

1891, Post-Impressionism

Poster, color lithograph

The Met

He had stunted legs and dancers facinated him

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Paul Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

1900, Post Impressionism

Oil on canvas

st. petersburg russia

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Georges Seurat

Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte

1884-86, Post Impressionism: Pointilism

Oil on Canvas

Chicago

made up of dots and borders, lots of color

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Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night
1889, Post Impressionism
Oil on Canvas
Van Goghs view from his window at the asylum, thinks this is an absolute failure, thought people would die and live on the stars

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Paul Gauguin

Nevermore
1897, Post Impresionism
Oil on Canvas

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Edvard Munch

The Scream
1893, Post Impresssionism
Oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard

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Henri Rousseau

The Dream
1910, Post Impressionism
Oil on Canvas

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Pablo Picasso

The old guitartist
1908, Blue Period
Oil on Panel
2 paintings underneath

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Henri Matisse

Woman with the Hat
1905, Fauvism
Oil on Canvas
fauvism-bright colors, chunky brush strokes

portrait of his wife, it was a scandal at first because of the misuse of color

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Matisse

The Joy of Life
1905-06, Fauvism
Oil on Canvas

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Ernst Kirchner

The Street
1907, Expressionism
Oil on Canvas
founder of Die Brucke-german expressionism

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Vassily Kandinsky

Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4
1914, AbEx
Oil on Canvas
meant to represent seasons-winter
Blue Rider Group

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Kandinsky

Several Circles No 323
1926, AbEx
Oil on Canvas
Blue Rider Group

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Franz Marc

The large blue horses
1911
Oil on canvas
Blue Rider Group

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Matisse

Harmony in red
1908
Oil on Canvas
after Fauvism period

arabesques

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Matisse

Dance 1
1909
Oil on Canvas

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Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1907, Cubism
oil on canvas

Borrows stuff from egypt

Refers to the ladies of the red light district in Barcelona

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George braques

Violin and Pitcher
1909-10
oil on canvas
analytic cubism

Shows the space

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Pablo Picasso

Three Musicians
1921
oil on Canvas

synthetic cubism

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Pablo Picasso

Guernica
1937
Oil on Canvas

surrealism

lots of reference to christianity

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Umberto Boccioni

Unique forms of continuity in space

1913, Futurism

Bronze cast

MoMA

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Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie Woogie
1942-1943, Futurism
Oil on Canvas

MoMA

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Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
1912, Futurism
Oil on Canvas
(making fun of futurist)

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Stuart Davis

Lucky Strike pack of cigarettes
1921
Oil on Canvas

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Aaron Douglas

From Slavery through Reconstruction
1934, Harlem Renaissance
Oil on Canvas

depicts events following the civil war

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Kazimir Malevich

Black Square

1929, Suprematism

Oil on Canvas

Black is feeling, white is void beyond feeling

soviets were after him and took his paintings

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Marcel Duchamp

The fountain
1917, Dada
“ready-made”

idea of a fountain and a urinating man

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Jean Arp

Collage arranged according to the laws of Chance
1916-17, Dada
Torn and Pasten Paper- randomly dropped- chance

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Man Ray

Le Violon d’Ingres
1924, surrealism
Photograph, reworked with pencil and ink

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Salvador Dali

The persistence of memory
1931, surrealism
Oil on Canvas

juxtaposes life and death

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Rene Magritte

Time Transfixed
1938, Surrealism
Oil on Canvas

juxtaposed 2 familiar objects to provoke the unfamiliar

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Henry Moore

Reclining Figure

1957-58, Sculptural Surrealism

Roman travertine 16ft

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Alexander Calder

Big Red

1959, Surrealism

Painted sheet metal and steel wire

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Grant Wood

American Gothic
1930, Regionalism
Oil on Beaverboard
Rounded arch=gothic style

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Edward Hopper

Gas
1940, Regionalism and Social Realism
Oil on Canvas

frozen within the space of the picture

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Dorothea Lange

Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona

1940

Gelatin-Silver print

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Frida Kahlo

Thinking of Death
1943, surrealist style
Oil on Canvas

mexican mythology allusion

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Black and White
1930, Early Abstract
Oil on Canvas

eliminates color

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Hans Hofmann

The Gate
Oil on Canvas
1956-69, mid-century abstract
hint at a situation

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Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square
1968, abstract
Oil on Canvas
25 year project

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Jackson Pollock

White Light
1954, Action Painting Ab-Ex
enamel and aluminum paint on canvas, drips paint on to a canvas as he walks over it.

intensity of the light is everywhere

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William de Kooning

Woman and Bicycle
1952-53, Action Painting Ab-Ex
oil on canvas

attack on idealized Classical image of a female beauty

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Mark Rothko

Number 15
1957, Ab-Ex
Oil on Canvas
expresses emotions-religious experience

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Ellsworth Kelly

Spectrum III
1967, Color field painting
Oil on Canvas

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Richard Diebenkorn

Ocean Park no. 129
1984, West Coast Abstract
Oil on Canvas

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Louise Nevelson

Black Wall
1959, Ab-Ex
Wood

abstract because of arrangement

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Robert Rauschenberg

Black Market
1961, Pop Art
Canvas, Wood, Metal, and Oil Paint

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Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup (Tomato)
1968
Screenprint

obsession with comercialism

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Roy Lichtenstein

Torpedo…Los!

1963, Pop Art

Oil on Canvas

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Wayne Thiebaud

Thirteen Books
1992, Pop Art
Oil on panel

ordered and focuses on the texture of paint

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Claes Oldenburg

Clothespin
1976, Pop Art Sculpture
COR-TEN and stainless steel

resembles a tall man

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Bridget Riley

Aubade (Dawn)
1975, Op Art
Acrylic on Linen
sensation of glowing light

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Donald Judd

Untitled

1967, minimalism
Green lacquer on Galvanized iron

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Agnes Martin

Untitled number 9
1990, minimalism
Acrylic and graphite on canvas

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Sol LeWitt

Wall Drawing No 681
1993, Conceptualism
Color ink washes
gave instructions to gallery

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Joseph Beuys

Coyote, I like America and America likes me
1974
Action Sculpture

blurs the boundaries between man and animal

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Chuck close

Self-portrait

1997

Oil on canvas

Always begins with photography and places a grid on canvas

Kinda like impressionism

Abstract expressionist

His paintings are huge like 8ft tall

He has a disease where he cant recognize other people’s faces and used his paintings as a way to memorize faces

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Duane Hanson

The Cowboy
1995, Super-Realism
Polyester resin polychromed in oil

life size and very realistic

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Gilbert and George

The singing sculpture

1971, Performance

They do performances that they call living sculptures

One artist even though they are a pair

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Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970, Environmental Art

Mud, precipitated salt, crystals, rocks, water

1500 ft long 15 ft wide

References to pre historic art work like stonhenge

Kinda like a labyrinth

Great salt lake in utah

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Andy Goldsworthy

Icicles

1987, Environmental Art

His sculptures don’t exist very long because they are so natural

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The Gates, Project for Central Park

New York City

1979-2005, Environmental Art

Visual experiences within the landscape

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

CARBON/OXYGEN

1984, Urban Environment

Acrylic, Oilstick and silkscreen on canvas

Shows chaos in city and destruction

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Jenny Holzer

Untitled

1989-90

LED electronic display

Located in Guggenheim in NYC

Sentences are things she has written called “truisms”

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Matthew Barney

Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate

1994

Color photograph

Photograph taken from one of his films

1 in a series of 5 films

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Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

1974-79

Mixed Media sculpture

Huge dinner table with a different place setting for famous women throughout history

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Kiki Smith

Mary Magdalene

1994

Cast silicon bronze and forged steel

Story: she grows out her body hair after jesus’s crucifixion and the chain symbolizes how she indebted to him

Religion, mythology, reality

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Kara Walker

Slavery! Slavery!

1997

Cut paper and adhesive on wall

Referencing Victorian decoration

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Maya Lin

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Mall, Washington, D.C.

1981-83

Decending or ascending from the ground

Kinda a sculpture and a monument at the same time

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19th century 1886-1905
Bright colors
think paint and visible brushstrokes
leisure and landscapes
geometric shapes
distorts forms to express moods/feelings
clearly distinctions b/t forms

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Post Impressionism

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Not intersted in social concerns or subject matter or impressionists
interested in imagination and the irrational
interested in mythology but not heroes
Disturbing, poetic, and erotic

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Symbolism

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Picasso, Matisse, Fauvism, Expressionism, and more
African and oceanic art increases in Geometric
“the new” materials, ideas, technology, imagery
Avant garde- name for innovators and non traditional artists

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Early 20th Century

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French for Wild Beast
extremely bright colors, patterns, and distinctive brushstrokes
build forms out of pure colors
color is either exaggerated or completely divorced from reality

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Fauvism

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Color in unexpected/unusual ways
Concerned with the emotional quality of color and composition
reinforce the emotion, observed reality doesn’t matter

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German Expressionism

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A group of german expressionist
means “the bridge” link between the tradition and the Avant Garde
Combine spirituality of medieval art with geometric qualities
bright colors-harsh
angular and aggressive

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Die Brucke

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another german expressionist group
abstracted forms + prismatic colors
spiritual values could counteract corruption+materialism
flattened perspective and simple forms

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Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

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new way of depiction space
scenes are shown as multiple view points- top bottom and side at the same time

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Cubism

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earlier form, fragments objects into abstract geometric forms, more dual colors

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analytical cubism

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uses bright colors rearranges flat shapes of color to make new forms, later form

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synthetic cubism

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Italy
industrial forms and inventions
focused on the present and future
speed, movement, energy
break away from tradition

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Futurism

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Originated in Europe, extended to NY
Dude artist shared philosophy of art making not recognized style “anti-art”
Nonsensical, playful, experimental response to horrors of war
“start over”

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Dada

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art and literature inspired by Freuds ideas
Explores the imagination, dreams, myths, fantasies, and fears
ordinary objects are imbued with heightened importance
morph or changing objects
odd juxtapositions of time, place, etc

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Surrealism

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intersted in myths, dreams, inner unconscious mind
From the Expressionists, took focus on exploring how paint can be applied to surface
Action Painting- physical action

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Abstract Expressionism

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paint applied traditionally,flat areas of unbroken color
interested in process of making an artwork
focus solely on the experience of color
color is the subject

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color field painting

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reaction against Ab-Ex
Derives imagery from commercial sources, mass produced goods, and objects from everyday life
reject focus on inner, unconscious mind
meant to challenge accepted artistic conventions and standard of beauty

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Pop Art

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geometric abstraction
uses lines, colors,and shapes to create odd visual sensations

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Op Art

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happening along with pop and op art
singular or very few geometric forms are arranged
Calm, meditative experience
no narrative, or story, just experience

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minimalism

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gets rid of traditional movements

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conceptualism

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process of building up color through dots

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pointilism

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technique that involves pasting lightweight materials or objects onto a flat surface

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collage

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uses symbols not objects or people to render direct feelings

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suprematism

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