Test 4 Flashcards
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
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
Paul Cezanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
1900, Post Impressionism
Oil on canvas
st. petersburg russia
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
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
Paul Gauguin
Nevermore
1897, Post Impresionism
Oil on Canvas
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893, Post Impresssionism
Oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard
Henri Rousseau
The Dream
1910, Post Impressionism
Oil on Canvas
Pablo Picasso
The old guitartist
1908, Blue Period
Oil on Panel
2 paintings underneath
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
Matisse
The Joy of Life
1905-06, Fauvism
Oil on Canvas
Ernst Kirchner
The Street
1907, Expressionism
Oil on Canvas
founder of Die Brucke-german expressionism
Vassily Kandinsky
Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4
1914, AbEx
Oil on Canvas
meant to represent seasons-winter
Blue Rider Group
Kandinsky
Several Circles No 323
1926, AbEx
Oil on Canvas
Blue Rider Group
Franz Marc
The large blue horses
1911
Oil on canvas
Blue Rider Group
Matisse
Harmony in red
1908
Oil on Canvas
after Fauvism period
arabesques
Matisse
Dance 1
1909
Oil on Canvas
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
George braques
Violin and Pitcher
1909-10
oil on canvas
analytic cubism
Shows the space
Pablo Picasso
Three Musicians
1921
oil on Canvas
synthetic cubism
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
1937
Oil on Canvas
surrealism
lots of reference to christianity
Umberto Boccioni
Unique forms of continuity in space
1913, Futurism
Bronze cast
MoMA
Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie
1942-1943, Futurism
Oil on Canvas
MoMA
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
1912, Futurism
Oil on Canvas
(making fun of futurist)
Stuart Davis
Lucky Strike pack of cigarettes
1921
Oil on Canvas
Aaron Douglas
From Slavery through Reconstruction
1934, Harlem Renaissance
Oil on Canvas
depicts events following the civil war
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
Marcel Duchamp
The fountain
1917, Dada
“ready-made”
idea of a fountain and a urinating man
Jean Arp
Collage arranged according to the laws of Chance
1916-17, Dada
Torn and Pasten Paper- randomly dropped- chance
Man Ray
Le Violon d’Ingres
1924, surrealism
Photograph, reworked with pencil and ink
Salvador Dali
The persistence of memory
1931, surrealism
Oil on Canvas
juxtaposes life and death
Rene Magritte
Time Transfixed
1938, Surrealism
Oil on Canvas
juxtaposed 2 familiar objects to provoke the unfamiliar
Henry Moore
Reclining Figure
1957-58, Sculptural Surrealism
Roman travertine 16ft
Alexander Calder
Big Red
1959, Surrealism
Painted sheet metal and steel wire
Grant Wood
American Gothic
1930, Regionalism
Oil on Beaverboard
Rounded arch=gothic style
Edward Hopper
Gas
1940, Regionalism and Social Realism
Oil on Canvas
frozen within the space of the picture
Dorothea Lange
Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona
1940
Gelatin-Silver print
Frida Kahlo
Thinking of Death
1943, surrealist style
Oil on Canvas
mexican mythology allusion
Georgia O’Keeffe
Black and White
1930, Early Abstract
Oil on Canvas
eliminates color
Hans Hofmann
The Gate
Oil on Canvas
1956-69, mid-century abstract
hint at a situation
Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square
1968, abstract
Oil on Canvas
25 year project
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
William de Kooning
Woman and Bicycle
1952-53, Action Painting Ab-Ex
oil on canvas
attack on idealized Classical image of a female beauty
Mark Rothko
Number 15
1957, Ab-Ex
Oil on Canvas
expresses emotions-religious experience
Ellsworth Kelly
Spectrum III
1967, Color field painting
Oil on Canvas
Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park no. 129
1984, West Coast Abstract
Oil on Canvas
Louise Nevelson
Black Wall
1959, Ab-Ex
Wood
abstract because of arrangement
Robert Rauschenberg
Black Market
1961, Pop Art
Canvas, Wood, Metal, and Oil Paint
Andy Warhol
Campbell’s Soup (Tomato)
1968
Screenprint
obsession with comercialism
Roy Lichtenstein
Torpedo…Los!
1963, Pop Art
Oil on Canvas
Wayne Thiebaud
Thirteen Books
1992, Pop Art
Oil on panel
ordered and focuses on the texture of paint
Claes Oldenburg
Clothespin
1976, Pop Art Sculpture
COR-TEN and stainless steel
resembles a tall man
Bridget Riley
Aubade (Dawn)
1975, Op Art
Acrylic on Linen
sensation of glowing light
Donald Judd
Untitled
1967, minimalism
Green lacquer on Galvanized iron
Agnes Martin
Untitled number 9
1990, minimalism
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing No 681
1993, Conceptualism
Color ink washes
gave instructions to gallery
Joseph Beuys
Coyote, I like America and America likes me
1974
Action Sculpture
blurs the boundaries between man and animal
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
Duane Hanson
The Cowboy
1995, Super-Realism
Polyester resin polychromed in oil
life size and very realistic
Gilbert and George
The singing sculpture
1971, Performance
They do performances that they call living sculptures
One artist even though they are a pair
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
Andy Goldsworthy
Icicles
1987, Environmental Art
His sculptures don’t exist very long because they are so natural
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Gates, Project for Central Park
New York City
1979-2005, Environmental Art
Visual experiences within the landscape
Jean-Michel Basquiat
CARBON/OXYGEN
1984, Urban Environment
Acrylic, Oilstick and silkscreen on canvas
Shows chaos in city and destruction
Jenny Holzer
Untitled
1989-90
LED electronic display
Located in Guggenheim in NYC
Sentences are things she has written called “truisms”
Matthew Barney
Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate
1994
Color photograph
Photograph taken from one of his films
1 in a series of 5 films
Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
1974-79
Mixed Media sculpture
Huge dinner table with a different place setting for famous women throughout history
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
Kara Walker
Slavery! Slavery!
1997
Cut paper and adhesive on wall
Referencing Victorian decoration
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
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
Post Impressionism
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
Symbolism
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
Early 20th Century
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
Fauvism
Color in unexpected/unusual ways
Concerned with the emotional quality of color and composition
reinforce the emotion, observed reality doesn’t matter
German Expressionism
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
Die Brucke
another german expressionist group
abstracted forms + prismatic colors
spiritual values could counteract corruption+materialism
flattened perspective and simple forms
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
new way of depiction space
scenes are shown as multiple view points- top bottom and side at the same time
Cubism
earlier form, fragments objects into abstract geometric forms, more dual colors
analytical cubism
uses bright colors rearranges flat shapes of color to make new forms, later form
synthetic cubism
Italy
industrial forms and inventions
focused on the present and future
speed, movement, energy
break away from tradition
Futurism
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”
Dada
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
Surrealism
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
Abstract Expressionism
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
color field painting
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
Pop Art
geometric abstraction
uses lines, colors,and shapes to create odd visual sensations
Op Art
happening along with pop and op art
singular or very few geometric forms are arranged
Calm, meditative experience
no narrative, or story, just experience
minimalism
gets rid of traditional movements
conceptualism
process of building up color through dots
pointilism
technique that involves pasting lightweight materials or objects onto a flat surface
collage
uses symbols not objects or people to render direct feelings
suprematism
