Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
30 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Matisse's "Le Bonheur de Vivre" "The Joy of Living" FAUVISM - "wild beasts" one of the first uses of non-representational color with a flattening of space by use of unproportionate figures |
|
|
Picasso's "Les Demiselles d'Avignon PROTOCUBISM - study of form, line rather than color, inspired by African masks at an exihibition that picasso saw and denied until his death |
|
|
Braque's "The Portuguese" ANALYTIC CUBISM - stopping point of picasso/braque's expiraments. Still representational of a woman holding a guitar |
|
|
Picasso's "Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass" SYNTHETIC CUBISM - literally taking fragments to create a new surface. Still representational |
|
|
Matisse's "The Red Studio" FAUVISM - Red flattens everything. No value portrayed yet a sense of space is created by the angle of the paintings and the way the recede into what then becomes space |
|
|
Kirchner's "Street Drisden" GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM - inspired by fauves combined with Germany's longstanding tradition of depicting suffering and agony. Subjects confront us with their sickly faces. Child is alone and lost in the bustle, anxiety |
|
|
Kandinsky's "Sketch I for Compostion VII" FULL ABSTRACTION - completely looses subject matter. example of what kandinsky claimed to be his synestesia |
|
|
Boccioni's "States of Mind I: Farewells" ITALIAN FUTURISM - fracturing scene to show speed and energy. interest in development and technology |
|
|
Malevich's "Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" SUPREMATISM - intrest in technology and the way it feels to hover and fly, or float away in a plane |
|
|
Atget's "Pool of Versailles" PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART - atget would get up early to photography familiar every day spaces with no people around, giving them a strange eerie feeling |
|
|
Atget's "Organ Grinder" PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART - Juxtaposititon of horror in the empty sockets of the man and the joy on the face of the child. beautiful but eerie , true to atget's style of photography |
|
|
Alfred Stieglitz's "City of Ambition" PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART - straight photography usually of coastlines representing his coastal life in transition between New York and Berlin |
|
|
Steichen's "Rodin with his Sculptures" PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART - pictorialism rather than straight photography. fuzzyness of blur plus the illumination of mind makes Rodin's "Victor Hugo" and "Thinker" look like they are coming forth from Rodin's mind after a long creative and philosophical struggle rather than a burst of creativity. |
|
|
Kasebier's "Blessed Art thou among Women" PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART - pictorialism, soft grainy, out of focus with wide range of lush greys |
|
|
Stella's "Voice of the City" AMERICAN PRECISIONISM - five panels like an altar piece where industry replaces religion - technology and modernity is the religion of the 20th century |
|
|
Strand's "Wire Wheel" AMERICAN PRECISIONISM - cubism meets photography. close cropping and tight focused lines show the abstrative aspect of photograhy as an art |
|
|
Wood's "American Gothic" REGIONALISM - depicts the gender roles drilled into people of the day (woman is conservatively dressed and clean while man is firlmy holding the pitchfork showing he is a strong man) - god fearing people who pioneered the land |
|
|
Dorthea Lane's "Migrant Mother" REGIONALISM - shows the suffering of the great depression and how motherhood transends time |
|
|
Van Alen's "Chrystler Building" ART DECO - indulging fantassy and lavishness. it was about decorative veneer not idealistic substance. machiene asthetic |
|
|
Evans' "Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania" FALL OF MODERNITY - shows the pointlessness of life for the american worker and how death is eminent, rather than depicting the desperation of the poor, he shows the futility of life as a whole |
|
|
Lawrence's "The Migration of the Negro Series, Number 58" HARLEM RENAISSANCE - clean slate for a clean start, elevation from left to right as if showing the opportunity for elevation through education. the girls are different but they aren't individuals. they represent the black community as a whole |
|
|
Van Der Zee's "Couple with a Cadillac" HARLEM RENAISSANCE - using photography's "truth claim" to boost the status of black models by showing them with luxury that isn't theirs |
|
|
Douglas' "Aspects of Negro Life" HARLEM RENAISSANCE - pointing towards the city where there is better opportunity for the black community. city = symbol of hope, shows african tribal style of face showing the identity of these people that was lost in history |
|
|
Duchamp's "Fountain" DADA - senseless found object that makes people question whether or not an artist actually has to create art. What makes art? Does it have to be beautiful? |
|
|
Hanna Hoch's "Cut with the Kitchen Knife" DADA - newspaper clippings with machinery and women. inspired by picasso collages. very political, interest in the senselessness of war and the war machine |
|
|
Dali's "Persistence of Memory" SURREALISM - surrealists attempt to remove the conscious mind from art and channel the truths of the subconscious - dream art |
|
|
Man Ray's "The Gift" SURREALISM - alluding to the animalistic violent side of human nature. passive aggressiveness of this nature. |
|
|
Man Ray's "Champs Delicieux" DADA - photogram popularized by Man Ray. Laying down objects on photosensitive paper and exposing the collection to light. |
|
|
Meret Oppenheim "Object (Luncheon in Fur)" SURREALISM - combination of two sensual things (drink and fur) and makes something repulsive. even suggesting pubic hair. makes the viewer aware of why they hate it and boom. brings them to the subconscious. |
|
|
Gorky's "The Liver is the Cock's Comb" ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - no one focal point. optically overwhelming size. violent like Gorky's past |
