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27 Cards in this Set
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Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass 1870 Spatial inconsistencies. Juxtaposition of fully-dressed men and nude women controversial. |
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Manet
Olympia 1870 Flatness inspired by woodblock prints. Image of a “confident prostitute” was shocking. |
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Monet
Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) 1890 Monet painted 40 versions of this cathedral. Typical of impressionist focus on light and color. |
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Morisot
Villa at the Seaside 1870 Paintings focused on domestic life. Her work was featured in the first of 8 impressionist exhibits. |
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Renoir
Le Moulin de la Galette 1870 Focus on light and color typical of impressionism. Discovered that shadows were the reflected colors of their surrounding objects. |
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Degas
Absinthe 1870 Influenced by cropping of woodblock prints. Studied with Ingres, moved to Paris after meeting Manet. |
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Cassat
The Bath 1890 Cassat was a female born in PA. Examined the modern woman. |
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Whistler
Peacock Room 1870 One sassy motherf*cker. Peacocks symbolic of conflict over room. |
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Whistler
Nocturne in Black & Gold 1870 Arranged his works as symphonies. Ruskin disliked and slandered him. |
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Cezanne
Mont Sainte Victorie 1910 Painted this mountain 60 times Self-taught, began with career in law |
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Toulouse-Lautrec
La Goulue 1890 First lithograph designed for Moulin Rouge Master of caricature. |
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Toulouse-Lautrec
At The Moulin Rouge 1890 Indicative of post-impressionism, emphasized geometric forms Lautrec exiled himself from society |
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Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1890 Post-impressionist pointillism Studied optics and color theory |
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Rousseau
The Dream 1910 Untrained amateur discovered by Picasso This is his last painting |
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Van Gogh
The Potato Eaters 1890 Painted while in Netherlands Strived to paint peasants “as they are,” they didn’t appreciate it |
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Van Gogh
Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) 1890 Painting of Hiroshige’s woodblock print Supposedly murdered, I don’t buy it |
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Munch
The Scream 1890 Greatly influenced German expressionism Four versions in existence |
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Gauguin
Vision after the Sermon 1890 Typical of symbolist painting, rejects real world in favor of abstract ideas Depicts a scene from the Bible, Jacob wrestling an angel |
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Klimt
The Kiss 1910 Painted during his “golden period” Austrian symbolist |
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Gauguin
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1890 Vowed to commit suicide after painting’s completion Post-impressionist in its ambiguity of shape but use of vibrant colors |
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Matisse
Woman in the Hat 1910 Rejected imitative colors, wanted colors with emotional attachment Labeled a fauve (“wild beast”) |
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Nolde
Crucifixion 1910 Indicative of expressionism, with an emphasis on meaning as opposed to realism Formerly member of Nazi party, work was ultimately condemned in Germany |
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Kandinsky
First Abstraction I 1910 Credited with first purely abstract works Complete departure from reality |
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Marc
Fate of the Animals 1910 Key figure of German Expressionism Camouflage painter in WWI, killed by artillery shrapnel |
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Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon 1910 “Founder” of cubism, painting as objects are seen in the mind Simultaneously revolutionary and controversial |
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Braque
The Portuguese 1910 Colleague of Picasso His memories of some Portuguese musician playing an instrument |
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Picasso
Guernica 1930 Deconstruction of objects, stripped away colors Response to Nazi bombing in Spain |
