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39 Cards in this Set
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Aaron Douglas
Noah's Ark ca. 1927 Interested in precisionist aesthetic Harlem Renaissance/New Negro movement Douglas incorporated motifs from African sculpture Transparent angular planes characteristic of Synthetic Cubism |
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Charles Demuth
My Egypt 1927 Precisionist (American artists who extolled machine age) Painting depicts grain elevators reduced to geometric forms (likened to ancient Egyptian pyramid) Amid Cubist transparent diagonal planes |
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Georgia O'Keeffe
New York, Night 1929 Precisionist (Fine edges, polished look) New York's skyscrapers reduced to large, simple, dark planes Punctuated by small windows adding rhythm and energy to image |
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Giorgio de Chirico
The Song of Love 1914 Metaphysical Painting, precursor to Surrealism Classical head of Apollo floats mysteriously Gigantic red glove in a deserted, shadow-filled Italian city square Mysterious, meaningless title |
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Max Ernst
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale 1924 Early Surrealist painting Intentionally ambiguous title Traditional perspective to represent the setting 3 sketchily rendered figures belong to dream world |
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Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory 1931 Surrealist "Images of concrete irrationality" Realistically rendered landscape featuring 3 decaying watches Haunting allegory of empty space where time has ended Convincingly real, precise detail, to make irrational concrete Symbols of death: clocks, ants eating, sun setting, etc.) |
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Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images 1928-1929 Surrealist Challenges viewer's reliance on conscious, rational reading of art Meticulously rendered pipe |
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Paul Klee
Twittering Machine 1922 Surrealist Fanciful vision of mysterious world presented in simplified manner Based on forms easily read as birds |
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Joan Miro
Painting 1933 Surrealist, Biomorophic Promoted automatism Creation of art w/out conscious control Scattered collage, then added forms suggesting floating amoebic organisms |
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Edward Hopper
Nighthawks 1942 Realist vision, but simplified and more abstract Seeming indifference of Hopper's characters to one another, echoing spaces surrounding them Evoke loneliness, isolation of Depression-era life |
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Jacob Lawrence
No. 49 from The Migration of the Negro 1940-1941 Depiction of a segregated dining room underscored that migrants had not left discrimination behind Style draws from Cubist space, push-pull effects |
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Grant Wood
American Gothic 1930 Midwestern Regionalism, reaction to modernist abstract painting Meticulous brushwork, dour expression gives severe quality Rejection of avant-garde styles in favor of readable, Realist style "quaint, humorous, and American" |
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Diego Rivera
Ancient Mexico 1929-1935 Marxist, strove to develop an art accessible to public Nat'l Mexican style Mural cycle in public building dramatizing history of native land Conflicts btwn Mexicans and Spanish depicted |
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Frida Kahlo
The Two Fridas 1939 Surrealist? Deeply personal painting touch sensual and psychological memories of viewer Twin self-portraits linked by hand and artery Suggests two sides of her personality |
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Jackson Pollock
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) 1950 Gestural abstraction, Abstract Expressionist Emphasized creative process Rhythmic drips, splatters, dribbles of paint that envelop viewers Improv'l nature, reliance on subconscious have parallels to "psychic automatism" |
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Willem de Kooning
Woman I 1950-1952 Gestural abstraction, Abstract Expressionism Sweeping gestural brushstrokes and energetic application of pigment Toothy smile inspired by Camel cigarette ad Suggests satiric inversion of traditional image of Venus |
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Mark Rothko
No. 14 1960 Chromatic abstractionist, Abstract Expressionism Hazy rectangles of pure color in front of colored background Compelling visual experience Color as doorway to another reality; expression of emotion |
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Ellsworth Kelly
Red Blue Green 1963 Post-Painterly Abstraction; variant: hard-edge painting Razor-sharp edges, clearly delineated areas of color Color shapes appear resolutely 2D |
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Frank Stella
Mas o Menos 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction, Abstract Expressionist Evenly spaced pinstripes on colored ground = purity in painting no central focus, no painterly or expressive elements, no tactile quality |
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Helen Frankenthaler
The Bay 1963 Color-field painting, Post-Painterly Abstraction Diluted paint, allowed pigments to soak in Underscores painting is simply pigment on flat surface |
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Morris Louis
Saraband 1959 Color-field painting, Post-Painterly Abstraction Poured diluted acrylic resin to produced billowy, fluid, transparent shapes reduced painting to concrete fact o/t paint-impregnated material |
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Tony Smith
Die 1962 Minimalist: lack identifiable subjects, colors, textures, narratives Simple, volumetric sculpture, reduced to basic geometric forms "Objecthood" and concrete tangibility of sculptures |
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Donald Judd
Untitled 1969 Minimalist sculpture boxes fashioned from undisguised industrial materials Plexiglas b/c translucency gives viewer access to work's interior |
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Bridget Riley
Fission 1963 Op Art painting: illusion of motion and depth using geometric forms Disorienting effect; appears to cave in at center |
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Jasper Johns
Three Flags 1958 Pop art Common objects ppl view frequently, rarely scrutinize Reverses traditional perspective; closer is smaller |
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Roy Lichtenstein
Hopeless 1963 Pop art Comic books, mainstay of pop culture, meant to be read and discarded Immortalized images on large canvas Faithful to comic-strip Usually melodramatic scenes, hallmarks of romantic comic books |
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Andy Warhol
Green Coca-Cola Bottles 1962 Quintessential Pop artist Icon of mass-produced, consumer culture, then multiplied Reflects Coke's omnipresence in American society |
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Audrey Flack
Marilyn 1977 Superrealism Photorealist still life record objects with great optical fidelity Multiple references to transience of life |
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Chuck Close
Big Self-Portrait 1967-1968 Superrealism Translates photographic info into painted info Avoided creative compositions, flattering lighting, and revealing facial expressions |
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Duane Hanson
Supermarket Shopper 1970 Hanson used molds from live models to create Superrealistic life-size painted plaster sculptures Capture the emptiness and loneliness of average Americans in familiar settings |
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Lucian Freud
Naked Portrait 1972-1973 Brutally realistic portrait of unnamed woman Near fetal position Viewer is an intruder in private space, but actually a studio |
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Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing 1947 Postwar Expressionist Jean-Paul Sartre saw featureless sculpted figures as epitome of existentialist humanity Alienated, solitary, lost in world's immensity |
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Francis Bacon
Painting 1946 Postwar Expressionist Revolting image of powerful figure presiding over slaughter Indictment of humanity and reflect of WWII's butchery |
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Jean Dubuffet
Vie Inquiete (Uneasy Life) 1953 Proto-Abstract Expressionism impasto (layer of thickly applied pigment) |
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Arshile Gorky
Garden in Sochi ca. 1943 Abstract Expressionism Abstract biomorphic shapes Bridge btwn Biomorphic Surrealists and Abstract Expressionist |
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Franz Kline
Mahoning 1956 Abstract Expressionism Resembles Chinese and Japanese calligraphy |
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Barnett Newman
Vir Heroicus Sublimis 1950-1951 Chromatic abstractionist Zips give the canvas scale |
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Norman Lewis
Untitled 1960 Chromatic and Gestural Expressionist blend! Those are figures in there |
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David Smith
Cubi XII 1963 Abstract Expressionist sculpture Designed to reflect natural light, color of outdoor settings Not the sterile illumination of a museum! |
