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10 Cards in this Set
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Gertrude Kasebier
Blessed Art Thou among Women 1899 Symbolist photograph Sense of spiritual and divine into scenes from everyday life Deliberately soft focus invests scene w/ aura of otherworldly peace Draws parallel btwn Mother of God and modern mother |
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Vassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 28 (second version) 1912 German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter) One of first paintings of complete abstraction on canvas Theories of Einstein, Rutherford => material object had no real substance |
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Marcel Duchamp
Fountain (second version) 1917 (1950) Dada sculpture "readymade" sculpture were mass-produced objects the Dada artist modified conferred status of art onto a urinal Creation of a new thought for an object |
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Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 1912 Oil on canvas Armory Show introduced European modernism to mainstream America Figure moving in a time continuum Owes to Analytic Cubism and Futurism Influence of light and shadow, sense of dimension Multiple perspectives and sense of structure (Cezanne) |
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Arthur Dove
Nature Symbolized No. 2 ca. 1911 Avant-garde American art Completely nonobjective canvas (innovative) Only abstract shapes and color Sought to capture essence of nature and pulsating organic growth Some elements of Cubism, but no identifiable objects |
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Marsden Hartley
Portrait of a German Officer 1914 Elegy to a lover killed in battle Arranged military-related images against somber black background Flattened, planar presentation reveals influence of Synthetic Cubism |
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Stuart Davis
Lucky Strike 1921 Precisionist(?) Painted cigarette package in fragment form, recalling Cubist collage Imbued his painting w/ American jazz rhythm; energy of fast-paced culture |
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Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage 1907 Modernist focus Taken during voyage to Europe; passengers US rejected passage into country Mixture of patterns of forms and human activity Stirs emotion |
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Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother 1935 Documents lives of migratory farm workers during Depression Captured woman's strength and worry Propaganda paid for by gov't |
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Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe and Glass 1913 Cubist collage Glued paper makes a visual game Pipe seems to be in foreground; actually cutout revealing canvas |
