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11 Cards in this Set
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Antonio Canova
Pauline Borghese as Venus 1808 Marble Neoclassical sculpture; part of Napoleon's royal patronage Napoleon's sister as Venus (hence reclining) Based on Greek nude statuary: sensuous pose, seminude body Mixed media and detail in chair suggest Baroque Small hands, feet, elongated neck suggest Mannerist |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Grande Odalisque 1814 Oil on canvas Neoclassical: reclining female nude Mannerist: languid pose, small head, elongated limbs, cool color scheme Romantic: exotic (Turkish woman in harem) |
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Edouard Manet
Olympia 1863 Realistic? Oil on canvas Nude prostitute Looks at viewer with cool indifference; shamelessness! Prostitutes had been painted before, but in shame! Black maid evokes inferiority and animalism(???) Rough brushstrokes, abrupt shifts in tonality All a radical departure from academic style then in favor |
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Cezanne
The Bathers 1906 Post-Impressionist 'passage' all over the place! (women's hair, women in line with trees) Supposed to be a Gotchic cathedral? (Arch of trees, lightness in center) |
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Edvard Munch
Madonna 1895 Symbolist Oil on canvas Color lithograph Femme fatale theme, again! Suggests strong woman Yet painted to be in the midst of intercourse; erotic? |
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Emil Nolde
Saint Mary of Egypt among Sinners 1912 German Expressionism (Die Brucke) Lust of lechers magnifies their brutal ugliness Distortions of form and color Rawness of brushstrokes amplify harshness of faces |
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Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 Modernist/Primitivist Influences: African and ancient Iberian sculpture + late Cezanne Opens door to radically new method of representing forms in space Figures inconsistently depicted (calm faces left, crazy on right) |
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Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-1923 Oil, lead, wire, foil, dust and varnish on glass Dada sculpture Simultaneously playful and serious exam of humans as machines Finished "by accident" |
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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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Henri Matisse
The Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra 1907 Fauvist/Primitivism Oil on Canvas Extremely curvaceous body based on exotic, African woman |
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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 |
