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119 Cards in this Set
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The Red Studio
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Matisse
outlines of red room Fauvism |
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Beasts of the Sea
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Matisse
collage, South Seas Fauvism |
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Chapel of the Rosary of the Dominican Nuns
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Matisse
white, St. Dominic outline Fauvism |
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Still Life with Lemons
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Vlaminck
startling color, hot warms Fauvism |
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Golfe Juan
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Dufy
red tree trunk/rooftops, calligraphic lines Fauvism |
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Head of Christ
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Rouault
tragic face, expressed humility and suffering of Christ with conviction Fauvism |
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The Old King
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Rouault
heavy black outlines, King David or Solomon, Medieval art + visual expression Fauvism |
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Old Peasant Woman Praying
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Modersohn-Becker
yellow skin, confiscated by Nazis German Expressionsim |
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Self-Portrait
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Kollwitz
charcoal pencil, little detail, taut expression German Expressionism |
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The Street
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Kirchner
bright hues, heavy black shapes, isolation, loneliness Die Brucke |
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Portrait of a Man
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Heckel
face is emaciated, apprehensive, and neurotic Die Brucke |
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Masks
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Nolde
primitive, contempt for immortality, greed, lust, hypocrisy, grotesque faces Die Brucke |
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The Yellow Cow
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Marc
colorful landscape, joyful cow Der Blaue Reiter |
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Open Green
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Kandinsky
meaningless colors and lines, spontaneous Der Blaue Reiter |
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Fau Erfurth
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Kokoschka
elder lady, inner strength, smiling Der Blaue Reiter |
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Baccarat
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Beckmann
man with sword, evil characters, black lines Der Blaue Reiter |
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Gypsy Woman with Baby
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Modigliani
distortion/elongation Der Blaue Reiter |
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Liberation of the Peon
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Rivera
rounded figures, fresco, social protest against inhumanity of landowners Expressionism in the Americas |
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Mexican Landscape
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Orozco
easel painting, well-rounded forms, slashing brush strokes, contrast, plant and 3 human figures Expressionsim in the Americas |
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The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos
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Siqueiros
in the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, mural, dodecagon exterior, next to Christ the Leader and Atom as a Triumph of Peace over Destruction Expressionism in the Americas |
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Les Demoiselle d'Avignon
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Picasso
beginning of Cubism, primitive feeling, Egyptian concept, masklike features, sharp angles, geometric shapes Cubism |
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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
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Picasso
features broken apart and reassembled Cubism |
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Three Musicians
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Picasso
huge collage of interlocking flat shapes and colors Cubism |
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Guernica
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Picasso
pain, agony, chaos, somber, expressionism+cubism, most dramatic work Cubism |
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Still Life: The Table
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Braque
table tilted forward, different vantage points, simultaneity Cubism |
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Breakfast
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Gris
wallpapers, wood-grains, newspapers, labels, vertical still-life Cubism |
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The City
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Leger
elements of urban industrialization Cubism |
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Nude Descending a Staircase
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Duchamp
"explosion in a shingle factory", painted motion Cubism |
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Zirchow VII
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Feininger
contour continuation, church?, different color blocks blended together Cubism |
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The Noise of the Street Penetrates the House
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Boccioni
chaotic scene, agitation, motion Futurism |
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
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Boccioni
greatest achievement, sculpture, charging male Futurism |
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Brooklyn Bridge
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Stella
visual song of praise, positive expression to technology Futurism |
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Suprematist Composition: White on White
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Malevich
Suprematism |
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Linear Construction
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Gabo
transparent plastic, space+volume Constructivism |
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Tree
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Mondrian
grays and blacks, object reduced to lines De Stijl |
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Lozenge in Red, Yellow and Blue
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Mondrian
square, stand on one corner De Stijl |
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1964 (Lussios II)
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Nicholson
experiments with basic materials and ideas De Stijl |
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Summer
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Maillol
calm, harmony, serenity, woman standing Abstract Sculpture |
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Seated Youth
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Lehmbruck
angular, elongated boy, thin solids, clay+plaster+cement Abstract Sculpture |
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Frenzy (Der Berserker)
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Barlach
expressed human emotions, seems heavy Abstract Sculpture |
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the Kiss
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Brancusi
limestone, simplification, like African art Abstract Sculpture |
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Bird in Space
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Brancusi
essence of sensation of flight made visible Abstract Sculpture |
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Te Large Horse
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Duchamp-Villon
"horsepower" rather than horseflesh Abstract Sculpture |
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Figure
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Lipchitz
eyes stare at viewer Abstract Sculpture |
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Man Pointing
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Giacometti
powerful symbol of loneliness and alienation of humanity Abstract Sculpture |
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I and the Village
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Chagall
happy scenes of Russia, green face looks on, not symbolic Fantasy |
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The Nostalgia of the Infinite
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de Chirico
strange cityscape with casted shadows, lone figures produce a feeling of loneliness and despair Fantasy |
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Twittering Machine
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Klee
happy quality, kid-like imagination, unknown purpose, birds with handle Fantasy |
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Birds in an Aquarium
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Arp
random bits of wood, relief sculpture, biomorphic shapes, sparks imaginations to perceive whimsical scenes Fantasy: Dada |
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La Mer (The Sea)
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Ernst
sea and shore confrontation, seascape of his own making Fantasy: Dada |
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Construction for Noble Ladies
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Schwitters
assemblage, objects+paint, Dada master, recycled society into works of art Fantasy: Dada |
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Women at Sunrise
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Miro
shapes suggest people, animals, and a rising sun; biomorphic shapes float on soft background Fantasy: Surrealism |
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Sacrament of the Last Supper
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Dali
painted later in life, religious subjects, Christ's body is translucent Fantasy: Surrealism |
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The Persistence of Memory
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Dali
soft objects representing normally solid objects, startling objects in natural settings (watches, ants, partial face) Fantasy: Surrealism |
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Time Transfixed
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Magritte
juxaposition of room with train Fantasy: Surrealism |
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The Furniture of Time
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Tanguy
imaginated forms, fantastical deep space, surrounded by blue light Fanstasy: Surrealism |
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Woman on Stairway Talking to a Man with Cane
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Cartier-Bresson
contrasts, aerial perspective, balance, human interest Photography |
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20th century art based on?
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Post-Impressionists' developments
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Impressionism/Post-Impressionism eliminated the traditional concepts of:
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form, space, color, and shape
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Expressionistic Art =
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feeling
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Abstract Art =
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design
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Fantasy Art =
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imagination
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What held Fauvists together?
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emphasis on vibrant color
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How did Fauvists express their emotions?
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through distorted color
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Who moved to the forefront of Fauvism and why?
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Matisse because of his intense colors and the ability to simplify complex subjects
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Matisse's technique
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simplified collage techniques
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How was Matisse master of "simple line"?
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developed powers of observation and simplification
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Took care of Matisse in 1943?
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Dominican nuns in Southern French village
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Tried modeling himself after Cezanne/What type of style?
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Doufy/Calligraphic (charming and colorful)
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Rouault expressed in his painting:?
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deep concern for the immoral conditions of poverty and war
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Subjects of Rouault's early paintings?
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various religious subjects, traditional styles
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What happened to Rouault's work in 1911?
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Turned darker and more subjective as he expressed his indignation at the evils around him
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How did Rouault depict Christ and who was his predecessor?
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with tragic faces/Grunewald
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How did Gaugin influence Modersohn-Becker?
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simplified forms, exotic color, use of line; shows her personal feelings
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Media of Kollwitz?
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etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, drawings
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Topics of Kollwitz?
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old age, hard work, war, motherhood, and death
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When/where did Die Brucke begin?
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Dresden, 1905
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Whom did the Die Bruckes admire?
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Munch, van Gogh, and Gaugin
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What did the Die Brucke's emphasize?
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violent color and distortion of features in paintings, and powerful/somber woodcuts
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What were the Die Brucke's crying out against?
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economic and social conditions in Germany prior to WWI
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Who was the early leader of Die Brucke?
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Kirchner
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Heckel/Kirchner have in common?
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sharp angles
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How did public react to Nolde's art?
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displeased by it
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How was Nolde similar to Rouault?
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painted religious themes
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Who were Der Blaue Reiter? When? Where?
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Expressionist group that spawned in Germany prior to WWI; centered in Munich from 1911-1912
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Marc's specialty?
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animal paintings
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Abstract artists concerned with?
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the design on the canvas and how the various parts related to each other
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Who began Cubism/when?
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Picasso in 1907
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Cubism concerned with?
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surface design and pushes emotion and personal feelings out of consideration
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Focus of Picasso's "Rose Period"?
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circus themes
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Cubism focused on what after Les Desmoiselles?
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interlocking, geometric surface arrangements
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Worked with Picasso to develop true Cubism?
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Braque
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What replaced big flat shapes in Cubism?
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small, crisp facets and nearly monochromatic hues
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What is analytical Cubism?
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a mature style, classic in its lack of emotion and concentration on the principles of design; viewed as an attempt to break apart or analyze the subject and view it from different perspectives simultaneously
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How did Picasso/Braque attempt to trick the viewer's sense with collage?
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interchange pasted papers with simulation
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Simultaneity -
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when an object is seen straight on and in perspective at the same time
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Synthetic Cubism -
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artists were no longer destroying the object but were trying to emphasize it again, put it back together, and synthesize it
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Who applied painting to their industrial environment?
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Leger
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Counter continuation -
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when edges of many shapes are continued outward until they hit the border of the canvas, creating new shapes as they intersect it
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Feininger's favorite subject?
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sailing ships and cityscapes
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What was the interest in futurism?
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the mechanized advancement of society and the destruction of all symbols from the past because they held up progress
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Dynamism -
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method for showing "lines of force" which characterize various objects and create a sense of movement
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Who's work was basic to futurism?
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Duchamp
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Who was the leader of Italian futurism?
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Boccioni
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Which Boccioni piece compares to Duchamp's Nude and why?
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, charging movement
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Why does Boccioni's figure recall Bernini's David and other Baroque sculpture?
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solid forms and space are merging and interlocking, causing the negative volumes to be as important as the positive, dynamically interacting with surrounding space
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Why is Stella's Brooklyn Bridge the opposite of German Expressionism?
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glorifies industrialization opposed to belief that mechanization is dehumanizing
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Theory behind Suprematism?
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"art must leave behind all dependence on motif"
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What was constructivism?
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a form of sculpture that involved making abstract human figures of nontraditional materials such as cardboard, sheet metal, plastic, and wire
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What ethnic group invented constructivism?
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Russian movement
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What development did Mondrian lead?
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non-representational sytle, De Stijl
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What movement was the opposite of De Stijl?
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Expressionsim
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What Frenchman emphasized a static balance and feeling of serenity in his full forms?
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Maillol
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What 2 artists influenced Lehmbruck?
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Rodin and Maillol
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What was Lehmbruck's medium and why?
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clay cast in composite mixture of pulverized stone and plaster or cement; gave sculpture a rough finish
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What African characteristic did Brancusi admire?
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simplification and elimination of detail
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What was Brancusi a first of?
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first sculptor of abstract forms to completely eliminate normal representational reference and to emphasize the form itself
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What was Chagall's style based on/favorite subject?
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Cubism with his fractured planes but his concepts and presentation were purely personal;Russia as he remembered
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What 3 elements encompass Chagall's private thoughts?
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dreamlike memories, Jewish proverbs, Russian folk tales
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