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Trompe l'Oeil
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visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
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Non Contextualist Theories
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Imitationist- Art mirrors reality
Formalist- Art is tied to principals and elements of design. Tied with Modernism. Expressionist- Art is tied to feelings and emotions |
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Contextualist Theories
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Instrumentalist - Art is an instrument or means to a larger goal. Political art is instrumentalist
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What Prompted the Columbian Exposition
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Celebrated Christopher Columbus's arrival.
Designed largely by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Olmsted. Prototype for what they thought a city should be It was designed to follow Beaux Arts principles of design, namely French neoclassical architecture principles based on symmetry, balance, and splendor. |
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Daniel Burnham Role for Columbian Exposition
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Oversee design and construction of World's Columbian Exposition.
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Frederic Olmdstead Role for Columbian Exposition
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Site designer, hired by Daniel Burnham.
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Louis Sullivan Role for Columbian Exposition
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Father of skyscrapers and father of modernism.
Architect. |
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Mary Cassat's Role for Columbian Exposition
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Created a 52X12 foot mural display . Which was then torn down when the Women's building was taken down.
"Young women plucking the fruits of knowledge or science" |
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Mary Cassatt's approach to the subject of women in her paintings?
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Women to access a college education
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Ashcan Painters
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Robert Henri - Impressionism more realistic art that would speak directly to their own time and experience.
George Luks-painted genre paintings of urban subjects William Glackens- John Sloan Everett Shinn
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William Glackens
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His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.
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John Sloan
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He is best known for his urban genre scenes and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City
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Everett Shinn
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He is best known for his robust paintings of urban life in New York and London, a hallmark of Ashcan art, and for his theater and residential murals and interior-design projects. His style varied considerably over the years, from gritty and realistic to decorative and rococo.
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"The Swimming Hole"
Thomas Eakins |
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Forty-two Kids, George Bellows
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"The Cot"
John Sloan |
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"The Magic Crystal"
Gertrude Kasebier |
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"Baxter St. Alley in Mulberry Bend"
Jacob Riis |
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The International Exhibition of Modern Art
Armory Show New York 1913 |
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Unicorns
Arthur Davies |
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Crescendo
Arthur Davies |
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The Red Studio
Henri Matisse |
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Foutain New York
Alfred Stieglitz |
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Mona Lisa with Moustache and goatee in pencil
Marcel Duchamp |
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Marcel Duchamp has an alternate ego, what is it?
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Rrose Selavy
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Portrait of a German Officer
Marsden Hartley |
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I saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Charles Demuth |
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My Egypt
Charles Demuth |
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Jack in the pulpit IV
Georgia O'Keefe |
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Magnolia Blossom
Imogen Cunningham |
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What is abstraction?
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Beauty in elemental form
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Palace of Fine Arts
Now Building of science and industy in CHicago Charles Atwood |
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Who organized the armory show?
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Arthur Davis
Did not only exhibit European modernist but also American contemporary art . |
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Arthur Dove
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Observation of Nature
An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter |
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Morgan Rusell
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"Synchromy"
Was a modern American artist. Russell's "synchromies," which analogized color to music, were an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism |
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright
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Was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention.[1]
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Formalist Theory
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Holds that artworks have the capacity to elicit a significant response if they are arranged appropriately, has dominated Western Thinking about art during 20th century. "It Just works"
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Expressionist Theory
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Feelings or emotions are powerfully tied to artworks and our experiences with them. Expressing evoking feelings.
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Contextualist Theories
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Attemps to explain artworks and our experiences, like social, political and historical contexts. 1. Instrumentalist theories 2. Institutionalist theories 3. Linguistic theories |
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Institutionalist Theories
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Focusing upon the social context in which artworks are created, perceived, and sued, some philosophers have proposed that art can be defined by the way in which objects or events are treated in society. Appreciation of objects that come to be called art.
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Instrumentalist Theories
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Values a painting b/c of what it does. Valued for role it plays in our social history. Kind of like Functionalists in that art is and/or be primarily functional: it should do something significant.
Marxism is an example. |
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Linguistic Theories
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Art has its own language and there are specific words that are used to help give meaning.
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Imitation Theory
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Artwork looks like a photograph, like real life.
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Jose Vasconcelos
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Parson Weem's Fable
Grant Wood |
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Grant Wood's Style of Art
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He Enjoyed keeping fable stories alive through his work.
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American Gothic
Grant Wood |
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Again the year of peril
Thomas Benton |
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Exterminate!
Thomas Benton |
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Thomas Benton style of art
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Very graphic to send a message to the people
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The Eternal City
Peter Blume |
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Men w/o women
Stuart Davis |
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Aryan Venus and Adonis
Arthur Kamp |
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Reeadiness
Arno Breker |
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Flower Day
Diego Rivera |
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Cabbage Leaf
Edward Weston |
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Tina Modotti
Edward Weston |
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"Cant solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art"
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Edward Weston
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Hopi House
Mary Colter |
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Willow Basket "We Assemble to Discuss the Happy Loves of Our Ancestors"
Louisa Keyser, Dah So La Lee |
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The Thankful Poor
Henry Tanner |
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Ethiopia Awakening
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Harlen Renaissance Woman rising after sleep |
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The Unkown Dancer
Richmond Barthe |
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Father of African American Art?
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Aaron Douglas
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Regionalists
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State sponsored and Midwestern style paintings to reflect life.
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Mending Socks
Archibald Motley |
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MIdsummer nighti n harlem
Palmer Hayden |
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John Reed Clubs
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An American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed. Established in the fall of 1929, the John Reed Clubs were a mass organization of the Communist Party USA which sought to expand its influence among radical and liberal intellectuals. The organization was terminated in 1935.
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American Artists' Congress
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An organization founded in February 1936 as part of the popular front of the Communist Party USA as a vehicle for uniting graphic artists in projects helping to combat the spread of fascism. During World War II the organization was merged into the Artists' Council for Victory, which effectively spelled the end of the organization.
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Surrealism
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a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
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Kitsch
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art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way
A lava lamp in the 60's is a kisch |
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Precisionism
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the first indigenous modern-art movement in the United States and an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism.
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Muralism
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Mexican muralism was the promotion of mural painting starting in the 1920s, generally with social and political messages as part of efforts to reunify the country under the post Mexican Revolution government. It was headed by “the big three” painters, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
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Social Realism
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international art movement, refers to the work of painters, printmakers, photographers and filmmakers who draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working classes and the poor, and who are critical of the social structures that maintain these conditions.
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Archibald Motley
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Christianity became the common between White and Black cultures
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Regionalist Painters
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Grant Wood
Thomas Benton John Curry |
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Nelson Rockefeller's problem with Diego Rivera's RCA murals ?
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Lenin and a Soviet Russian May Day parade. Despite protests from artists, Nelson Rockefeller ordered its destruction before it was completed.
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modernism
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form is more important than content, art is universal
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Avant-garde
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English equivalent is vanguard
Art is ahead of its time, embraces the new. |
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Jacob Riis style
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Used flash photography to get people to be caught off guard by the flash.
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John Sloan
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Got into argument w/ the editorial board, great painter of women
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