Art Test 5, Chapter 15|Key Works Part 1

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Max Beckmann
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"

Expressionism

The artist's revulsion against physical cruelty and suffering transmits through distorted figures crushed into a shallow space.

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Kandinsky
"Improvisation No. 30"

Expressionism
(Fauves)

(Violent distortion and outrages of color)

Kandinsky used the strong colors of Russian folk art culture

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Paul Cézanne
"Mt. St. Victorie"

Post-Impressionism

Cezanne was considered the father of modern art by many.

This painting shows a nearly geometric configuration and balance.

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Picasso
"Les Demoiselles d’Avignon"

Cubism

This painting is aggressive and harsh, like the world of the prostitutes who inhabit it.

This painting deliberately breaks with the traditions of Western illusionistic art, as a result of personal conflicts on his (Picasso's) part, combined with his ambition to be recognized as the leader of the avant-garde.

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Picasso
"Woman Playing a Mandolin"

Cubism

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Boccioni
"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Futurism

Takes the mythological subject of Mercury, messenger of the gods, and turns him into a futuristic machine.

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Mondrian
"Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow"

De Stijl

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Malevich
"Suprematist Composition: White on White"

Suprematism

He sought basic pictorial elements that could "communicate the most profound expressive reality"

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