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35 Cards in this Set
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Frankenstein
-1931 -Mary Shelley -Gothic & Romanesque -Universal Pictures |
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Dracula
-1931 -Bram Stoker -Gothic & Romanesque -Universal Pictures -Expression Cubist Style |
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Bert Williams
-1874-1922 -First major black star to cross the color lines in performing on the white stage -Performed in black face -Often performed with Ziegfield follies, became famous there -Campaigned for Black Rights |
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Ziegfield Follies 1907-1932
-Glorified the American Girl -Genius of stage pageantry but also sexual predatory who used casting couch -Shows often had nudity in them |
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Minstrel Shows 1820's
-Big Daddy Rice -Jim Crowe -Comedy -Dancing, acting, music -White people in blackface |
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Nicholas Brothers
-Favard Nicholas 1914-2006 -Harold Nicholas 1921-2000 -Origin of Tap dancing Knows for flash dancing and aerobatics 1930's and 1940's |
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Bojangles Robinson
-1878-1949 -Known for clarity of steps and slow pace -Nonchalant tap dancing -Very big in American entertainment -1930's |
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Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
Vera Ellen (1921-1981) -Scene from "Bell of New York" 1952 -Extremely famous dancers of their time -Ellen could adapt her dancing to match any partner -Premiere female dancer of her time -Danced till her feet bled -Fred Astaire-depression modern style dance (1930's)-streamline movement |
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Chrysler Building
-1928 -William Van Allen (1882-1954) -Art Deco Style with the step effect -New York City |
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Art Deco Style
-1924-1930's -Jewelry -Depression Modern takes over -Focused on craftsmanship and quality -Mayan and South American Architectural Styles -Step Effect -Popular in France 1920-30's -Artist: Renee Lalique (1924-1930's) |
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Clara Bow "It Girl"
-1905-1965 -She had "it" the combo of attractive things of her era -High-energy Performer -Flat chested, super red lips, flapper stlye -Drank and Smoke like a man -Not wearing hoopskits and whale-bone corsets -Coined the American Flapper Style -Outrageous, freudian ideals |
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Modernistic
-1920 -Art Deco Style -Commercialized Deco, looks like deco but is a lot cheaper -On main street in Columbia, Missouri -Made to look very glitzy and stylized |
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King Kong
-Empire State building 1930 -Architechts: Raymond Shreive, William Lamb, Arthur Harmon -Tied blimps to tower |
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Fred Astaire
-1899-1987 -Streamline Style -Performed with Vera Ellen -Famous Dancer -Early Principal partner: Ginger Rogers -Belle of New York with Vera Ellen 1952 |
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Busby Berkeley
-1896-1976 -Choreographer, Director for Warner Bros. and MGM -Deco-dent style (Wedding cake tier style) -Known for pure escapism -Taken away from stage into fantasy land -Geometric shape (tiered cake look) -Kaleidoscope shot |
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Scene from Footlight Parade
-Busby Berkely -Used Deco-dent -Production called, "By a waterfall" 1933 |
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Johnson's Wax Factory
-1936-1939 -Frank Lloyd Wright (american architect, educator&philospher) -Racine, Wisconsin -Depression Modern Style -Blonder, curved linear |
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Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
-transformed American simplified stream line form -Important figure in the development Depression Modernisn -Paris, France -Very Streamline -Created a famous salon -Influenced Coca-Cola bottle, designed after May West |
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Alfred Hitchcock
-1899-1980 -Famous movie director and designer -Obsessively meticulous -Movies were very suspenseful -5 characteristics of his films 1.incompetence of police (arrest wrong man) 2. Kammerspiele lighting 3. Appearance vs. Reality (what you see isn't how they are) 4. Original Sin (heroes always flawed) 5. Characters have obsessions Gradual slide into chaos |
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Alfred Hitchcock
-1899-1980 -Famous movie director and designed -Obsessively meticulous -Movies were very suspenseful -5 characteristics of his films 1.incompetence of police (arrest wrong man) 2. Kammerspiele lighting 3. Appearance vs. Reality (what you see isn't how they are) 4. Original Sin (heroes always flawed) 5. Characters have obsessions |
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Caresses of the Sphinx
-1896 -Shows dualistic vision of women as angelic woman but also a femme fatale (she is a monster and an inspiration) -Ferdnand Khnopff (1858-1921) -Belgian Symbolist Painter -Symbolist movement began as literary movement emphasizing internal psychological phenomena rather than objective descriptions of nature -ex. Marlena Dietrich in movies made by Joseph von Sternberg |
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Orpheus (1893)
-Jean Delville -1867-1953 -End of the 19th Century -Belgium symbolist painter, write and oculist (eye doctor) -Frequently wrote about ideas but never discussed them -wanted to leave interpretations up to the viewer -Symbolist movement focused in France and Belgium -beautiful figures surrounded by jewels, Orpheus was someone who sand beautifully but is torn apart by crazed women and their followers of Dionysus |
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Mone Lisa with Mustache LHOOQ (1919)
-Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) -Ready-made art; take something and adds something to it to make a new piece of art -Meaning: Reflect on DaVinci's homosexuality and sexual ambiguity of Mona Lisa -Major influence to Da-Da movement: reflects nonsense, anything can mean anything (anti-authoritarian) |
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Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914)
-Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) -Italian Pre-Surrealist Painter -Known as the father of surrealism -Thought of himself as a metaphysical painter -Opposed modern art -Tilt-up perspective and ambiguity of sizes] -Dream like but has a clarity to the images |
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Persistence of Memory (1931)
-Salvador Dali (1904-1989) -Spanish Surrealist painter -Paranoiac-Critical Method (when he had nightmares he would get up and draw them) -Shows time through dead fish & living lives and ants in painting -Timeless, sizeless, airless -Major themes in Work : Dreams, Unconcious, Time |
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Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892)
-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) -French Symbolist Painter -Use Bold coloring -Big influence in the 1960's -Post Impressionism from France -Synthetism: used to describe this painting |
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Campbell Soup
-1968 -Andy Warhole -Pop Art -Colors Jump out at you |
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Andy Warhol
-1928-1987 -American Pop artist -"I want to be a machine"-expresses obsession with mass production -Works show clear precision of his form and lacked any visible reference to paint texture -Works became iconic images of commercial and portrait -Considered to be anti-commercialism but still embraced commercialism |
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Red, Blue, Green (1963)
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-) -French American Sculpture and Painter -Minimalist, color field painter -American painter associated with hard-edge color field painting -Color field popular in late 1950's-1960's -Took Gauguins idea of synthetism- colors expanded over a huge area -Color field painting was popular in late 1950s and 1960s |
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Target with Four Faces 1955
-Jasper Johns (1930-) -Post-painterly Abstract **Transition between abstract expressionism and pop art -Hard-edged, discipline line, color saturation, geometric -primary colors at full strength -A-traditional -showing things you know but trying to get you to think in abstract ways, to see without using your eyes -What is an object and is it still that object if it isn't used as such? - |
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Timothy Leary
-1920-1996 -Advocated LSD and mind expansion -believed you grow through using LSD and raised yourself to a higher plane -used on prisoners -Connected to surrealism -Harvard Professor in psychology -Raise yourself to higher plain -"Turn on, tune in, drop out" |
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Allen Ginsberg
-1926-1997 -Leader of beats in 1950's -Wrote the poem "Howl" (anti-commercialism) -Funk Art: collage, descrived as sick, bizarre, sexual, rough -Followed buddhists, they heavily influenced him |
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The Beatles as portrayed in Yellow Submarine- 1968
-Mix of pop art and surrealism -Heavily influenced by Renee Magritte -Highly saturated color scheme, hard edges -the Beatles formed in 1960 -Influenced by LSD trips and studies of eastern religions -lyrics emphasized heightened sense and state of nirvana -psychedelic period/age |
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Loreena Mckennit
-1957-.... -Canadian Romantic Musician -Pre-Raphaelite -Bonny Swan 1993 -Lady of Shallot 1992 |
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The Scream 1893
-Edvard Munch (1863-1944) -Post expressionist/pre expressionist -Influenced by Van Gogh and Freud -Worked with Max Reinhard in Berlin -Influenced German Cinema -Abandons naturalism for the sake of emotion -became set designer for Max Reinhart -Dr. Caligari |
