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Phases of Pablo Picasso's art
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- started with aspects of Realism
- evolved from realism to impressionistic phase called "the Blue Period" (1901-1904) - in 1904 his colour palette changed to lighter colours during his "Rose Period" - later played with collage & sculpture |
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Characteristics of Picasso's blue period
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- pessimistic outlook
- used primarily blue colours to depict worn, pathetic, and alienated figures |
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Characteristics of Picasso's rose period
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- less pessimistic tones
- used lighter and brighter colours |
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Who introduced Cubism?
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Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque (1908)
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What was the main goal of Cubism art?
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- to reject naturalistic depictions
- preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world |
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When did Cubism begin?
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1907-1911
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Define 'Analytic Cubism'
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- refers to the first phase of cubism
- by the traditional method of painting models from one position, artists began to dissect forms of their subjects and presented their analysis of form across the canvas |
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Define 'Synthetic Cubism'
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- refers to the second phase of cubism
- instead of dissection forms, artists constructed paintings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials |
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Define 'collage'
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- a composition of bits of objects, such as newspaper or cloth, glued to a surface
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Define 'papier colle'
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- a type of collage in which the artist glues assorted paper shapes to a drawing or painting
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Who is Aleksander Archipenko?
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- a Russian sculptor who used cubism in his sculptures
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Who is Julio Gonzalez?
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- a cubist sculptor
- used bars, sheets, and rods of welded or wrought iron and bronze to create sculptures with linear elements and volumetric forms |
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Define 'Purism'
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- an art movement founded in 1918
- opposed Synthetic Cubism on the grounds that it was becoming merely decorative art out of touch with the machine age |
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Characteristics of Purist art
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- maintained machinery's clean functional lines and the pure forms of its parts
- "machine aesthetic" |
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Who was Fernand Leger?
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- a Purist painter
- championed the "machine aesthetic" in his paintings |
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Define 'Futurism'
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- an art movement that originated in Italy in 1909
- glorified themes of the future, including a focus on motion in time and space |
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Who was Giacomo Balla?
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- a Futurist painter who was interested in motion (ie. Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912)
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Who was Umberto Boccioni?
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- a Futurist sculptor who was interested in the formal and spacial effects of motion
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When did the Futurist group end?
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- once WWI broke out = largely because so many felt compelled to enlist
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Define 'Suprematism'
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- an art movement based on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles painted in a limited range of colours
- an abstract art based upon artistic feeling rather than visual depiction of objects |
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Who founded Suprematism?
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- Kazimir Malevich in Russia 1913
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Who is Kazimir Malevich?
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- a painter who developed the style of Suprematism
- he painted isolated brightly coloured shapes on canvas |
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Define 'Constructivism'
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- refers to a new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction.'
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Who is Naum Gabo?
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- a Russian Constructivist sculptor
- he built his structures piece by piece in space, instead of carving or modelling them the traditional way - most of his sculptures showed the relationship between mass and space to suggest the nature of space/time |
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Define 'Productivism'
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- an art movement originating in Russia following the Russian Revolution
- an offshoot from Constructivism = the productivists sought to design a better environment for humans through architecture |
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Who was Vladimir Tatlin?
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- one of the most gifted leaders of Productivism movement
- was an abstract artist until after the Russian Revolution, in which he designed products such as an efficient stove and workers clothing |
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Who was Adolf Loos?
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- a German architect from early 1900s
- he suggested architects banish all ornamentation from their buildings in order to focus more on making well made buildings |
