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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Henri Matisse
Title - Red Room (Harmony in Red) Period - 1908–1909 Fauvism Location - France |
-Objects simplified and flattened, using the same color and pattern for the wall and the table
-originally painting was mostly green, then painted over blue, and finally red -He felt the color should reflect feelings |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title - Street, Dresden, Period - 1908 (dated 1907) Expressionism Location - Germany |
-Perspective is distorted and figures and colors reflect influence of Munch's "The Scream"
-shows German street before WW1 |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Vassily Kandinsky,
Title - Improvisation 28 Period - 1912 Expressionism Location - Germany |
-One of the first painters to explore complete abstraction
-Scientist's exploration of atomic structure convinced Kandinsky that material objects had no real substance |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Georges Braque,
Title - The Portuguese Period - 1911 Analytic Cubism Location - Paris |
- cubists rejected the pictorial illusionism that had dominated western art for centuries
-Subject is a Portuguese musician -unlike Fauvism and expressionism, used subdued hues -Letters and number allow the painter to play with viewer's perspective between 2d and 3d shapes |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Fernand Léger
Title - The City Period - 1919 Purism Location - France |
- Based on mechanical commotion of urban life
-Opposed Synthetic cubism, which was out of touch with the machine age -retains elements of cubism in shapes used |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Umberto Boccioni
Title - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space Period - 1913 Futurism Location - Italy |
-Boccioini advocated abolishing the enclosed statue
-Subject is a running man -trying to express movement in sculpture |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Marcel Duchamp
Title - Fountain Period - 1917 Dada Location - New York |
-modified mass-produced object
-conferred the status of art on a urinal forcing views to see the object in a new light |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Marcel Duchamp
Title - The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Period - 1915 Dada Location - New York |
-playful and serious examination of humans as machines. bride is a motor fueled by "love gasoline" and the male figures in the lower half also move mechanically
-completed "by chance" when the glass broke when moving the work -chocolate grinder represents masturbation of male figures |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Pablo Picasso
Title - Guernica Period - 1937 Cubist Location - Paris |
-uses cubist techniques of fragmentation of objects and dislocation of anatomical features
-Painted in response to an air raid on Guernica in 1937, an outcry of human grief |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Salvador Dalí
Title - The Persistence of Memory Period - 1931 Surrealism Location - Spain |
-Dali painted "images of concrete irrationality"
-decaying watches and ants swarming =death |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Meret Oppenheim
Title - Object Period - 1936 Surrealism Location - Paris |
-surrealists loved the concrete tangibility of sculpture
-captures surrealist flair for magical transformation - inspired by fur covered bracelet |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Joan Miró
Title - Painting Period - 1933 Surrealism Location - Spain |
-Miro promoted automatism, the creation of art without conscious control
-began painting by making a collage from magazine for machinery |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Kazimir Malevich
Title - Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying Period - 1914 Suprematism Location - Russia |
-Malevich developed an abstract style he called Suprematism to convey that they supreme reality in the world is pure feeling
-called for new nonobjective forms in art |
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Artist
Title Period Location |
Artist - Piet Mondrian
Title - Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow Period - 1930 De Stijl Location - The Netherlands |
-used a grid of intersecting lines, by altering the grid patterns he created tension
-wanted to purge his art of all overt reference to individual objects, reveled the underlying structure of existence |
