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Title: Les Demoiselles Artist: Picasso Style: Proto-Cubism (African Period) Facts: 1) Considered an assault on traditional painting, the subject matter and ambiguous space were disturbing. 2) Originally the figures all had about the same face, but Picasso visited an african mask lecture and added some masks to the figures on the left. 3) This painting was an act of liberation and allowed Picasso to move onto a new art style. |
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Title: Dance II Artist: Matisse Style: Fauvism Facts: 1) Seen as an answer to Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles' as these figures were more inviting, more unified. 2) Here Matisse explores the conflict between the illusion of depth, and the acknowledgement of a flat canvas. 3) The mood of this painting (tribal, ritualistic, etc) is displayed by the color and lines of the figures. |
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Title: Violin and Palette Artist: Braque Style: Cubism Facts: 1) The 3D images are viewed from different perspectives and gives us a deconstructed piece. 2) Plays with space and uses real technique but shows how none of it is real, what we are seeing is not how life truly is, art is fake. 3) The nail is the only object displayed without different angles, it even has a shadow. |
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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space Artist: Boccioni Style: Futurism Facts: 1) This person, or figure, is moving forward, not static, but modern. 2) The shiny, metallic traits are very futuristic in style. 3) The rippling forms are not even part of the figure itself, but of the air being displaced by it. |
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Title: Self-Portrait with Model Artist: Kirchner Style: Expressionism Facts: 1) The oral fixation of Kirchner makes this painting to be viewed in a sexual manner. The robe has nothing underneath it and the female is in her underclothes. 2) The model seems put-off, while Kirchner dominates the composition. 3) Kirchners black eyes and the primal colors of this painting help us know that this is Die Brücke. |
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Title: The Blue Gable Artist: Münter Style: Expressionism Facts: 1) The entire painting is a symbol of the artist's dead relationship, Yellow house: female, Blue house: overbearing male, bleakness of winter: dead relationship. 2) Her emphasis is on color, and the symbolic use of it shows us her foundation in Der Blaue Reiter. 3) While hints of depth perception, we see more flatness in this piece because of the dark outlines. |
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Title: Self-Portrait as a Soldier Artist: Kirchner Style: Expressionism Facts: 1) His gaunt face shows us he's lost weight and his hand is missing, telling us that since the war he's lost his creativity. 2) The painting of a man in the background is a self-portrait that's lacking genitalia, he feels as though he is no longer a man. 3) He has the same cigarette, colors, jagged figures, and blacked out eyes as his previous self-portrait. |
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Title: Flower Hammer Artist: Jean Arp Style: Dada Facts: 1) Constructed according to the laws of chance, all separate pieces that are randomly added together. 2) Attacks the idea of traditional art, and that most people said you had to have skill and training to create art. 3) Takes from Freud's idea of the unconscious mind and puts it into this piece. |
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Title: Fountain Artist: Duchamp Style: Dada Facts: 1) Exhibited at the New York Society of Independent Artists exhibition in 1917 2) Makes fun of art and says the no matter what someone displays as art people will think it's good. 3) Also picks on ready-made culture, no one cares about uniquely created are, just the convenient. |
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Title: LHOOQ Artist: Duchamp Style: Dada Facts: 1) Says that art has just become another commodity it is all reproductions not unique, real art. This piece rectifies ready-made. 2) When pronounced quickly in french LHOOQ sounds like a sentence meaning, "She has a hot bum" 3) The masculinized female is an example of gender reversal which was popular with Duchamp. |
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Title: The Birth of the World Artist: Miró Style: Surrealism Facts: 1) Miró started off by placing large blobs of paint on the canvas and used water to spread it all around, then replicated some doodles onto it. 2) Takes a lesson from free associations Ink Blots. 3) Symbolizes creation out of chaos. |
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Title: Girl Before a Mirror Artist: Picasso Style: Surrealism (Harlequin Period) Facts: 1) This is a depiction of Picasso's mistress (Marie Theresa) 2) Contrasts the conscious self and unconscious self. 3) The brighter image is day, she has motherly instincts and pureness, while the reflection is night, she is more sexualized and less pure. |
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Title: The Lugubrious Game Artist: Dali Style: Surrealism Facts: 1) This is a self-portrait, and we can see how anxious and gloomy the artist was about sexuality. 2) Dali's id pulls him into dark thoughts and fears, his superego hides his face and pulls Dali into a masculine brave front, while the ego keeps him in the middle. 3) Dali faces his own fears in this piece (exampled by the grasshopper who he was afraid of) |
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Title: The Persistence of Memory Artist: Dali Style: Surrealism Facts: 1) Considered a "hand-painted dream photograph" 2) Self-Portrait, you can see his face in the mass on the ground. 3) 3 Stages of memory are displayed. 1= clear, but melting self-portrait and clock. 2= clock goes from shiny to dull. 3= clock has brassed over and is dead, exemplified by the fly. Finally we see a closed clock with ants on it, creates a protection and memory loosely based on reality. |
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Title: The Prodigal Son Artist: Aaron Douglas Style: Harlem Renaissance Facts: 1) An illustration from James Weldon Johnson's book of sermons. 2) There is no "holy light" just the light from the club, and although based off a sermon we have no feeling of God or holiness. 3) Modern indulgences such as money, cards, gin bottles, and dice are all displayed. |
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Title: In the North… (the Negro had better educational facilities) Artist: Jacob Lawrence Style: Harlem Renaissance Facts: 1) Very historical painting that helped document the Great Migration. 2) Talks about how the African American migration to the North was better than living in the South, partly because of better education facilities. 3) From a series of paintings called "The Migration of the Negro" |
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Title: Incense of a New Church Artist: Charles Demouth Style: Precisionism Facts: 1) The steam from the subway tunnels or pollution smoke shows that people are flocking to the city for purification, not the church. 2) The swirling smoke contrasts with the vertical lines of the cities smokestacks. 3) The archway and background sky appear almost to look like a stained glass window you would see in a church. |
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Title: Pillars of Society Artist: Grosz Style: Dada Facts: 1) The clergy, military, and upper-middle class are portrayed as the pillars holding up society. 2) Figure in forefront is stern and warlike, poop-head is a blind follower of nationalism, and teacup is hosting how media can effect the masses. 3) The minister is completely blind to the burning building and the military repressing the citizens. |
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Title: Guernica Artist: Picasso Style: Surrealism Facts: 1) Displayed a world's fair, it is a huge mural. 2) Background has newspaper in it, which is how Picasso found out about this tragic event. 3) Juxtaposition of hope and horror: Bull=destruction, horse=progress, broken sword & flower=growth out of destruction. |
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Title: Guardians of the Secret Artist: Jackson Pollock Style: Abstract Expressionism Facts: 1) The artist is putting his thoughts onto canvas, this is his diary. 2) Work of art is for the artist, not necessarily an audience. 3) Displays unconscious impulses. |
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Title: Excavation Artist: deKooning Style: Abstract Expressionism Facts: 1) Highlights a play between figures and abstraction. 2) Supposably an image of women working in a rice field. 3) This painting was accomplished by building up the surface, then scraping down the layers until the desired effect was achieved. |
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Title: Green on Blue Artist: Rothko Style: Color Field Facts: 1) 89" by 63" so large it wants to completely envelope the viewer. 2) Almost a calming or even depressing feeling is given when viewing this piece. 3) The blocks of color appear to almost hover over the canvas. |
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Title: Marilyn Diptych Artist: Andy Warhol Style: Popart Facts: 1) created with two different panels to show her "saintliness" 2) Her image was so created by the movie industry that it was not truly her. 3) Life (yellow panel) verses Death (black and white panel) |
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Title: Oh, Jeff Artist: Lichtenstein Style: Pop-art Facts: 1) influenced by comic strips 2) her inauthentic statement "i love you", is negated by "but" 3) Possibly an image of the artist's wife |
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Title: Q. And Babies? Artist: Art Workers' Coalition Style: Conceptualism Facts: 1) Meaning takes precedence over technical and aesthetic features. 2) Done as part of an anti-war movement. 3) A photo of the massacre of innocent women and children. |
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Title: Running Fence Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Style: Facts: 1) Built with Vietnam surplus (poles) later given to farmers. 2) Is considered temporary, sustainable art. 3) Stretched across two counties in California. |
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Title: The Gehry Residence Artist: Gehry Style: Postmodern Facts: 1) Took common building materials and put them together in a new and interesting way. 2) Shows us multiple perspectives. 3) |
