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Colonial Couple


Copley


American art



-Acted as record of family and success achieved.


-Statement of status and character


-Craftsmanship, extreme naturalism, down to earth, honest


-Concrete, clear, linear, solid and detailed



-Shows the two as equals partners


-He is slightly above her but she is in front (shown as honest)


-Not perfect (no art schools in America)



Boy with squearl

Boy with squearl

Boy with squirlle


Copley


American

Stairs

Stairs

Staircase group


Charles wilson Peale


American Naturalist tromp loeil




-he had abandoned commercial portraiture to devote himself to natural science and to his museum


- Peale executed this painting to demonstrate that he remained one of the city's preeminent artists


-Its high degree of detail and finish shows that the painting was clearly intended to be a trompe l'oeil "deception," an effect that Peale never attempted elsewhere

Yarrow Mamount


Charles wilson peale


American



-naturalistic style


- Peale was seeking a record of the personal traits that he believed supported a long life


-A rare representation of ethnic and religious diversity in early America

Gross Clinic


Eakins


American



-Gross embodies the confidence that comes from knowledge and experience


-Eakins’s command of composition, color, and detail, and praised his convincing creation of form and space

Anatomical cats

Anatomical cats

Anatomical Casts


Eakins


American



-Infusing pics with science


-Practice

Portrait of Artist's mother


Tanner


American



-Homage to mother influenced by Eakins

Maternal Caress


Cassatt


Impressionist



-American Expressionist? Can she do it? No


-Friends with Degas


-Her world is one of women and children


-Linked with impressionist (mundane, momentary images, revealing light on surface of objects)


-Influenced by oriental pop prints

Sounding Reveille


Homer


American



-Newspaper illustrator


-unclear Images

Winter Coast


Homer


American



-In maine, figures shrink, more abstraction


-Newspaper illustrator, self taught painter


-Quintessential American


-power and directness


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Lifeline


Homer


American

Birch and Pine


O'keeffe


Modern american style



-Abstracts of nature


-American love of clear forms


-enlarging and focusing on portions of objects that fill canvas


-She turns them into abstractions that are very modern


-Pulsing with energy, sometimes described as sensual

Wallstreet


Paul Strand


Modernist



-Strand most important moderist


-Influenced by Hines


-Abstractions he did reflect influence of Cubism and geometric abstraction


-This is a strong comment on the financial district in NYC


-Supported and influenced by Stieglitz

Abstractions

Paul strand

Blind


Paul Strand


Modernist

The Limit


Gorky


American

Pollock

#22

On a blue ceiling


Sol LeWitt


Minimilism (in reaction to abstract expressionism)



-Minimalism images are reduced to essential forms


-Impersonal, geometric, bold


-Artist didn't paint, rather sold the IDEA to PMA


-PMA owns idea


-This is an installation - A work created to be "installed" in a particular place

Fifty days at llama


Twombly


Post Painterly Abstraction (reaction to abstract expressionism)



-End of Homer's version of the war between Greeks and Trojans


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-Rejects personal emotion but convey's a story


-Gestural work


-Site specific installation (artwork installed into a specific space that transforms the space)


-Twombly worked with PMA to create this

Sleeping girl


Lichtenstein


American



-From comic book


-Pop reactions


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La grande jette


Serat


Post Expressionist



-Used pointillism


-Scientific


-All figures in profile, rigid


-Figures put on variety of planes


-Simplified shapes and forms

Still Life


Cezanne


Formalist



-Outlined


-Reduced to simplified shapes


-Used different perspectives

Mountain mont sainte-victoire


Cezanne


Formalist



-Fundimental forms


-Analyze it


-Mountain outlined


-simplified shapes


-Brighter gets duller


-Painted on a grid of horizontal and vertical lines

Woman coffee pot


Cezanne


Formalist



-Ordinary subject


-Take away instant in time


-Woman is like a stilllife


-Simplified and ordered


-outlined figure


-Repeats color throughout


-Gridding


-Wall echoes shapes


-Shirt echoes shape of arms

Large Plane Trees


Van Gogh


Expressionist



-Tense twisting trees


-Outlined (oriental pop print)


-Heavy paint


-tight lines


-Shows his mental state

Sunflowers


Van Gogh


Expressionist



-sunflowers symbol of friendship, fidelity


-faithful to sun; faithful to nature

Self potrait


Van Gogh

Plum Trees


Van gogh


Expressionist



-Oriental pop print


-Japan not ruined by culture


Munch


Puberty


Expressionist


Symbolism



-Influenced by color


-She is eve like



Munch


Death of marat


Expressionist


Symbolism



-Blood, sexual content


-Nature of women to destroy men


-Guy is a cross, apples on table

Munch


Scream


Expressionist


Symbolism



-Anxiety attack


-death's head


-death, isolation, anxiety


-layout and color


Casa Mila


Gaudi


Architecture



-Symbolic content


-moves, swells, flows, oozes


-Avoiding use of straight line - straight belonging to machine


-curved forms, made by God


-Inspired by nature


-Studied islamic for roof

Tiffany lamp


Mignon


Rodin


Modern art



-Emotional; pain in eyes


-Rage she has gone into


-Bumpy surface


-In an instant

Gates of hell


Rodin


Modern art



-Worked on for forty years


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Walking man


Rodin


Modern art



-Invented the partial figure (makes it acceptable)


-Heroic figure


-Abstract; bumpy surface

Effil Tower


Effel



-Created as a monument for fair


-Used iron- steel on outside


-Gave french sense of status


-Utilitarian


-Elegance to it

Robie house


Frank Lloyd Wright - makes organic architecture, duplicated nature or blended into nature; first American to be taken seriously by Europe



-Echoing line of land (flat, it's in Chicago)


-Horizontal lines


-Open; asymmetrical


-Cantilever = the roof (with reinforced concrete)

Crystler building


Van Allen


Art Deco



ART DECO - Dynanism; associated with wealth; nouveau nature; invented in Europe(france); somewhat influenced by art nuevo



-Electric- lot of different things; Gargoyles;


-Top = Repetition


-Power, energized form

Red room


Matissee


The Fauves - Burst of energetic color and wild brush strokes; first modern movement of the 20th century



-Harmony in red


-Lots of color (Fauve)


-Stuff outlined


-Woman (gentile)


-Luxourious


-Homieness


-Unity with repetition


-Ordered with use of line



Woman with hat


Matissee


The Fauves - Burst of energetic color and wild brush strokes; first modern movement of the 20th century



-Abstract expressionist


-color


-Comfy pics


Woman in blue


Matissee


The Fauves - Burst of energetic color and wild brush strokes; first modern movement of the 20th century



-Posed model


-It's about the dress


-Gridding


-Repeating shapes (dress, arm, chair)

Degenerate


Barlach


German expressionist



-Hitler destroyed, was claimed degenerate

Fountain


Duchamp - challenges the middle class values; world changing


Dada


-It's about the idea instead of the actual art


-Use junxtaposition


-Ordinary things


-Fantasy art


-European movement


-Reaction to WWI


-Dada leaks into surrealism



-About the idea


-Mass produced


-Made to be exhibited


-Unjured show, regected


-Use of ordinary things

Man Ray



-Mass produced by change


-Associate of Duchamp


-Produced art having a Dada spirit

Alverez Bravo



-Linked to surrealism

Twittering Machine


Klee


Surrealism



-Combo of painting and drawing


-Universal symbols we can relate to


-Childlike


-Based on forms

Slave Market


Dali


Surrealist - leaks from Dada; Jolts viewer; made in real photographic way; wanted to teach us interpretations of the world are not always correct; develops in 20's with manifesto by Andre Brenton


"Pure psychic automatism - in absence of control exercised by reason" ; draws on dreams and sub conscience;



-Dali's wife


-Skull is voltair (houdon) - we can become slave to reason


-We can not trust what we see


Migrant mother


Lange


American photo



-Government sponsored photo


-Famous picture for New Deal (trying to get people to feel sorry for them and donate money to help - FSA government program under roosevelt)


-Her first assignment

Death of loyalist


Capa



-First to show moment of death

American Gothic


Gordon Parks



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Hindenberg


Sam Shere



-Used the Lica camera (allowed to take picture of movement)