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52 Cards in this Set
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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)
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Boy with squirlle Copley American |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Anatomical cats |
Anatomical Casts Eakins American
-Infusing pics with science -Practice |
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Portrait of Artist's mother Tanner American
-Homage to mother influenced by Eakins |
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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 |
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Sounding Reveille Homer American
-Newspaper illustrator -unclear Images |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Abstractions |
Paul strand |
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Blind Paul Strand Modernist |
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The Limit Gorky American |
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Pollock |
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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 |
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Fifty days at llama Twombly Post Painterly Abstraction (reaction to abstract expressionism)
-End of Homer's version of the war between Greeks and Trojans - -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 |
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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 |
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Still Life Cezanne Formalist
-Outlined -Reduced to simplified shapes -Used different perspectives |
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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 |
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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 |
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Large Plane Trees Van Gogh Expressionist
-Tense twisting trees -Outlined (oriental pop print) -Heavy paint -tight lines -Shows his mental state |
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Sunflowers Van Gogh Expressionist
-sunflowers symbol of friendship, fidelity -faithful to sun; faithful to nature |
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Self potrait Van Gogh |
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Plum Trees Van gogh Expressionist
-Oriental pop print -Japan not ruined by culture
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Munch Puberty Expressionist Symbolism
-Influenced by color -She is eve like
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Munch Death of marat Expressionist Symbolism
-Blood, sexual content -Nature of women to destroy men -Guy is a cross, apples on table |
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Munch Scream Expressionist Symbolism
-Anxiety attack -death's head -death, isolation, anxiety -layout and color
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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 |
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Tiffany lamp
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Mignon Rodin Modern art
-Emotional; pain in eyes -Rage she has gone into -Bumpy surface -In an instant |
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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 |
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Effil Tower Effel
-Created as a monument for fair -Used iron- steel on outside -Gave french sense of status -Utilitarian -Elegance to it |
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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) |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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) |
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Degenerate Barlach German expressionist
-Hitler destroyed, was claimed degenerate |
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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 |
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Man Ray
-Mass produced by change -Associate of Duchamp -Produced art having a Dada spirit |
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Alverez Bravo
-Linked to surrealism |
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Twittering Machine Klee Surrealism
-Combo of painting and drawing -Universal symbols we can relate to -Childlike -Based on forms |
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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
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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 |
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Death of loyalist Capa
-First to show moment of death |
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American Gothic Gordon Parks
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Hindenberg Sam Shere
-Used the Lica camera (allowed to take picture of movement) |