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Characteristics of Realism
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treatment of forms, colors, space, etc. in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience, first half of 19th century
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Rodin, Riis, Daumier
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Daumier
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Realist - "The third-class carriage" - modern setting depicting class difference
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Riis
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How the other half lives, shows poverty (realist)
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Rodin
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faces in his sculptures are NOT idealized, "Balzac" - his most famous sculpture; looking at it from different angles divides the sculpture into plains
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Characteristics of Art Nouveau
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flourished between 1890 and WW1 - relied upon twinning flowering forms to counter the unaesthetic look of machine made-products
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Beardsly
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Art Nouveau: "salome" contrasting black and white patterns in flowering organic motifs
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Tiffany
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"grape vine" stained glass reflecting nature & color (art nouveau)
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Industrial Architecture
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new materials and engineering methods demanded a new style as practical as the age of realism itself
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Paxton
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The Crystal Palce: was the first iron and glass structure built on such a large scale that showed materials were both functional & beautiful
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Eiffel Tower
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A triumph of modern engineering (1889) flaunted its iron core and steel skeleton
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Arts and Crafts Movement
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some of the protagonists of this movement turned entirely away from the use of machines and towards handcraft (1880-1910)
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William Morris
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Arts & Crafts Movement; chief contribution was as a designer of repeating patterns for wallpapers and textiles, many based on a close observation of nature
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Impressionism
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1862-86; rejected Renaissance perspective - instead represented immediate visual sensations through color & light (short choppy brushstrokes)
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Manet, Monet, Degas
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Manet
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"Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" simplified forms with minimal modeling; flat color patches outlined in black (impressionism)
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Monet
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"Rouen Cathedral" same subject under different lighting conditions (impressionism)
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Degas
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"Ballet Rehearsal" human figures in stop-action pose, offbeat angles w/ figures cropped off at edges (impressionism)
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Post-Impressionism
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they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brushstrokes and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.
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Munch, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat
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Seurat
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"Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte" - bright colors in tiny dots
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Cezanne
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"Mont Saint-Victoire" - interested in the simplification of naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials
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Van Gogh
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"starry-night" - aggitated swirling brushstrokes (post-impressionism)
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Munch
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"The Scream" known for his emotionally charged images of fear, isolation, and anxiety that greatly influenced German expressionists - proto-expressionism
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Symbolism
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thrived in the last decade of the 19th century; mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul, seeking evocative paintings that brought to mind a static world of silence
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Moreau
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"Jupiter & Semele" (symbolism)
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Odilon Redon
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"the cyclops" represent an exploration of his internal feelings and psych (symbolism)
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Modern Art with Formalist concerns
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Fauvism, analytic cubism, synthetic cubism, futurism, the armory show
(the most important aspect of a work of art is its form, that is, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects, rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world) |
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Derain, Matisse, Picasso |
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Fauvism
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"the wild beasts" visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by impressionism
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Derain
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Fauvist; reduced brush strokes to Morse Code - bold colors and compositions
"charing cross bridge" (fauvism) |
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Matisse
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"The red room" The paintings of this period are characterized by flat shapes and controlled lines, with expression dominant over detail (fauvism)
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Picasso
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The king of modern art, invented cubism "les desmoiselles d'avignon" shattered every precept of artistic convention by shattering bodies into bits and assembling them as faceted planes
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Abstract vs. Non-representational
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non-rep = art about art, Art without reference to anything outside itself - without representation, without recognizable objects.
abstract: Not realistic, though the intention is often based on an actual subject, place, or feeling. |
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Modern art with Psychological and Conceptual Concern
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Dada, surrealism, abstract figuration, German expressionism
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DESA
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Dada
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protested the madness of wars, main strategy was to denounce and shock - hoped to awaken the imagination
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Duchamp
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"bicycle wheel" - ready-mades, found objects which Duchamp exhibited as art, Modern Art + Conceptual
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Arp
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"according to laws of chance"
Modern Art - Psychological |
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Dali
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"the persistence of memory" art fueled by irrational fears, represented his hallucinations with realism
(Modern - Psychological) |
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Kandinsky
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credited with painting the first abstract art, "improvisation 28" (Modern Conceptual)
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Early 20th Century art with social dimensions
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Bahaus, International Style, Ashcan school, social realism
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BIAR
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Ashcan School of art
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first uniquely american art - realistic & sketchlike, sordid low-life subjects
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Social Realism
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Early 20th century - art with social dimensions
Stieglitz, "the steerage" & Hopper "nighthawks" |
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International (Bauhaus)
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marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.- Le Corbusier "villa savoye"
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Post Modern/Contemporary Art
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pop art, minimalism, perfomance art, abstract expressionism
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PAMP
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Abstract Expressionism
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late 1940's - 50's aim to express inner life through art, image is not the result of pre-concieved idea but of a creative process
Pollock "Lavender Mist" drip painting - threw it on canvas |
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Figural Expressionism
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art must express a truth beyond surface appearance
Bacon: Head surrounded by slides of Beef - post modern |
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Color Field
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focus shifts to where vast expanses of fields of color become the focus
Rothka: Blue Orange Red - painted bars of color that dissolved into each other |
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Pop Art
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subjects come directly from pop culture; return to pictorial subject matter - makes art impersonal
Lichenstein: Whaam! (comic book techniques) Warhol: 100 cans of Campbells soup |
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ORDER OF ART MOVEMENTS!
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Realism
Art Nouveau Industrial Architecture Arts & Crafts Impressionism Expressionism Symbolism Modern - Formalist/psychological 20th Century, Art with Social Concern Post Modern/Contemporary |
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