Modern Art

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N: Where do we come from?
L: Tahiti in 1897

Ma: Oil on Canvas
Art: Paul Gauguin
DT: tropical landscape, populated with native women and children, broad areas of soft color, shed's light on the artist's intentions & meaning
C: moved from European materialism, used native women & tropical colors to present a pessimistic view of inevitability of the life cycle, a summary of his artistic methods & of his views on life

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N: Basket of Apples
Ma: Oil on Canvas

Art: Paul Cezanne
DT: Painted still life, objects have lost something of their individual character as bottles and fruit & have almost become cylinders and spheres, captured the solidity of each object by juxtaposing color patches
C: captured the solidity of each object by juxtaposing color patches, his interest in study of volume & solidity is evident from disjunctures in paint-objects appearing in defferent vantage points, abstract shapes

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N: The Sleeping Gypsy
Ma: Oil on Canvas

Art: Henri Rousseau

DT: exotic image of mysterious tropical landscape, occupies a desert world, silent and secret, and dreams beneath a pale, perfectely round moon, lion resembling a stuffed, but menacing, animal doll sniffs at the gypsy
C: art has sophisication & after the artist's death, influenced the development of Surrealism
Me: critical encounter impends-an encounter of the type that recalls the uneasiness of a person's vulnerable subconscious self during sleep

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N: The Scream
Ma: Tempera and pastels on cardboard
Art: Edvard Munch
Dt: man standing on a bridge or jetty in a landscape-the image departs significantly from visual reality, man in foreground is simplified to almost skeletal form emits a primal scream, the landscape sweeps curvilinear lines to reiterate the shapes of the man's mouth & head(almost like an echo)
C: He used color, line, and figural distortion to evoke a strong emotional response from the viewer
Me: significly departs from visual reality

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N: The Kiss
Ma: Oil on Canvas
Art: Gustav Klimt (1907)

DT: depicts a couple locked in an embrace, setting is ambiguous-an indeterminate place apart from time and space , rest of canvas dissolves into shimmerting extravagant flat patterning
C: evokes conflict between 2 & 3D, patterns signify gender contrasts-rectangles for the man's garment, circles for the woman's, patterning also unites the 2 lovers into a single formal entity, underscoring their erotic union
Me: painting dissolves into shimmering, extravagant flat patterning