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Creators of Fauvism
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Henri Matisse
Andre Derain |
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Fauvism
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Inspired by Van Gogh and Gaugin
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Fauvism characteristics
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simplified forms
flatted space vivid/non naturalistic colors spontaneous brushwork primitivist back to nature ideals |
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Expressionism
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expressed artists personal vision and emotional state
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Die Bruke
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1905-1913
"The Bridge" between past and present |
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Die Bruke characteristics
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Old subjects treated in a new erotic and crude way
Religious themes/subjects City life as decadent, anxious, depraved |
Expressionism
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Die Bruke stylistic characteristics
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frank, crude depictions of human sexuality
violent imagery primitive |
Expressionism
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Der Blaue Reiter
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1911
Founded in Munich by Vassily Kandinsky and Frank Marc |
Expressionism
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Der Blaue Reiter characteristics
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advocated spiritualization of art and society through capitalist materialism
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Expressionism
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Der Blaue Reiter was acheived by...
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abstraction
intergration of all arts (w/ spiritual orgins) equal valuation of crafts and fine arts |
Expressionism
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Cubism
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1908 - 1912
Founders: Pablo Picasso, George Braque |
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Geratrude Stein
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Patron of Picasso
writer who gathered other writers, collectors, musicians, critics, and art dealers for salons at modern art galleries in Paris |
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Picasso pre cubist work
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influenced by african sculpture
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Ladies of Avignon
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direct representation of sexuality and prostitutes
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Analytic Cubism
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geometric simplifications of object fragments selected by memory of events and places
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1st form of this movement
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Analytic Cubism Characteristics
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multiple POVs
4-D experience due to spatial planes |
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Simultaneity
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composite representation of multiple POVs
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Jacques Lipchitz
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sculpture- interlocking volumes and planes representing different views of subject
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Juilio Gonzalez
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cubist sculpture
negative space just as important as positive space |
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Futurism
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1909
Italian Founded by Filippo Marinetti |
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Futurism stylistic characteristics
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focused on dynamism and speed
depicted motion w/ simultaneity |
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Futurism cultural/political ideals
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embraced modernity
championed war to rid society of the past looked forward to WWI most futurist joined the army |
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Dada (where?)
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New York, Zurich, Berlin
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Dada characteristics
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revolted against middle class ideal of high culture
mocked the definition of art and good taste |
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Readymade
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mass produced common found object
challenged the definition of art as a manual craft |
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Duchamp
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used readymades to create a new thought/idea/opinion for that object
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Jean Arp
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used the chance method of letting pieces of paper fall and then gluing where they landed
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Berlin Dada
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politically and socially critical
celebrated irrationalism as a creative force |
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Photomontage
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type of collage that pastes together found media imagery to creative irreverent social commentary
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Surrealism
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1924
shared Dada's interest in irrationalism and the use of chance used the subconcious to unlock the truth of human nature |
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Giorgio Chirico - Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
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Pre surrealist art
suggested hidden reality via: unexplained elements, bizzare juxtapositions, psychology charged atmosphere |
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Salvador Dali
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used illusionism to create vivid experiences of conflicting realities
painted scenes of objects in unrealistic relations w/ unrealistic characteristics |
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surrealist creative process
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based on openness to chance events
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Joan Miro
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abstract surrealist
used chance by cutting out silhouettes from fragments of a machinery catalogue and then spontaneously created a composition with those silhouettes |
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automatism
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drawing imagery from uncalculated spontaneous methods
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automatism (2)
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to access the subconcious
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automatism (3)
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drawing w/o thinking
Joan Miro and Paul Klee used this method |
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Suprematism
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1913 Russian
Founded by Malevich Nonobjective art |
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Nonobjective
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compositions of pure (geometric) forms w/o recognizable subject
extremely abstract |
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Suprematism characteristics
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convey pure, spiritual feeling
believed geometry is the universal language |
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Suprematism political ideals
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universal language corresponded to the universalizing new society the Russian revolution was supposed to bring
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Constructivism
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embraced modern science and industry by using new material (nylon, lucite, celluloid)
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Constructivism (2)
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contrasted properties of materials
used open form to show intersecting lines and planes |
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Productivism
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1917
Founded by Vladimir Tatlin insisted on functional art |
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De Stijl
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1917
Dutch Founded by Mondrian, van Doesburg pursued integration of art and life, beauty and function |
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De Stijl Primary elements
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Red Yellow Blue = colors
Black white gray = tone Horizonal vertical diagonal = lines believed these elements were the fundamentals to all existence |
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De Stijl archetecture
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used intersecting planes
sliding partitions open plans |
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Bauhaus
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1919
German Founded by Walter Gropius |
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Bauhaus characteristics
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art and craft, beauty and function
innovation to build for the future marriage of art and industry |
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Socialist Realism
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idealized representational style for propagadistic uplifting images
denounced modernism |
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Soviet Communist
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critic of modernism
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Regionalism
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not a movement but depictions of local rural life
departure from abstractoin |
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American Gothic
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painting by Grant Wood
Regionalist |
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Federal ARt Project
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Paid writers, artists, theater workers wages for public works
artists such as muralists |
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Mexican Muralist Movement
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muralists commissioned to narrate Mexican History
used abstraction to organize representational compositions |
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Diego Rivera
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spoke out against soviets censorship to modernism
advocated revolutionary art |
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Abstract Expressionism
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art movement initiated in the US
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Abstract expressionsism characteristics
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based on existentialism philosophy
used automatism directly w/o prep all parts of the canvas have equal visual weight large scale |
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Jackson Pollock
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dynamic due to his process of movement whereas Cubist and Futurist paintings were constructed to look dynamic
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gestural abstraction
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Kooning, Kline, Pollock
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color field abstraction
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belief that abstraction was a universal, timeless language
the more simple the imagery, the more universal it is |
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Mark Rothko
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believed that his paintings could directly transfer emotional content of the artist to the viewer due to the universality of abstraction
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Formalism
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Founded by Clement Greenberg
influenced younger american critics, artists, curators, and collectors |
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Clement Greenberg
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Championed Abstract expressionism innovations in composition but downplayed artists' interests in process and subject matter
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Clement Greenberg (2)
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believed that paintings should be concerted with optical dynamics of advancing and receding space (push-pull)
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push pull dynamics
asserted planarity |
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