• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/134

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

134 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
  • 3rd side (hint)
1915-20 for movements that started during WWI:
-Malevich’s Russian Suprematism
-Mondrian’s early work (DeStijl)
-O’Keeffe’s early work (Biomorphic Abstraction before flower and skyscrapers)
-DADA, including Duchamp (though the Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even is
both Dada and Surreal, since he worked on it until 1923,
and the Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas
is 1946; think of it as Surreal, and date it to the end of the
course, c. 1945)
1925-30 for movements between two world wars:
-Mondrian’s mature work (the Compositions in Red, Blue and Yellow)
-O’Keeffe’s mature work (the flower and skyscraper paintings)
-Russian Constructivism
-American Precisionism
-German Bauhaus
-Surrealism
c. 1937 for Spanish Civil War, prelude to WWII:
Picasso’s Guernica (think Demoiselles of 1907, but add 30 years)
Context: Spanish Civil War, a dress rehearsal for WWII
c. 1940-50 for artists working during or after WWII:
Frida Kahlo (Latin American Modernism)
Duchamp’s Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas (Surreal)
What is the name and date of this artist?
Artist: Malevich, Kasimir

Title of Work: Black Square
Date of Work: 1913
Movement: Russian Suprematism

Malevich, Kasimir

Title of Work: Suprematist Composition: Red Square and Black Square
Date of Work: 1915.
The tilted square adds a sense of implied movements suggesting a flight from the material/physical world.
Movement: Russian Suprematism, this image is the forerunner of the later 1960's movement, Minimalism.
Artist/Date?
Malevich, Kasimir

Title of Work: Suprematist Composition
Date of Work: c. 1915
Movement: Russian Suprematism
Artist/Year
Artist: Malevich, Kasimir

Title of Work: Suprematist Composition
Date of Work: c. 1915
Movement: Russian Suprematism
Artist/Year
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Composition in Color A
Date of Work: 1917
Movement: DeStijl
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Evolution Triptych
Date of Work: 1911
Movement: DeStijl
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Flowering Apple Tree Date of Work: 1912
Movement: DeStijl
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Color Planes in Oval
Date of Work: 1913-14
Movement: DeStijl
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Tableau II
Date of Work: 1921-25
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow
Date of Work: 1930
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Composition with Red, Blue, & Yellow
Date of Work: 1935-1942
Context: Hard Edge Geometric Abstraction
Piet Mondrian (Dutch) and Kasimir Malevich (Russian)
Artist: Mondrian, Piet

Title of Work: Broadway Boogie-Woogie
Date of Work: 1942-43
Carried abstraction to its ultimate geometric simplification.
Kasimir Malevich
The Square
Suprematism: The supremacy of pure feeling in and of itself.
Shifted away from representation and mimesis and towards the purity of mathematical geometry
Kasimir Malevich
To Malevich, The Square is...
Feeling
To Malevich, the White Field is...
The void beyond this feeling
Before 1932...
Russia was the most progressive country in the world in terms of modern abstract art because of Malevich.
These two artists both believed that spirit and feeling rule over matter
Malevich & Kandinksy
1915 Malevich exhibition was titled...
Suprematist, and showcased 35 works
Said: "I look at nature and I see shapes."
Georgia O'Keeffe
First American to develop an abstracting style that was not directly derived from European models.
Georgia O'Keeffe
For her nature is seen as abstract shapes and "felt" as interiorized body experiences (the "inner haptic").
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Light Coming on the Plains III
Date of Work: 1917
light coming on the plains references O'Keeffe's experience teaching in the open sky country of Texas; American Abstraction
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Evening Star No. IV
Date of Work: 1917
American Abstraction: For O'Keeffe, the hidden drama of nature is not the underlying grid but a spiral, which uncoils with a biomorphic rhythm that signifies both the organic and the body
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Music - Pink and Blue, II
Date of Work: 1919
music represented as color and free-floating forms, influenced by Kandinsky's ideas of synaesthesia
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Black Iris III
Date of Work: 1926
Unlike traditional flower painting with its symbolism of nature's passing or its "safe subject" status, she abstracts the flower through scale and close-up until its forms fill the entire space with an allover pattern. She uses the flower not only to fill the space with shape, but also to speak abstractly of the body as something lived in rather than as an object viewed by an outside gaze. The flower becomes both landscape and bodyscape, referencing the "inner haptic" (interiorized body experiences)
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: The Shelton with Sunspots
Date of Work: 1926
Here she is more geometric because her urban subject dictates it, but it would seem wrong to simply label this work "Precisionist" as a result, the image is less motivated by a utopian machine beauty than it is by a kind of magic realism, which focuses on a personal, transformative vision rather than a machine aesthetic.
Never eliminates the personal in vision.
Georgia O'Keffee
O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Radiator Building at Night, NY
Date of Work: 1927
Note how even smoke (pictured at the right) has a hard, crisp edge, though she makes a wonderful biomorphic shape out of it. There is nothing fuzzy about O'Keeffe's vision. This work is defined and clearly directed. "Abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.
O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Jack-in-the Pulpit No. III
Date of Work: 1930
Her biomorphic forms are more metamorphic, suggesting growth and regeneration, as well as body metaphors. The movement here in this series based on the Jack-in-the-Pulpit will be inward, into the flower, with a latent referencing of the sexualized body.
Which artist was apart of the DeStijl movement?
Piet Mondrian
Which artist was apart of the Russian Supremacists movement(1915-1920)?
Kasimir Malevich
Mexican Modernist or Mexican Surrealist (1940-1950)?
Frida Kahlo
What artists were apart of the Berlin Dada movement (1914-1921)?
George Grosz and Raoul Hausmann
What artist was apart of the Hannover Dada movement (1919-1926)?
Kurt Schwitters
Which artist created works that references cubism and futurism and foreshadows Dada (1911-1917)
Marcel Duchamp
This artist belonged to the Russian Constructivism Movement:
Naum Gabo
This artist was apart of the American Precisionism movement:
Chalres Sheeler
This person was at the first director and architect of Bauhaus movement:
Walter Gropius
The German Bauhaus was lead by:
Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee
International Style was an Architectural movement where this artist believed that a house was designed as a machine or tool for living
Le Corbusier
These artists were key players in the Surrealists movement:
Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Joan Miro
The surrealist manifesto was written by Andrea Breton in:
1924
Bauhaus believed in 3 tenets:
1. Less is more
2. Form follows function
3. Art and technology as a new unity
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Title of Work: Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV
Date of Work: 1930
Artist: O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V
Date of Work: 1930
O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: Nature Forms
Date of Work: 1932
O'Keeffe, Georgia

Title of Work: From the Faraway Nearby
Date of Work: 1937
animal skull set in the southwest desert. O'Keeffe never felt these pictures of skulls were about death. She claimed such bones looked very lively to her. O'Keeffe clearly liked the complexity of shape she found in these skull bones. The strange, hypnotic clarity of the scene coupled with the mysterious shift in scale suggested by the picture's title go beyond the material world to suggest a more metaphysical reality that borders on the surreal.
Artist: Arp, Hans

Title of Work: Collage Arranged by the Laws of Chance
Date of Work: 1916-17
Artist: Arp, Hans

Title of Work: Fleur Manteau (Plant Hammer)
Date of Work: 1916
Grosz, George
Title of Work: War Fever
Date of Work: 1914

WWI

Movement: Berlin Dada
Dada anti-art, working deliberately against the aesthetic and the academic. Grosz is always best when he hates. anti-expressionistic in that it is not about the artist searching his own tortured soul or expressing his internal spiritual angst or precious psyche
Grosz, George

Title of Work: Riot of the Insane
Date of Work: 1915
There is no innocence in this scene he calls "Riot of the Insane." The image is drawn out of hatred and disgust.
Artist: Grosz, George

Title of Work: Fit for Active Service
Date of Work: 1916-17
Grosz, George

Title of Work: At 5:00 in the Morning
Date of Work: 1921
Hausmann, Raoul
Title of Work: Mechanical Head ("The Spirit of the Times")
Date of Work: 1919

Nationality: German
The mannequin or "dummy's head" represents a not very flattering portrait of the German bourgeoisie (middle class man). He has eyes with no pupils so he cannot see for himself. His lips are closed tight because he cannot or will not speak out. Over his ear Hausmann has placed a little case with a typeset cartridge inside because our little man only hears what he is told in the newspapers. He has a number tacked to his forehead for identification. Crowning his head is a traveler's collapsable cup, waiting for you to pour in any information you want. You see, our little man with the wooden head cannot think for himself. "The German wants only his order, his king, his Sunday sermon, and his easy chair" (Raoul Hausmann)
Hausmann, Raoul

Title of Work: Tatlin at Home
Date of Work: 1920
Hausmann, Raoul

Title of Work: Dada Victorious (Dada Siegt)
Date of Work: 1920
Berlin Dada; Photomontage used in this slice and dice way is the ultimate deconstructor, ripping apart the very foundation and security of the bourgeois social order.
Hoch, Hannah

Title of Work: Cut with the Kitchen Knife (Dada through the last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany)
Date of Work: c. 1919-20
Art of protest that cuts it apart and deconstructs it. Breaks it down into it’s anti-art attitude. Different from surrealist art in that it’s deconstructive as opposed to reconstructive.
Schwitters, Kurt

Title of Work: Picture with Light Center
Date of Work: 1919
Schwitters works to blur the boundaries between art and life in his anti-art collages and assemblages he calls "merz," from the second syllable of commerce in German
Schwitters, Kurt

Title of Work: Merz Construction
Date of Work: 1921
Nationality: German
Mondrian's worst nightmare. This assemblage does away with purity and the reductive hard-edge in favor of the raw and the crude arranged haphazardly to suggest random chance rather than a careful balancing of opposing forces.
Schwitters, Kurt

Title of Work: Okola
Date of Work: 1926
Hannover Dada; "Okola" is a collage of junk materials made from the street and arranged to suggest random chance and the absurd. Schwitters deliberately uses materials that are not precious as part of his Dada anti-masterpiece aesthetic, though many of the other Dadaists found him too bourgeois and concerned with aesthetic issues. It is, however, the way he transforms art into life and life into art, thereby blurring the boundaries between art and life, that truly makes him dada
Schwitters, Kurt

Title of Work: Hanover Merzbau (his home)
Date of Work: 1925
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: The King and Queen Traversed by Swift Nudes
Date of Work: 1912
references both cubism and futurism, foreshadows dada
; At this point, what we see are cubist forms that suggest the human figure crossed or traversed by the machine: these are either humans acting mechanically, or machines acting all too human. By mentioning "nudes" in the title, Duchamp was deliberately trying to provoke the Italian Futurists, who had forbid anyone to paint the nude for 10 years. By suggesting movement through the traversal of swift nudes, he was at the same time provoking the French Cubists, who wanted to keep their work distanced from the Futurists, especially in terms of the representation of movement.
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Date of Work: 1912
signifies motion, passage and film; Nude descending down stairs is him leading towards giving up painting
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: The Passasge from Virgin to Bride
Date of Work: 1912
Change from stick figure to swollen form
Artist: Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: Chocolate Grinder, No.1
Date of Work: 1913
Artist: Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: Fountain (urinal) by R. Mutt
Date of Work: 1917
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: L.H.O.O.Q.(Mona Lisa with a Moustache)
Date of Work: 1919
L.H.O.O.Q: she has a hot ass" or "she's hot down below
Duchamp's readymades all questioned the idea of the unique, one-of-a-kind original; For Duchamp, the absurdity of the war validated Dada's use of destruction or desecration as creative acts in their own right. He should also be seen as the "father" of conceptual art.
Gabo, Naum

Title of Work: Constructed Head of a Woman
Date of Work: c. 1917
He is following cubism's lead in this shift from mimesis to a mapping of the structural dynamics and inner construction of form, but he translates the tension between 3-D illusionism and the 2-D flat picture plane that characterized cubist painting into a construction that works with real space and real materials, in accordance with the stated utilitarian goals of the Russian Constructivists
Movement: Russian Constructivism
Gabo, Naum

Title of Work: Linear Construction
Date of Work: c. 1955
Russian Constructivism
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo

Title of Work: Light-Space Modulator
Date of Work: 1922-30
Sheeler, Charles
Title of Work: Classic Landscape
Date of Work: 1931
American Precisionism
Gropius, Walter

Title of Work: The Bauhaus Workshop Wing in Dessau, East Germany
Date of Work: 1925-26
Kandinsky, Wassily

Title of Work: Composition VIII
Date of Work: 1923
Movement: The German Bauhaus; his interest in an abstraction that is spiritually-driven,
Why does the circle fascinate me?
It is (1) the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally, (2) a precise but inexhaustible variable, (3) simultaneously stable and unstable, (4) simultaneously loud and soft, (5) a single tension that carries countless tensions within it. The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. . . . Of the three primary forms (triangle, square, circle), it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.
Kandinsky
adopts a geometric hard-edge and bounded areas of color, previously missing from his earlier, pre-WWI style of boundless space, intuitive lines, and bleeding colors
Bauhaus slogan
Art and Technology - A New Unity
Bauhaus
Their art was socially oriented rather than art for art's sake.
WWI
Known as the great war; 8 million men died
WWI
Trench warfare, shell shock - understanding horror of this war, silence was worse than the sound of shell, how to avoid trenchfoot, The Suicide of Nations, The Never Endians
Dada - 1915-1920
The anti-art; Tristan Tzar; definition is the death of Dada
Elements of Dada
Composing according to chance - That law is too fucked up and absurd; worked with irony - absurdity-no order to it all; blur boundaries between art and life; For continuous contradiction
Kandinsky, Wassily
Title of Work: Several Circles
Date of Work: 1926
Klee, Paul

Title of Work: Twittering Machine
Date of Work: 1922
childlike, but not childish; German Bauhaus
take a walk with a line
Paul Klee
Art does not render the visible," he tells us, "rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee
Klee, Paul

Title of Work: Tightrope Walker
Date of Work: 1923

Nationality: German (German Bauhaus)
Tightrope Walker" is a metaphor for modern existence and the difficulties of maintaining one's balance in a world without secure foundation in nature, God, or country
Klee, Paul

Title of Work: Around the Fish
Date of Work: 1926
Klee, Paul

Title of Work: Death and Fire
Date of Work: 1940
Strong statements about being human and our vulnerability. Painted during WWII
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Date of Work: 1915-23
Classify as both Dada and surreal - It's sole function is to make love.
Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Ready made
Pushes-where is the art experience located? It happens in the art viewers mind, not in the object. Likened to alchemy.
Ready made 2
Not made by artist who is the author?
Ready made 3
Not one of a kind or unique
Ready made 4
Separates skill, craft, and the making of the object from the art.
Duchamp text about chess
End Game - Analogy on how all moves have been used up. We are at an end game with the current state of the art world.
Ready made
Machine made object never intended to be art; not designed for aesthetics; goes against idea that art is a commodity object; idea is for servicing the mind, not objectifying art.
Malevich
Implies flight with the directions and movement of shapes. Father of minimalist art. Non-mimetic. Created what is considered one of the first all over monochromatic paintings.
Dates to know
-1915-1920
-1925-1930
-WW1 (1914-1918)
Piet Mondrian
Early work: 1915-1920 (DeStijl)
Mature work: 1925-1930 (Neoplastic)
Banished green from his life.
Schoon Aesthetic
Mondrian - cleanliness, purity and beauty. Beauty is akin to something clean edge.
Theosophy
Rudolph Steiner: New science occult and clairvoyant vision w/o using drugs. Read people's astral glow. Studying extra sensory perception. (Kandinksy and Mondrian)
5 Keypoints from the Surrealists:
1. Beauty with be convulsive or it will not be at all/Female Hysteria
2. Freudian dream logic strategies (Displacement, Condensation, Fetish)
3. Anatomy of Desire
4. Surreal Marvelists (Both beautiful and nightmare and heroic; flipside of the machine aesthetic.
5. Poetry of the unconscious (Psychic automatism)
Duchamp, Marcel

Title of Work: Etants Donnes (Given: 1. The Waterfall. 2. The Illuminating Gas)
Date of Work: 1944-1966
the last major work by the artist, completed in secrecy over a 20 year period during which it was assumed he had given up art. Duchamp wants to dematerialize the art object by shifting us away from its physical, visual appearance in order "to put art in the service of the mind. It is a kind of checkmate, where you capture the queen to win the game, or it is a stalemate situation in which the two works are diametrically opposed counterparts that cancel each other out.
Picasso, Pablo

Title of Work: Large Nude in Red Armchair
Date of Work: 1929
Picasso, Pablo

Title of Work: Girl before a Mirror
Date of Work: 1932
Reflection is dreamy with use of the psyche mirror. ANatomy of desire (Womb and Breast); Brought sex and embodiment back into his art; Body was painted w/o limits.
Max Ernst
rom "Une Semaine de Bonte" (One Week of Kindness)
Date of Work: 1933-1934
Nationality: German - Surrealism
The intent is to transform the banal and everyday into dramas of one's "most secret desires. On a personal level, the image might also be a reflection of his own apprehension and anxiety over Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi condemnation of his work.
Dada vs Surreal Photomontage
The surreal photomontage differs from the dada photomontage not only in content (dream imagery vs. political satire), but in its seamless editing (vs. the dada photomontage is "cut with a kitchen knife" so you see the edits and disruptions - see Hannah Hoch). The surreal photomontage is less a social or political critique than an investigation into the surreal "marvelous" and the poetry of the unconscious. In the photomontages he sets out to de-rail waking logic in order to uncover a latent surreality. His art is a journey into an uncharted psychic landscape. He uses strategies of psychic automatism and exploits irrational juxtapositions as a point of departure and basis for inducing hallucination and a dream state.
Max Ernst
Studied abnormal psychology
Max Ernst Style
1) he displaces images from their normal context and source, exploiting irrational juxtapositions. 2) he condenses two dissimilar things into one image, for ex., the bird head on a man's body. and 3) he uses the bird as a fetish symbol, recalling his own alter-ego, Loplop,
Ernst, Max

Title of Work: from Une Semaine de Bonte (One Week of Kindness)
Date of Work: 1933-1934

Ernst, Max

Title of Work: from Une Semaine de Bonte (One Week of Kindness)
Date of Work: 1933-1934
Weird extremes - Disruption of scale. Showcases the manifest and the latent - secret to inner most desires.
Ernst, Max

Title of Work: Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale
Date of Work: 1924
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Menaced Assassin
Date of Work: 1926
Rene Magritte
Magritte hints at a latent vs. manifest content. He is the secret agent man, the sabateur who sabotages our sense of security about the reality of appearances.
Magritte
Trompe-l'oeil (trick of the eye) and trompe-l'esprit (trick of the mind) become his strategies for upsetting the assured mindset that we bring to viewing reality.
Magritte
he creates picture puzzles that cannot be solved or destroyed by reason alone
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
Date of Work: 1928
Magritte, Rene
Title of Work: The Key of Dreams
Date of Work: 1930
Signifiers take on meaning only by convention, not by any natural law or firm connection to the external world or the thing itself. There is no absolute foundation underlying language or sign systems.
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The False Mirror
Date of Work: 1928
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Human Condition
Date of Work: 1933
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Human Condition
Date of Work: 1933
He messes with the system of things: his art points to an underlying disturbance rather than an underlying order (Mondrian). "Pictorial experience which puts the real world on trial . . ."
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Rape
Date of Work: 1934
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: The Rape
Date of Work: 1934
use of the strategies of Freudian dream logic--displacement, condensation, and fetish--to create a disturbing image of the surrealists' favorite
Here Magritte substitutes the woman's erotic zones for her facial features in a classic example of the surrealist aesthetic of "convulsive beauty."
Magritte, Rene

Title of Work: Philosophy in the Boudoir
Date of Work: 1947
woman, who Andre Breton called the "most marvelous and disturbing problem in all the world." The implication here is that she is marvelous precisely because she is so disturbing, so the "woman problem" was certainly not one the surrealists wanted to solve.
Magritte, Rene 

Title of Work: Personal Values
Date of Work: 1952
Dali, Salvador
Title of Work: Accomodations of Desire
Date of Work: 1929
Dali, Salvador
Title of Work: Accomodations of Desire
Date of Work: 1929