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39 Cards in this Set
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Gauguin
Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel 1888 Post-Impressionism(?) Tilted perspective, sharp colors (Influenced by Japanese prints) Starkly outlined figures, intense, flat applications of color Artist re-creating from imagination |
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Henri Rousseau
Sleeping Gypsy 1897 Symbolist Exotic: wandering egress and king of the jungle Conflation of ideas: femme fatale, exotic woman Suggests vulnerable subconscious during sleep |
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition 1874-1876 Symbolist Biblical femme fatale, Salome Hallucinatory imagery, eroticism, precise drawing, rich color, opulent setting Hallmarks of Moreau's Symbolist style "Grand Manner," allegorical |
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Edvard Munch
Madonna 1895 Symbolist Oil on canvas Color lithograph Femme fatale again! |
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Edvard Munch
The Scream 1893 Symbolist Departs from visual reality Color, line, figural distortion to evoke strong emotional response "the vast, infinite cry of nature" |
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Gustav Klimt
The Kiss 1907-1908 Symbolist Reveals only small segment of each lover's body Rest of painting dissolves shimmering, extravagant flat patterning |
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Gertrude Kasebier
Blessed Art Thou among Women 1899 Symbolist photograph Sense of spiritual and divine into scenes from everyday life Deliberately soft focus invests scene w/ aura of otherworldly peace Draws parallel btwn Mother of God and modern mother |
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Auguste Rodin
Walking Man 1905 Symbolist Mastery of anatomy and ability to capture transitory motion (Impressionist) "in reality, time does not stop" |
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Rodin
The Gates of Hell 1880-1900 Symbolist Inspired by Dante's Inferno and Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise Nightmarish vision, pessimistic mood exemplifying fin-de-siecle spirit of Symbolism |
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Joseph Paxton
Crystal Palace 1850-1851 Modular, hierarchical design; practical brilliance as a designer, problem-solver. Many breakthroughs Practical advantages that no conventional building could match Embodied the spirit of British innovation, Industrial Rev |
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Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower 1889 New materials, tech, modernist aesthetic fueled radically new architectural designs Transparency blurs distinction btwn interior & exterior Innovative approach |
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H.H. Richardson
Marshall Field wholesale store 1885-1887 Cast-iron skeleton encased in fire-resistant masonry Construction technique enabled insertion of large windows |
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Louis Henry Sullivan
Wainwright Building 1890-1891 Among the first skyscrapers in the world Prototype of the modern office building Symbolist in use of organic ornamentation? (piers as pillars?) |
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Henri Matisse
Woman with the Hat 1905 Fauvist (Color for expressive ends) Color not to imitate nature but to produce a reaction Patches and splotches of seemingly arbitrary color Jarring contrasts of color, sketchiness of form Looking to van Gogh and Gauguin Matisse's wife |
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Henri Matisse
Red Room (Harmony in Red) 1908-1909 Fauvist (Color for expressive ends) Matisse's masterpiece Color trumps all other aspects of painting (flat, no shadows) Objects in simplified, schematized fashion w/ flattened forms Window or painting on wall? Colors contrast everywhere, richly and intensely Correspondences between forms (patterns, figure's head, etc.) downplays dimension |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Street, Dresden 1908 German Expressionism (Die Brucke) Perspective distortions, disquieting figures, color choices Reflect influence of Fauvists and Edvard Munch Formal elements to communicate emotion Jarring, dissonant in both composition and color |
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Emil Nolde
Saint Mary of Egypt among Sinners 1912 German Expressionism (Die Brucke) Lust of lechers magnifies their brutal ugliness Distortions of form and color Rawness of brushstrokes amplify harshness of faces |
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Vassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 28 (second version) 1912 German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter) One of first paintings of complete abstraction on canvas Theories of Einstein, Rutherford => material object had no real substance |
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Franz Marc
Fate of the Animals 1913 German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter) Correspondences btwn specific colors and feelings or ideas Apocalyptic scene of animals trapped in forest, colors of severity and brutality dominate |
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Pablo Picasso
Gertrude Stein 1906-1907 Modernist/Cubist(?)/Primitivism Incorporates planar simplicity of ancient Iberian stone Disparity between style of face and figure striking |
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Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 Modernist/Primitivist Influences: African and ancient Iberian sculpture + late Cezanne Opens door to radically new method of representing forms in space Figures inconsistently depicted (calm faces left, crazy on right) |
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Georges Braque
The Portuguese 1911 Exemplifies Analytic Cubism Rejecting pictorial illusionism Concentrated on dissecting form and placing interacting w/ space Flat letters/numbers play w/ 2D space Planes intersecting, smaller forms in space; lots of geometric shapes |
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Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Chair-Caning 1912 First of Synthetic Cubism movement Framed w/ rope, challenges viewer's understanding of reality Painting includes piece of oilcloth imprinted w/ pattern of cane chair seat Letters JOU appear in many Cubist paintings (pun "to play", reference to French newspapers) |
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Pablo Picasso
maquette for Guitar 1912 Cubist sculpture Picasso presented cutaway view of a guitar Allowing viewer to examine both surface and interior space, mass and void Intersection of 2D and 3D; see outside and inside at same time |
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Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 Definitive work of Futurist sculpture Figure's body so expanded disappears behind the blur of movement Advocated abolishing the enclosed statue Simultaneity of views; made from different angles |
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Marcel Duchamp
Fountain (second version) 1917 (1950) Dada sculpture "readymade" sculpture were mass-produced objects the Dada artist modified conferred status of art onto a urinal Creation of a new thought for an object |
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Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-1923 Oil, lead, wire, foil, dust and varnish on glass Dada sculpture Simultaneously playful and serious exam of humans as machines Finished "by accident" **This is a nude |
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John Sloan
Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, New York City 1907 Sloan = Prominent member of American Realist group Bleak and seedy aspects of rapidly changing urban landscape Outright depiction of prostitutes = Realist |
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Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 1912 Oil on canvas Armory Show introduced European modernism to mainstream America Figure moving in a time continuum Owes to Analytic Cubism and Futurism Influence of light and shadow, sense of dimension Multiple perspectives and sense of structure (Cezanne) |
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Arthur Dove
Nature Symbolized No. 2 ca. 1911 Avant-garde American art Completely nonobjective canvas (innovative) Only abstract shapes and color Sought to capture essence of nature and pulsating organic growth Some elements of Cubism, but no identifiable objects |
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Marsden Hartley
Portrait of a German Officer 1914 Elegy to a lover killed in battle Arranged military-related images against somber black background Flattened, planar presentation reveals influence of Synthetic Cubism |
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Stuart Davis
Lucky Strike 1921 Precisionist(?) Painted cigarette package in fragment form, recalling Cubist collage Imbued his painting w/ American jazz rhythm; energy of fast-paced culture |
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Henri Matisse
The Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra 1907 Fauvist/Primitivism Oil on Canvas Extremely curvaceous body based on exotic, African woman |
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Giacomo Balla
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash 1912 Futurist Interest in motion and in Cubist dissection of form Simultaneity of views was central to Futurism |
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Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage 1907 Modernist focus Taken during voyage to Europe; passengers US rejected passage into country Mixture of patterns of forms and human activity Stirs emotion |
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Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother 1935 Documents lives of migratory farm workers during Depression Captured woman's strength and worry Propaganda paid for by gov't |
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Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe and Glass 1913 Cubist collage Glued paper makes a visual game Pipe seems to be in foreground; actually cutout revealing canvas |
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Thomas Hart Benton
Pioneer Days and Early Settlers 1936 Regionalist Part documentary, part invention Both positive and negative aspects of state's history (Slave auction going on in back!) Proof that Regionalists could be critics, not just eulogists Accessible style, complex composition, fluid imagery |
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Jose Clemente Orozco
Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-America ca. 1932-1934 New art movement based on indigenous history, culture of Mexico Heroic Mexican peasant armed to participate in Mexican Revolution Surrounded by symbolic figures of his oppressors |
