Art History (Week 8)

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Post-Impressionism

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Broad term to artists using Impressionism to jumpstart their styles

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Expressionism

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Free distortion of form/color for expression of inner emotions/sensations (began with Van Gogh)

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Cezanne's constructive brush stokes

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Cezanne abandons thickly encrusted surfaces for gradual colors

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Art Nouveau

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- Style of art inspired by natural forms (plants and flowers)

- Strong linearity in art

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Cloissonisme

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- In Gauguin's Stained Glass Period

- Strong outlines, bold and flat art with dark contours

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Fauvism

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Loose group of early 20th century artists with strong color over realistic values

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Primitivism

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Primitive fantasy inspired by tribal art to amplify European power complex

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Iberian Sculpture

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Simplified almond eyes from Iberian art, which Picasso felt relation to

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Arris

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Sharp edge formed by intersection of two surfaces in architecture

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Semiotic Theory of the Sign

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Study of the sign as meaningful communication

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Structuralism

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Viewing society and its rules as expressions of human nature

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Sign

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Signifier/signified; changes meaning through different contexts

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PICASSO

Blue Period (1901-1904)

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- Cool toned colors

- Somber subjects of loneliness, poverty, and despair

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PICASSO

Rose Period (1904-1907)

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- Colors have a rose-brown tinge

- Depicted clowns, carnivals, and harlequins

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PICASSO

Analytic Cubist Phase (1908-1912)

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- Reduced natural forms to basic geometric parts

- Form > Color

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PICASSO

Hermetic Phase of Analytic Cubism (1910-1912)

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- Reduced to overlapping monochromatic planes

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PICASSO

Collage (1912-)

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Collectionof gluing various shapes and materials from cubism

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PICASSO

Synthetic Cubism (1914-)

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- Multiple dimensions shown in a single viewpoint with simple shapes and interlocking planes

- Later collage

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Lived Perspective

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Like we're seeing through two eyes, with multiple dimensions and not a single perspective

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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The Starry Night

Van Gogh

1890

Oil

- Pointillism and impasto strokes

- exploding stars near an asylum

- stars representing life and death

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Mahana no atua (Day of the God)

Gauguin

1895

Oil

- three humans: birth, life, death

- three sections: naturalistic, middle, death

- Primitive

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Mont Sainte-Victoire

Cezanne

1885 (range)

Oil

- Repoussoir - framed with evergreen

- Harmonious colors

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Still Life with Basket of Apples

Cezanne

1880 (range)

Oil

- Incorrect proportions and shifted viewpoint

- "Lived in" perspective

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Ma Jolie

Picasso

1910 (range)

Oil

- Cubist

- portrait of a woman with a stringed instrument

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)

Matisse

1905

Oil

- large canvas showing primitivism

- Arabesque with odalisques in a fantasy

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Family of Saltimbanques

Picasso

1905

Oil

- figures "lost in the landscape"

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Le Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)

Picasso

1905

Oil

- Rose Period -- breaks from convention of female nude

- prostitutes in Avignon Red Light District

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Picasso

1910

Oil

- Portrait who bought many early works of artists

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze)

Picasso

1910

Paper, gouache, charcoal

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Mandolin and Clarinet

Picasso

1910

Painted wood, pencil marks

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Guernica

Picasso

1940

Oil

- War related art of bombed Spanish town

- Linked bull fighting with war

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Absinthe Drinker

Picasso

1900

Oil

- Blue period: during depression where all pieces were blue

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Standing Nude with Arms Raised

1910

Picasso

Charcoal

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Girl with a Mandolin

Picasso

1910

Oil

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Grebo Mask and Guitar

Picasso

1910

Cardboard, string, wire

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Guitar, Sheet Music & Wine

Picasso

1910

Pasted paper, gouache, charcoal

- Newspaper says "battle is joined" like art and reality

- Collage (under Cubism)

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Violin

Picasso

1910

Pasted Paper and Charcoal

- Collage (under Cubism)

- Combining art and real with current news on newspaper

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Bottle, Glass, and Violin

Picasso

1910 (range)

Charcoal and Pasted Papers

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[title, artist, date, medium, info]

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Mandolin and Clarinet

Picasso

1910

Painted wood