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The Armory Show
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1913
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The Armory Show
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First large-scale modernist exhibition in U.S.; New
extremely influential highly controversial; people loved it or hated it; Matisse burned in effigy first shown in the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City; then shown in Chicago Idea born in 1911, Assn. of Am. Painters & Sculptors Arthur B. Davies, President Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase |
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Dada
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2nd Decade
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Dada
Artist? |
Marcel
DUCHAMP |
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Dada
Description? |
Reaction to the horrors of WWI
Began in Switzerland and moved across Europe and America Anti-Aesthetic, Anti-Rational Movement "Readymade" Artist has found and noticed it, rather that made it Influence of Futurism Performance Art; nonsense poetry, noise music Ironic tone; Angry Humor |
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"Readymade"
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An object that already exist
(artist has found and noticed it rather that made it) |
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Jean Arp:
To destroy the rationalist swindle for man and incorporate him humbly again in nature." |
Dada
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Tristan Tzara:
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"Dada is a state of mind."
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Marcel DUCHAMP:
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"Dada was very serviceable as a purgative"
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Precisionism
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1920's
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Precisionism
Artists? |
Charles
DEMUTH Charles SHEELER |
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Precisionism
Description? |
U.S.
Combines U.S. subject matter with European Modernism Anticipates Photo-Realism |
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"American Scene" Painting (Regionalism)
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1920's
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"American Scene" Painting (Regionalism)
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Rejects European Modernism for realism and U.S. subjects
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Hopper:
"I am interested not in subjectivity, but a new objectivity; not abstraction, but reafirmation of subject matter and specificity; not internationalism, but the American scene." |
"American Scene" Painting (Regionalism)
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920's
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Harlem Renaissance
Artist? |
Aaron
DOUGLAS |
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Harlem Renaissance
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Growing emergence of African-American identity and heritage in art, literature, and culture
1921 Harlem Library Exhibition "Jazz Age" Post-war northern migration (2 million move to north-Philly, Chicago, Boston, Balt, San Fran) Harlem pop. tripled by early 1920 W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey (militant self assertion) Aaron Douglas collaborates with Langston Hughes, contributes to Vanity Fair, Studies as Alber Barnes Harmon Foundation encourages blacks in many fields Augusta Savage runs Harlem WPA project |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Painter-early role model, won Paris Salon award in 19th century
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Social Realism
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1930's
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Social Realism
Artist? |
Ben
SHAHN |
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Social Realism
Description? |
U.S.
Affiliated with international movement arts Depression era Committed to political subjects Anti-establishment WPA (Works Progress Administration) Art Project |
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WPA
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Works Progress Administration
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Diego Rivera
"I want to use my art as a weapon." |
Social Realism Quote
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Bauhaus
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1920's
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Bauhaus
Artists? |
Walter
GROPIUS Paul KLEE |
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Bauhaus
Description? |
School for integration of fine arts, crafts, industrial design, and architecture
"less is more" design ethic Johannes Itten- basic courses "bauhütte" - German medieval master mason's lodge Kandinsky teaches in 1920's Gropius Hitler shuts down school in 1933 |
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Gropius:
Bauhaus |
Painters provided a "spiritual counterpoint" to designers
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Klee:
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible." |
Bauhaus Quote
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Constructivism
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1920's-1930's
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Constructivism
Artist? |
Naum
GABO |
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Constructivism
Description? |
Russia, spread to Europe
Outgrowth of Supermatism stression technological application of materials and fabricated sculpture Emphasis on "space" |
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Naum Gabo:
"Volume of mass and volume of space are sculpturally not the same thing." |
Constructivism Quote
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Surrealism
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1920's-1930's
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Surrealism
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Salvador
DALI Andre MASSON |
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Surrealism
Description? |
Started in Europe
Spread to NY during WWII Art of This Century exhibition 1942 in New York dream symbolism Same spirit as Dada, but with a purpose: revolution influenced by Freud's theory of the subconscious |
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realist (verist) surrealism =
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=recognizable subject matter
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abstract surrealism =
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=non-objective
"automatic drawing" process |
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"exquisite corpse" =
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=surrealist game
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DALI
Surrealism |
"Paranoiac Critical Activity" imitating mental illness; anti-rational influential on '60s artists, MTV
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Abstract-Expressionism
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'40's & '50's
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Abstract-Expressionism
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GORKY
POLLOCK DEKOONING KLINE GOTTLIEB ROTHKO NEWMAN |
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Gestural Artist
Abstract-Expressionism |
GORKY
POLLOCK DEKOONING KLINE |
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Colorfield Artist
Abstract-Expressionism |
GOTTLIEB
ROTHKO NEWMAN |
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Abstract-Expressionism
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New York
1. Gestural Style (brushstrokes) 2. Color Field Style influence by Surrealist process Dewey's Art As Experience ('34) Carl Jung's theories of collective unconscious and archetypes Archetypes Large Scale Painterly brushwork Romantic emphasis on metaphysical content Asymmetric compositions with dramatic tonal or color contrast Pictographs Impasto Pollock becomes new kind of American art superstar |
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
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1950's
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
Artists? |
LOUIS
NOLAND STELLA critic: Greenberg |
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Post-Painterly Abstraction
Description? |
Embodied critic Clement Greenberg's theory of "self-definition"
Non-illusionistic flatness - fusion of color & ground (figure / ground relationship) Acrylic paint (new technology) Shaped canvas 1. Stain painting style 2. Hard-edge style |
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Proto-Pop
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1950's
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Proto-Pop
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JOHNS
RAUSCHENBERG |
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Proto-Pop
Description? |
Use of mass-produced images and objects
Anticipates Pop Art Combine painting (collage, 2-D & assemblage, 3-D) Influence of John Cage (modernist musician) Encaustic (wax) |
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Happenings
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late 1950s
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Happenings
Artist? |
Allen
KAPROW |
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Happenings
Description? |
Hybrid of art, theater & everyday
activity; Highly symbolic Free-form/disjunctive Pollock influence; Dada, Surrealist influence Life as art . . . happening |
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Pop Art
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late 1950s, 1960s
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Pop Art
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Andy
WARHOL Roy LICHTENSTEIN |
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Pop Art
Description? |
U.K., U.S.
"Ad- mass culture" in high art mode Consumer objects & processes "Installation" Soft sculpture Often deadpan or "camp" tone |
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"291"
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1st and 2nd Decades
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"291"
Artists? |
STIEGLITZ
DOVE O'KEEFE |
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"291"
Description? |
Most avant-garde of the U.S. "moderns" (modern artists)
Championed abstract, non-objective, European work Promotion of photography as equal art form |
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The "8" (Arschcan School)
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1900-1910
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The "8" (Arschcan School)
Artist? |
Henri
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The "8" (Arschcan School)
Description? |
Early moderns
More conservative Contemporary subject matter; realism Works portrayed scenes of daily life in NY's poorer neighborhoods |
