ART HISTORY FINAL Flashcards
Title: La Grande Jatte
Artist: Seurat
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
pointilism
divisionism
chromonuminarianism
use of repetition
interested in the study and organization
Honfeur, harbor painted
Title: Apples and Oranges
Artist: Cezanne
Period: Post- Impressionism
Significance: “I want to make post-impressionism something solid and lasting like in the museums”
reacted against Impressionism
painting structure
light comes from the purity of the color- timeless light
compresses the space
color gives mass to the painting
interpreting nature
Title: Mount Saint-Victoire
Artist: Cezanne
Period: Post-Impressionism
Significance:
Title: La Chambre
Artist: Van Gogh
Period: Post-Impressionism
Significance:
emotional impact
long linear strokes to create patterns
most of his work last 5 years of his life
love of color
Title: Portrait of Dr. Gachet Seated at a Table
Artist: Van Gogh
Period: Post-Impressionism
Significance: colors and distorted forms create emotion
Title: The Church
Artist: Van Gogh
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
thickness of brushstrokes creates movement
Title: Tahitian Women on the Beach
Artist: Gaugin
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
polynesian influence
folk art
use of color
Title: The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch
Artist: Gaugin
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance: paintings became patterns
Title: At the Moulin Rouge
Artist: Toulouse-Lautrec
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
influenced by Degas
characature- psychological image of a human
Moulin Rouge
sketch-like quality
first graphic design
Title: The Thinker
Artist: Rodin
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
mixture of abstraction and impressionism
surface of his works, bettina
very wealthy and famous
Title: The Gates of Hell
Artist: Rodin
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
most ambitious work
inspired by Dante’s Inferno and Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
tormented sinners
Title: Artist in the Country
Artist: Bonnard
Period: Post Impressionism
Significance:
influenced by impressionism
through nature not at nature
navis- prophet, see things beyond nature
Title: The Scream
Artist: Munch
Period: Symbolism
Significance:
departs from visual reality
color, line, and distortion
evokes strong emotions
Title: Karl Johanasan Street
Artist: Munch
Period:
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Title: The Kiss
Artist: Klimt
Period: Symbolism
Significance: opulent fin de siecle painting
shimmering extravagent flat patterning
Title: The Peacock Skirt
Artist: Beardsly
Period:
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Title: Mucha
Artist: Burnhardt
Period:
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Title: Red Studio
Artist: Matisse
Period: Fauvism
Significance:
composition and colors express feelings
patterns
flattened forms
Title: London Bridge
Artist: Derain
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
Title: Street Dresden
Artist: Kirchner
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
perspective distortions
disquieting figures
influenced by Fauvism and Munch
Title: Dance Around the Calf
Artist: Nolde
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
centered on religious imagery
visceral and forceful
distortion of form and color
Title: The Old King
Artist: Rouault
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
Title: Improvisation 28
Artist: Kandinsky
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
inspired by the theories of Einstein and Rutherford
material objects had no real substance
complete abstraction
Title: Red Fox
Artist: Marc
Period: Expressionism
Significance:
developed a system of correspondences between colors and feelings or ideas
Title: Blue Horse
Artist: Marc
Period: Expressionism
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Title: Les Demoisseles d’Avignon
Artist: Picasso
Period: Primitivism
Significance:
inspired by ancient Iberian sculpture and
Cezanne’s late paintings
Title: Le Torero
Artist: Picasso
Period: Primitivism/ Cubism
Significance:
Title: Le Figaro
Artist: Picasso
Period: Cubism
Significance:
Title: Bather
Artist: Lipchitz
Period: Cubist
Significance:
cubist sculpture
Title: Homage to Beirot
Artist: Delauny
Period:Orphism
Significance:
cubism marries fauvism
pure abstraction of color
Title: The Three Camarades
Artist: Leger
Period: Purism
Significance: machine aesthetic
machines of the war, beautiful
abstraction, cubism
turns people into robots
Title: Compostion in Red Yellow and Blue
Artist: Mondrian
Period: De Stijl
Significance:
uses the grid to reveal the composition
static and dynamic balance
abstraction to pure elements
vertical and horizontal, use of primary colors
Neo Plasticism
Title: White on White
Artist: Malevich
Period: Suprematism
Significance:
suprematist, pure feeling
reduce in form
feeling of non-objectivity
inspired minimalism
Title: Armored Train
Artist: Severini
Period: Futurism
Significance:
influenced by Braque
Cubist influence, use of movement
fractured, use of color
Title: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Artist: Balla
Period: Futurism
Significance:
movement through patterns
lines of force
Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Artist: Boccioni
Period: Futurism
Significance:
pure anarchy
Riot in the Gallery
lines of force
absolute movement
Unique forms of continuity and space
force of the wind
Title: Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
Artist: Arp
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
liberated art from the material
biomorphic form
Title: Nude Descending a Staircase #2
Artist: Duchamp
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
accused of being a futurist
movement of time
abstractions meant to stimulate thinking
mechanical beings
Title: LHOOQ
Artist: Duchamp
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
“She as a hot ass”
playful quality
making a pure choice
Title: The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even
Artist: Duchamp
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
freedom of experiment
conceptual art
Title: Opened by Customs
Artist: Schwitters
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
arbitrary items in cubist form
collages
Title: The Spirit of Our Times
Artist: Hausman
Period: Dadaism
Significance:
Title: The Sleeping Gypsy
Artist: Rousseau
Period: Symbolism
Significance:
dreamlike quality
many greens
Title: Melancholy and the Mystery of a Street
Artist: De Chirico
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
interpretation of dreams
Title: Birthday
Artist: Chagall
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
beginning of Surrealism
influenced by cubism
tete a tete
dream world
dislocated memories
Title: Paris Through a Window
Artist: Chagall
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
Title: Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
Artist: Ernst
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
put objects outside of frame
Title: Twittering Machine
Artist: Klee
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
become like a child- true feelings
playing with shapes
Title: Harlequin Carnival
Artist: Miro
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
influenced by hallucinations
Title: The Persistance of Memory
Artist: Dali
Period: Surrealism
Significance:
veristic realism
inspired by dreams
