Exam 4 Flashcards
(55 cards)
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Fauvism
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- one of the first modern art movements, short lived
- bright expressive color not used to depict things naturalistically
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The woman with the Hat
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- Henri Matisse
- 1905
- Fauvism
- range of bright colors to convey emotion
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Cubism
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- another modern art movement (headed by Picasso and Braque)
- depicting objects from all perspectives
- emphasized the 2D canvas
- complete removal from classical/academic art
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
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- Pablo Picasso
- 1907
- beginnings of cubism
- jagged figures with mask like faces
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Primitivism
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- western interest in primitive living, human beings at their core
- often appropriating African and indigenous art styles or concepts
- emphasized by western imperialism
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Violin and Palette
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- George Braque
- 1909-1910
- Analytic cubism
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Analytic cubism
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a form of cubism in which color is downplayed or piece is completely monochromatic
- emphasizes the geomtric nature of the style
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Synthetic cubism
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a form of cubism that often took place in a collage medium
- collage was completely new and radical art form at this point
ex: Picasso, Glass and bottle of Suze, 1912
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Assemblage
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form of sculpture made by assembling everyday objects
ex: Picasso, Mandolin and Clarinet, 1913
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Improvisation 28
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- Wassily Kandinsky
- 1912
- expressionsim
- beginnings of abstract art, he devolved more into abstract art later on
- inspired by music theory
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Futurism
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- led by italian artists who believed in the future, speed and movement
- destruction of the past
- embraced the development of facism in Italy
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Unique Forms of continuity in Space
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- Umberto Boccioni
- 1913
- futurist
- human figure from a futurist point of view
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Bird in Space
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- Constantin Brancusi
- 1928
- futurist
- work was defended in a court as a piece of art and won
- vision of a new kind of abstract sculpture
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Dadaism
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- reaction to the horros of WWI
- Artistic and literary movement
- irrational and nonsensical with a disdain for the conventional and non traditional
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Fountain
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- Marcel Duchamp
- 1917
- Dadaism
- Readymade
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Readymade
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an object found and selected by an artist to be declared as art
- art can be based on concept alone
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Jack in the Pulpit No. IV
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- Georgia O’Keeffe
- 1930
- color line and shape to represent an abstracted flower
- her art was more than about her being a woman
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Cantilever
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a beam or slab of material that is supported only on one end
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Fallingwater
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- Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1937
- Prairie style
- Cantilevers
- integrated into its natural surroundings
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The Bauhaus
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- School of art and design in Germany
- supported the medevial tradition of craftmanship and the artisan
- believed that crafts and high arts should be integrated not separated
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Bauhaus Building
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- Walter Gropius
- 1925-1926
- international style
- cut down on ornamentation and emphasized asymmetry
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Frottage
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doing rubbings over a textured object, often using something like charcoal or pencil
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Grattage
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painting over a textured object, usually with oil paint, and allowing the paint to dry on the textured object
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Automatism
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- techniques used by the surrealists to represent or bring out their unconcious
- acessing the inner mind through repetitive speaking, drawing or writing
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The Persistence of Memory
- Salvador Dali
- 1931
- unsettling dream-like imagrey
- themes of sexuality, violence and decay
- surrealism
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Guernica
- Pablo Picasso
- 1937
- inspired by the spanish and nazi air bombing of the spanish town of Guernica
- statement on the butchery of war and trauma that it causes
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Aspects of Negro Life: from slavery through reconstruction
- Aaron douglas
- 1934
- emphasis on black rights and freedoms as well as their historical opression
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Migrant Mother
- Dorothea Lange
- 1936
- a series of photographs to build public support for federa aid in rural America during the great depression
- very selective about what is shown in the images
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American Gothic
- Grant Wood
- 1930
- american regionalism
- hardships of rural americans during the depression
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The Two Fridas
- Frida Kahlo
- 1939
- her work focused on her life experiences and identity
- german vs mexican heritage
- hearts are torn from her chest in representation of her many experiences with pain
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Abstract expressionism
- most prominent american postwar movement
- artists expressing the traumas of WWII
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Clement Greenberg
- supporter of abstract expressionism
- urged modernist painters to purify their works of things that are not characteristic of the medium
- ex: 3D representations are for sculpture not for painting
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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
- Jackson Pollock
- 1950
- drip paintings
- allowing his actions to create his work, not focused on subject matter
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Untitled (Rothko Number 5068.49)
- Mark Rothko
- 1949
- colorfield painter
- wanted to express human emotions as directly as possible as well as evoke them
- had his paintings arranged very specifically
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Maquette
A sculptors preliminary model
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Meat Joy
- Carolee Schneemann
- 1964
- performance art
- allowed the women in the group to control how and when their bodies were viewed
- primal and sensual experience
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Marilyn Diptych
- Andy Warhol
- 1962
- silk screening
- represented a persons commodity status in contemporary society
- diptych format emphaszes her status as a slain martyr
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Benday Dots
- think comic book style
- creates the illusion of solid color through many tiny dots places side by side
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Untitled
- Don Judd
- 1969
- well known minimalist work
- obeject references itself and nothing outside of it (it is what it is)
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One and Three Chairs
- Joseph Kosuth
- 1965
- conceptual art
- semiotics
- represents the gaps between the three representations of a concept (physical, image, lingual)
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Semiotics
the study of signs and symbols and how they create meaning
- the signifier and the signified
| Kosuths One and Three Chairs
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Spiral Jetty
- Robert Smithson
- 1970
- growth and decay, subject to the elements
- artist did not mean for this to be permanent and he wanted it subject to the elements
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The Gates
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- 1979-2005
- large scale installations that took decades to plan and were often only up for about two weeks
- the beauty of impermanence
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Liberation of Aunt Jemima
- Betye Saar
- 1972
- Aunt Jemima as a symbol of resistance and empowerment
- reclaiming of the mammy figure
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The Dinner Party
- Judy Chicago
- 1974-1979
- early feminist work honoring important women throughout history
- multimedia
- honors 1,038 women through history and myth
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Seagram Building
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
- 1954-1958
- international style
- set the standard for corporate power and wealth
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1943-1959
- incredibly non traditional for a museum
- sculputural and experimental
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AT&T Corporate headquarters
- Philip Johnson and John Burgee
- 1978-1983
- post modern architecture
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Untitled Film Still #21
- Cindy Sherman
- 1978
- examined how women were portrayed in media
- referencing and subverting expectations of women in media
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Maya lin
- 1981-1983
- A cut through the earth to represent an intial violence and pain that would heal with time
- reflection, a world we can see but cannot access
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Piss Christ
- Andres Serrano
- 1989
- intended to draw attention to the commercialization and cheapening of Christs image in the media
- to many, a blasphemous image
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Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
- Frank Gehry
- 1993-1997
- deconstructivist architecture
- utilized computer design system CAITA to model the building
- challenged traditional neoclassical museum structures
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Electronic Superhighway: Continential US
- Nam June Paik
- 1955
- video art
- intangible, electronic quality that celebrates speed and immediacy
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Cathode ray tube
produces images for computers and or TVs
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Darkytown Rebellion
- Kara Walker
- 2001
- her figures came from historical images and sources
- the use of silhouettes implicates the viewer in maintaining and creating racist stereotypes
