Fauvism to High Tech Flashcards
(101 cards)
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What is this art style that depicts wild beasts in the use of brilliant luminous colors and bold, spontaneous? (from the fauve meaning wild beast)
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Fauvism
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Who is the leader of the fauves who paints with extraordinary decorative quality, and flat patterned compositions in pure colors?
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Henri Matisse
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A portrait of Matisse’s wife that is inspired of African Mask.
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Madame Matisse (Green Line)
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A fauves painting that depicts a red interior with no shadows and shadings by Matisse
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Large Red Interior/ The Red Studio
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(Late 19th cent - early 20th cent) An art style that opposses to the academic standards and focuses on the artist’s subjective emotions w/c overrides fidelity to the actual appearance.
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Expressionism
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He is the greatest dutch painter whose subjects reflect a social consciousness reminiscent of realism. He uses powerful brushstrokes.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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A painting by Van Gogh that is an evening cityscape.
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The Starry Night
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He is an expressionist Norwegian painter. Works: The Scream
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Edward Munch
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An expressionist painting that shows a man on a public place, screaming out showing his tonsils.
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The Scream
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(started between 1910-1920) What is this movement that shows the conscious and methodological destruction of particular appearance?
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Abstraction
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He is an influential Russian painter of the abstract movement.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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An abstract painting by Kandinsky that looks like a distorded road and with rainbow.
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Composition IV
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An art movement that shows objects or subjects in their basic geometric shapes.
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Cubism
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An art movement in which the artist aims to represent the world as seen from a number of different viewpoints.
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Cubism
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Who is this French painter leader of cubism, whose works are named as Piano and the Madola, Violin and Candlestick?
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George Braque
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He is known to be the father of collage. He is a spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism.
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Pablo Picasso
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Picasso’s series about beggars and miserable humanity.
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Blue period
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Picasso’s subjects depicts of circus.
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Rose period
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It is a cubism style that the concurrent presentation of 2/3 side of an object.
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Simultaneity in Art
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It is a type of art that has a textural effects by means of paper and other materials.
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Collage
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Picasso’s painting that depicts the ugly side of prostitution.
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Demoiselle d’ Avignon
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One of his works is ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’
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Marcel Duchamp
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He is associated with dadaism and surrealism. He showed automation in his paintings.
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Marcel Duchamp
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It is an art movement from a group in Holland, in 1917-1931, that felt all design should be reduced to basic design elements only.
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De Stijl
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It is a design movement that uses only red, blue, yellow, black, gray, and white, in total abstraction; smooth shinny surfaces and compositions at right angles, with the idea of establishing International design.
De Stijl
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What does 'De Stijl' means?
the Style
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He is a purest and methodical of the early abstractionists. His works reflected the order underlying the visible world. He uses black, white, and primary colors, in asymmetrical balance.
Piet Mondrian
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His simplified artworks where crucial in the development of modern art.
Piet Mondrian
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He is also one of the leaders in propagating De Stijl, 1883-1931.
Theo van Doesburg
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He applied De Stijl theories in his work, Red/Blue chair in 1918.
Gerrit Rietveld
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It is an architectural landmark by Rietveld, with a facade that is like a collage of planes and lines, w/c seems to glide past, one another. Its interior has no static accumulation of rooms, but dynamic, changeable open zone.
Schroder House
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Scheepvaartstraat, Holland
JJ Oud
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Means 'build house'.
Bauhaus Design
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A school established in Neimar, Germany in 1919. It was moved to Dessau in 1926, and closed due to the Nazi hostility in 1933, in which its concepts where characterized by the synthesis of technology, craft, and functional design.
Bauhaus Design
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He founded Bauhaus in Germany.
Walter Gropius
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AEG Turbine Factory in Berlin (Bauhaus)
Peter Behrens
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It is by Walter Gropius in Dessau, first in Germany to use curtain-walls.
The Bauhaus Building
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Architectural landmark by Gropius and Adolf Meyer.
Fagus shoe factory
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It is an international exhibition in Barcelona, with a stunning use of marble, onyx, and chrome as partition walls by Van Der Rohe.
The German Pavillion
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A 38- storey hq using green tinted glass curtain walling, bronze panels, and I-section bronze mullions by Van der Rohe in NY.
Seagram Building
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He is the pioneer for skyscrapers, and influential for the Modern style. His architectural style states extreme clarity and simplicity.in the Bauhaus Era. One of his works is Tugendhat House.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
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It is a design style with no historical basis, but only uses practical and philosiphical theories. It is known for geometric shapes and patterns.
Modernism
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An architectural style by means of using long cantilevers.
Prairie Style
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He is the 'father of the skyscraper' and the 'father of modernism', who replaced the standard classical ornamentation with highly original, organic architecture inspired by nature. Works: Wainwright Building
Louis Sullivan
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Forms follows function.'
Louis Sullivan
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He is an apprentice of Sullivan, and he believed that architecture is a part, extention of the environment.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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He defined a North American style in architecture by means of rich emotions and sensitivity in its surrounding.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Lloyd Wright claims to invent this. (Japan, & others says they did it first.)
Open Plan interior
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It is also called Kauffman Residence in Pennsylvania. It is a house built on a waterfalls, emphasizing the harmony between man and nature.
Falling Water
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It is a museum designed by Lloyd Wright, created in circular form, spiral like a nautilus shell. Viewing it from top first, then going down through the sloping ramp.
Guggenheim Museum
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It is by Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin, also called Administration Building, constructed of more than 200 sizes and shapes of bricks. Light shines inside through layers of glass tubes fhat cannot be seen through.
Johnson Wax Adminstration Building
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Is a house made up of pre-fabricated wood sandwhich panels erected in a simple construction.
Usonian houses
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What is the full name of Le Corbusier? (raven)
Charles Edouard Janneret
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He wrote Vers Une Architecture in 1923, and he believed that a house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
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It is designed by Le Corbusier in Possy, a house on stilts.
Villa Savoye
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Built in France by Le Corbusier, a housing block described as great concrete 'ocean liner'. (Brutalism)
Unite d'Habitation
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It is a chapel with a structure comparatively small, enclosed by thick walls, it is like a sail billowing in the windy currents on the hilltop. It is a combination of Greek and Gothic characteristics, through forms and stained glass.
Notre Dame-du-Haut Ronchamp
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(1920-30's) it is a design style theory that aims to be accepted and appreciated anywhere. It is usually simple, geometric, and uses a large quantity of glass and steel or reinforced concrete construction.
International Style
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Designed by Jorn Utzon that comprises three groups of interlocking vaulted shells. (Regionalism)
Sydney Opera House
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It is a building in NY, by a committee of architects lead by Wallace K. Harrison, for United Nations, and its tall slab became UN's symbol. It is a green glass curtain tower.
UN Headquarters
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An art movement that ridicules, destroys and questions the standard criterias of art.
Dadaism
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Dadaism, as the new freedom found by an artist in search for new meanings and fun, in its irrationality, or rejection of standards of art.
Hobby Horse
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It is a vandalized Monalisa art by Marcel Duchamp that means 'Lady with a hot ass'
L H O Q Q
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The Little Gland Saying Tic-Tac
Max Ernst
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(1924) an artistic movement in hunt of science of expressing the subconscious.
Surrealism
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A french poet that inspired Surrealism with his book, Manifesto de Surrealisme.
Andre Breton
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Works: Persistence of Memory; the Temptation of St. Anthony
Salvador Dali
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She is a female painter that mostly femminist. Works: The Broken Column; The Suicide of Dorothy Hale; Unos Cuantos Piquetitos, Henry Ford Hospital
Frida Kahlo
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He was an Italian, born in Greece, and wanted to be a classicist, but later on, he showed his fascination about metaphysics. (pittura metafisica) Works: The Mystery; The Melancholy of the Street
Giorgio de Chirico
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Works: The Birthday - a painting of a girl, visted by his bf giving her flowers and a kiss.
Marc Chagall
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His works shows. Visible images w/c conceal nothing but evokes mystery. Works: 'The Son of Man'
Rene Magritte
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It is a term coined by Alfred Barr, Jr. refering to Kandinsky's nonfigurative paintings.
Abstract Expressionism
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A movement that allows the artist to express pure emotions through force, brushstrokes, dripping, & throwing paints onto a canvas.
Abstract Expressionism
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Coined by Harold Rosenberg, describing the works of NY school.
Action Painting
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His style is distinguished by his rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships."the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak"
Hans Hoffman
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He rejected to be an Abstract Expressionist. He used representation and mythological subjects into rectangular fields of color and light. Works: Sienna, Orange and Black on Dark Brown
Mark Rothko
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His paintings is a massive dripworks from his movements during the process to show emotions. Works: Autumn Rhythm, Lavander Mist, # 1
Jackson Pollock
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Emerged in 60's derived from popular images, commercials sources, mass media and everyday Life. (comic)
Pop Art
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He exibited his painting entitled 'Blam!' base on a comic book cartoon in 1962.
Roy Lichtenstein
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A leading figure in the visual art movement. His works expresses celebrity culture and advertisement in 1960's. Works: Marilyn Monroe Diptych.
Andy Warhol
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He is an influential British painter, one of the first Pop Art artist. Works: (collage) Just what is it that makes today's homes so different so appealing?
Richard Hamilton
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An art movement in which the image shown is totally eliminated in favor of geometric abstraction. Uses kinetic effects, color arrangement, lines and shapes and combinations of elements.
OP Art
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(1950s) a movement that emphasizes the use of cast-in-place concrete, w/ no apparent concern for visual amenity.
Brutalism
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(1970's) An art movement reacting modernism, that uses hystorical styles, playful illusion and decoration in the design
Post Modernism
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Published the manifesto, complexity and contradiction in archi.; 'Less is a bore’;Works: Vanna Venturi House
Roberto Venturi
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(1934) He generated an ironic vision of classicism, making th building a classical mass and order. (eclectic and color); Works: Public Services Building
Michael Graves
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A man who brought Van der Robe in the States, and introduced Modern Style in NY. Works: AT&T Building in Manhattan (looks like a Chippendale cabinet)
Philip Johnson
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A style that liberates the maximum volume of space inside by prepositioning all its working features (stairs, lift, escalator, etc)
High Tech
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A style characterized by rigorously laid out exposed structures, metal cladding panels, technological bias in its detail. It proved the maturity of Industrial age.
High-Tech
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The 'high-tech' came from his firm, showing exploration of technological innovations and forms. (repetition of modular units)
Norman Foster
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He is a functionalist, concerned with the flexibility and obvious technical imagery in the Late Modern.
Richard Rogers
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He investigated the world of machine and the use of natural materials.
Renzo Piano
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A modern art gallery done by Rogers w/ a color-coded service elements.
Pompidou Center
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It is a high-tech curved architectural landmark made of glass, stainless steel, and laminated timber. (work by Piano)
Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
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It is a high-tech building made of Titanium alloy to protect against lightning.
Commerz Bank
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It is a high-tech building that look slike a lightbulb with a dome.
Dome of the Reichstag Building
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His works is the Louvre Glass Pyramid
IM Pei
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Works: Jewish Holocaust Museum
Daniel Libenskind
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Brasilia
Oscar Niemeyer
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Works: Habitat
Zara Hadid
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He is a contemporary Architect, famous for the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Frank Gehry
