Midterm Artworks Flashcards

Question

Nude Descending a Staircase

Answer 1

``` Marcel Duchamp 1912 -like Picasso, but with movement -new way of presenting movement/a scene -still objectified nude ```

Answer 2

``` Francis Picaba 1915 -broken camera with new non-sense features -diagram, not art -ironic words about love -no emotion or artist's touch ```

Answer 3

``` Duchamp 1917 -fee and papers, no jury gallery -not about beauty in everyday objects -art because I chose it -by destroying idea of art, actually pushing boundries ```

Answer 4

Davis 1924 -armory show was turning point in art career -cold, but eye-opening to ideas of brands/ads/materialism

Answer 5

Charles and Henry Greene 1907 Pasadena -high end modern clients, who have retreats made in traditional techniques -inspiration from Japanese and Swiss charlet design and arts and crafts movement -everything handmade and rounded -design in the making/technique

Answer 6

``` Frank Lloyd Wright 1909-1910 -modernists against modernity (natural colors, horizontal, private) -massive hearth as center -flowing space -no imitation of classics ```

Answer 7

``` Frank Lloyd Wright 1936-1937 Madison, WI -economic -L shape ```

Answer 8

``` Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 Bear Run, PA -designed very quickly -on top of rock and waterfall -cantilevering -strong horizontal and geometric lines ```

Answer 9

Robert Minor 1916 -political cartoon -exaggerating stereotypes

Answer 10

Lewis Hine 1920-1921 -people as part of machine -carefully composed, fake

Answer 11

``` Stella 1917 -essence of NYC -force lines -looking at city through the lines of the bridge -cubist ```

Answer 12

``` Louis Lozowick 1929 -black and white -lithograph -no nature ```

Answer 13

Charles Sheeler 1929 -aesthetic of machine (precisionism) -simplifying values and shapes

Answer 14

Charles Demuth 1927 -force lines -industrial factories the new pyramid monuments -spirituality in industrial design -gay, so he lived a hidden life (why his pieces have ambiguous titles and have layers of meaning)

Answer 15

Sheeler 1931 -merging of factory line with nature's horizon, smoke combines with clouds -little nature, but looks like a landscape painting -looks like a photo

Answer 16

``` William Van Allen 1929 -art deco -looks like hub cap -tapered top for city guidelines, but also inspired architects to get creative -shiny, neon at night ```

Answer 17

1936 - doesn't look like carriage - not actually more efficient, just looks like it is

Answer 18

John Marin 1922 -left NY, goes back to Maine -keeps NY ideas of force lines, movement, color

Answer 19

Sheeler 1916 -clean lines but without machines -way it's cropped and simple, looks modern

Answer 20

``` Sheeler 1926 -lived in Buck's County, PA farmhouse -inspired by simple lines from old Shakers furniture, that looked modern even though it wasn't machine made -flat, plays with perspective -modern art out of old stuff ```

Answer 21

``` Hartley 1940 -people who lived without history -exaggerated hands -praying shows strong sense of tradition -power in home roots ```

Answer 22

``` Hartley 1914 -fascination with American art -responding to anthro exhibits -new kind of primitivism ```

Answer 23

Hartley 1919 -inspired by self taught artists

Answer 24

Maria Martinez 1935 -traditional Pueblo techniques but modern aesthetic

Answer 25

Fred Kabotie 1925 -went to "Americanizing" school -learned watercolor

Answer 26

``` John Sloan 1907 -clustered, urban -painterly strokes -focus on ads ```

Answer 27

Mead,McKim, White 1906-1910 -city beautiful movement

Answer 28

Henri 1906 -work quickly -student looked like "human question mark" -beauty in movement, character, expression

Answer 29

``` George Luks 1904 -people unrecognizable, blurry scene, so much to focus on -exaggerating faces, stereotypes -one man stands out ```

Answer 30

``` Bellows 1907 -kids play is polluted area -looks like comic of yellow kid -rude but exciting behavior ```

Answer 31

``` Bellows 1908 -brutal and heroic -paints himself in it -role of viewer ```

Answer 32

Gerald Nailor (Navajo) 1937 -flat, pattern, outline -modern but in the sense that it looks primitive/traditional Native American (fusion) -social commentary on commodification of Native American goods

Answer 33

Meta Warrick Fuller 1914 -traditional African garb on top, mummy on bottom -powerful rising from roots to future

Answer 34

Douglas 1944 -modern architecture and style with ancient Egyptian references -POC have always built great things (pyramids to NYC buildings) -kids learning from a radiating globe

Midterm Artworks Flashcards

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