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Art NOUVEAU

BEARDSLY HOFFMANN

CHERET MUCHA

TOULOUSE GAUDI

GUIMARD ENDELL

HORTA BEHRENS

KLIMT TIFFANY

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  • begins in France & England
  • ANTI-HISTORICAL style​
  • high degree of organicism
  • sweeping lines & whiplash curves
  • tendril- like forms
  • vegetal forms
  • woman’s body = art objectsymbol of ART NOUVEAU in France
  • NATURE & NATURALISM as opposed to Industrial Manufacture
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Salome with the Head of John

1893 (print)

aubrey BEARDSLEY (printmaker)

art NOUVEAU

  • Illustrator for playbill Salome (hired by Oscar Wilde)
  • SS: directly influenced by Japanese prints
    • negative space
    • black & white
    • lines (modernized)
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Loie Fuller

1893 (litho)

jules CHERET

art NOUVEAU

  • Fuller - actress and celeb of her time
  • SS: MOTION expressed with colors + human form
    • through curved + diagonal lines
    • curve of the femal body + her dress
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Divan Japonaise

1893 (litho)

henri TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

art NOUVEAU

  • 1st to use typography as design element
  • SS: litho Jap influence - high horizon line + diagonals
  • MASTER PRINTMAKER for Lithography
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Moulin Rouge

1893 (litho)

henri TOULOUSE LAUTREC

art NOUVEAU

  • psycological undertones
  • SS: Jap litho prints/ Psycology- painted faces of dancers showing even the “freaks” are two-faced.

1st to use typography as a design element

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The Enterance to the Metro Station

1898-1901 (architecture)

hector GUIMARD

art NOUVEAU

  • Crystal Palace London
  • SS: glass + iron molded to look vegetal, organic detail
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Tassel House

1893 , Brussels (architecture)

victor HORTA

art NOUVEAU

  • SS: Town House - iron moldings/ curves in painted walls
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The Kiss

1908 (painting)

gustav KLIMT

art NOUVEAU

  • Mural (40’) in dining room Palais Stocket
  • intellectual idea - humanized the imagery ; influenced by BIZANTINE art- gold leaf/ highly patterned/ flatten image
  • SS: New World Experience = depicted life for the future
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Palais Stocklet

1905 , Brussels (architecture)

josef HOFFMANN “Mr. Rectangular”

art NOUVEAU

  • AN but doesnt show characteristics - Art DECO before his time
  • SS: marble + copper outer shell / AN style iron work
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Medee

1896 (poster)

alphonse Mucha

art NOUVEAU

  • Play poster
  • SS:
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Atelier Elvira

1905-7 (architecture)

antoni GAUDI

art NOUVEAU (modernism)

  • Spanish tech: carved stone/ iron work(vegetal)/ ceramic work
  • GAUDI designed everything with gothc influence
  • SS: Facade is carved stone - NO 90o angles
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Atelier Elvira

1897 , Munich (architechture)

august ENDELL

art NOUVEAU

  • SS: Applied design - added to an already existing structure
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AEG logo

1908

peter BEHRENS (logos + labels guy)

art NOUVEAU

  • 1st Industrial artist
  • SS: 1st real logo made (cooperate - electric company) with industrail design
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Lamp

1900

louis COMFORT TIFFANY (lamp guy)

art NOUVEAU

  • SS: used FAVRILE GLASS - iridescent art glass ; color ingrained in the glass itself
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end of the century art

MUNCH

ENSOR

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  • People who have become less human
  • Influenced by SIGMAN FROYD
    • underlining psycology of society + themselves
  • Dark + Twisted
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Death of Marat

1927 (painting)

edvard MUNCH

end of the century art (modern)

  • Modern and Impressionist mark making + ambiguous shadows (dark + death)
  • SS: Autobiographical- depicts naked lady has killed him
    • warped view of women
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Sick Room

1885

edvard MUNCH

end of the century art (modern)

  • SS: Mask like faces - uses dark/rich color + line quality = deep emotion
    • Figuresprogress towards the viewer to create a sens of anxiety
    • Autobiographical
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Masks Confronting Death

1888 (painting)

james ENSOR

end of the century art

  • SS: Skeleton = Death
    • not a mask : you never know when death is coming
      • even when its right infront of you
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Christ Entering Brussels

1889 (painting)

james ENSOR

end of the century art

  • SOCIETY @ LARGE!!! (anxiety)
  • Sceen of “Carnival”
  • SS: The Judgement being near
    • Christ coming to confornt the 2facers
    • Christ is last in the scene = turning back to christianity
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french expressionism

ROUAULT

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  • 1st MODERN artist to bring religion back to art
    • Nature vs Industry
  • uses symbols of society : ie clowns (represents Blue Collar)
  • use of paint and pallet knives to show EMOTION
  • INDEPENDENT EXPRESSIONIST
    • direct influence of Gothic Stained Glass
    • segmentation : stained glass
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Head of Christ

1905 (painting)

georges ROUAULT

end of the century art

  • Returning to religion
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Prostitute Before a Mirror

1906 (painting)

georges ROUAULT

french EXPRESSIONISM

  • SS: Prostitute = Society’s Ill (sympathetic) + blue depressing emptiness
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The Old King

1919 (painting)

georges ROUAULT

FRENCH EXPRESSIONISM

  • SS: Body segmentation - gothic stained glass
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fauvism

MATISSE

DERAIN

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  • Free + spontanious MODERN
  • FAUVE - “Wild Beast”
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*The Joy of Life* 1905 (painting) henri MATISSE FAUVISM (french expressionist) * Traditional figure * SS: high key color - transtions with color to keep the eye moving
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*Woman with the Hat* 1905 henri MATISSE FAUVISM (french expressionist) * Portait of his wife * SS: contrasting brush strokes from figure vs background * freed up color + lines
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* Portrait of Mme. Matisse / the green line* * 1905* (painting) henri MATISSE FAUVISM (french expressionist) * SS: color blending of the background + middle ground to flatten pictoral space
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*Blue Nude* 1907 (painting) henri MATISSE FAUVISM (french expressionist) * SS: Odalique ; disfiguration of the form: African Art influence
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* London Bridge* * 1906 (painting)* andre DERAIN FAUVISM * SS: symbols his move to London to get out from under MATISSE's shadow
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**german expressionism** **NOLDE**
"Why me?" everuthing has meaning 1905-1914 WWI NOLDE * influenced by Van Gogh * flowers * vigorous brushwork * 1st of EXPRESSIONISTS
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* The Last Supper* * 1909 (painting)* emile Nolde german expressionism * Color + restricted space = deepens psychologically * SS: Christ looks near death(green/yellow) - Nolde related to this for he was poisioned a month before.
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*Chirst Among the Children* 1910 emile Nolde german expressionism * Children need love - Adults need power * SS: Against iconic tradition - back to the viewer + robe dense blue darker than the sky
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* The Prophet* * 1912 (woodcut)* emile Nolde **german expressionism** * **​SS:** uses medium to express intense emotion
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**die brucke** **KIRCHNER** **HECKEL**
THE BRIDGE * United in REJECTION * defense + promotion for abstract art
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* Street Dresden* * 1908 (painting)* ernest KIRCHNER DIE BRUCKE * everything is for sale * SS: 2 well dressed prostitutes walking street: glamour + danger ; intimacy + alienation * clashing colors heighten excitement + alienation
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* Street Dresden* * 1908* ernest KIRCHNER DIE BRUCKE * SS: heightened color/ mask-like faces/ vacant eyes - pschological alienation by modernization
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* Two Men at a Table* * 1912(painting)* erich HECKEL DIE BRUCKE * SS: doubt + distrust ; suffering christ - anxiety + despair
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**The Blue Rider** **KANDINSKY** **MARC** **MACKE** **MUNTER**
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* Russian Beauty in a Landscape* * 1902 (block print)* vasily KANDINSKY BLUE RIDER * SS: AMORPHOUS SHAPE(unformed) / color/ line/depth to make it infinite
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* Composition iv* * 1911 (painting)* vasily KANDINSKY BLUE RIDER * SS: AMORPHOUS SHAPE(unformed) / color/ line/depth to make it infinite
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Composition vii 1913 (painting) vasily KANDINSKY BLUE RIDER * SS: 4th dimension - space + time * Great Flood
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* Angel of Last Judgement* * 1908 (painting)* * vasily KANDINSKY* * BLUE RIDRER* * SS: HINTERGLASMALERI- behind the glass painting
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* Blue Horses* * 1911 (painting)* * franz MARC* * BLUE RIDER* * SS: deep emotion in color: masculinity + spiritual
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* Deer in Forest* * 1913* franz MARC BLUE RIDER * **SS: PEOPLE HUDDLED TOGETHER AGAINST TO ENERGY OF SOCIETY**
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* ANIMALS FATE* * 1913 (PAINTING)*
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* Battling Forms* * 1914 (painting)* * franz MARC* * BLUE RIDER* * *SS:* combative energy
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* Garden Zoological Garden* * 1912 (painting)* auguste MACKE BLUE RIDER * SS: fuck it
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* Erma Bossi at the Tea table with Kandinsky* * 1908 (painting)* MUNTER BLUE RIDER * SS: KANDINSKY devoted- he in the holy corner (grey instead of red
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* Marainne von Werfkin* * 1909 (painting)* MUNTER BLUE RIDER * SS: HINTERGLASMALERI
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