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Self-Portrait, 1917

Modernist

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Alice Bailly (1872-1938)
Swiss
Representative of: Fauvism (color), Futurism (hand shape)
Cubism,

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This aesthetic movement was a style of abstract art that developed in Russia by Russian Cubo-Futurists Mikhail Larionov & Natalia Goncharova, it was one of Russia’s first abstract art movements

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Rayonnism - Russian

Aspects: spikes

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This aesthetic movement is characterized by fragmented subject matter deconstructed in such a way that it can be viewed from multiple angles simultaneously. Pioneered by Pablo Picasso, etc.

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Cubism

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This aesthetic movement is characterized by strong colors and fierce brushwork.

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Fauvism

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This aesthetic movement is characterized by a focus on the technical progress of the modern machine age, dynamism, speed, energy, vitality, and change.

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Futurism

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Portrait of Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, 1913

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Alexsei Alekseevich Morgunov

References A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet.
Portrays Russian avant-guard artist and writer of the Rayonism manifesto.

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Portrait of Mikhail Larionov, 1913

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Natalia Goncharova - Russian

Reconstructed face element of cubism, spikes element of rayonism.

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Grimaces in Art: Natalia Goncharova and Larionov in makeup for Futurist theatre, 1913

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They are both interested in futuristic theatre which is an important outlet during the Russian modernist movement.

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Peasants, 1911

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Natalia Goncharova - Russian

Example of her primitivism and love mixing modern art with peasant culture, Russian icons with folk art.

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Laundry, 1912

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Natalia Goncharova - Russian

Domestic subject, cubism.

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Sets for Le Coq d’Or, 1914

Scene 1

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Natalia Goncharova - Russian

Colors of fauvism with the spikes of Rayonism.

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Sets for Le Coq d’Or, 1914

Scene 2

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Natalia Goncharova - Russian

Mixes the color of fauvism with folk art.

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This was a ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe directed by Sergei Diaghilev

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Ballets Russes

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He was the director of the Ballet Russes in Paris.

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Sergei Diaghilev - Russian

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Romeo and Juliet, Chamber Theatre, Moscow, 1921

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Alexandra Exter - Russian

She produced set and costume design for this play. seen here.

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Portrait of a Philosopher, 1915

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Liubov Popova - Russian

Russian avant guard leadership fell to Popova when Goncharova and Larinov moved to Paris.
Cubism. Revue philos, ties to Paris.

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sets for Vsevolod Meierhold’s production of The Magnanimous Cuckold, Moscow, 1922

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Liubov Popova - Russian.

Tale of love and jealousy. Popova also - modern graphic design, material, and fabric design.

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Design for Sports Clothing, 1923

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Varvara Stepanova - Russian.

With Rodchenko wrote the productivist manifesto. Tech meets art, functional to society. Here we see her sport design in bold red and bold stripe patterns.

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Worpswede, Germany

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The Worpswede artist’s colony
in Germnay: From farming village to a source of inspiration. They wanted to escape the industrial city and find solace in the country.

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Murnau, Germany

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Where Gabriele Münter, and Wassily Kandinsky resided together.

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Wassily Kandinsky

Russian in Germany

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He was the teacher and long-time companion of Paula Modersohn-Becker. Wrote the Blue Rider Almanac. Lived together in Murnau.

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The Blue Rider Almanac

German

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The Blue Rider was an association of artists located in and around Munich. Spiritual. The art group was founded by Wassily Kandinsky among others. This Almanac produced by Kdninsky included folk art.

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Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace, 1906

German

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Paula Modersohn-Becker - German

Themes of nudity, primitive religions/earth mother.

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Self-Portrait on her Sixth Wedding Day, 1906

German

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Paula Modersohn-Becker - German

this is actually 5 years into her marriage, she portrays herself as pregnant, she is not.

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Reclining Mother and Child, 1906 | German
Paula Modersohn-Becker - German Monther and newborn. Linda Knoklin describes this as transcendental, animal-like.
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Boating, 1910 | German
Gabriele Münter - German Depicts Münter is subordinate but essential, rounded shapes and primary colors, a triangle with Kandinsky in the middle.
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Snow and Sun, 1911 | German
Gabriele Münter - German A view around Murnau Beautiful color, thick strong line
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Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin, 1909 | German
Gabriele Münter - German | Strong colors, much like the subject. She was a fellow and famous painter who lived in Murnau.
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Kandinsky and Erma Bossi after Dinner, 1912 | German
Gabriele Münter, (German) She is listening intently to what he is saying. You can see the bavarian folk art decor.
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The Country Road, 1909 | German
Marianne von Werefkin (German) painted in Murnau colorful, peasant scene
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Self-Portrait, 1924 | German
Käthe Kollwitz (German) She works heavily in graphic media B&W focuses on the proletariate subject, revolution, and then passive states after the death of her son in WW1
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Death Clutches a Woman, 1934 | German
Käthe Kollwitz (German) based in part of the dance of death theme of German lore.
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Homeworker, Asleep at the Table, 1909 | German
Käthe Kollwitz (German) The beauty of common man.
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Weavers Cycle, 1893-1897: March of the Weavers | German
Käthe Kollwitz (German) Her cycle of the failed revolution of the Weavers is done in a cycle of 6 prints. This one is of their march.
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Never Again War, 1924 | German
Käthe Kollwitz (German) A famous poster of hers. She took a passivist stance and used her art and voice.
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Mourning Parents, 1924-1932, Military cemetery at Essen, Belgium (German)
Käthe Kollwitz (German) Took 18 years to complete, men and women in isolation with their feelings after the loss of her son in WW1.
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Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-20
Hannah Höch German She was the leading female member of the Dada movement in Germany. aligns herself with women's political empowerment, piecing together after war, hypocrisy within the doctrines.
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The movement formed in Germany, centered in Berlin, after WWI often satirical, human, social commentary.
Dada | German
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Group of Artists, 1908 | French
Marie Laurencin French Influenced by the art movements of the time portraits include picasso, dog frikka, Fernande Olivie, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and the painter, Marie Laurencin.
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A visual trend in abstract art spearheaded by Sonia & Robert Delaunay that derived from Cubism and gave priority to light and color.
Orphism - French
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La Prose du Transsibérien | French
Book - French | milestone of the artist's books, poetry and abstract art. collab by Blaise Cendrars (poem) and Sonia Delaunay (art)
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Electric Prisms, 1914 | French
Sonia Delaunay French - Orphism Representation of electric street lights
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La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913
Sonia Delaunay French Book Cover
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Designs for Clothes and Citroen B12, 1925 | French
Sonia Delaunay French She goes from painting to being a badass textile and clothing designer. synonymous with luxury and independent women.
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costume design: Costume for Cleopatra, 1918 | French
Sonia Delaunay | French
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Chernichova in the title role of Cleopatra, 1918 | French
Sonia Delaunay French Image of the actress wearing the custume.
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Adam and Eve, 1909 | French
Suzanne Valadon French Assertive sexulity
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The Blue Room, 1923 | French
Suzanne Valadon | Large woman, domestic setting, Matisse like.
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Romaine Brooks Self-Portrait, 1923 | French
Romaine Brooks Expatriate in Paris Lifelong companion of Natalie Barney. Lesbian Art, ribbon of legion,. She hosts a writer salon.
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Nathalie Clifford Barney, L’Amazone, 1920 | French
Romaine Brooks Expatriate in Paris Famous for the "amazon" paintings, this is her lover, but she often paints famous lesbian artists of her time.
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Una, Lady Troubridge, 1924 | French
Romaine Brooks Expatriate in Paris This is one of the rich lesbians she painted.
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Elizabeth de Gramont, Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre, c. 1924
Romaine Brooks, Expatriate in Paris Elizabeth is a French writer and lover of Barney.
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Self-Portrait in Automobile, 1917
Tamara de Lempicka French Art Deco Style She has a Paris studio
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Duchesse de La Salle, 1925
Tamara de Lempicka French Tuxedo
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Janet Flanner, c. 1925 | photo) (French
Berenice Abbott, Expat. paris. Photographer. Flanner was an american journalist and correspondant of the New Yorker
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Jane Heap, Paris, 1927 | photo) (French
``` Berenice Abbott, Expat. paris. Photographer. Heap is the publisher of The Little Review ```
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The Little Review | was what and published by whom?
Published by Jane Heap | English journal in Paris with MANY famous contributors.
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She was an English, Avant-guard. First woman elected to the Royal Academy.
Laura Night
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Self Portrait With Nude, 1913 | English
Laura Knight | A challenge to the life study rules for women. Challenged by critics. Key work in female self-portraiture.
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Self-Portrait in Red Blouse, c. 1900 | English
Gwen John English Slade art school in London. John Quinn was a collector, her only one.
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A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris, 1907-9 | English
Gwen John English She modeled for Auguste Rodin's The Whistler Muse and was his mistress.
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Vanessa Bell, Self-Portrait, 1912 | English
A radical and leading member of the Bloomsbury group. Married to Clive Bell. Affairs with Roger Frye and Duncan Grant. Virginia Wolf's sister. Related to Julie Margaret Cameron.
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Bloomsbury
Group of english writers, artists, and intellectuals in England c. 1904. Defined by a sexual atmosphere. Urban family. Woolfs and Bells.
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Virginia Woolf | English
Leading member of the Bloomsbury group. Artists need 500 bp a year and a room of their own. Hogarth Press. TS Elliot. Human relations shift.
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Roger Fry | English
A catalyst to bringing modern art to England. Affair with and collaborated with Vanessa Bell. Organized the Second (and first) Post-Impressionist Exhibition, London, 1912. He founded the Omega Workshops.
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Who wrote Room of One’s Own, in 1929?
Virginia Woolf. English Bloomsbury Group.
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Virginia Woolf Knitting, c. 1911-12
Vanessa Bell English Domestic environment Considerable agitation.
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Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, London, 1912
Vanessa Bell English Depicts the Matisse room at the Exhibition organized by Roger Fry.
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Duncan Grant Painting, c. 1920
Vanessa Bell English Companion for 50 years, although she never divorced Clive Bell.
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He was an English writer and historian. Member of Bloomsbury Group. Subject to many Vanessa Bell portraits. Economist.
Lytton Strachey | English
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Lytton Strachey, 1913 | English
Vanessa Bell | English
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Lytton Strachey, 1916-17 | English
Dora Carrington Lived together with Partridge, her husband, and Strachey who was also in love with Patridge. Carrington took her life after Strachey's death.
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Bathers in Landscape, 1913 | English
Vanessa Bell
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Dust jacket for Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, 1929 | English
Vanessa Bell | She designed several jackets for her sister Virginia Woolf.
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Omega Workshops, 1913-1919 | English
Founded by Roger Fry. Bell and Grant were other directors. Modernist arts and crafts movement. Produced furnishings, items of clothing and textiles, etc.
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She was a decorative artist and associated with the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.
Dora Carrington | English
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Charleston: Exterior, Plan. Garden, Sitting Room | English
Home in Sussex of Vanessa Bell, her children, and Grant (sometimes Clive Bell), Grant's lover David Bunny Garnet. Everything was decorated by the artists there. Many visitors from those mentioned in the lectures.
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Charleston, Exterior | English
Simple, pond in front with flat windows and tiled rooftop. Empty farmhouse.
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Charleston: Plan | English
Reflection of the odd relationships. People with rooms: Bell (Vanessa and Clive), Grant, Keynes,
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Charleston: Gardens | English
Inspired by southern Europe. Exterior wall was built by Grant and Bell and designed by Fry. Sculptures, mosaics, Mediterranean plants, for painting.
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Charleston: Sitting Room | English
Represents the decorative arts of the Bloomsbury group, as created in the Omega Workshops.
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This was who commissioned | Laura Knight to help promote female recruitment in the ordinance factory during WWII. She did 17 commissions.
War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC)
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Women of Britain: Come Into the Factories, 1941
Philip Zec Recruited women, labor shortage due to WWII Female empowerment for the benefit of the war effort.
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Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, 1943
Laura Knight | Largest oil painting in the entire WAAC collection. The largest single-figure portrait acquired during the war.
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Corporal J.D.M Pearson, GC, WAAF, 1940
Laura Knight | Strong portraits of women in the war movement. She is the first woman to receive the George Cross.
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The Nuremberg Trial, 1946
Laura Knight In Germany, Knight requested that this piece be commissioned by WAAC. departure from realism. The rear and side walls are showing a ruined city. Ever present. Nuremberg as it is now.
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Who was Blaise Cendrars?
He was the writer of the poem for La Prose du Transsibérien and collaborator with Sonia Delaunay.
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Who was Maurice Utrillo?
Son of Suzanne Valadon | He was an artist at the time more well known than his mother.

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