test 4 pictures Flashcards by Wesley Tyson

title:
- “Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge”
artist:
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
when:
- 1892
where:
- National Gallery of Art
- Washington D.C.
medium:
- oil on cardboard
context:
- post impressionism
- moulin rogue was/is the artistic and entertainment center of Paris, where the artist lived and worked
- his family disapproved of his lifestyle, but his wealth saved him from the poverty that many artists in this generation faced

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title:
- “La Goule at the Moulin Rouge”
artist:
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
when:
- 1891
where:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
medium:
- poster, color lithograph
context:
- post impressionsim
- La Goulue was a professional dancer who, among his singers, circus performers, and prostitues, were among his favorite subjects
- at age 15, the artist was left with permanently stunted legs as a result of two accidents
  - perhaps bc of this, dancers had a particlar attraction for him

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title:
- “Mont Sanite-Victoire”
artist:
- Paul Cezanne
when:
- 1990
where:
- Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- post impressionism
- the author revisited a subject that preoccupied him of years
- his personal identification with the mountain is indicated by the anthropomorphism of the rich green tree in the right foreground-possibly a self-image

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title:
- “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
artist:
- George Seurat
when:
- 1884-86
where:
- Art Institute of Chicago
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- post impressionism
- la grande jatte is an island in the river Seine that was popular with Parisians for weekend outings
- the artists painstaking and systematic technique reflected his scientific approach to painting
- for two years he made many small outdoor studies before painting the large finals canvas of La Grande Jatte in his studio
- was unveiled for the last Impressionist Exhibition

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title:
- “The Starry Night”
artist:
- Vincent Van Gogh
when:
- 1889
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- post impressionism
- seen as the reflection of a disturbed mind
  - painted this when he was in a mental assylum
- illustrates the artists genius for intense, expressive color, his powerful imagery, and strong sense of line
- the artist shared the impressionist passion for landscape

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title:
- “Nevermore”
artist:
- Paul Gaugin
when:
- 1897
where:
- Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
- London, England
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- post impressionism
- depicts a Tahitian version of reclining nude
- the artists style changed a little after he left France
  - Polynesian life and culture became the subject of his work
  - gradually poverty, alcholism, and syphillis undermined his health, and died at the age of fifty-five after at least one side attempt

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title:
- “The Scream”
artist:
- Edvard Munch
when:
- 1893
where:
- National Gallery
- Oslo, Norway
medium:
- post impressionism
- oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard
context:
- the artist represents his own taste of disintegration in a figure crossing the bridge over Oslo’s Christianiafjord

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title:
- “The Dream”
artist:
- Henri Rousseau
when:
- 1910
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- post impressionism
- oil on canvas
context:
- was painted shortly before the authors death and eleven years after the publication of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
- painting shows a nude, reclining, but alert woman, in a pose related to the Classical reclining Venus

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title:
- “The Old Guitarist”
artist:
- Pablo Picasso
when:
- 1903
where:
- Art Insitiute of Chicago
- (Helen Birch Barlett Memorial Collection)
medium:
- oil on panel
context:
- the elongated forms and flickering silver light evoke the spirtituality of El Greco

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title:
- “Woman with the Hat”
artist:
- Henri Matisse
when:
- 1905
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- San Francisco
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- fauvism
- the painting caused a scandal in the Paris art world for its unconvential use of color
  - but when purchased, its reputation was saved and the artists prices began to rise

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title:
- The Joy of Life
artist:
- Henri Matisse
when:
- 1905-06
where:
- The Barnes Foundation
- Merion Pennsylvania
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- fauvism
- shows the use of Fauve color to create a mood of exuberant, creative eroticism
- the entire picture undulates with passionate enjoyment as figures dance, play music, and embrace

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title:
- “The Street”
artist:
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
when:
- 1907
where:
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
medium:
- Oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- combines exuberant Expressionist color with undulating forms reminiscent of Munch
- has a dreamlike quality created by unusual color and curvilinear, undulating forms

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title:
- Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4
- (formerly Painting Number 201, Winter)
artist:
- Vassily Kandinsky
when:
- 1914
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- one in a series of 4 paintings representing the seasons- this one being winter

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title:
- “Several Circles”
artist:
- Vassily Kandinsky
when:
- 1926
where:
- Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- has an “otherworldly” quality
  - evoking both the minutaie of the invisible molecular world and the vast distances of a solar system occupied by orbiting moons and planets

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title:
- “The Large Blue Horses”
artist:
- Franz Marc
when:
- 1911
where:
- Walker Art Center
- Minneapolis
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- combines geometry with rick color

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title:
- Harmony in Red
artist:
- Henri Matisse
when:
- 1908-1909
where:
- State Hermitage Museum
- St. Petersburg, Russia
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- goes beyond the thick, constructive brushstrokes and unusual color juxtapositions of his Fauve period

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title:
- “Dance I”
artist:
- Henri Matisse
when:
- 1909
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism
- it is the figures, rather than the arabesques, that dance

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title:
- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
artist:
- Pablo Picasso
when:
- 1907
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- cubism
- painting was named for a bordello in the Carrer d/Avinyo- Barcelona’s red light district
- earlier versions had a seated sailor and a medical student carrying a skull
  - both were representations of him
- by removing them from the painting, he shifted from a more personal narrative to a more powerful mythic image

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title:
- Violin and Pitcher
artist:
- Georges Braque
when:
- 1909-1910
where:
- Switzerland
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- analytical cubism
- the author worked closely with Picasso and both were responsible for creating cubism

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title:
- “Three Musicians”
artist:
- Pablo Picasso
when:
- 1921
where:
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- synthetic cubism

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title:
- “Guernica”
artist:
- Pablo Picasso
when:
- 1937
where:
- Madrid, Spain
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- analytic and synthetic cubism as well as surrealism
- between 1936-1939 there was a civil war between spanish republicans and the fascist army of General Franco
- in april 1937 Franco’s Nazi allies carried out saturation bombing over the town of Guernica
- picasso painted this to protest this atrocity

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title:
- “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
artist:
- Umberto Boccioni
when:
- 1913
where:
- New York
medium:
- bronze
context:
- futurism
- represents a man striding vigorously, as if with a definite goal in mind

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title:
- Broadway Boogie Woogie
artist:
- Piet Mondrian
when:
- 1942-43
where:
- New York
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- expressionism & cubism
- this was one in a series of pictures that he executed in small squares and rectangles of color
- the author synthesized Expressionist exuberance with Cubist order and control

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title:
- “Nude Descending on a Staircase”
artist:
- Marcel Duchamp
when:
- 1912
where:
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
medium:
- oil on canvas
context:
- futurism/cubism
- most scandelous work of the armory show, which caused an uproar in itself
- it was a humorous attack on futurist proscriptions against traditional academic nudity

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* title: * Lucky Strike * artist: * Stuart Davis * when: * 1921 * where: * New York * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * pop art * synthetic cubism * flattened cigarette box influenced by collage * artist was lifetime smoker, fond of the image of smoking * also designed the first abstract postage stamp for the US in 1964

* title: * From Slavery Through Reconstruction * artist: * Aaron Douglas * when: * 1934 * where: * New York Public Library * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * cubism * depicts three events following the American civil war * rejoicing in the news of the Emancipation Proclamation * success of black men * union army leaves the south- reconstruction with its anti-Black backlash follows

* title: * Black Square * artist: * Kazimir Malevich * when: * 1929 * where: * Moscow, Russia * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * suprematism * was an expression of the cosmic, of pure feeling, and the white was the void beyond feeling * aim was to achieve the mystical through pure form

* title: * Ready-made * artist: * Marcel Duchamp * when: * 1917 * where: * New York * medium: * photo * context: * dada * Duchamps most outrageous ready-made * took a urinal and turned it upside down * when the society he submitted it to rejected it, he resigned his membership

* title: * Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance * artist: * Jean (Hans) Arp * when: * 1916-17 * where: * NY * medium: * TORN AND PASTED PAPER * context: * dada

* title: * Le Violin d'Ingres * artist: * Man Ray * when: * 1924 * Surrealism * where: * Paris, France * medium: * PHOTOGRAPH REWORKED W/ PENCIL AND INK * context: * most famous photograph * Dada/Surrealism: combines dada wordplay with Surrealist imagery

* title: * The Persistence of Memory * artist: * Salvador Dali * when: * 1931 * where: * NY * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * portrays the uncanny quality of certain dreams

* title: * Time Transfixed (La Duree poignardee) * artist: * Rene Magritte * when: * 1938 * where: * Chicago * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * surrealism * juxtaposed to familiar objects to create the unfamiliar

* title: * Reclining Figure * artist: * Henry Moore * when: * 1957-1958 * where: * Paris, France * medium: * Roman travertine * context: * Surrealism * the author condisered the mountainous quality of the forms and the majestic character of the upright head and torso a fitting metaphor for the noble aims of the United Nations

* title: * Big Red * artist: * Alexander Calder * when: * 1959 * where: * NY * medium: * PAINTED SHEET METAL AND STEEL WIRE * context: * surrealism

* title: * American Gothic * artist: * Grant Wood * when: * 1930 * where: * Chicago * medium: * oil on BEAVERBOARD * context: * regionalism * reflects the Regionalists interest in provincial America and their isolation from the European avant-garde

* title: * Gas * artist: * Edward Hopper * when: * 1940 * where: * NY * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * regionalism or social realist * for the artist, the road is a symbol of travel and time, and it continues to go beyond the frame

* title: * Migratory Cotton Picker * artist: * Dorothea Lange * when: * 1940 * where: * Arizona * medium: * GELATIN-SILVER PRINT * context: * regionalism or social realism * the author was commited to conveying the desired social message

* title: * Thinking about Death * artist: * Frida Kahlo * when: * 1943 * where: * Private collection * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * surrealism * a picture of the artist's third wife * she was in constant pain due to having to always wear a back brace- and the author showed this

* title: * "Black and White" * artist: * Georgia O'Keefe * when: * 1930 * where: * NY * medium * oil on canvas * context: * not sure of particular stylist category * abstract depiction of various textures, motion, and form, without any reference to recognizable objects

* title: * The Gate * artist: * Hans Hoffman * when: * 1959-1960 * where: * NY * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * american abstraction * architectural construction in paint * nature was the source of the authors inspiration and the artists mind transformed nature into a new creation

* title: * Study for Homage to the Square * artist: * Josef Albers * when: * 1968 * where: * NY * medium: * oil on MASONITE * context: * american abstraction * during investigation of light and color perception, the artist focused on the square because he believes that it is the shape furthest removed from nature

* title: * White Light * artist: * Jackson Pollock * when: * 1954 * where: * ny * medium: * OIL, ENAMEL, and ALUMINUM PAINT ON CANVAS * context: * action painting * elimates all reference to recognizable objects

* title: * Woman and Bicycle * artist: * Willem de Kooning * when: * 1952-1953 * where: * ny * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * action painting * the artist only eliminates recognizable subject matter from his iconography until late in his career

* title: * Number 15 * artist: * Mark Rothko * when: * 1957 * where: * ny * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * action painting? * attempts to transcend material reality * rothko's striving for freedom from the familiar is evident in the absense of recognizable forms in painting such as this one

* title: * Spectrum III * artist: * Ellsworth Kelly * when: * 1967 * where: * Private collection * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * color field painting * bands of color create a temporal sequence of visual movement through the spectrum

* title: * Ocean Park No. 129 * artist: * Richard Diebenkorn * when: * 1984 * where: * Private collection * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * color field painting

* title: * Black Wall * artist: * Louise Nevelson * when: * 1959 * where: * London, England * medium: * WOOD * context: * abstract expressionism

* title: * Black Market * artist: * Robert Rauschenberg * when: * 1961 * where: * Germany * medium: * CANVAS, WOOD, METAL, AND OIL PAINT * context: * pop art * combines elements of painting, photography, and sculpture

* title: * Campbell's Soup (Tomato) * artist: * Andy Warhol * when: * 1968 * where: * ny * medium: * one from a portfolio of SCREENPRINTS ON PAPER * context: * pop art * illustrates the authors taste for commercial images

* title: * Torpedo. . . Los! * artist: * Roy Lichtenstein * when: * 1963 * where: * Estate of Roy Lichtenstein * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * pop art * blowup inspired by a war comic

* title: * Thirteen Books * artist: * Wayne Thiebaud * when: * 1992 * where: * ny * medium: * oil on PANEL * context: * pop art

* title: * Clothespin * artist: * Claes Oldenburg * when: * 1976 * where: * Philadelphia * medium: * COR-TEN AND STAINLESS STEEL * context: * pop art sculpture? * one of several "projects for colossal monuments" based on everyday objects * has an anthropomorphic quality

* title: * Aubade (Dawn) * artist: * Bridget Riley * when: * 1975 * where: * private collection * medium: * ACRYLIC ON LINEN * context: * op art * the artists work relies on two effects * producing a hallucinatory illusion of movement * encouraging the viewer to focus on a particular area before using secondary shapes and patterns to intrude and disturb the original perception

* title: * Untitled * artist: * Donald Judd * when: * 1967 * where: * ny * medium: * GREEN LACQUER ON GALVANIZED IRON * context: * minimalism * industrial materials

* title: * Untitled #9 * artist: * Agnes Martin * when: * 1990 * where: * ny * medium: * SYNTHETIC POLYMER AND GRAPHITE ON CANVAS * context: * minimalism

* title: * Wall Drawing No. 681 C * artist: * Sol LeWitt * when: * 1993 * where: * Washington, D.C. * medium: * COLOR INK WASHES (WALL INSTALLATION) * context: * conceptualism * wall divided vertically into four equal squares separated and bordered by black bands * within each square, bands in one of four directions, each with color ink washes superimposed

* title: * Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me * artist: * Joseph Beuys * when: * 1974 * where: * ny * context: * action sculpture * one view of a weeklong sequence * one of his most famous action sculptures * the artist arrived in NY and he and a live coyote performed the sculpture on the floor of the gallery

* title: * Self-Portrait * artist: * Chuck Close * when: * 1997 * where: * ny * medium: * oil on canvas * context: * realism * first artist in history to produce a large body of work consisting of portraits of artists, including himself

* title: * The Cowboy * artist: * Duane Hanson * when: * 1995 * medium: * POLYESTER RESIN POLYCHROMED IN OIL * context: * realism * life size, assumes traditional contrapposto pose * when the mold was broken, the figure was painted and dressed in actual clothing

* title: * The Singing Sculpture * artist: * Gilbert and George * when: * 1971 * where: * ny * context: * realism performance * mimed in slow-motion to a recording of an old English music-hall song while standing on a low platform

* title: * Spiral Jetty * artist: * Robert Smithson * when: * April 1970 * where: * Great Salt Lake, Utah * medium: * MUD, PRECIPITATED SALT CRYSTALS, ROCKS, WATER, COIL * context: * environmental art * best-known earthwork * financed by two art galleries, the author took a 20 year lease on 10 acres of land, hired a contractor to bulldoze some 6000 tons of earth

* title: * Icicles * artist: * Andy Goldsworthy * when: * 1987 * where: * Scotland * context: * environmental art * starlike burst of icicles radiating from a central point and balanced on a natural rock

* title: * The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City * artist: * Christo and Jeanne * when: * 1979-2005 * where: * ny * medium: * steel gates, orange fabric * context: * environmental art

* title: * CARBON/OXYGEN * artist: * Jean-Michel Basquiat * when: * 1984 * where: * Switzerland * medium: * ACRYLIC, OILSTICK, and SILKSCREEN ON CANVAS * context: * environment art * converys the frenetic pace and mortal dangers of the city

* title: * Self-Portrait * artist: * Robert Mapplethorpe * when: * 1980 * where: * Cincinnati * medium: * UNIQUE GELATIN SILVER PRINT * context: * published ten years later * was sued by the Cincinnati Citizens for Community Values because it represents his homosexual identification

* title: * Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Mother and Child Text) * artist: * Jenny Holzer * when: * 1989 * where: * ny * medium: * EXTENDED HELICAL TRICOLOR LED ELECTRONIC-DISPLAY SIGNBOARD * context: * program consisting of 105 minutes and some 330 verbal messages

* title: * Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate * artist: * Matthew Barney * when: * 1994 * where: * ny * medium: * COLOR PHOTOGRAPH IN CAST PLASTIC FRAME * context: * the artist created a number of sculptures depicting mutating species and shifting genders * nearly all of his work is based on the human figure and is influenced by issues in modern biology

* title: * The Dinner Party * artist: * Judy Chicago * when: * 1974-79 * where: * Chicago * medium: * MIXED MEDIA * context: * feminist art * artist cofounded the first feminist art program in the US * created this with the assistance of hundreds of female coworkers * triangular feminist version of Leonardo's The Last Supper

* title: * Mary Magdalene * artist: * Kiki Smith * when: * 1994 * medium: * CAST SILICON BRONZE AND FORGED STEEL * context: * traditional Christian subject rendered in a new light * edition 2 of 3 plus 1 artist proof

* title: * Slavery! Slavery! * artist: * Kara Walker * when: * 1997 * medium: * CUT PAPER AND ADHESIVE ON WALL * context: * address the history of Blacks in America as well as present day issues

* title: * Vietnam Veterans Memorial * artist: * Maya Lin * when: * 1981-83 * where: * Washington D.C. * medium: * TWO WINGS OF POLISHED GRANITE * context: * Lin designed this monument when she was a student at the Yale School of Architecture * lists the names of every american killed in the Vietnam war *

* title: * Untitled * artist: * Cindy Sherman * when: * 1989 * where: * ny * medium: * COLOR PHOTOGRAPH * context: * artists photograph of herself as Raphael's Fornarina

* title: * The Crossing * artist: * Bill Viola * when: * 1996 * where: * ny * medium: * FIRE STILL * context: * shows man simultaneously walking towards the viewer

* title: * The Crossing * artist: * Bill Viola * when: * 1996 * where: * ny * medium: * WATER STILL * context: * shows human walking towards viewer * the video can also be seen as a metaphor for the dissolution of the figure with the rise of abstraction

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