Test I Flashcards
The Breakfast Room
Bonnard
1935
Post-Impressionism
Nabis, France
Jane Avril
Toulouse- Lautrec
1900
Post-Impressionism
France
Evening on Karl Johan Street
Munch
1900
Expessionism
Norway
The Dance of Life
Munch
1900
Expressionism
Norway
The Scream
Munch
1900
Expressionism
Norway
Discuss the treatment and use of color during the late 19th century/ early 20th century styles. How does the treatment differ from earlier art styles? What influenced the artist to begin using color in this way?
Color
- Avant-Garde
- Modernism- traditional is out progress is needed
- Art shouldn’t depict reality, canvas are flat (neoclassical influence)
- Color experimentation (Romanticism)
- Impressionist color and brushstroke were kept, but bored of recording light, felt symbolism and composition were gone
- Nature isn’t a neutral tone its color
- Expressive color
Seurat
- Color theories, colors affect one another when placed side by side
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte
Cezanne
- Color is more important than the object
Gauguin
- Brings symbolism back into art (was developing in literature)
- Manipulated color to express emotion
- Flat areas of color, exaggerated color, color didn’t have to be descriptive
- If its red, paint it the reddest red
Marc
- color symbolism
- Yellow- feminine, blue- masculine, red- nature mass
Kandinsky
- Use color and form unrepresentationally to express spiritual emotion (first nonobjective art piece)
- Concentrated on color and nonobjective art
Discuss the new themes that appear in the art of the late 19th and early 20th century. How do the themes reflect developments in pshychology, industry, literature, etc during the same period of time?
Themes
- Many inventions from second industrial revolution- artist were thinking of the negatives of all these inventions
- Urban psychology- you don’t know your neighbors in big cities, changing social mores and gender roles
- Sex- “Femme fatale” deadly woman, woman is portrayed as an erotic and destructive force
- Symbolism- artist are freer to do things from their imagination or dreams
- Theories- physics, chemistry, psychology (Darwinism- survival of the fittest, Freud- studying dreams)
- Modernism- traditional is out, progress is needed (art shouldn’t depict reality, canvas are flat)
- Composition and emotion had ben lost during impressionist
- Death and peoples reaction to death become popular subject
- New forms to express emotion, no just objects
Gogan
- Brought back symbolism (developed in literature)
- Looking for a more primitive culture
Munch
- Expressionist/ symbolist- interested in psychology
- Pessimistic about sex, obsessed with poverty, sickness, and death
- Urban life is lonely
- Felt women were going to capture men, woman was a frightening symbol
Van Gogn and Matisse
- Self-expression
- Influenced German expressionism
Nolde
- Emphasis on expression and gestures, known for religious subject matter (some landscapes)
The Bridge
- Manifestos and political statements, art should help humanity
Marc
- Blue- masculine, red- nature, yellow- ?
- Transcendentalism- God is in nature and animals, humans are corrupted
Kandinsky
- Discover inner world of mind and spirit
- Use color and form unrepresentationally to express spiritual emotion (first nonobjective art piece)
How does sculpture of the late 19th century and early 20th century reflect the changes in painting and culture at the same time? Or does it?
Sculpture
- Not as innovative as painting at this time
- Sculptors were expected to be more traditional
- Most sculptors were primarily paintors
Matisse
- Abstraction and simplification
Daumier
- Sculptures were just studies
- Formed in clay- not casted til after death
Degas
- Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
- Mixed media
Gauguin
- Carved in marble and wood
- Styled it like what he saw in Tahiti
Rodin
- Wanted to show expression, influenced by symbolism
- Figures were not smooth and idealized like Greek figures
- negative space can be as important as the sculpture itself
Maillol
- Begins to abstract forms
- Like Cezanne- form is more important than the object
Madame Matisse with the Green Stripe
Matisse
1900
Fauvism
France
Joy of Life
Matisse
1900
Fauvism
France
Blue Nude, Memory of Biskra
Matisse
1900
Fauvism
France
Dance
Matisse
1900
Fauvism
France
The Turning Road, l’Estaque
Derain
1900
Fauvism
France
Self-Portrait as a Soldier
Kirchner
1915
German Expressionism, The Bridge
Germany
Pharisees
Schmidt-Roffluff
1915
German Expressionism- The Bridge
Germany
The Life of Christ Altarpiece- Crucifixion
Nolde
1915
German Expressionism- The Bridge
Germany
The Big Blue Horse
Marc
1915
German Expressionism- The Blue Rider
Germany
Improvisation #28
Kandinsky
1915
German Expressionism- The Blue Rider
Germany
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
Degas
1880
Impressionisim
France
The Age of Bronze
Rodin
1880
Expressionism
France
The Burghers of Calais
Rodin
1880
Expressionism
France
Monument to Balzac
Rodin
1880
Expressionism
France
The Mediterranean
Maillol
1900
Early Modern
France
Back 3
Matisse
1915
Fauvism
France
Standing Youth
Lehmbruck
1915
German Expressionism
Germany
Lamentation: In Memory of Ernst Barlach
Kollwitz
1940
German Expressionsm
Germany
