Visual Analysis Flashcards
(298 cards)

Hans Arp, Earth Forms, 1917.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dada head, 1920.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Portrait of Jean Arp, 1918.

John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter, Prussian Archangel, 1920.
The giant puppet is wrapped with a poster that reads “I come from Heaven, from Heaven on high” (well-known German Christmas carol); and sign dangling below further mocks the military: “In order to understand this work of art completely, one should drill daily for twelve hours with a heavily packed knapsack in full marching order in the Tempelhof Field [a military training ground in Berlin].”

Otto Dix, Kriegskrüppel (War-Cripples), 1920.
It was exhibited at the Entartete Kunst exhibition of degenerate art held in Munich in 1937, and later destroyed by the Nazis.

George Grosz, Sex Murder on Ackerstrasse, 1916.
Think about this image in relation to the body as configured in Surrealism, particularly in relation to Bellmer.

George Grosz, Tatlinesque Diagram/Life Model, 1920.
Watercolour, ink and collage on paper.

Hannah Höch, Dada Panorama, 1919.

Hannah Höch, Tamer, 1930.

Hanna Höch, From An Ethnographic Museum, 1929.

Hannah Höch, German Girl, 1930.

Hannah Höch, Album, 1933-4.

Francis Picabia, Fille née sans mère [Girl Born without a Mother], 1916-17.

Eadweard Muybridge, Nude Descending Stairs, 1887.
His objective was to solve “the problem of locomotion with the aid of photography”

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912.

Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

Joan Miró, Love, 1925.

René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928.

Joan Miró, A Star Caresses the breast of a Negress, 1938.

René Magritte, The Rape, 1934.

Salvador Dali, The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, 1933.

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1906.

Giorgio de Chirico, Enigma of the Day, 1914.

Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of the Street, 1914.

















































































































































































































































































