What are the main characteristics of Trompe l'Oeil painting?
Very lifelike.
Done by men for men.
Sold in department stores.
What did William Hornett paint?
Trompe l'Oeil paintings like "The Faithful Colt" and "After The Hunt
Who is Daniel Burnham and J. Root?
Architects who designed "Monadonock Building" and "The Rookery
Who is Louis Sullivan?
Thought of as the most important architect.
Boxlike buildings
"Transportation Building
Why were buildings built up?
Elevators
Cheaper in land
New materials
Who is Daniel Chester French?
Designer of "Court of Honor: The Basin
Charles Atwood designed the "Palace of Fine Arts" which is now what?
The Science and Industry Museum in Chicago
Who is Louis Tiffany?
Creator of the "Lotus Flower Table Lamps"
New types of glass.
Found inspiration on the back of pigeon's necks and beetles.
Who is Mary Cassatt?
Painted for the Women's Building
Knew European masters by living in France
"Modern Woman
What was Mary Cassatt's approach to the subject of women in her paintings?
They held deeper social statements than just everyday life.
Who were the painters of the Ashcan School?
Robert Henri, George Bellows, John Sloan
What were the characteristics of the Ashcan school paintings?
Painted before it was dry - wet into wet
Journalistic, scrappy, spontaneous, mischievous.
Who was the best Ashcan painter?
Georg Bellows
What did Jacob Riis do?
Photographer that exposed poverty hoping to change the lives of those he photographed.
Introduces flash photography with magnesium powder.
Who said "Paint it fast, all in one sitting if you can"?
Robert Henri
Who is Morgan Russell?
Synchromy
Who is Stanton Macdonald-Wright?
Synchromy
What are the 6 aesthetic schools of thought?
Imitationist, Formalist, Expressionist, Linguistic, Intitutionist and Instrumental
What does Non-Contextualist mean?
Don't care about the message or context.
What dies Contextualist mean?
Deeper meaning, idea, context.
What is the Imitationist Theory?
Art mirrors reality.
Very realistic looking, like a photograph.
Example of Imitationist Theory
Looks like real life because it's so realistic
What is the Formalist Theory?
Art is tied to principles and elements of design.
Modernism.
How its composed: Balance, color, texture, light, etc.
Example of Formalist Theory
Composed well, has balance, light value, texture, line, space, etc. Formal elements.
What is the Expressionist Theory?
Art is tied to FEELINGS and EMOTIONS.
Expressionism.
How it makes me feel.
Example of Expressionist Theory
Expression - art is tied to feelings and emotions. How it makes me feel as the viewer.
What is the Instrumentalist Theory?
Art is an INSTRUMENT to a larger goal.
Mostly political.
The significance of the piece.
Example of Instrumentalist Theory
Art is an instrument or means to a larger goal. Political art.
What is the Linguistic Theory?
Art is tied to language communities or cultures.
Understood in a special way by a particular group.
Example of Linguistic Theory
How we can express and interpret meaning in art.
What is the Instiutionalist Theory?
How objects or events are treated in society.
Example of Insitutionalist Theory
Explain how and why certain pieces are considered art
What is the Armory Show?
Artwork done by American and European artists that travelled across the country. Had to accept every piece that was submitted.
What was the most controversial piece in the Armory Show?
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2" by Marcel Duchamp
Who is Marsden Hartley?
Openly gay avant-garde artist that moves to Berlin where he falls in love with a german officer who later dies in the war.
Who is Charles Demuth?
Founder of Precisionism - hard edged, stream line forms.
"I saw the figure 5 in gold
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
Artist who was influenced by how light plays on different forms
Cropping
Photography influeced paintings.
What is F64?
Group of photographers named after the smallest aperture on a camera.
Small depth of field, incredible sharpness.
How photography displays what paintings cannot.
Who are some F64 photographers?
Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston
How did Jos� Vasconcelos impact the art of post-revolutionary Mexico?
Supported the arts to boost the Mexican Revolution.
What did Paul Weston and Tina Modotti have to do with the book "Idols Behind Altars"?
Photographed for it
Who is Edward Weston?
F64 photographer fascinated with Mexico.
Fruits/ veggies to look like bodies.
Who is Mary Colter?
Influenced Santa Fe style architecture
Who wasn't a Harlem Renaissance artist?
Henry Ossawa Tanner
What is Abstraction?
Reduction of nature into elemental form
Who were two abstract painters?
Arthur Dove and Morgan Russell?
What is Avant-Garde?
Art ahead of its time and embraces the new
What is Modernism?
Form is more important than content
What is Synchromy?
Vivid color
Who started Cubism?
Pablo Picasso
What was the FSA?
Photographing rural / poverty
No manipulation in the pictures.
What is Pictorialism?
Photographs that look like movement and play with the effects of movement.
Who were the FSA photographers?
Walker Evans and Dorthea Lange
What was the problem that Nelson Rockefeller had with Rivera's RCA murals in the Rockefeller Center in New York, and what was his solution?
Should feature an American hero like Abraham Lincoln. Moved to Mexico City where Rivera could put whoever he wanted on it.
Who is Stuart Davis?
Collage paintings influenced by jazz
Who is Alexander Calder?
Inventor of the mobile
Why did Hitler hate abstract art?
It couldn't be easily manipulated
What is "kitsch" or "art for the masses"?
Replicating and mass producing cheap materials into different objects made to look expensive.