Art History Exam 3

-Henri Matisse
-1900-25
-Fauvism artist
-Carefully composed everything
-Not naturalistic colors (can talk about fruits) primary and secondary colors
-Member of salon de foe

Woman With the Hat

-Henri Matisse
-1900-25
-Fauvism artist
-Leading foe
-Member of the salon de foe
-Can see paint sitting on surface of canvas

Portrait of Andre Derain

-Andre Derain
-1900-25
-Fauvism
-Primarily a landscape artist
-Colors are not naturalistic

Mountains at Collioure

-Henri Matisse
-Abstract Expressionism
-1900-25
-Foe artist or expressionist artist
-About the idea of arcadia: a mythical place at the birth of the human race. It was made up

The Joy of Life

-Emile Nolde
-1900-25
-Die Brucke
-Shows awareness of African art
-Colors: primary and secondary, visible brush strokes, rough contours, drawing gives it greater intensity, and flat

Masks

-Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
-1900-25
-Member of de Bruka
-Nudes do not look ideal
-Color scheme, imposto, the way the paint is applied

Three Nudes-Dune Picture from Nidden

-Kathe Kollwitz
-1900-25
-One of the few German expressionist
-Expressionism and exaggeration in her movement
-The mood has some intensity of expressionism
-Print

The Outbreak

-Vasily kandinsky
-1900-25
-German Expressionism
-Der Blaue Reiter
-Showed influence of post impressionist: the dots
-Russian folk tale

The Blue Mountain

-Vasily Kandinsky
-1900-25
-Abstract Expressionist: Color field
-Der Blaue Reiter
-First abstract artist
-Concentrating on line and color
-Applies color and then line. Applies them separately
-Chaotic and busy
-Believed specific colors had specific meanin

Improvisation 28 (second version)

-Pablo Picasso
-1900-25
-Synthetic cubism
-Blue period: depressed, sad paintings
-Unrecognizable landscape
-We think it is symbolic: circus...making a comparison about wealth (being poor)

Family of Saltimbanques

-Pablo Picasso
-1900-25
-Synthetic cubism
-Doesn't use correct linear perspective
-They woman are prostitutes and the viewer is the buyer
-The viewer is not standing in one place since there are multiple perspectives
-Sharp chin, almond shaped eyes, bushy

Les Demoiselle d'Avignon

-Georges Braque
-1900-25
-Analytic cubism
-Braque was mainly a still life painting with Picasso was more figures
-This painting is a still life
-Breaking down everything into geometric planes
-Analytic cubism: hes breaking down the violin and the objects

Violin and Palette

-Pablo Picasso
-1900-25
-Analytic cubism: breaking down the figure into geometric planes

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

-Pablo Picasso
-1900-25
-Synthetic cubism: collage like
-Synthetic cubism: the bringing together of materials
-Wall paper, newspaper
-Picasso was the first to use collage to make fine art
-Bringing together pieces of paper and bringing together of planes

Glass and Bottle of Suze

-Pablo Picasso
-1900-25
-Cubit: made up of planes
-Still life objects they created
-Took pieces of things that artists would never consider materials of art
-Constructing form and assemblage

Mandolin and Clarinet

-Robert Delaunay
-1900-25
-French follower
-Indebted to cubism (also expressionism)
-Sense of imposto and color on the surface
-Secondary and primary colors
-Biplane in the upper right

Homage to Bleriot

-Jacques Lactique
-1900-25
-The futurist: inspired by cubism
-Founded by a poet

Grand Prix and Victory of Samothrace

-Gino Severini
-1900-25
-Cubism (FUTURISM)
-Marking the 100th aniversry of some of the events of WWI
-So many deaths because of the new inventions of weapons
-Number of solders in an armored train.
-He breaks them down into geometric planes
-Landscape is

Armored Train in Action

-Umberto Boccioni
-1900-25
-Futurism
-A figure in action/movement
-Its like you take a picture of someone in action that you see the echoes
-The face is very machine and robot like
-5 feet tall

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

-Natalia Goncharov
-1900-25
-Russian artist
-Cubo-futurist: cubism and futurism
-Cubism aspect: breaking down of planes
-Futurist: breaking down of electric light
-New kind of style and content

Electric Light

-Kazimir Malevich
-1900-25
-Supremacism is the type of style
-Related to synthetic cubism
-Russian artist
-It is very simple style
-That things that we know and recognize
-No grading or shading in planes like analytic cubism
-Non objective because it is n

Suprematist Painting: 8 Red Rectangles

-Vladimir Tatlin
-1900-25
-Suprematism/Russian Modernism
-These projects are reliefs or counter reliefs
-They do not describe anything
-The wire creates lines, perspective of the planes
-Sculptor of space and not mass

Corner Counter-Relief

-Hugo Ball
-1900-25
-This art form was not rooted in cubism
-Dada- fantasy and surrealism

Hugo Ball Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawane

-Marcel Duchamp
-1900-25
-Dada
-It was rejected because it is urinal turned on its side
-Duchamp says anything can be art if he chooses to make it art
-Called it a readymade

Fountain

-Macel Duchamp
-1900-25
-Dada
-Assisted readymade or readymay
-He defaced the mona lisa
-He is making fun of this history of western arnt
-The name: he is calling her a *****

L.H.O.O.Q.

-Hannah Hoch
-1900-25
-Dada
-Collage
-Cut out pieces of newspapers, magazines, and journals
-Feeling of chaos and nothing going together
-No unity like in Picasso or Boroch
-"photo collage" or "photo montage" bringing together of all the clippings

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

-Alfred Stieglitz
-1900-25
-Dada
-Believed photography was absolutely an art
-Poetic/lyrical quality

The Flatiron Building

-Arthur Dove
-1900-25
-Sometimes thought to be on of the first abstract artists
-Contains lines and planes

Nature Symbolized No. 2

-Marsden Hartley
-1900-25
-He went to Berlin instead of Paris
-He went to Paris after
-Cubist plane with Kandinsky color
-About a soldier (KVF were his initials, an iron cross which is a war decoration his friend received)
-Related to analytic cubism sinc

Portrait of a German Officer

-Georgia O'Keeffe
-1926-1950
-From the window of her apartment building
-It is a series
-Another variation of cubism because: simplified skyscrapers with flat planes

City Night

-Georgia O'Keefe
-1900-1920
-Also known for her flowers
-They are quite large so she magnifies the portrait
-Still planes
-Colors are bright and almost expressionist
-Some have found references to female sexuality in her work of flowers: but she refused i

Red Canna

-Edward Weston
-1927-50
-Also being done in photography at the time
-He was called a straight photographer because he did not manipulate his photos at all
-Close up imagery

Succulent

-NYC
-1900-25
-Exhibition in an armory in new york
-Organized by many americans
-Was a wake up call for a lot of americans
-It included every European type of art work except for futurism

The Armory Show

-Le Corbusier
-1926-1950
-International style
-He started off as a painter
-Use of concrete: modern
-Why else it is modern: the use of glass and steal structure holding it up, flat roof with sculptural elements on it, absence of decoration (plain flat sur

Villa Savoye

-Adolf Loos
-1900-25
-All characteristics of modern architecture: no decoration, attention of windows, concrete, flat roof
-He wanted it to be pure and functional

Steiner House

-Frank Lloyd Wright
-1900-25
-Prarie Style
-Mostly houses in Chicago
-Often treated as an example of Cubist art
-Anti decorations
-Fascinated by Japanese art
-Roofs that seem to be free floating
-Series of shifted planes: very geometric
-The prairie style

Frederick C. Robie House

-Frank Lloyd Wright
-1926-1950
-Prarie Style
-In Pennsylvania
-Designed the house so it was right on the creek
-You could hear see and be in the creek
-He thought that architecture should blend with the site
-Color is very simple and the accent of the red

Falling water

-Mary Colter
-1900-25
-Female architect which there were very few of
-Hired by a railroad company
-Wanted house to blend in with surrounding

Lookout Studio

-Cass Gilbert
-1900-25
-His buildings are more conservative
-What made the skyscraper possible: steal substructure and the elevator
-There is a resemblance to a column
-Looks like borrowed from gothic architecture
-Was not a modernist

Woolworth Building

-El Lissitzky
-1900-25
-Russian modernist/Suprematism
-Graphics designer he called it visual architecture, was a photographer, sculptor
-He called himself the constructor
-On right, emphasizing geometric, graphic design architect
-Malavick: influence by
-

Proun Space

-Vera Mukhina
-1926-50
-Created under soviet influence

Worker and Collective Farm Woman

-Piet Mondrian
-1926-50
-Europe
-Style: De Stegl: formed by small group of artist around 1917
-Went through all the artist styles: mature style, expressionism, cubism
-Focused on the primary colors in addition to black and white
-Black lines hold color pl

Composition with yellow, red, and blue

-Gerrit Rietveld
-1900-25
-De Stijl
-White planes, yellow support columns, black lines of porch: modrian into three dimensions

Schroder House

-Walter Gropins
-1900-25
-No matter what type of art you were in you took this foundations class
-Closed down by Natzis
-A lot of important europeans came

Bauhaus Building

-Max Ernst
-1926-50
-Alternative distraction from geometric art: surrealism
-Didn't become a style until 1922
-Used free association and dream anatomy

The Horde

-Salvador Dali
-1926-50
-Surrealist artist
-His work depends on your unconscious mind
-We think he is using his own dreams
-Means what your unconscious mind wants it to mean

Birth of Liquid Desires

-Joan Miro
-Surrealist artist
-Almost holy abstract
-Gave generic names to his paintings
-Result of atomisism
-Abstract of machines
-Organic pulsating quality
-Background is almost atmospheric

Composition

-Meret Oppenheim
-1926-50
-Female surrealist
-Surrealist object/sculptor
-Surrealism=sexual

Object

-Frida Kahlo
-19326-50
-Indirect surrealism
-On left: missionary guard (outfit), right: mexican costume
-Picture of Diego in her hand: symbolized the pain he put her in

The Two Fridas

-Jacob Lawrence
-1926-50
-Emergence of Harlem Renaissance
-About migration of african americans from south to north
-Jacob Larence was influenced by synthetic cubism

The Migration Series, Panel No1.

-Grant Wood
-1926-50
-Style: American Regionalism which celebrates the american midwest
-Making fun of Americans: they do not look happy/no imagination
-You can say he is celebrating America: they simple, plain

American Gothic

-Arshile Gorky
-1926-50
-Abstract expressionism
-Relying on his unconcious mind and memories
-The garden floats on a dense white ground
-Forms, shapes, and colors create the woman on the left

Garden in Sochi and Self Portrait

-Jackson Pollock
-1926-50
-Abstract Expressionist: gestural
-Flung paint at canvas. Turkey basters, sticks, paint brush
-His subject was painting
-You could deconstruct, and directly connect the sequence
-You could follow his strokes
-His paintings were a

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

-Joan Mitchell
-1951-75
-Gestural abstract
-Abstract started to dominate
-Followed the lead of Pollock
-Does not have same denseness as Pollock
-Lets more light in

Ladybug

-Willem de Kooning
-1926-50
-Gestural abstract
-Only abstract artist who did figural abstract paintings
-Some what violent

Woman I

-Mark Rothko
-1951-75
-Abstract expressionist: color feel painting
-Trying to adjust those planes
-Trying to make soft edges

Lavender and Mulberry

-Helen Frankenthaler
-1951-75
-Abstract expressionist
-She did not paint on top of the canvas. She instead used a method called soak stain. So artist should emphasize flatness of picture plan
-It is a representational scene: her memories of nova scotia

Mountains and Sea

-Barnett Newman
-1926-50
-Abstract expressionist: color field
-Title means: man, heroic, and sublime
-Zips are the lines that intersected and divide the red field
-The verticals are people standing in a foreground
-He animates the red field and makes it a

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

-Robert Rauschenberg
-1951-75
-Pre pop
-Sort of neo dada
-Opposed to abstract expressionist
-He called his work combines
-In this piece there are a number of things that are cut out of newspapers and magazines (scraps of things) then he lays paint down in

Canyon

-Jasper Johns
-1951-75
-Pre pop
-In a series of representational image that is naturally flat
-He did maps, flags, and targets
-Painting and sculptures
-Encaustic painting: wax to preserve

Target with Plaster Casts

-Richard Hamilton
-1951-75
-Pop art
-Photo collage
-Cut out all of these pieces from advertisements
-Pointing out the abundance of items you can find in America

Just What is it That Makes today's Homes so Different, So Appealing?

-Warhol
-1951-75
-Pop art started off being called new realism
-Pop art: the public loved it because they could recognize it and they knew what it was
-This is actually a wooden box
-Takes an everyday non special object and turns it into art
-Making somet

Brillo Soap Pads Box

-Andy Warhol
-1951-75
-Pop art/Post Minimalism
-Marilyn Monroe
-Silk screen of photographs
-Some sloppiness to it

Marilyn Diptych

-Roy Lichtenstein
-1951-75
-Pop art
-First to adopt comic
-Separated into boys and girls comics: boys are super heros and girls are about love
-Ben day dots are those comic dots
-Sort of dada component

Oh, Jeff...I Love You, too...But...

-Roy Lichtenstein
-1951-75
-Pop art
-Clock has chiaroscuro
-He makes comics more comic book by simplifying
-He reduces the words are completely removes the words
-He taking something in small scale (the comic) and blowing it up because scale usually tells

Blonde Waiting

-Claese Oldenburg
-1951-75
-Pop art
-Major sculptor of pop art
-Gigantic every day objects
-Advertisement of lipstick and its influence/effect on war

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

-Donald Judd
-1951-75
-Minimalist
-No titles ever given
-No meaning ever told
-Sculpture of space: moving out into space. Manipulating the space around it
-Very industrialism: you can't tell anything about the artist
-Shiny metal, replication or units, ma

Untitled

-Robert Morris
-1951-75
-Minimalist
-Mathematical, geometric, precise: same to Donald Judd
-Different to Judd: it is not on the wall

Untitled (Mirror Cube)

-Joseph Kosuth
-1951-75
-Conceptual
-Dictionary definition of a chair
-Which is the chair?
-Deskilling: doesn't take the need to go to an art school

One and Three Chairs

-Joseph Beuys
-1951-75
-Performance/Post Minimalism
-A performance: he was talking to a dead hare
-Breaking away from painting and sculpting
-Deskilling

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

-Bruce Nauman
-1951-75
-Conceptual/Post minimalism
-Acting out being a fountain
-Deskilling
-Dematerializing of art subject

Self Portrait as a Fountain

-Jean-Miche Basquiat
-1976-2000
-Neoexpressionist (3rd expressionist style)/Post Modernism/Graffiti art
-Street art/graffiti sense to it
-Random quality and overlaid, larger text based like graffiti
-Gestural, expressional

Horn Players

-Gerhard Richter
-1976-2000
-German neoimpressionist/Post Modernism
-Work based on photography: photography is important
-Black and white painting based on photograph so made to look like the photograph
-He likes to blur his photographs
-About memory

Man Shot Down

-Cindy Sherman
-1976-2000
-Post modernist
-Photography
-She photographed herself: she was the everything about her work (designer, model, photographer)
-Creates them as a movie scene
-Bringing back to art a story/narrative

Untitled Film Still #21

-Guerilla Girls
-1976-2000
-Post modernist/Feminist
-The artists do not tell you who they are. They go by G0rilla Girls
-They plaster posters in NYC about woman artists

The Advantage of Being A Woman Artist

-Judith F. Baca
-1976-2000
-Post minimalism
-Representational
-Identity politics: making us aware

The Division of the Barrios

-James Luna
-1976-2000
-Post minimalism
-Artifact piece
-Calling attention to native American artifacts are not called art
-Performance
-Photography: importance of photography

The Artifact Piece

-Jeff Koons
-1976-2000
-Post modernism/commodity
-Reference of popular culture: pink panthe

Pink Panther

-Maya Lin
-1976-2000
-Post minimalism
-Site specific
-Won competition
-Controversial
-Others didn't like the fact that it was black
-Arranged names chronologically from those who died first to last: so hard to find someone
-Wanted affect of war
-Below gro

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

-Richard Serra
-1976-2000
-Post minimalism
-Site specific
-Similarity to Vietnam Veteran memorial: Scale and that it was public
-Steal...so it rusts, which he likes but other people did not
-People complained about it for many reasons
-He believed that ar

Titled Arc

-Eva Hesse
-1976-2000
-Post minimalism/Process art
-Made of hanging fiber glass
-Shows more of the process of creation
-Its falling in a way that gravity takes it
-Messy
-Abstract

Rope Piece

-Robert Smithson
-1951-75
-Earthwork/Post Minimalism
-Site specific

Chalk-Mirror Displacement

-Robert Smithson
-1951-75
-Earthwork/Post Minimalism/ Pluralism
-In Great Salt Lake, Utah
-Best seen from a distance
-Earthworks were expensive
-the swirl: coming and going, creation and destruction

Spiral Jetty

-Christ and Jeanne-Claude
-1976-2000
-Post Minimalism
-Meant to be temporary unlike Smithton's work (16 days)
-He funds these works by selling products
-Over 7000 nylon panels along 23 miles

The Gates, Central Park, NY City

-Judy Chicago
-1951-75
-Feminist art/Post Minimalism/Pluralism
-She only let woman in her class, no men
-Giant installation
-Feminist last super is how she saw it
-999 woman she wanted to include but narrowed it to 13 on each side: so 39 and the rest of t

-The Dinner Party

-Ana Mendieta
-1976-2000
-Feminist art/Post Minimalism/Pluralism
-Related to earth art, performance and conceptual (since you could write it down and explain it
-Woman have a deeper connection with nature than men do

Untitled work from The Tree of Life Series

-Betye Saar
-1951-75
-Feminist art/Post Minimalism/Pluralism
-Activist art, racial politics, feminist
-Related to pop art since Aunt Jemima is the pancake lady
-Aunt Jemima is being freed

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
-1951-75
-NYC
-Characteristics of modern architecture: less is more (less decoration), flat roof, glass curtain wall, grid (horizontals and verticals in a grid like system)
-Clean, precise, geometric
-Immense a

Seagram Building

-Robert Venturi
-1951-75
-Post modern
-California
-His mother's house
-Trying to get away from principles of modern architecture: slanted roof, aspects that act as decoration (the arch), he doesn't repeat one unit again and again (creates variety)
-No sam

Vanna Venturi House

-Philip Johnson
-1976-2000
-Modern Architecture
-NYC
-Compared to a chip and dale cabinet: curved top
-Compared to the old pay phone
-References to other things
-It is decorated
-Mimics international style and skyscrapers

AT&T Building

-Damien Hirst
-1976-2000
-Post modernism/YBA
-Supposed to be in your face and sensational
-Another take on minimalism since boxes are geometric and in units
-Not about art at all
-Moment Mori: a remembrance of death

Mother and Child Divided

-Chris Ofili
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-A black Virgin Mary
-Female sexuality all over the canvas
-Elephant poop everywhere

The Holy Virgin Mary

-Rachel Whiteread
-Post Modernism/YBA
-Plaster cast of a house
-Creates positive out of negative

House

-Andres Serrano
-1976-2000
-Post-Modernism
-cibachrome print of a Christian crucifix which the artist put in a box of his own urine
-About confronting the physicality of the death of the body of Christ
-Found offensive by others

Piss Christ

-Felix Gonzalez-Torres
-1976-2000
-Post-Modernism
-Related to minimalism: in units
-Would refill the stack of papers everyday because there were instructions for the visitors to take a piece
-So the meaning: the stacks of paper gradually diminished, which

Untitled (lover boy)

-David Wojnarowicz
-1976-2000
-Post modernism
-Photographer, painter and sculptor
-This is a photograph
-The words are his feelings about how his lover died and how he is soon to die (angry because text is red)
-He is suffering
-Reacting to aids

Untitled (Hands)

-Kiki Smith
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-Two wax sculptures
-Woman has milk coming out of her breast and man has semen coming out of his penis as if both had lost control of bodily functions
-Reacting to aids
-It asks us to consider bodily control

-Krysztol Wodiczko
-1976-2000
-Activist: trying to do something about the homeless and wanted to draw attention to it
-He wanted to make it visible while actually helping them
-A safe sleeping pod

The Homeless Project Vehicle

-Nam June Paik
-1976-2000
-Post modernism
-Artists start to use video
-Monitors show videos related to that state
-High tech/electronic art
-New media art
-The monitor on New York showed a live video of the visitors in the museum

Electronic Super highway

-Bill Viola
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-Doesn't use monitors. Usually large screens
-Installation and video
-Two projections on opposite sides of a screen
-There is only one soundtrack, and viewers perceive it differently according to which video they are

The Crossing (Fire and Water)

-Matthew Barney
-2001-
-Post Modernism but also a performance
-Barney is on the right and on the left is an Olympic athlete
-Use of film...series about personal development
-About gender roles

Cremaster 3

-Shirin Neshat
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-Emergence of globalism
-Photography, writing, and literature
-Arabic writing on her face that acts as a vale
-Holding a gun in her hand: the gun and writing seem to -protect her from the viewer
-How Iranian woman

Rebellious Silence

-Kara Walker
-2001-
-Post Moderism
-Installation
-Uses video in her works
-Tells stories through silhouettes
-She tells a slave revolt and massacre
-Her piece makes us racist trying to figure out what race the black silhouettes are
-When the viewer walks

Darkytown Rebellion

-Yinka Shonibare
-2001-
-Post modernism
-About the shame of western countries in the trade
-Does photography, film, and sculpting
-Installation
-Post colonialism: commenting on the shameful past
-We don't know their race

How to Blow Up Two Heads At Once

-Mining the museum
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-He mined the museums storerooms and discovered objects of both white and african american history
-He included these items in his exhibit, including the disturbing objects used to restrain African american sl

Fred Wilson

-Vanessa Beecroft
-1976-2000
-Post modernism
-Commenting on the unhealthy ideal on woman (gender roles)
-Her works refer to her own battle with anorexia even though she is not the performer, she uses models
-She chose fashion models that were very thin
-I

VB 35

-Frank o. Gehry
-1976-2000
-Post modern architecture
-Likes to work in meta and titanium
-Titanium is supposed to echo the mountains in the background: bring in environment around it
-From some angles it looks like a giant ship: reference to the industry

Guggenheim Museum

-Wenda Gu
-1976-2000
-Post Modernism
-Chinese artist
-Use of installation: viewer has to interact with
-Using light and writing to create sacred place

Temple of Heavens

-Fred Wilson
-2001-
-Connecting Venice and free trade
-Murano glass but emphasizes blackness
-Memento mori: reminder that death is coming

Chandelier Mori