Art 1900-1945 Test II

Title: Evocation (Burial of Casagemus). Artist: Picasso. Date: 1901. Death of his friend who killed himself. Picasso was 20 y/o at the time. Large scale painting. Casagemus is ascending on a horse to heaven. Embraced by lovers but passing by his wife and

Title: The Two Saltimbanques (Harlequin and his Companion). Artist: Picasso. Date: 1901. Figures seem worried, weary. Isolated from each other and the world. Hands hold the faces up- add weight to the heads, weariness, and tiredness. Shoulder and arm too

Two clown like figures at a bar table. They seem sad and tired.

Title: Two Women at a Bar. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1902. Blue period. Women are isolated. Next to each other, yet not connected. Cafe life for introspection and melancholy, losing yourself in your thoughts. Blue color palette to focus on the composition, n

Title: Harlequin's Family. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1905. Rose period. Harlequin holding the baby, the woman is changing- everyday activity. Figures are connected- he's looking at her, holding the baby. Natural and lively colors. Tonality is lighter, sense

Title: Family of Saltimbanques. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1905. Rose period. Large public art depicting a personal Picasso moment. Picasso is on the left, mistress on right, and his friends in between. Mistress is cast out of the group because she wouldn't l

Title: Two Nudes. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1906. Localized primitivism: figures look like Iberian art. They are stocky, stumpy, hefty. Eye area is simplified, arched. Nationalism. Can see beginnings of Cubism.

Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1907. Referring to a red light street in Avignon. Theme of sex, prostitution. Early sketches show two men- a medical student and a sailor. Crouching figure's pose is ambiguous- seeing her back or fr

Title: Viaduct at l'Estaque. Artist: Braque. Date: 1908. Forms are beginning to look like blocks. Don't cohere together.

Title: The Horta Brick Factory. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1909. Seems to be very ordered and geometric, but is actually not. Perspective is messed up.

Title: Street Light. Artist: Balla. Date: 1909. Futurist. Artificial light outshining the moon, overtaking it. Artificial vs. natural. V shaped flickers of paint is neo-impressionist.

Title: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1910. High analytic Cubism. Portraiture main theme of analytic Cubism. Can see his hands, watch chain, slicked hair. Brushstrokes originate from Cezanne and the passage. Surfaces tilted on

Title: Dancing Peasants. Artist: Goncharova. Date: 1910. Neo-Primitivism. Colors not modulated. Heavy outlines. Flat, hefty figures. Looking to Russian religious icons and peasant embroideries.

Title: The Portuguese. Artist: Braque. Date: 1911. High analytic Cubism. Stencils for the lettering. His father was a commercial painter, ideas from that. Holding a guitar.

Title: Champs de Mars, the Red Tower. Artist: Delauney. Date: 1911. Puteaux/Orphic. Cubist elements representing the noise and dynamism of the city. Sound and image coming together.

Title: Bather. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1911. Neo-primitivism. Similar to Matisse. Looking to religious icons and lubok. Flat. Heavy outlines. Unmodulated colors. No illusionistic space.

Title: Still Life with Chair Caning. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Collage. Some read it as a glass table top with a newspaper on top. Picasso loved puns.

Title: Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Collage. Perspective is messed up.

Title: Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Wall paper and fake wood. Referencing to parts of the guitar. Sheet music referring to sound music makes.

Title: Portrait of Picasso. Artist: Gris. Date: 1912. Art is more illustrative. Body is more easily recognized. Distinct background and form.

Title: The Grinder (Principle of Flickering). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1912. Cubo-Futurism. Action of sharpening a knife. Knife repeated to show movement.

Title: Guitar. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1913. Sculpture. Sheet metal. Not additive nor deconstruction- constructing it. Not trying to replicate a guitar, just referencing it. Seeing it from all angles at once. Gives us the parts but doesn't bring it togethe

Title: Clarinet. Artist: Braque. Date: 1913. Synthetic Cubism. Papier collee. Fake wood- wall paper.

Pay attention to the right one

Title: Man in a Hammock. Artist: Gleizes. Date: 1913. Puteaux/Orphic. Unlike Picasso- scene of relaxation, bright colors, cohering forms.

Fragmented and colorful painting of a man resting.

Title: Speed of the Car. Artist: Balla. Date: 1913. Futurist. Ideas from Cubism. Looks as though it is in a wind tunnel, showing movement.

Title: Cats. Artist: Goncharova. Date: 1913. Rayonism. Similar to Balla.

Title: Woman at a Poster Column. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1914. Cubo-Futurism. Looks like a collage. Has different fonts and letters.

Title: Black Square. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1915. Suprematism. About purity, emotions, and feeling.

Title: Counter Relief. Artist: Tatlin. Date: 1915. Constructivism. Metal not shaped to look like something, just metal. Not on a pedestal (which would separate the work from us, making us aware of the museum setting).

Title: Armored Train in Action. Artist: Severini. Date: 1916. Futurist. Showing the pro war aspect of their group.

Title: Composition with Line. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1917. Neo-Plasticism (Mondrian's personal term for De Stijl). Every line contradicted with another. Horizontal vs. vertical. Randomness. No hierarchy.

Title: Chair. Artist: Rietveld. Date: 1917. De Stijl. Like a Mondrian painting.

Title: Checkerboard Composition. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1919. Neo-Plasticism. No background, solid painting. Grid.

Title: Model for Monument to 3rd International. Artist: Tatlin. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Was a model for an actual building supposed to be built. Two spirals. Arguments for: modern, functional, symbolic. Against: spiral was decorative, reflected indivi

Title: Proun 30. Artist: Lissitzky. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Elements of Suprematsim- the black square like Malevich's, geometry, machine-like.

Not actually this one, but similar

Title: Oval Hanging Construction #12. Artist: Rodchenko. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Is transparent- can see the material and how it's made. not individual, de-skilling it, is accessible.

Title: Composition with Large Blue Red, Black, Yellow, and Grey Plane. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1921. Neo-Plasticism. Black line makes sure nothing recedes, all it important, noi background, separates the colors. Squares are unequal. Elementarizes it.

Title: Constructionist Composition. Artist: Popova. Date: 1921. Constructivism. On plywood. Sense of anonymity.

Rodchenko in work overalls. Date: 1922. Productivism. Artists becoming workers.

Title: Cup and Saucer with Suprematist painted decoration. Artist: Sujetin. Date: 1923. Productivism. Decoration from Malevich.

Modern looking tea cup on a small plate.

Title: Textile Design with red triangle within a circle. Artist: Popova. Date: 1923. Productivism.

Title: Color Design for Amsterdam University Hall. Artist: Doesburg. Date: 1923. De Stijl. Working with diagonals. Not challenging the sides, restating them.

Title: Self Portrait (The Constructor). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1924. Constructivism. Illusion of 3D created through photography. Graph paper, stencils, and compass alluding to geometry.

Title: Schroder House. Architect: Rietveld. Date: 1925. De Stijl. Deconstructs the building. Pieces articulated separately. Interior is fragmented, broken up, rooms are not cubes.

Title: Novyi LEF. Magazine cover. Artist: Rodchenko. Date: 1928. Productivism.

Title: Male Portrait (N. N. Punin). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1933

Creepy Renaissance-looking portrait of a man, seen in profile, very flat.

Title: Evocation (Burial of Casagemus). Artist: Picasso. Date: 1901. Death of his friend who killed himself. Picasso was 20 y/o at the time. Large scale painting. Casagemus is ascending on a horse to heaven. Embraced by lovers but passing by his wife and

Title: The Two Saltimbanques (Harlequin and his Companion). Artist: Picasso. Date: 1901. Figures seem worried, weary. Isolated from each other and the world. Hands hold the faces up- add weight to the heads, weariness, and tiredness. Shoulder and arm too

Two clown like figures at a bar table. They seem sad and tired.

Title: Two Women at a Bar. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1902. Blue period. Women are isolated. Next to each other, yet not connected. Cafe life for introspection and melancholy, losing yourself in your thoughts. Blue color palette to focus on the composition, n

Title: Harlequin's Family. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1905. Rose period. Harlequin holding the baby, the woman is changing- everyday activity. Figures are connected- he's looking at her, holding the baby. Natural and lively colors. Tonality is lighter, sense

Title: Family of Saltimbanques. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1905. Rose period. Large public art depicting a personal Picasso moment. Picasso is on the left, mistress on right, and his friends in between. Mistress is cast out of the group because she wouldn't l

Title: Two Nudes. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1906. Localized primitivism: figures look like Iberian art. They are stocky, stumpy, hefty. Eye area is simplified, arched. Nationalism. Can see beginnings of Cubism.

Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1907. Referring to a red light street in Avignon. Theme of sex, prostitution. Early sketches show two men- a medical student and a sailor. Crouching figure's pose is ambiguous- seeing her back or fr

Title: Viaduct at l'Estaque. Artist: Braque. Date: 1908. Forms are beginning to look like blocks. Don't cohere together.

Title: The Horta Brick Factory. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1909. Seems to be very ordered and geometric, but is actually not. Perspective is messed up.

Title: Street Light. Artist: Balla. Date: 1909. Futurist. Artificial light outshining the moon, overtaking it. Artificial vs. natural. V shaped flickers of paint is neo-impressionist.

Title: Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1910. High analytic Cubism. Portraiture main theme of analytic Cubism. Can see his hands, watch chain, slicked hair. Brushstrokes originate from Cezanne and the passage. Surfaces tilted on

Title: Dancing Peasants. Artist: Goncharova. Date: 1910. Neo-Primitivism. Colors not modulated. Heavy outlines. Flat, hefty figures. Looking to Russian religious icons and peasant embroideries.

Title: The Portuguese. Artist: Braque. Date: 1911. High analytic Cubism. Stencils for the lettering. His father was a commercial painter, ideas from that. Holding a guitar.

Title: Champs de Mars, the Red Tower. Artist: Delauney. Date: 1911. Puteaux/Orphic. Cubist elements representing the noise and dynamism of the city. Sound and image coming together.

Title: Bather. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1911. Neo-primitivism. Similar to Matisse. Looking to religious icons and lubok. Flat. Heavy outlines. Unmodulated colors. No illusionistic space.

Title: Still Life with Chair Caning. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Collage. Some read it as a glass table top with a newspaper on top. Picasso loved puns.

Title: Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Collage. Perspective is messed up.

Title: Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1912. Wall paper and fake wood. Referencing to parts of the guitar. Sheet music referring to sound music makes.

Title: Portrait of Picasso. Artist: Gris. Date: 1912. Art is more illustrative. Body is more easily recognized. Distinct background and form.

Title: The Grinder (Principle of Flickering). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1912. Cubo-Futurism. Action of sharpening a knife. Knife repeated to show movement.

Title: Guitar. Artist: Picasso. Date: 1913. Sculpture. Sheet metal. Not additive nor deconstruction- constructing it. Not trying to replicate a guitar, just referencing it. Seeing it from all angles at once. Gives us the parts but doesn't bring it togethe

Title: Clarinet. Artist: Braque. Date: 1913. Synthetic Cubism. Papier collee. Fake wood- wall paper.

Pay attention to the right one

Title: Man in a Hammock. Artist: Gleizes. Date: 1913. Puteaux/Orphic. Unlike Picasso- scene of relaxation, bright colors, cohering forms.

Fragmented and colorful painting of a man resting.

Title: Speed of the Car. Artist: Balla. Date: 1913. Futurist. Ideas from Cubism. Looks as though it is in a wind tunnel, showing movement.

Title: Cats. Artist: Goncharova. Date: 1913. Rayonism. Similar to Balla.

Title: Woman at a Poster Column. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1914. Cubo-Futurism. Looks like a collage. Has different fonts and letters.

Title: Black Square. Artist: Malevich. Date: 1915. Suprematism. About purity, emotions, and feeling.

Title: Counter Relief. Artist: Tatlin. Date: 1915. Constructivism. Metal not shaped to look like something, just metal. Not on a pedestal (which would separate the work from us, making us aware of the museum setting).

Title: Armored Train in Action. Artist: Severini. Date: 1916. Futurist. Showing the pro war aspect of their group.

Title: Composition with Line. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1917. Neo-Plasticism (Mondrian's personal term for De Stijl). Every line contradicted with another. Horizontal vs. vertical. Randomness. No hierarchy.

Title: Chair. Artist: Rietveld. Date: 1917. De Stijl. Like a Mondrian painting.

Title: Checkerboard Composition. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1919. Neo-Plasticism. No background, solid painting. Grid.

Title: Model for Monument to 3rd International. Artist: Tatlin. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Was a model for an actual building supposed to be built. Two spirals. Arguments for: modern, functional, symbolic. Against: spiral was decorative, reflected indivi

Title: Proun 30. Artist: Lissitzky. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Elements of Suprematsim- the black square like Malevich's, geometry, machine-like.

Not actually this one, but similar

Title: Oval Hanging Construction #12. Artist: Rodchenko. Date: 1920. Constructivism. Is transparent- can see the material and how it's made. not individual, de-skilling it, is accessible.

Title: Composition with Large Blue Red, Black, Yellow, and Grey Plane. Artist: Mondrian. Date: 1921. Neo-Plasticism. Black line makes sure nothing recedes, all it important, noi background, separates the colors. Squares are unequal. Elementarizes it.

Title: Constructionist Composition. Artist: Popova. Date: 1921. Constructivism. On plywood. Sense of anonymity.

Rodchenko in work overalls. Date: 1922. Productivism. Artists becoming workers.

Title: Cup and Saucer with Suprematist painted decoration. Artist: Sujetin. Date: 1923. Productivism. Decoration from Malevich.

Modern looking tea cup on a small plate.

Title: Textile Design with red triangle within a circle. Artist: Popova. Date: 1923. Productivism.

Title: Color Design for Amsterdam University Hall. Artist: Doesburg. Date: 1923. De Stijl. Working with diagonals. Not challenging the sides, restating them.

Title: Self Portrait (The Constructor). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1924. Constructivism. Illusion of 3D created through photography. Graph paper, stencils, and compass alluding to geometry.

Title: Schroder House. Architect: Rietveld. Date: 1925. De Stijl. Deconstructs the building. Pieces articulated separately. Interior is fragmented, broken up, rooms are not cubes.

Title: Novyi LEF. Magazine cover. Artist: Rodchenko. Date: 1928. Productivism.

Title: Male Portrait (N. N. Punin). Artist: Malevich. Date: 1933

Creepy Renaissance-looking portrait of a man, seen in profile, very flat.