Avant Garde
Artist work ahead of general population usually out of the ability for the public to understand
Cubism
Based on the representation of multiple views, geometric reconstruction
Fauvism
Art is color, movement characterized{wild beasts}
Expressionism
Characterized by bold execution of distortion symbolic in inventive color in order to express the feelings of the artist
Dada
Silliness, abandoned all logic and reason doesn't make sense ridicules contemporary culture and art
Readymade
Art that needs to be repurposed anything can be seen as art, (already made)
Surrealism
Dream, imaginary unconscious mind (melting clocks)
Pop art
Popular culture imagery of real world mass production mostly pop culture (Marilyn Monroe)
Colorfield painting
Large fields of color that evoke an emotional or esthetic response stand silent and wait for the colors to affect you.
Munch the scream
Movement: expressionism
Someone is screaming frightening
Matisse the joy of life
Fauvism color, utopia paradise happy joyful
Kirchner street dresden
Against modern life everyone has a mask no commutation little girl hates it as well, bathers on back show how life should be bright colors more natural colors back of painting is opposite happy and more natural
Braque the emigrant
Cubism; abstract art man playing guitar on boat dock abstracting the image breaking apart and putting back together
Picasso les demoiselles of Avignon
Prostitues, representation sharp and pointy confrontation masks, influenced by African masks makes us the clients
Duchamp LHOOQ
She has a hot ass, or he does dada artist making fun of modern art, Mona Lisa makes her face slightly look like his
Dali persistence of memory
Melting clocks, dream puts painting in landscape where he grew up, melting clocks show that time is disordered in dreams losing time ants=death
Mondrian Trafalgar Square
Trying to find order vertical and horizontal only, black and white equals order only primary colors chaotic after war hates nature brings out humans animal side
Pollock autumn rhythm
Removed objects from art no imagery drip splatter no real focal point allows paint to be paint very masculine shifts art world to NYC instead of Paris
Warhol Marilyn Diptych
Screen print what a celebrity is strange color combinations repetition of her face marketable
Chicago the dinner party
Popular women symbolic influential plate looks like flower woman genitalia 1,398 total women