Art history 101 final

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