Art Appreciation: Test 5 - Chapter 21: 1900 to the Present Art

Title: Still Life with Cherries and Peaches
by: Paul Cezanne
father of modern art, geometric shapes, spacial manipulation (no longer back and fore ground), concern for the formal aspects of painting rather than subject matter, and an equal intensity of co

Title: Violin and Palette
by: Georges Braque
example of cubism; realism nail with shadow shadow speaks to reality of world, and celebrates the acceptance of 2-D spacial confusion

Title: The Green Stripe
by: Henri Matisse
example of the Fauves; color pattern and painted for the sake of painting, always the question of real or not real, and explores colors

Title: The Large Blue Horses
by: Franz Marc
example of German Expressionism; bold colors and lines

Title: Sketch I for Comosition VII
by: Wassily Kandinsky
example of German Expressionism; illumination of object, color, and line movement

Title: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
by: Giacomo Balla
an example of futurism

Title: Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.)
by: Marcel Duchamp
example of surrealism

Title: Fountain
by: Marcel Duchamp
example of surrealism; the most influential artwork of the 20th century

Title: The Persistence of Memory
by: Salvador Dal�
example of surrealism

Title: Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
by: Giorgio de Chirico
example of surrealism

Title: Guernica
by: Picasso
example of politics and painting

Title: Nighthawks
by: Edward Hopper
example of american modernism and abstract expressionism; emotional isolation of the individual

Title: Portrait
by: Yasumasu Morimura
remake of Manet's "Olympis

Title: Odalisk
by: Robert Rauschenberg
example of pop art

Title: Whaam!
by: Roy Lichtenstein
example of pop art

cubism

a style of art pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first decade of the 20th century noted for geometry of its forms, its fragmentation of the object, and its increasing abstraction

Fauves

the artist of the early 20th century whose work was characterized by its use of bold arbitrary color, their name derives from the French word meaning wild beasts

futurism

an early 20th century art movement characterized by its desire to celebrate the movement and speed of modern industrial life

surrealism

a style of art of the early 20th century that emphasizes dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid thoughtless forms of notation that expressed it was felt the unconscious mind

abstract expressionism

a painting style of the late 1940's and early 1950's, predominantly American, characterized by its rendering of it's expressive content by abstract or nonobjective means

pop art

a style arising in the early 1960's characterized by emphasis on the forms and imagery of mass culture