Impressionism; Artist: Monet; Ca. 1872
Impression Sunrise
Impressionism; Artist: Renoir; Ca. 1876
(This painting is a convivial crowd relaxing on a Sunday afternoon at an old-fashioned dance hall called La Moulin de la Galette, "Pancake Mill". Renoir focused on figure painting, upper middle class at leisure, nat
La Moulin de la Galette
Post Impressionism; Artist: Seurat; Ca. 1884-1886; Pointillism
("Corrected" impressionism using this technique, pointillism. More natural, geometric, abstract, how Sunday's should have been spent with families, more idealistic)
Sunday Afternoon on the Island la Grande Jatte
Post Impressionism; Artist: Cezanne; Ca. 1890-1894
(Items incorrectly drawn, showing shifting viewpoints, he is rejecting the rules of traditional perspective)
Still Life with Basket of Apples (Not accurate picture)
Post Impressionism; Artist: Van Gogh; Ca. 1889
(Feeling of chaos and turmoil, tree doesn't function as a tree that we know of, tears into composition, impasto, one of his last pieces, gives a sense of pace and energy, there is some raw canvas, dealing wit
Starry Night
Post Impressionism; Artist: Gaughin; Ca. 1894
(Hope for a better future; seeking a more pure life in these islands; bright bold colors; thought all Greek and Renaissance art is a lie, ideal image, natural realistic, rejected that art, not offering truth,
Day of the God (Mahana no Atua)
Post Impressionism Sculpture; Artist: Rodin; Ca. 1884-1889
(Moves into modern {transitional artist},
Historical {14th century} in France, people were going to be put to death by king of England, to stop community from being killed, 6 offered their lives t
Burgers of Calais
Expressionism; Artist: Munch; Ca. 1893-1910
(Tempra and casein on cardboard; Norwegian artist; stolen out of museum multiple times {lack of security in Oslo}; no one hears you and don't care, alone and isolation; study of dreams/nightmares from Sigmund Fr
Scream
Fauve; Artist: Matisse (founder of movement); Ca. 1905-1906
(Avoid anything political, easy to look at, not offensive, don't think much about it, serenity, relief of stress from modern life; naked revelers dance, make love, commune with nature, or lounge;
Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre)
Cubism; Artist: Picasso; Ca. 1907
(Iberian and African influences, act of cultural rebellion, left figure refers to very historic geometric figures, two on right refer to as primitive; they are prostitutes)
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
(Synthetic)Cubism; Artist: Picasso; Ca. 1912
(Painting without painting, he invents collage, evoke a place and action)
Bottle of Suze (La Bouteille de Suze)
Cubism; Artist: Picasso; Ca. 1937
(Protest on war in 20th century; child-like image gives innocence, look through eyes of child, wonder; Guernica is small community on border of Spain, Nazi's sent in bombers to annihilate Guernica, Picasso was enraged; co
Guernica
(Analytic)Cubism; Artist: Braque; Ca. 1911-1912 {1909-1910}
(abstract; violin, artist's palette, sheet music, fragments, planes; breaking objects into parts to analyze them)
Palette with Violin
Non-objective; Artist: Kandinsky; Ca. 1912
(Music takes you to spiritual moment, religious moment; Titles are numbered like music is numbered; increase avenues of modern art; color influences the soul)
Improvisation 28 (not exact image)
Futurism; Artist: Boccioni; Ca. 1913
(Curving muscular edges, width, form; sense of stride, force, speed; cartoonists add movement to cartoons as the artist is adding to this sculpture; before he entered WWI)
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Dada; Artist: Duchamp {Founder of Dada}; Ca. 1917
(Protests art, pop art; conceptual; introduces ready-made-art after Picasso's collage; urinal transformed into a fountain; making art to debase art)
Fountain
Surrealism; Artist: Dali; Ca. 1931
(anxiety; the ability of the paranoid to misread ordinary appearances in order to free themselves from the shackles of conventional thought)
Persistence of Memory
Surrealism; Artist: Oppenhiem; Ca. 1936
(Someone told her to warm her tea with her fur coat which inspired this surrealistic sculpture; attracts and repels viewer; ready-made)
Object; Le Dejeuner en Fourrure/Luncheon in Fur) Fur-lined Cup, Spoon, Saucer
Gestural Abstract Expressionism; Artist: Pollock; Ca. 1950
(Used nontraditional objects like sticks to splatter paint; listened to jazz, self-taught)
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Gestural Abstract Expressionism; Artist: De Kooning; Ca. 1950-1952
(Brings figures into this movement, lines dominate)
Woman I
Modern Architecture; Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright; Ca. 1937
(In Mill Run, PA; Unique for modern architecture; Didn't want to disrupt natural setting, built his work into nature)
Kaufmann House/ Fallingwater
Pop Art; Artist: Hamiliton; Ca. 1956
(Collage, back of comic books Charles Atlas was model of man; signs of technology; vacuum with long hose; 60's stepped foot on the moon so there is a moon as the ceiling)
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?
Pop Art; Artist: Rauschenberg; Ca. 1959
(Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art; Inventive; Challenges painting and sculpture by tying them together; collage of painting, sculpture of eagle and something hanging off stick)
Canyon
Pop Art; Artist: Johns; Ca. 1955
(Assemblage; signs and symbols; cold war years)
Target with Four Faces
Pop Art; Artist: Warhol; Ca. 1962
(Started out with graphics and greeting cards; connects works to what is happening in society; used screen printing purposely showing imperfections; public vs. private)
Marilyn Diptych
Abstract Expressionism; Artist: Smith; Ca. 1964
(Sculpture; Brought Abstract Expressionism and Cubism together)
Cubi
Abstract Expressionism; Artist: Nevelson; Ca. 1958; Assemblage
(Sculpture; Assemblage of wood construction painted black)
Sky Cathedral (Not exact image)
OP Art; Artist: Riley; Ca. 1964
(Optical art; shimmering, waving, breathing; brief movement; counter-culture; same time as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the psychedelic movement)
Current
Minimalism
Where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject by eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. It is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect. Can't take anything else away.
Assemblage
Consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects originally intended for purposes other than art
Gestural
Abstract expressionism dominated by lines
Chromatic
Abstract expressionism dominated by use of color
OP Art; Artist: Walter Gropius; Ca. 1925-1926
(Progressive, Modern)
Bauhaus Building
Synthetism
combines artistic observations with a sense of emotional/spiritual expression, Gauguin developed a theory of art called ________ in which he advocated the use of broad areas of unnaturalistic color and symbolic subject matter.
Collage
_______ techniques bring real elements into the painting and make it something more than an optical experience. Painting without using paint. Used in the 'Bottle of Suze' by Picasso
Dynamism
An art movement to describe an object of sculptural forms motion. Gives a static piece of art energy and movement.
Pointillism
The use of thousands of dots(points) of uniform size of separate colors. The colors would then mix in the viewer's eye to produce the forms. Used by Seurat.
Illusionistic Surrealism
It renders the irrational content, absurd juxtapositions, and changing forms of dreams in highly illusionistic manner that blurs the distinctions between the real and the imaginary.
Reinforced Concrete
An advance form of concrete that contains steel reinforcement (rebar) or fiberglass reinforcing rod to strengthen it, allowing the structures to exhibit the freedom and plasticity. Used by architects like Frank Lloyd Wright.
Combines
Combinations of various recognizable objects and popular images.
Ready-Mades
An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.
Superrealism/Photorealism
Concerned with the sharp, photographic imagery that extends the trompe l'oeil style
Neo-Expressionists
_____ revive the abstract expressionist passions and techniques to comment on Post WWII Europe.
Feminist Art
_____ is the art of the 70's which focused on the power that kept women in a subordinate place in society and the arts.
Graffiti
Non-profit art expressed in public areas (walls, trains, etc.)
Conceptual Art
_____ defines art from the artist's idea rather than an object as final expression
New Media Art
______ embraces the potential for artists using the avant-garde of technology and electronic capabilities
Automatist Surrealism
_____ was an outgrowth of automatic writing and was used to express the mysteries of the unconscious through abstraction
Earthworks/Site Specific Art; Artist: Smithson; Ca. 1969-1970
(During Vietnam War, didn't want to use machinery or things of that time; material of earth itself but had to use machines to move material, ironic; primitive form)
Spiral Jetty (Upside down picture)
Performance Art
An art form from the mid-twentieth century. It produced works in which movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating with an audience replace physical objects.The purpose is less to tell a story than to convey a state of being.
Installation
A type of art medium in which the artist arranges objects or artworks in a room or gallery, thinking of the entire space as the medium to be manipulated. Also called environments.
Post Modern
Relating to art, architecture, and literature it reintroduces classical or traditional elements of style or taking modern styles to the extreme. Pluralism and diverse associations derived from societal changes and concerns.
Artist: M. Ying Lin; Ca. 1981-1983
(Washington DC; only abstract structure dedicated to a memorial; sculptures of soldiers in arms)
Vietnam Veterans War Memorial
Site Specific Art; Artist: Christo and Jeanne Claude; Ca. 1972-1976
(In Sonoma and Marin Couties, Cali; Nylon fence lasted for 2 weeks to make people appreciate the other side in which they would no longer see or go)
Running Fence
Grafiti/Street Art; Artist: Banksy
(Exit to the Gift Shop movie)
Feminist Art; Artist: J. Chicago; Ca. 1979
(One of two founders of feminist art; triangle symbolic to women; each place setting is dedicated to important women, 13 on each side)
Dinner Party
1913 First Exhibit in America (New York)
Armory Exhibit