Art Test 5, Chapter 15|Key Works Part 2

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Arp
"Collage
 Arranged
 According
 to
 Chance"

Dada

Made by dropping haphazardly cut pieces of paper onto a surface and pasting them down the way they fell.

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Duchamp
"Nude Descending a Staircase"

Dada

(Anticipated the dada movement)

To Duchamp, men and women were machines that ran on passion as fuel

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Duchamp
"Fountain"

Readymade

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Andre Masson
"Battle of Fishes"

Surrealism

Automatism

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de Chirico
"Nostalgia of the Infinite"

Surrealism

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Dalí
"The Persistence of Memory"

Surrealism

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Gilbert
"Woolworth Building"

Modern America

Inspired a wave of Gothic skyscrapers

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O’Keeffe
"Dark Abstraction"

American Painting? Surrealism?

Bridge the gap between abstraction and biomorphic form

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Wood
"American Gothic"

(American) Regionalism

Realist tradition in this work. Provides a wonderful celebration of the simple, hard-working people of America's heartland.

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Lange
"Migrant Mother"

Straight Photography

detailing the plight of the people of rural America and the erosion of the land during the Great Depression.

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Bourke-White
"At the Time of the Louisville Flood"

Straight Photography

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Rivera
"The Great City of Tenochtitlan"

Mexican Muralism

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Kahlo
"The Two Fridas"

Mexican Muralism

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Douglas
"Aspects of Negro Life"

Harlem Renaissance

Documents the emergence of an African-American identity in four panels. The first portrays the African background in images of music, dance, and sculpture. The next two panels bring life to slavery and emancipation. The fourth panel returns to the theme of music.

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