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Title: The Raft of medusa Artist: Théodore Géricault Time Period: Romanticism/ The sublime Location: France, The Louve Significance: -vain hope of the shipwrecked sailors: the rescue boat is visible on the horizon—but sails away without seeing them. -real event -cannibalism
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Title: The Burningof the Houses of Lords and Commons Artist: J.M.W. Turner Time Period: Romanticism/ The sublime Location: Great Britain, Europe Significance: -fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament -2 paintings -artist saw the fire -captured the scene from different vantage points |
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Title: The Abbey in the Oakwood Artist: Caspar David Friedrich Time Period: The Sublime/ Romanticism Location: Dresden, Germany Significance: -he repeated variations of it a number of times -gothic ruin of an abbey church in the middle of winter - the decline of the old Church -nature reclaiming its place |
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Title: The Stone Breakers Artist: Gustave Courbet Time Period: Realism Location: France Significance: -Normal everyday people innormal everyday setting -Not a sense of hope -Industrial revolution ismaking society dirty and making a lot of poverty -Some what chiaroscuro |
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Realism |
-Portrayal of typical everyday people oreven lower class people -What is real about life at the time andplace of the painting |
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Title: Burial at Ornans Artist: Gustave Courbet Time Period: Realism Location: France Significance: -Funeral which is already pretty drab andmelancholy -Supposedto be normal everyday people, no one specific -Seea lot of the imperfections -Even tho there is the presence of jesuson the cross, it still show how dreary the after life is rather than the hopeand life ever lasting |
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Title: Luncheon on the Grass Artist: Édouard Manet Time Period: Realism Location: France Significance: -They’re not doing anything erotic butthey kind of seem like prostitutes -She’s starring directly out so itsnot delicate -reference to Titian/Giorginone -Seems like something is disheveledand rushed |
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Title:Olympia Artist: Édouard Manet Time Period: Realism/ impressionist Location: France Significance: -opposite of TitiansVenus of Urbino -Her shoes being on show that she is aprostitute -Manet is rejecting the idea that apainting has to have depth -flowers splotchy uncles |
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Title: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Artist: Édouard Manet Time Period: Realism/ Impressionism Location: France Significance: -“Folies-Bergere”: night club or bar for night -Mixing of classes provided a veryinteresting social dynamic for people -We are the guy in the top hat and yousee the backside of the woman -She is bent forward implying that sheis also for sale -Hestrying to give an impression of the momentary happenings of modern life |
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Title: Paris Street, Rainy Day Artist: Gustave Caillebotte Time Period: Realism/ Impressionism Location: France Significance: -Somethingyou would see walking everyday in Paris -Doesn’tfeel like the prospector is a certain person -Welook like were going to run into the people -Impressionism: ---Probably chose this weather in order toshow reflection of light bouncing off surfaces ---Shifting conditions of light and color |
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Sublime |
quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder -emotions -natural landscapes |
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romanticism |
-heros -revolutionary idealism -a return to nature |
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Impressionist |
-rapid, spontaneous and loose brushstrokes -more about the impression -how do you feel -not about the subject |
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Baronvon Haussmann/Haussmannization |
-Responsible for massive urban renewalproject of Paris -Haussmannization: constructed namearchitecture for Paris after tearing own the city |
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Title: Impression Sunrise Artist: ClaudeMonet Time Period: Impressionism Location: France Significance: -not focused on a subject but rather the emotions and feelings you get -Sunis trying to come through this thick smoke -Looseapplication of stokes= impressionist -Capturelight rather than the subject -Leavesthe interpretation and details up to the viewer -Useof limited palate -Doesn’tuse lines to indicate images but he uses texture -“Forgetwhat objects you have before you until you naïve impression |
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Title: Rouen Cathedral Artist: Claude Monet Time Period: Impressionism Location: France Significance: -Paintingthe same subject over the course of a year/day when light was different -GothicChurch -Notinterested in capturing the details of form -Thetextures actually cast little tiny shadows -Eventhough they look sloppy it took a lot of time |
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Title: Summers Day Artist: Berthe Morisot Time Period: Impressionism Location: France Significance: -Moreenergetic and quick application of paint -The zig zag pattern -You can read them as those animalswithout actually seeing details ---No Depth aka could be wall paper -Onlyfocuses on color and light -Meantto be viewed from are away |
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Salon des Refusés (Exhibition of the Rejects) |
an exhibition for works that were typically weird and rejected
-Manet, Olympia |
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Emile Zola |
French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism |
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Title:A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Artist: GeorgesSeurat Time Period:Post Impressionism Location: French Significance: -impressionist subject: ---Not trying to give us a snapshot of a particulartime or day -pointillism (dots) -comes into view when you step back -Troubling for some people ---cant see people faces |
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Title: Starry Night Artist: Vincent van Gogh Time Period: Post-Impressionism Location: German Significance: -Art was merging into thisexploratory area --what makes us tick -Attacking impressionism inhis writing -This is not a directportrayal of what the world looks like but this what it looks like in his head |
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post impressionism |
- how we see andcomprehend what we see-vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary colour. |
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Title: Mont Saint-Victoire Artist: Paul Cézanne Time Period: Post-Impressionism Location: South france Significance: -Looksmore impressionism ---But hes not trying to capture a certainmoment -Hes looking at light and color and at everything else -looking at scene in 3D view and how youcan flatten an image |
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Title: Mountains atCollioure Artist: André Derain Time Period: Fauvism Location: France Significance: -Similar to Post-Impressionism: --Short brush strokes --Contrasting colors -Differences: --More blending of color --Not so much capturing light --Showing different emotionsmore than capturing light --More white space |
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Fauvism(Fauves) |
-Looks wild -bold colors -unrealistic -early expressionism |
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Expressionism |
-artist strives to convey his personal feelings about the object painted, rather than merely record his observation of it -Showingemotions through paintings |
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Title:The Joy of Life Artist: Henry Matisse Time Period: Fauvism Location: Paris Significance: -“WhatI an after, above all is expression” -Colorsplay a key role in expression -Joyof life showing the actual joys of life |
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Title: Improvisation 28
Artist: Vassily Kandinsky Time Period: Expressionism Location: France Significance: -Abstractgoes against our tendency to look -Tryingto get us to understand that there’s a visual component that invokes other senses -Synesthesia |
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Vassily Kandinsky, Concerningthe Spiritual in Art (1910) |
book by kandinsky -Art is the expression of the spiritual atmosphere of a certain period |
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Synesthesia |
he production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. ---hearing sounds through different colors |
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Arnold Schönberg |
-Austrian composer and painter -song we listened with kandinskys painting --sysnesthesia |
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Cubism |
-Willfuldistortion of how things look -Notdepicting things the way we see -Lookingat a 3D cube like you’re looking through a prism -Bothgives a true point of view and a not true point of view |
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Semiotics |
-Thestudy of the constructions of language -Studyof all the building blocks of language -Doesn’thave to be just verbal |
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Synecdoche / "pars pro toto" |
-Parspro toto: part of whole -Whena part represents the whole -Referto the idea without even saying the idea -notsaying things literally |
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Analytic Cubism |
Paintingsor drawings on a flat surface with pigment painted on it |
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Synthetic Cubism |
-Useof collage -Manifestationof actual objects -Allflattened no 3D |
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Title: (Young Ladies of Avignon) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Artist: Pablo Picasso Time Period: Cubism Location: France Significance: -willfull distortion -Probablyprostitutes who work at the club “Avignon” -Hewas often influenced by African masks --Samething as bringing you to the brink of abstraction without actually going overit -Looksas if something is going on and they all turned to look at you ---Figureon the left is pulling a curtain back to reveal the prostitutes |
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FilippoMarinetti, The Foundation and Manifestoof Futurism |
-book that laid out all of the rules for futurism -crazy rules -reject everything from the past -be dangerous |
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Title: Violin and Palette Time Period: Analytic Cubism Location: N/A Significance: -geometrical -Howlittle can you include before its not recognizable anymore -TheF holes let us know that this is still a violin -Maybesome hints of sheet music |
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Title: Glass and Bottle of Suze Artist: Pablo Picasso Time Period: Synthetic Cubism Location: N/A Significance: -Syntheticway of showing still life -Actuallabel if the bottle of Suze -Newspaper ---Isit on our lap or on the table -Wallpaper ---Roomwhere the table setting takes place |
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Futurism |
-Centeredin Italy -Takingsomething of the look of cubism --Shallowspaces & Crinkledlook -Onlyresembles cubism it on the surface -Futuristideals ---Aggressivelylaying out the philosophy that anything hold back must die - Weshould look forward into the future and forget everything of the past |
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Title: Ma Jolie Artist: Pablo Picasso Time Period: analytic cubism Location: N/A Significance: -Verypopular song -Maybea musical instrument -Noreal depth |
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Title: Armored Train in Action Artist: Gino Severini Time Period: Futurism Location: Italy Significance: -Focusedon technological advances -Militarism -Tryingto capture an essence of movement -Allabout machine, mechanical, and the future |
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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space Artist: Umberto Boccioni Time period: Futurism Location: Italy Significance: -Mockof the angel with no head who was seen as the pinnacle of beauty from greece -Supposedto be the essence of speed and movement --Removedfrom the specificity of one thing -cubism because crinkled but not because 3D -Painting in gold leaf -Bareblocks of metal as the feet representsthe metal industry which needs to move forward to advance society |
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dada |
-Never follow any known rules -Verycontroversial -Grewout of frustration of WWI -Anyonecan do it -Notlimited to physical art -Startedin Italy but moved to New York and became different |
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Hugo Ball reciting the sound poem "Karawane,"photographed at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 1916 [Dada]
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Title: Fountain Artist: Marcel Duchamp Time Period: Dada Location: new york Significance: -Duchampsubmitted the urinal under a pseudonym “Richard Mutt” -Gotrejected but he knew it was going to --Hewrote a response and got it published as Marcel |
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Ready-mades |
something that is already made that you can pass off as “art”
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Marcel Duchamp, "The Richard Mutt Case" (1917)
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letter that Duchamp wrote in response to his "art" of a fountain being rejected from the art show in New York
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Title: L.H.O.O.Q. Artist: Marcel Duchamp Time Period: Dada Location: New York Significance: -MonaLisa with a mustache and beard -Postcard -Meantto be funny -LHOOQ: ---Elle a chaud au cul: she’s got a hot ass |
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Surrealism |
-dream imagery to show the inner workings of the mind -used symbols as a method of telling a story -tried to incorporate the innerworkings of the mind -WWI was a big influence |
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Psychoanalysis |
process that pioneers of psychology that studied what makes us tick
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The Unconscious |
the unaware notion of ourselves. More irrational behaviors and thoughts. Why we get uncomfortable about things.
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Paranoid-Critical Method |
you turn off your conscious self and let your unconscious take control
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Title: Object (Luncheon in Fur) Artist: Meret Oppenheim Time Period: Surrealism Location: Europe Significance: -Everyday objects coveredin gazelle hair -Disgust, Grotesque -Don’t want these objects actually going into your mouth -How do you analyze this --Do you have some weird thing about fur -Juxtaposition of unlikethings give one a sensation that you would not have experienced before |
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Title: The Horde Artist: Max Ernst Time Period: Surrealism Location: germany Significance: -Automatic drawing/Grattage: --Turn off your conscious self to let the scary things within usto be in charge --He would just simply paint these shapes and then they wouldstart to form these monsters from within Max |
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Title: The Birth of Liquid Desires Artist: Salvador Dalí Time Period: Surrealism Location: Spain Significance: -He created an image that is not rational by turning off hisconscious -Intriguing style that looks somewhat realistic that is not atall realistic --Looks like a landscape with 3D objects occupying the space --Trying to take the emotions and fears that live in oursubconscious and give it a physical aspect |
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film we watched with the eye |
Title: Un chien andalou Artist: Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñue Time Period: Surrealism Significance: -a lot of symbolism -weird things that makes you cringe |
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Abstract Expressionism |
-centralized in america -brush stokes revealed the artist's process -use of a medium -the process was the art itself -analyzing feelings from art |
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Harold Rosenberg |
Art critic who thought that abstract expressionism was all about the medium rather than the feelings behind it |
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Clement Greenberg |
art critic who thought that the abstract expressionism was all about the feelings behind them and the process rather then the medium |
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Title: Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) Artist: Jackson Pollock Time Period: Abstract Expressionism Location: America Significance: -Didnot use normal materials --Industrial paint, Sticks, Other natural things around him -what he can control vs. what he cannot -“Iwant to express my feelings rather than illustrate them” -“WhenI am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about…I can control theflow of paint; there is no accident as there is no beginning or end.” |
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Title: Woman Artist: Willem de Kooning, Time Period: Abstract Expressionism Location: America Significance: -Low-keydisturbing -Wantsto find the line between pure abstraction and representation - How’s it different? --Brushis actually touching the canvas |
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Pop Art |
-Immediacyof the availability of things -Everything is now mass produced --Consumerism -Massproduction -Determines what the styles are -Gets rid of uniqueness andindividuality -Pop=popular -Cameabout after WW2 |
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Silkscreen |
a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing. |
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Benday (or Ben-Day) dots |
-big dots that are used to create a comic like tone -creates a different tone the further away you are -dots so that the color is notsaturated |
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Title: Just what is it today that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? Artist: Richard Hamilton Time Period: Pop Art Location: america Significance: -One of the first pictures to comment on the coming about of massproduction -Collage from a bunch of different magazines and catalogues -View into domestic setting that shows who we are in this day andage -People are also products of mass production |
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Title: Marilyn Diptych Artist: Andy Warhol Time Period: Pop Art Location: america Significance: -Making commentary on new emerging celebrity culture -Use of colors are not human - since it was made using silksceen he was also mass producing -Diptych: Calls into mind religiousaltarpieces |
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Title: “Oh, Jeff…I love you, too…but…” Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Time Period: Pop Art Location: America Significance: -Notmuch depth --Linesand color - painted the dots by hand even tho it looks mass produced -Nota real comic panel -leaves us questioning what is before and after the "panel" |
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Title: Brushstroke Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Time Period: Pop Art Location: America Significance: -Aggressiveness -Bendaydots -Dippingof paint itself -Turnedit into a mechanized mass produced -Not actually painting with the strokes shown |
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Minimalism |
ny kind of personal expression is kept to a minimum, in order to give the work a completely literal presence -focus on medium and the materials -often have many interpretations |
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Conceptual Art |
the idea (or concept) behind the artwork, and the way it is made are more important than the finished work itself |
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Earth Art |
-You can use the naturallandscape and natural environment to construct art -Used both as material and alocation of art -Huge scale due to no limitsof outside |
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Title: Untitled Artist: Donald Judd Time Period:Minimalism Location: America Significance: -These things are created in multiple versions -Different colors indifferent museums -just blocks going up walls -Playing with the idea of authorship --He was the author of theidea --He didn’t craft the boxesby hand -How much can we strip away before there’s nothing at all -If you see it in multiplesyou’re seeing on subset that could go one forever |
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Title: untitled (Mirror Cube) Artist: Robert Morris Time Period: Minimalism Location: America Significance: -These things are created in multiple versions -Playing with the idea of authorship -How much can we strip away before there’s nothing at all -more about what you interpret them as |
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Title: One and Three Chairs Artist: Joseph Kosuth Time Period: Conceptual Art Location: america Significance: -Conceptual art you don’t usually have an specific work of art --The art is the idea thatsigns and object and words -Trying to understand what role language plays with objects -“Art work that was the idea of an artwork” -these works were all created for museums |
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Title: Spiral Jetty Artist: Robert Smithson Time Period: Earth Art Location: Salt Lake City Significance: -Rework the materials already provided by the earth to create art -Much more sensitive to the state of our environment -Work is also susceptible to all the forces of nature --Ever-changing --Eventually it willdisappear --Work of art becomes part ofearth itself |
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Title: Tilted Arc Artist: RichardSerra Time Period: Post-Modernism Location: New York City Significance: -giant eye sore that was in the city -vandalized -symbolism -people hated it so it got taken down |
