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Pianist - Born in Hungary Moved to Paris when he was 2 Could still use his Hungarian background Groupies Greatest Pianist of ALL TIME Heard Nicol Pannini (violinists) I'm going to be to the Piano what Paganinni is to the violin Sold his soul to the devil |
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Christianity was a slave religion democracy wasn't good either Ubermensch = "over person" Nazi Germany came from his philosophies restless mood |
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Star Wars Motifs Ring Cycle - 15 hours |
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Court Composer Operas, symphonic poems - programatic, follow Listz - |
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German Post-Romantic Music Large Orchestras Long pieces Turns nursery rhymes into funeral marches Asian sounding Stayed within the Symphony structure |
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Almost impressionism - Bar at the Folies-bergere, naked girl at lunch with guys... Paris |
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Impression: Sunrise - kinda reminds me of turner, Red Boats, Argenteuil Darker shades of colors - not black just really dark green stuff... Most pure impressionist of the impressionists * Water Lillies Liked painting water |
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Public scenes Not a pure impressionist Women as symbols of life • Warmth, charm, Le Moulin de la Galette Girls at the Piano Traveled widely throughout Europe, More impressionist in color, less in shape/form |
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Rehearsal of Ballet key hole visions back stage people - every day life He often underlined the gulf between the Romantic façade of ballet and its down-to-earth reality… not entirely glamorous (yawning, stretching, haha…) |
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Rough Pastel - Mother combing Sara's Hair No depth to some things Mother daughter pictures One of the first Female artists |
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Girl Impressionist View of Paris from the Trocadero Far away from women but women are still in her pictures, etc. |
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Impressionist sculptor - Monument to Balzac Not meant to be seen from the same height - Height authority The Kiss: |
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Post-Impressionism Pointalism A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte The Circus |
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la Orana Maria: Hawaii looking picture... Madonna - Virgin Mary and baby Jesus in his painting - so it is religious Post-Impressionism |
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Wanted something to be durable - shapes, Still life in commode Mont Sainte-Victore Post-Impressionism |
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Post Impressionism not too fond of the catholic church Trees moving, not church Portrait of Dr. Gachet Night Cafe - terrible passions of humanity, gross nasty yellow and red coloring, no one is happy, |
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The Joy of Life Bright Colors Post-Impressionism The Red Studio - highlight all things of artistic importance...all other things are transparent |
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The Scream Dance of Life - with dead people Post-Impressionist |
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Casa Mila - Barcelona - no straight lines... except for the windows Wanted it to look organic Looks like a weird ice cream thing on top Stepped back to get a perspective on his building and got ran over! sad... Windows on the inside so everyone could get light... weird. |
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Two Men at a Table: To Dostoyevsky Violent and dark Post-Impressionism |
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Pentecost - all have little fire blobs above their heads weird... Post Impressionism |
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Salome - Post Impressionism Technique is old-fashioned but subject matter is not Time of like Stravinsky and stuff... John Baptist's head - weird...weirdNESS! |
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Cubism - painting what you know rather than what you see, flipside of impressionism Where is the performance - "Parade (Red Curtain)" "Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" paint two eyes on one side of the head... Random You know there are two eyes so paint both at once. "Lees Demoiselles d'Avignon" "Three Musicians" Synthetic cubism = synthesize material, if they say it's a guitar its true if it is newspaper true - "Guitar" Painted Las Meninas (after Valazquez - importance of artist) Guernica - what i did in middle school with creepy doll hand |
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Still Life with Violin and Pitcher - not Picasso because it isn't people - but it is CUBISM |
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Windmill in Sunlight bright colors, short thick brush strokes GRIDS - abstract... "Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray" |
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Green Violinist - cubism inverted, etc. draws on jewish heritage Blend in what is supposed to be out |
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Clocks - The Persistence of Memory Things appear to change as you look at them Invention of Monsters Liked Burning Giraffes and butterflies Metamorphosis of Narcissus Really surreal |
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Usually the subject of her own paintings Proud of her unibrow... |
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Man with a Newspaper This is Not a Pipe - This is not an Apple guy (The Treachery of Images) false expectations La Condition humaine - painting of reality that blends in with the landscape - but it's all just a painting |
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Around the Fish - weird... surrealism |
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L.H.O.O.Q. - Dada, Taking art off of it's high pedistal... |
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Armored Train in Action Futurist paintings - loved war, thought it was a social cleanser Like speed and bullets and metal |
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Soviet Film editor Montage weren't character driven propaganda - using art to sway opinion one way or another "Battle Ship Potemkin" (1925) |
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"Did triumph of will" about Hitler From Germany Good at finding different ways to view things Running camera with runners around the track, etc. @ Olympics |
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The Trial: blamed for something he didn't do, doesn't even know what he's being accused of...strange and impossible things... alienation, negative human relationships, social satires, futility |
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Only one who is poetry in our literature for this term, same themes as Kafka |
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a play - so it will be easy to figure out... |
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Setting of German text to music - piano accompaniment |
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Don Quichotte - Spanish Rhythm... west side story... solo men's voice singing in French with orchestra... |
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Russia 2 periods 1. Ballets for Sergei Diaghilev 2. chamber orchestra piece RITE OF SPRING RIOT |
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itallian, beautiful singing |
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Pictoral accompaniments in the piano part like the horse in Erlking,schubert |
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Short-piano work with a vaguely evocative title - usually published in a group, music suggestive of the title, "Character Piece" |
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Poland, Vienna, Paris, he wrote piano music, not like an orchestra...fragments, |
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Musical instrumental that really CLOSELY relates to the story, directly illustrating the story Idee Fix - distorted once he is in 'Hell' in his song… Dance Macabre - grotesque, deathly dance. (BERLIOZ) |
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German Requiem, Baroque style, ROMANTIC, counterpoint, movements, |
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Beautiful music - HIGH NOTES!!! Itallian opera term... Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini |
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Music is BIG, Restless drama, people caught in a fate beyond their control, crowd scenes |
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Opera und Drama, Gesamtkunstwerk, Ride of the Valkeries, Wagner societies, |
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Sinfonia Domestica (His own life in music "you can hear what he eats for breakfast ") Megalomaniac - later symphonic poems = egotistical view point struggles against himself and wins... |
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German Post-Romantic Music German Post-Romantic Music Large Orchestras Long pieces Turns nursery rhymes into funeral marches |
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realism, Madam Butterfly - Tragic story based on real life,die on stage, Recurring motifs People get strangled, stabbed, die in blood - OPERAS |
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pantonal, 12 tone, pierro lunaire, sprechstimme, |
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romantic, Wozzeck, killed his girlfriend - where is the knife? ice berg- titanic |
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got killed by a sniper, Applies this to the 12 tone system |
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Experimented because he was financially well off Cowboy English singing Experimental microtones - can't get it on a piano… notes in between notes Collage of music - musical quotes and putting them together… Joy of playing around with music |
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les demoiselles - CUBISM, picasso, |
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Salome Technique = old fashioned Subject matter = grusome John the Baptist's head and freaky lady Heightened emotion, passion, decadence |
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Salome Technique = old fashioned Subject matter = grusome John the Baptist's head and freaky lady Heightened emotion, passion, decadence |
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Influenced the Les Six movement - Jean Cocteau: "Simplicity is the greatest audacity" |
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Russia - short stories Outside of russia - MAJOR PLAYS READING #78 'The Bed' - Lawyer and man see who can stay in room for a year, secluded before he goes crazy, etc. "Saving Face" |
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monet, renoir, degas, cassatt, morisot, rodin |
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not interested in tonic, looked at music as sound, not expression, french, impressionistic, with Ravel |
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abstract - those lines, chunks of color, Boogie-Woogie, Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray (1921) |
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Paris opera house painting on roof, synthetic cubism (more than one medium), bright colors, Green Violinist |
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doing artwork where music is an obvious subject! |
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can't really tell what is in his paintings but he has alot of curved lines, like a can is curved... KAN DINSKY! Really can't tell what he's painting... Grungass in Murnau Impression III: Concert(1911) Composition VII (1923) |
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Bold and primal use of color Beasts - Art was so primal and dynamic and colorful French critics thought it was beastly - colorful |
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COOL! He's the one who does like painting with in a painting, 'this is not an apple' type of deal! Makes you think about his paintings, Man with a Newspaper, La conditione humane |
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Around the fish, flat images, phobism and surrealism but not really classified as either..., Art is Similar to music in it's ability to express emotion, |
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parade (red curtain), on-stage and off-stage audience, WHO is the REAL audience?... Guernica - like I did in middle school, AGAINST WAR... |
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Dachamp - L.H.Q.Q. - Mona Lisa messed up... Naughty... Pull down art and make fun of it... |
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armored train... super busy - like no white spaces, futurist painter, all about Movement and SPEED,morphed into itallian facism, |
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ALOT like severini... um...not as BUSY, less color |
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Propaganda - used to sway opinions |
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Picture of a FACE, then a baby, food, and a woman in a coffin - based on the juxtaposition of images, the face meant something else for each person even though the face was the SAME on each... |
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Cutting film and splicing together - MONTAGE Not character driven Large scenes - lots of activity, lots going on Battleship Potemkin (1925) - silent movie Steps of Odessa - people dying everywhere! ugh... |
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Hitler photographer...made him look good Triumph of the Will She had the power to tell Hitler what to do… Unusual shots Tracking shots, weird shots Inventing and applying beautifully we take for granted in film today… 250 miles of raw footage Edited down in 200 days… Documentaries always have an agenda Olympia (1936) Germany Olympics African American winning 4 gold medals Leni - sports photography Tracking shots Keeping up with the runners… Not just stationary cameras… Camera in the diving pool - |
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Thoroughly Depressing Literature |
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T.S. Elliot Joyce ("I never really got Joyce") Kafka Huskley ("I love reading Huskley") |
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Cats 1925 - inter-war period, a lot of experimentation going on Eliot was not a happy man Wrote "The Hollow Man" - a poem, during a particularly intense bout of depression Not happy! Structure reflects the subject matter well… Four Main Sources: 1. The Gunpowder (historical source ) Guy Fawkes Day - the day when England was Executions 2. Julius Caesar 3. Dante's Divine Comedy 4. Conrad's Heart of Darkness No moral compass, deeply disturbed man These sources tell you something about 2 Epigraphs - "Mr. Kurtz, he dead" - "Penny for the Old Guy" ***General impression of futility*** Redundant not unnecessary |
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from Austria, Felt alienated from the very beginning, - German speaking Jew, never accepted by Jewish or Bohemian, etc… (like Mahler - never felt like he belonged anywhere) Not well treated by his father. Didn't like his father… I have anything in common with myself, I should stand quietly in a corner being happy just to breathe… UGH! Metamorphisis Alienation The Trial ***FUTILITY*** |
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I LIKE HIM! Realism - that's probably why I like him :) Nighthawks LIGHT and Human Alienation - Human Isolation… |
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Ben Shahn - Miner's Wives |
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Fauvist Bright colors Synthetic Cubism |
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I LIKE HER - close up of flowers, etc. Fascinated with the light and nature interactions Patterns of nature Basic visual essentials Often with her flower paintings she'll go in so close that it seems to take on an abstract feeling Landscapes - south west, New Mexico, Arizona, reds, Flowers were important partly because they connote the feminism |
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If you can see the artistic value in this, you are better than most… Abstract expressionism THROWING PAINT AT THE FREAKIN PAPER... stupid if you ask me... "Number 1" mentally unstable, did his paintings on the ground, so it couldn't possibly be a window... |
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Totally non-representational, not abstract art, don't try to look for symbolism or anything in the shapes on the canvas… you can do that… but that is not what he is after… Public statements...Strong feelings… conflicting forces, pictoral language… archetypal image Political assasinations - woodstock - that is what is irrational, the REAL WORLD doesn't make sense - so since we don't make sense, we are making abstract art that has nothing connected with the world. "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" Simple big shapes, blobs, kind of unstructured big blobs of color... |
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BIG SOLID COLOR... stupid... |
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The Bay Blob color, Exploring pure color detached from any representation Lets paint run where it wants to go... |
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Guggenheim Museum, circular, have to go up the ramp thing... |
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Engineering used for functionality - very little ornament… what you see is what is actually holding up the building Truth and authenticity - letting the engineering show… "Palazzetto dello Sport" cool criss-cross stuff going on in the roof, then Y |
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TWA Terminal - museum… comercial jet flights becoming popular - Jetsons supersonic age Streamlined look Sculptural values of concrete Space inside is speedy and modern looking |
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Sydney Opera house - made to look like a MOUTH... Influenced by Saarinen |
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L'Unite D'Habitation High density housing RIGHT ANGLES No rooms on the ground level. School, bowling alley, houses, hospital, In theory they wouldn't ever have to leave there... |
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Skyscrapers - going back to Loui Sulivan, empire state building - they've been around for a long time Structure is spiritual, less is more MINIMALIST Let the engineering of the building show… Don't put a façade on it, Structure is the spiritual core of the building. |
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Popidou Center - weird stuff on outside, smooth glass on the inside... Mies van der Rohe international way… But all the escalators and stairs and plumbing is on the outside of the building… Then you walk in and the smooth glass is on the inside! |
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plaza d'italia - visually looks like Greek architecture |
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Maybe most important architect alive today Giant Electric guitar Weird shapes with concrete... American Center Paris |
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gutted the building and put on a new exterior, Did China's Bird's Nest Stadium |
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"Getty Center" Original Frank Lloyd Wright Low laying buildings that blend with the landscape Modular construction Symbol of where architecture is at today… |
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Crown Fountain - high tech version of a roman fountain - public place, where people get wet... Turns into a face and water comes out... Technological |
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BIRD SONG - strangely accurate Quartet for the End of Time (1940)- prisoner of war camp, he wrote this Devout Catholic, Religion, Bird song, End of musical and real time He can see colors - synaesthetic! |
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Prepared Piano ALWAYS MASKING HIS FEELINGS Studied with Schonberg Contemporary dance ensemble - Bacchanale (1938) Indeterminacy in music Cage wasn't comfortable in being a dictator - more leeway - entirely out of the lead role in composition FATE, chance, etc. Silence = 4'33" - this is a silent piece… no intentional musical sound made during the entire piece SO STRANGE - 4 1/2 minutes... |
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• "Flag" • Pays attention to very simple objects • He presents these just as they are, not to make a statement. • Pay attention to him |
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• If you see dead, decaying animals, it's him. Stuffed animals as art. • He plays with the objects he uses and the juxtaposition of them • Also toying with the idea of art decaying. Making art that is not meant to last. |
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campbell's soup, Marilyn Monroe, • Uses everyday objects • Likes the idea of reproducible art. Uses silk screen • He became a celebrity himself. He wanted to be seen by all. Fame hungry. One of the first Beautiful People (ex. Paris Hilton, Kardashiano, Britney Spears) |
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Painted both Portraits and non-representational art. |
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• Painted Black's. Interesting because he was a lighter skinned black so he could have chosen to Pass and say he's Southern European or something • He chooses to embrace his heritage, in both baseball and art. |
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• British leader of Pop-Art. Like America's Andy Warhol • Very minimalist, very flat, Bright colors • More optimistic than warhol reminds me of colors like Chagall, but prettier landscapes, more simple... not cubist at all... |
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• He was a metal worker
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• Mobile sculptures • Hangs from ceiling, balanced, constantly moving and shifting. |
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intricate sculptures made of furniture pieces, (paints them and puts them together.) • We're invited to respond in our own way to the objects |
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• Uses life size figures, but all white. Striped of identity
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soft fan every day objects in weird fashion... opposite of their purpose. |
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• Sculpture artist • Likes Neo-Classical and early American influences His scuptures are like smooth and weird and you kinda think they look like people but they could not be... |
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Earth Art Vietnam Memorial |
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• Obsessed with wrapping things. Ex: The orange curtains hung in central park. • The wrapped islands, wrapped buildings, curtains across California, etc… • He leaves everything better than he found it. Cool. Very famous • On test for sure. |
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SUPER COOL!!! Hyper realism. So real its almost too real. Like his fiberglass interpretations of people. Are they real? Hard to tell in the gallery |
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• Believed in promoting non-art. Anti everything with modern art • Conceptual art. The process of coming up with the idea is the art, not the art itself • "electronic superhighway" - technology overload. Too much going on • Look for T.V.'s and neon tubes |
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• Nameless Library - a library we don't have access to • It contains books and stories of holocaust victims. WE will never have access to these stories. • It is a sad work of art, very depressing memorial. |
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Cage was into silence, but he described sound in 4 parts |
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1. Pitch 2. Loudness 3. Tamber 4. Duration - MOST IMPORTANT |
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Cage Before and After - Pre-compositional, Post-compositional |
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got bad grade on his test so challenged professor Feed the piano a bale of hay Release a butterfly in the auditorium, the piece ends when the butterfly flies out of the room… quiet piece… haha… oh sheesh Set a piano on fire… not a minimalist but a conceptualist who opened the door for minimalists |
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Music had become alienated and un-human, wanted to make music human again… Symphonies in the style of Mahler in the 1960's "New Vocalism" - past for inspiration Ancient Voices of Children Quotation of older styles |
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PESSIMISTIC, no progress possible, reached the end, all down hill from here… |
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Only post-war development that has legs… in 100 years, textbooks will focus on Minimalism, not these other things… |
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classmate of Le Monte Tape Loops Open score, you can decide how many times you want to play your fragment The one song with the High C always going for like 10 hours... |
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Talented… went to San Fransisco - then moved back to N.Y. Got his idea from Terry Riley Played a fragment over and over - sometimes it was a political statement "Come Out" "It's Gonna Rain" after playing it over and over and looping it, starts to sound melodic...etc. Piano Phase 1967 - REICH - speed up the 8th notes etc... Won a grammy for "Different Trains" - his grandma says 'from chicago to new yark' in it a bunch... |
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Went to paris to study with nadia boulenge (boo-lan-jay) Given the opportunity to translate some eastern music to Western musical notation by Sitar player!!! Very repetitive… Additive Rhythm - take a rhythm motif repeat it a lot, then add a note and repeat that, then add a note and repeat that - gets longer and longer… music in 5ths "Einstein on the Beach" - nothing happens for 5 hours... Wrote about 3 figures in the history of humanity that change the way people think = Ghandi, Akhnaten changed the religion of Egypt temporarily… monotheistic… and Einstein |
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was blown up - end of Modernism… Buildings where lots of people should have lived, but no one wanted to live there… trash everywhere… Film by |
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strange and impossible things... alienation, negative human relationships, social satires, futility |
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§ Older forms and styles § Counterpoint rhythmic ambiguity § Big orchestral § Requiem has a choir and orchestra |
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Man who is in charge of Russian Ballet at time of Stravinsky |
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More natural Got rid of bel canto Focuses on the story more Strauss Tone-poems |
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Second generation minimalist, later than riche and glass… Conventional = 12 tone Moves to san Francisco - composer in residence Harmonielehre Short ride on a fast machine words taken from missing person's adds of 9/11 Politically active… minimalism today has really found it's niche on stage, music for commercials and movie soundtracks…etc. |
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Gregorian chant Style of composing: Tintinnabulation - bells |
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• Cantate Domino • Choral • Latin singing with organ accompaniment • Very chant-like |
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POST-ROMANTIC MUSIC - French response to Wagner |
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• Wanted to be French - different from German tradition and from Wagner • Music as sound, not as an expression |
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