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Art History-Exam 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/03/2013

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Georges Seurat

"Sunday Afternoon on the Grand Jatte"

Post-Impressionism

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Paul Cezanne

"The Bay from L'estaque"

Post-impressionism

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Vincent Van Gogh

"The Night Cafe"

Post-impressionism

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Vincent Van Gogh

"The Starry Night"

Post-impressionism

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Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec 

"At the Moulin Rouge"

Post-impressionism

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

"In a Private Room"

Post impressionism

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Paul Gauguin

"Spirit of the Dead Watching"

Post Impressionism

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Paul Gauguin

"Vision After the Sermon"

Post impressionism

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The Dream"

Post Impressionism

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Edvard Munch

"The Scream"

Post Impressionism

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Odilon Redon

"The Light of Day"

Post Impressionism

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James Ensor

"Ensor"

Post Impressionism

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

"Houses at Night"

German Expressionism

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

"Self Portrait"

German Expressionism

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Wassily Kandinsky

"Composition No. 7"

German Expressionism

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Franz Marc

"Fighting Forms"

German Expressionism

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Paul Klee

"The Twittering Machine"

German Expressionism

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Paul Klee

"Limits of the Intellect"

German Expressionism

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Egon Shiele

"Self Portrait Nude"

German Expressionism

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Ernst Barlach

"War Monument"

German Expressionism

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Kathe Kollwitz

"Death Seizing a Woman"

German Expressionism

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Henri Matisse

"Woman with the Hat"

French Expressionism (Fauves)

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Maurice de Vlaminck

"Woman in a Straw Hat"

French Expressionism (Fauves)

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Georges Rouault

"The Old King"

French Expressionism (Fauves)

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When is post impressionism?
Definition
1880s-1900
Term
What is post-impressionism a rejection of? What is it a response to?
Definition
-rejection of tradition
-response to impressionism
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What are some aspects of post-impressionism?
Definition
-looks at acceleration and moving ahead, the momentary, the everyday
-fragmented
-avante-garde
-negative space is important
-time is analyzed
-there are multiple styles
-work with solidity and content
-there is self-awareness
-brought back distortion
-black lines
-unmodulated color
-bring the emphasis to the canvas and technique itself
Term
What are some historical aspects of post-impressionism?
Definition
-there is an alliance of art and science
-toward 1900, there is anxiety felt about the fast-moving world
-question tradition
-there is an influence from the scientific method
-there is a split between physical/material progress versus spiritual/moral progress
-industrialization= specialization
-capitalist economy
-motion picture camera in 1890s
-Freud in 1905
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What technique did Seurat use?
Definition
pointillism; shows laws of colors
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What technique did Cezanne use?
Definition
architectural brush stroke
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What technique did Van Gogh use?
Definition
impasto- thickly applied paint; lots of parallels; intense color

-subjectify the objective
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What technique did Lautrec use?
Definition
subjected the objective
-was interested in the reaction of colors
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What technique did Gauguin use?
Definition
-externalized the idea- did not subjectify the objective
-symbolist: decorative, abstract, flattened off
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What was Rousseau's subcategory?
Definition
a modern primitive
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What was Munch's technique?
Definition
subjectify the objective
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What was Redon's technique?
Definition
symbolist; externalizes the idea
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What was Ensor's technique?
Definition
painted many masks
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What are some historical aspects of German Expressionism?
Definition
-bad economy
-extreme anxiety
-torn between optimism and the horror they knew
-crisis of spirituality- it was shattered by science, politics, war, tech advances
-competition of politics
-advanced science and psychology
-fragmented- they desired wholeness
-warfare
-stable and newtonian science replaced by changing science: einstein, concept of space and time, freud
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What are some aspects of German Expressionism?
Definition
-self-conscious; inward looking
-traced to individualism
-draftsman ship
-the essence
-actual styles vary
-isolation, fragments
-pathos and latent reality
-idea of imitation of nature
-describes the intangible- distorted colors and shapes
-primitism (influence of Africa)
-technique is part of the composition
-looked back to medieval times
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What is the bridge
Definition
-a group of artists that worked together (formed by 4 architecture students)
-looked to medieval craft guilds
-strove for new and immediate- inward truth rather than outward beauty
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Why did the bridge (german expressionism) look to the medieval?
Definition
simpler time with hard work; things made sense; spiritually focused; seemed like an honest time; they could understand the world
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Who was the leader of the Bridge?
Definition
Ernest Kirchner
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What was the blue rider?
Definition
-another group that worked together during german expressionism
-believed that something spiritual is there: can we see it? how do we show it? is it there?
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Who are some members of the bridge?
Definition
Kirchner, heckel, rottloff
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Who are some members of the blue rider?
Definition
wassily kandinsky, franz marc, paul klee, ernst barlach, kathe kollwitz,
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Fauves
Definition
-the wild beasts (because of color and composition)
-1905 and a few years later
-deal with the time period; leading up to WWI
-search for the universal
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What are some aspects of French expressionism?
Definition
-less anxiety; more formal concern
-youthful enthusiasm; expressiveness
-created their own salon
-rough draftsmanship
-colors in an arbitrary way
-cool, detached, experimental
-still use formal french tradition subjects
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When was analytic cubism? synthetic?
Definition
1907; 1912
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What are some aspects of cubism?
Definition
-objects are hastily in parts and pieces
-geometric shapes, lines, patterns, colors, textures
-"what it means to be modern"
-embraced the swift pace of modern times
-concept concerned: logical, austere look
-adds the element of time
-what an item looks like and its meaning are fully represented
-multiple viewpoints
-negative space is important
-rejected naturalistic depictions and conventional pictorial illlusion
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Analytic cubism
Definition
analyze the form and investigate the pictorial elements for conveying the meaning

-different views and angles of subject shown; adds time; negative space is solid
-shatter the subject and put it back together
-shallow depth; muted color
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Synthetic cubism
Definition
-no space behind the subject-it looks stacked
-synthesize the front of the canvas
-push recognizable objects
-dont analyze- they construct it (collage; writing added)
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What were cubist sculptures like?
Definition
empty space is as important as volume; sense of space; non-static; changeability
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What were the two expressionist periods that Picasso showed? When were they?
Definition
-blue period: 1901 to 1905
-rose period; 1905 to 1907
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When was futurism?
Definition
-early 1900s
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What are some historical aspects of futurism?
Definition
-WWI
-in italy- where there was a high art tradition and architecture: there was a decline of this after the 1700s though
-they wanted to get back on top after the decline
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What are some aspects of futurism?
Definition
-forward-looking
-avante-garde
-destroyed the cult of the past
-celebrates power, speed, war, technology, violence,, the modern
-imitation was despised
-critics are useless and harmful
-built off of cubism: but they add dynamic
-add simultaneity: multiple movements at the same time; a representation of successive movement
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"La Vie"

Pablo Picasso

Before cubism

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"Tatlin at Home"

Raol Hausmann

Dada

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"ambrose vollard"

pablo picasso

cubism

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"amorous parade"

francis picabia

dada

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"bicycle wheel"

marcel duchamp

dada

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"fruit dish and cards"

georges braque

cubism

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"the portuguese"

georges braque

cubism

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"les demoiselles d'avignon"

pablo picasso

cubism

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"mountain, table, anchors and navel"

Jean arp

dada

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"portrait of picasso"

juan gris

cubism

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"man with a hat"

pablo picasso

cubism

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"saltimbanques"

pablo picasso

before cubism

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"the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even"

marcel duchamp

dada

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"three standard stoppages"

marcel duchamp

dada

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"gift"

man ray

dada

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"merzbau"

kurt schwitters

dada

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"The street light"

Giacomo Balla

futurism

 

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"unique forms of continuity in space"

Umberto Boccioni

futurism

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