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| Representational (naturalistic) |
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| Objects viewed by eye [Realism] |
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| Selective simplification/ exaggeration of objects |
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| Non-representational/non-objective |
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| Influence of African and Oceanic art towards abstractionism |
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Intense color, free brushwork
Henri Matisse (Blue Window) 2-dimensional, vibrant colors, formal design |
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Emotion and feeling as main goal (psych focus) use of distortion and/violence
Edvard Munch: (the cry/scream) undulating shapes reflect inner tension/anxiety
Kandinsky: (improv. no. 30/cannon)emphasis on effect of form and color |
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Reduces nature to geometric shapes, overlapping, simultaneous views
Pablo Picasso: (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) develops style becoming step to abstractionism; possibly most important artist 20th century |
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Nihilistic, post-war reaction to culture
Duchamp R. Mutt (Fountain) offers urinal as artwork-actually anti-art. |
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Surrealism (Superrealism)
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World of dreams, fantasy, incongruity
Marc Chagall: (I and the Village) Russian/Jewish influence
Salvador Dali: (Persistence of Memory) most popular, great promoter |
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Mexicans Diego Rivera (murals) and Frida Kahlo (personal themes)
Picasso: (Guernica) protesting facism |
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| Became official art style of Stalinist Russia |
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Abstractionism worked out to logical conclusion
Piet Mondrian: (Broadway Boogie) universal harmonies using pure forms |
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| Brancusi (Mde. Pogany) and Boccioni (Forms of Continuity in Space) |
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Organic: "form follows function": the design of a building should reflect the building's purpose.
Louis Sullivan: (Wainwright Building) Frank Lloyd Wright: (Falling water building and Guggenheim Museum) |
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| Late Modern Style Painting |
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Action Painting
Willem de Kooning: (Woman) slashing brushwork/violent-explosive energy
Jackson Pollock: (composition) "drip painting"--networks of swirling lines; energy made visible |
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| use of common objects, images from mass media, comic strips in cheerful acceptance of consumerism |
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| Andy Warhol: celebrates impersonal nature machine-oriented life |
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| Reduction of work to irreducible minimum--focus on art object itself |
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| Mies van der Rohe: (Chicago Apartments) rectangular skyscrapers of glass and steel |
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Late Modern Arch. "Organic Approach"
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more sculpted to fit purpose and space
F.L. Wright (Running Water Home)
Le Corbusier: Notre-Dame-du-Haut, France |
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| Postmodernism Architecture |
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I.M. Pei (glass pyramids--louvre)
Frank Gehry (Guggenheim 'spain' and Experience Music Project) |
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