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Art History
Undergraduate 2
02/08/2012

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Term
[image]
Definition
  • Boulevard du Temple
  • Dagurro-type
  • Busy Paris street, but you cant see any people except for the men in the corner becasue they are standing still long enough to be registered
  • Draw back: can't capture action scenes, busy city scenes are eerily vacant
  • This picture was taken out of Daguerre's room window
  • There can be far more detail and more accurate than paintings
  • "photographic truth"- problematic idea
  • difficult to alter, hand tinting only
  • taken without a camera
  • cuts off things from the edges
  • photography


Term
[image]
Definition
  • Third Class Carriage
  • Honore Daumier
  • c.1862
  • oil on canvas
  • 26" x 35.5"
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
  • Shows the upper middle class and the higher classes how everyone else lived.
  • Realism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Olympia
  • Edouard Manet
  • 1863
  • oil on canvas
  • 51.4" x 74.8"
  • Musee d'Orsay, Paris
  • Grandfather of Impressionism
  • Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Impression: Sunrise
  • Claude Monet
  • 1863
  • oil on canvas
  • 19 5/8 x 25 1/2"
  • Marmottan Museum, Paris
  • Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Le Moulin de la Galette
  • Pierre Auguste Renoir
  • oil on canvas
  • 51.6" x 68.9"
  • Musee d'Orsay, Paris
  • Focuses more on social scenes instead of nature scenes
  • he is the only one who uses black straight from the tube
  • he adds light coming through the trees which would probably look a lot different if it wasn't there
  • Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sunday Afternoon
  • Georges Seurat
  • 1884-1885
  • oil on canvas 
  • 81 x 120cm
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • always wore perfectly pressed clothing
  • used pointilism from for this painting, dots are more regular in shape and all the same or close to the same size.
  • Impressionist subjects
  • Made drawings and sketched before he painted his images
  • Post-Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Mont Sainte-Victoire
  • Paul Cezanne
  • 1902-1906
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 1/2" x 32"
  • Collection Mrs. Louis C. Madeira Gladwyne, PA
  • Post-Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Vision After the Sermon
  • Gauguin
  • 1888
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4" x 36 1/4"
  • National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Abandoned his family so he could paint, he walked around with a monkey on his shoulder and found a liking to the most outlandish company he could find.
  • Post-Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Night Cafe
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • 1888
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 1/2" x 35"
  • Yale University Art Gallery
  • Changes his color palette once he goes to France
  • Gives kind of an eerie feeling as he tilts everything toward the audience
  • Colors clash, he uses contrasting colors (can give either an energetic feeling or a feeling of anxiety)
  • Art became therapeutic, a way to go into a different mind
  • If Van Gogh was alive today he probably would have been diagnosed as bipolar
  • Had addiction issues and drinking something that may have caused some additional issues
  • Post-Impressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Salome with the head of John the Baptist
  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • 1893
  • India ink and watercolor
  • Use very curvy lines
  • Art Nouveau
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Tropon
  • Henry van de Velde
  • c. 1888
  • Advertising Poster
  • 47 5/8" x 29 1/8"
  • stylized plant designs
  • Art Nouveau
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Tassel House (interior stairwell)
  • Victor Horta
  • Brussels, Germany
  • 1892-93
  • Stairwell of Interior (Tassel House)
  • Art Nouveau
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Portrait of Madame Matisse
  • Henri Matisse
  • 1905
  • oil on tempura on canvas
  • 15.875" x 12.875"
  • Royal Museum, Copenhagen
  • Fauvism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Joy of Life
  • Henri Matisse
  • 1905-06
  • oil on canvas
  • 69.125" x 94.875"
  • Barnes Foundation, PA
  • Fauvism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Turning Road L'Estaque
  • Derain
  • L'Estaque
  • 1906
  • oil on canvas
  • 4'3" x 6' 4 3/4"
  • Fauvism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Street, Dresden
  • Ernst Ludwig Kircher
  • 1907
  • oil on canvas
  • 4'11 3/4" x 6'6 7/8"
  • Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Look depressed, alienated from one another even though they are right next to each other
  • Reflective of people during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when they moved more towards the city for jobs and away from their family
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Last Supper
  • Nolde
  • 1909
  • oil on canvas
  • uses a lot of religious imagery, chooses familiar religious themes and applies them to contemporary themes.
  • Crowded, compact in comparison to Da Vinci's Last Supper
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Standing Child
  • Heckel
  • 1910
  • color woodcut
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Death seizing a woman
  • Kollwitz
  • 1934-36
  • Lithograph
  • Printmaker
  • One of the few women artists during this time period
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Composition VII
  • Kandinsky
  • 1913
  • oil on canvas
  • approx. 6'6" x 9' 11"
  • "first" non-representional artists
  • Kandinsky's painting of "Music"
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Large blue Horses
  • Franz Marc
  • 1911
  • oil on canvas
  • 3'5 5/8"x 5'11 5/16"
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • German Expressionism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Houses at L'Estaque
  • Braque
  • August 1908
  • oil on canvas
  • appro. 29"x24"
  • no horizon line
  • Cubism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Woman's head
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sculpture
  • Iron
  • Cubism
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
  • Picasso
  • 1910
  • oil on canvas
  • approx. 39"x29"
  • analytical cubsim
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Still Life with Chair Caning
  • Picasso
  • 1912
  • shaped canvas with rope frame
  • oil on canvas with printed chair cadent
  • Cubism
Term

Early Photography

Type 1

Definition
  • Henry Fox Talbit made the negative process which presided
Term

Early Photography

Type 2:

Definition
  • Niepece and Daguerre made a metal plate that worked with light sensitive paper
  •  still used SOME of the old styles
  •  they thought what they depicted were disappearing
  • Precursor to Modernist movement
Term
Realism 
Definition
  • non-traditional and they had more wiggle room
  • depicted everyday people
  • still used SOME of the old styles
  • they thought what they had depicted were disappearing
  • precursor to Modernist movement
Term
Impressionism
Definition
  • fleeting moment
  • painted what they saw
  • used paint out of the tube
  • visible brush strokes
  • no more under drawings
  • color is effected by the light
  • going spontaneously
  • broke away from the salon and established traditions
Term
Post-Impressionism
Definition
  • influenced by impressionismbut had their own twist
  • umbrella term
  • symbolists
Term
Art Nouveau
Definition
  • "new art"
  • no central location but focused on interiors, clothing, art, jewelry
  • sinewy/curvy lines
  • stylized
Term
Fauvism
Definition
  • COLOR and abstraction
  • distorted forms
  • neutral forms and subjects
Term
Cubism
Definition
  • First conceptual movement
  • used fracturing and blending of the subject and background
  • analytical (views of one subject from all over) and synthetic (first mixed media and mass produced materials)
Term
German Expressionism
Definition
  • emotional and not a lot of drastic color sometimes
  • emotion based on fear from the coming war
  • de bruca who had fearsome subject matter
  • Blaue Reiters who had no commonality but liked spiritual and emotional representation
  • capture something intangible
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