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Edgar Degas, The Orchestra at the Opera House c 1868-69 oil on canvas
-space is compressed, people are upfront
-barely see ballerinas |
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Hiroshige, Plum Estate, Kameido 1857
-woodblock print
-though not valued in Japan, Europeans thought they were incredible
-as though viewer is sitting in tree |
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Claude Monet, Impresssion, Sunrise 1872 oil on canvas
Impressionism = obvious brushstrokes, doesn't portrau scene accuratley, distortion of feeling |
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Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881 oil on canvas
-loose brushstrokes
-middle class people enjoying lunch |
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Eduord Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1881-82 oil on canvas
-bar maid has detatched look
-looks like she's thinking about something else
-artist creates mystery with mirror: when gentleman with top hat is present, she looks more animated
-why is the mirror at an angle?
-OR is the mirror what she is thinking about (since her eyes are looking down) |
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Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath, 1891-92 oil on canvas
-artist best known for depicting mother and children
-chest in background: loose strokes
-unusual perspective: we are standing abover her |
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Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Sun in the Mist 1891 oil on canvas
-wheatstacks are very abstract
-little information about object
-artist uses complements of color
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Paul Cezanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire c,1885-87 oil on canvas
-interested in space & how to build form through color
-gets to underlying structures
-reduces forms to flat plains
-creates scenes through plains of brushstrokes |
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Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples in a Bowl 1879-83 oil on canvas
-wall paper design has dimensionality
-no rest - everything is geometric
-busy
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Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Isand of La Grand Jatte oil on canvas 1846-86
-artist creates pointilism
-orderly, hardly an movement
-elegant long figures, but working class people
-artist believed that colors shouldn't be blended |
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Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Cafe 1888
-expresses sickness of humanity with red and green
-figures of sleeping hooligans |
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Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night 1889 oil on canvas
-idea of movement in sky |
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Paul Gauguin, Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) 1888 oil on canvas
-women are thinking about the vision
-flat areas of color
-makes us think about meaning
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Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? oil on canvas |
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Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
-inspired by invention of cinema |
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Edgar Degas, Small Dancer at Age 14
-artist's only sculpture
-real tutu
-gave bodice wax, but real ribbon
-shows realistic detail |
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Rodin, The Gates of Hell bronze
-based on Dante's inferno
-artist studied baptistry doors
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Rodin, The Thinker 1878-87 bronze
-artist was a modeler and would form figures
-light bounces off and becomes important |
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Rodin, The Burghers of Calais 1884-89 bronze
-6 figures
-one is holding a key
-texture of rough clothes
-meant for town square, but such a radical design |
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Victor Horta, Tassel House 1892-93
-first structure of Art Noveau
-creates curves on facade |
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Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila 1905-10
-apartment building
-biomorphic
-made of blocks of stone, looks like coral form/cliffs
-inside there are no straight lines
-no single room has 4 right angles
-2 wells in the middle bring light
-artist sculpts roof |
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Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building 1890-91
-artist becomes the father of the skyscraper
-new approach to building because of it had an iron skeleton
-form follows function |
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Louis Sullivan, Carson-Pirie-Scott Store 1899-1904
-highly decorative entrance on modern building |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House 1908-10 |
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Matisse, Woman with a Hat 1905 oil on canvas
-areas of color
-arm over chair roll hard to see
-flat surface of colored patterns |
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Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911
-patterns, objects he's describing
-trying to disrupt, illusionary space
-toys with figure ground
-didn't actually paint white, the white is the canvas
-space-time theme - no time on grandfather clock |
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles of d'Avignon 1907 oil on canvas
-response to Matisse's Joy of Life
-interior space
-supposedly brothel in Barcelona
-one person is drawing the back curtain
-abstract facials
-takes things and rearranges
-violent edges |
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Georges Braques, The Portuguese 1911 oil on canvas
-suggestion of head and arm
-circle suggests guitar
-intersecting planes make it hard to read waht is on top of what
-letters included
-abstracting forms & breaking them down, deconstructing |
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Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, & Wine Glass 1912 charcoal, gouache, pasted paper
-shapes suggested
-illusionistic woodgraph is part of the guitar
-plays with perception with space and layering
-this is synthetic cubism, which is constructing |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Steet Dresden 1908 oil on canvas
-unlike Matisse, colors are used to convey emotion
-space is amorphic pink surface
-idea of women coming forward asserting themselves
-mask life forces - shows alienation of people |
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Kandinsky, Sketch for Composition VII, 1913 oil on canvas
-animated forms
-wild juxtapositions of color
-none of it has a focus
-everything is on the surface and available to us |
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Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait (Man Turning Arm Around Head) 1910 watercolor, goache, charcoal on paper
-emaciated form
-we can see ribs & expression |
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Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1913 oil on canvas
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Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 bronze |
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Kasimir Malevich, Black Square 1915
-replaces religious Russian icons that were hung in corners |
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Vladimir Tatlin, Vladimir Tatlin's Tower or The Monument to the Third International 1923 |
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Marc Chagall, I and the Village 1910 oil on canvas
-cubist faces
-reference to village in Russia |
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Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 oil on canvas
-woman is moving down staircase
-20 simultaneous views, but representation of one action |
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Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel 1951
-artist decides art can be just concepts
-act of choosing is what makes artist an artist |
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Photo of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by Alfred Stieglitz 1917
-Duchamp buys urinal, turns it on its side, signs it, and dates it
-takes an article of life, changes it, and creates new thought for object
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Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany 1919, collage
-colored in countries where women have been given the vote |
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Joan Miro, Composition 1933 oil on canvas
-has reference to figures
-very simplistic figures, childlike |
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory 1931 oil on canvas
-times has ended in a way - insects on water
-insects imply decay
-paints precisely |
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Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow 1930 oil on canvas
-artist paints these grids obsessively throughout his life
-simple, suppose to bring us to higher thought
-artist believed objects were distractions
-wanted purity of feeling
-plays with thickness of lines and widens them
-edge doesn't got to edge of canvas
-artist thought through his paintings, people's perceptions would be heightened |
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Merret Openheim, Object, 1936
-Surrealist scuplture
-plays with idea of usefulness of object
-plays with 2 ideas of femeninity - fur & teacup
-made teacup sensous |
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Constantin Brancusi, The Newborn 1915
-humor with the screaming mouth
-artist takes away as much as he can |
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Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1932-40 polished brass |
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Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939 painted steel wire and sheet aluminium
-artist best known for mobiles
-works on balancing objects so they move more gently |
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Arthur Dove, Plant Forms 1912 pastel on canvas
-one of the first abstract artists
-primarily uses curvilinear forms |
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Georgie O'Keeffe, Black Iris III, 1926 oil on canvas |
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Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927 oil on composition board
-American version of pyramids
-place of confinement almost slavery
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Stuart Davis, Hot Still Scape for Six Colors - Seventh Avenue Style, 1940 oil on canvas
-6 colors used as instruments in musical composition
-influenced by jazz |
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Jacob Lawrence #58, In the North the Negro had Better Educational Facilities 1940-41 tempera on gesso on composition board
-shows importance of education |
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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 oil on canvas
-feeling of empty night time
-simplified forms, very geometric |
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Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944 oil on canvas
-suggests space |
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Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, enamel on canvas
-record of gestures
-expresses feeling on canvas
-artist interested in life energy
-web layers of line
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Willem de Kooning, Woman I 1950-52 oil on canvas
-expressive of vitality and activity
-vulgar and violent - dismembers figures and distorts
-says flesh was reason oil painting was invented
-blending brushstrokes & color create chaotic background |
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Barnett Newman, The Promise oil on canvas 1949
-huge compositions
-his compositions are visually one color, & animates canvas with seperations called zips
-juxtaposed straight edged zip with one with rugged edges
-the idea is to get you to think about detail |
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Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue) 1953 oil on canvas
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Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Caravaggio Boy) c.1953 |
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Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral - Moon Garden Plus One, 1957 painted wood
-has boxes filled with wool, uses pieces of furniture, doorways
-monochromatic, often black/white/gold
-takes trash and makes art
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David Smith, Australia 1951
-first artist to use steel
-gets rid of n otion that sculpture grows out from central core
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Cubi XVIII, CubiXVII, Cubi XIX 1963-64
-turns planes into 3d forms
-invokes awe |
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Robert Rauschenberg, Odalisk 1955-58
-uses collage elements
-male rooster
-the women on box make a gender suggestion |
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Jasper Johns, Flag 1954-55 encaustic, oil, and collage
-gave objects no context, so you see actual flag
-paints with process called encaustic
-thick vicous substance
-painting has texture
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Roy Lichenstein, Drowning Girl 1962 oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
-takes low form of art, comic strips, and makes it monumental
-adopts comic book style and melodrama
-women usually are helpless, plays on gender expectations
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Andy Warhol, Soup Cans 1962 sythetic polymer paint
-artist depicts low objects into art
-individual canvas, but each can is different soup
-reference to advertisign and consumer culture |
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Claes Oldenburg, Giant Hamburger 1962 printed sailcloth stuffed with foam
-soft sculpture |
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Morris Louis, Saraband 1959 acrylic resin on canvas
-actual fabric of canvas becomes part of color
-color field painting |
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Frank Stella, Empress of India 1965 |
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Donald Judd, Untitled 1969 copper
-perfect minimal sculpture
-geometry is basis
-minimalists play around with industrial materials (like copper)
-10 units
-we should appreciate scale of it, color, reflection of material
-minimalists = essential things
-got rid of tradition of pedestal |
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Dan Flavin, The Nominal Three (To William of Ockham) 1963
-material becomes light
-light is illuminating space
-says universals don't matter, only individual experience |
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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs 1965 Wood folding chair
-conceptualism - conception of art not as important as idea behind it
-there is the physical actual chair and a photogrpah of it
-on the wall there is a dictionary definition of the chair
-question: "What constitutes chairness?"
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Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S 1995
-connecting way we are fed information with art
-precursor to video art
-info fed to us through sysyems |
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Romare Beardin, The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism, 1964
-Black artists look to Africa to create black identity
-through collage, takes idea from contemporary works
-brings in aspects of African art
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Walter Gropius, Shop Block 1925-26
-creates idea of total architecture
-Bauhaus have utopian ideals
-strong design
-basic forms - rectangular structure, built with reinforced concrete |
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye 1928-29 France
-no ground floor, part of it is glassed in
-thin columns
-artist wanted an unadorned exterior
-artist's idea was that a house was a machine that serves functions of living |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House 1936-39
-there cantilevers - rectangular figures jetting out
-hearth is home - brings in the stone the house is sitting on into the house |
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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Seagram Building 1954-58
-thin rectangular block
-glass curtain interrupted by vertical grid
-geometric
-tinted glass amber
-used color to create difference
-example of International Style |
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Philip Johnson, Glass House 1949
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenhein Museum 1943-59 |
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Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House 1964 |
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Michael Graves, Public Services Building 1980-82
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum 1992-1997
-disorder, imbalance, dysmmetry
-an example of deconstructivism
-challenges our assumptions
-uses concrete, titanium, limestone
-builds curvelinear masses by computers
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