Living with art 11th edition chapter 21

Salon des Refuses

An exhibition for the artists rejected from the annual juried salon.

Ready-mades

Not created but designed by DuChamp.

Romanticism

Not so much a style but a set of attitudes.

Black lines no.189 by Kandinksy

"Color is a keyboard, the eyes are hammers, the soul is the piano and with many strings."

Surrealism artists

Dali, Magritte, Miro

What were Manet's two goals?

1.Paint modern life, and 2.Update two renaissance images as parody.

Bayhaus

A design school funded by the architect Gropius; intended to teach disciplines and eliminate divisions between all art disciplines.

Impressionism

Aimed to capture the impression. Artists did not want to portray a literal landscape but the sensation of a landscape.

Constructivism

Art should be applied or expression in architecture, theatrical productions, textiles and other visual forms.

Fantasy and Futurism

Art would move forward through exploring new subjects

The boating party by Mary Cassatt

Artistic liberation, bold simplified forms and flat colors mimic Japanese prints.

American artists

Bingham, Cole, Eakins, Cassatt

Futurism artsist

Boccioni, Chirico

The women of Algiers by Eugene Delacroix

Brush strokes are rich and edges are broken compared to Ingres clean-edge approach.

Neoclassicism

Characterized by clear contours, clean colors, and precise draftsmanship.

Street, Dresden by Kirchner

Colorful people, a woman can be made out touching a bag.

Luncheon of the grass by Manet

Critics were outraged because they thought he was trying to achieve fame by shocking people.

Le moulin de la galette by Pierre Renoir

Dappled light, filtered by leaves stirred, optical sensations through brushwork.

Romanticism artists

Delacroix and Goya

Post-Impressionism

Diversity of artists that came after impressionism. Carried on the bright palette and direct painting technique.

Pointillism Technique

Dots and dashes of color are optically blended when viewed. Created by Seurat.

Harlem Renaissance artist

Douglas

Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider")

Organized in 1911 by Kandinsky. He believed that spirituality and art were linked.

Expressionism

Feelings take precedence over objective observation. Developed in Germany 20th century

Neoclassical style

Felt that great art could only be made from great subject matter like history and the bible.

George Caleb Bingham

First american painter west of the Mississippi

Die Brucke ("The Bridge.")

Founded in dresden 1905; artists wanted to build a bridge through their art to a better, more enlightened future. Founder Kirchner

Cubism

Fragmented the figure and other elements into flat planes. The sum of ALL VIEWPOINTS could be painted.

A burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet

Group portrait of ornans society. Some thought artist pushed ugly too far. That the painting was too large to be full of nobodies.

Realism artists

Gustave Courbet

The joy of life by Henri Matisse

Harmony and well being. Color was ________ paradise.

De Stijl

Harmony between individuals and modern industry/technology.

What were the trends in America in the 19th century?

Impressionism, neoclassicism, romanticism and realism.

Fur traders descending into the Missouri by George Caled Bingham

In america romanticism was expressed through landscape and unspoiled land.

Surrealism

Inspired by Freud. They appreciated the logic of dreams, the mystery of the unconscious, and the bizzare, irrational, the incongruous and the marvelous.

Luncheon in fur by Meret Oppenheim

Inspired by ladies in fur coats drinking tea

Romanticism artists glorified what?

Landscapes, picturesque ruins, the struggle for liberty and exotic cultures.

Neoclassical Artists

Jaques-Louis David and Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Who was Ingres a student of?

Jaques-louis David, who went into exile after Napoleon fell from power.

What did many impressionists concentrate on?

Light and its transitory nature

Who was the leader of the fauvism movement?

Matisse

The persistence of memory by Dali

Melting clocks

Believed that vertical/horizontal elements and primary colors created rational beauty and balance in the world.

Mondrian

Impressionism artists

Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Monsot

Futurists

Motion its self was the new glory of the 20th century, and they sought to depict it in their art.

Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cezanne

Painted the mountain 75x. His work grew abstract. He wanted structure and order. His paintings became abstract bridge to cubism.

Cubist artists

Picasso and Braque

Salon d'Automne

Progressive alternative to the salon.

Dada movement

Protest art movement that literally meant "anti," It started in protest against WWI and the aftermath of society.

From slavery through reconstruction by Aaron Douglas

Rejoicing at the reading of the emancipation proclamation.

Post-impressionism artists

Seurat, Degas, Van-gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne

Constructivism was lead by

Tatlin

Fauvism

The freeing of color, using it as an independent expressive element.

Harlem Renaissance

The merging of three american experiences. African heritage, the legacy of slavery, and the realities of modern urban life.

Realism

The reaction against Neoclassicism and romanticism. Sought to depict the everyday and ordinary for their subjects. Also the first movement born in the 19th century.

Poetic objective

To arrange objects close together but not in harmony to provoke strangeness or disorientation.

What two inventions allowed artists to work outside and travel?

Tubed oil colors and the steam engine

Summers day by Berthe Mansot

Two fashionably dressed women on a summers day.

Romanticism

Urged the use of imagination, emotions, intuition, and individual experience in artwork.

Fountain by DuChamp

Urinal turned on its side.

Te Aa No Areois by Gauguin

Wanted to escape industrialized world, focused on expressing a spirituality in his art.

Fauves means

Wild beasts

Avant-Garde

referred to the "battle" to advance the progress of art against the resistance of conservative forces.