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.