ART 120 Ch. 21
____________ , painted by Eugène Delacroix, shows the passionate and freer approach in Romantic art.
The Women of Algiers
____________ describes any style or art where the artist's subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation.
Expressionism
Berthe Morisot
- About this painter, a critic wrote "No one represents Impressionism with a more refined talent or with more authority." - Summer's Day
What characteristics are associated with this image?
- American Romanticism - Power of nature - Thomas Cole
What qualities of this image point to its Romantic style?
- Awe-inspiring landscape - Blurred contours
What characteristics are associated with this image?
- Colored shadows - Fluid brushwork - Sense of movement
What characteristics are associated with this work, by Vasily Kandinsky?
- Der Blaue Reiter - Expressionism - Nonrepresentational
What characteristics are associated with this image and the style of Paul Gauguin?
- Flattened forms - High-key colors - Tertiary color harmonies - Strong outlines
Impression
- Flickering strokes of paint - Less vibrant landscape painting - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Outdoor Painting
What qualities apply to this work, The Third-Class Carriage?
- Focus on everyday people - Realist style - Social truthfulness
Dada
- Fountain - Ready-made works - Artistic response to WWI - Marcel Duchamp - Provocative and absurd
Realism
- Gustav Courbet - Everyday, ordinary events and people
Vincent Van Gogh
- Known for high-key colors, agitated brushwork, and emotional intesity- evident in works such as Wheat Field and Cypress Trees - Stayed in Paris for two years, then settles in Arles, a small, rural town in the south of France
Cubism
- Pablo Picasso - Merging of figure and ground - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Reducing a subject to its simplest geometric forms - Georges Braque
Post-Impressionism
- Pointillism - More vibrant landscape painting - Georges Seurat - Painting of people
Surrealism
- The Persistence of Memory - Portrayed the logic of dreams and irrational subjects - Inspired by the theories of Sigmund Freud - Salvador Dali - Joan Miró
Expressionism
- The artist's feelings take precedence over objective observation - Developed in Germany in the early 20th century - Vasili Kandinsky - Use of intense, vibrant colors
Claude Monet
- The critic Castagnary used his painting to coin the word Impressionism for the movement - The critic Castagnary used his painting to coin the word Impressionism for the movement
Paul Gaugin
- Traveled to the South Pacific to get away from "the disease of civilization." - This painter's work showed a taste for the exotic, an aura of mystery, and a quest for the "primitive."
Futurism
- Umberto Boccioni - Focus on motion and energy
Hitler considered what type of art to be "degenerate?"
Avant-garde
The ____________ school emphasized simple building designs that were compatible with 20th-century technology.
Bauhaus
Realist painting sought to depict the everyday and the ordinary, a quality that can be seen in Gustave Courbet's ____________ .
Burial at Ornans
Developed by Picasso and Braque, ____________ depicted the world in geometric terms and with simultaneous multiple perspectives.
Cubism
Piet Mondrian was associated with the ____________ movement, which emphasized horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors.
De Stijl
Henry Matisse was a leader of ____________ , a term coined to describe "wild" tendencies in early-20th-century painting.
Fauvism
Originating in Italy, ____________ sought to depict the motion and energy of life of new 20th-century machinery.
Futurism
New York City was home to the ____________ movement, which merged African heritage, the legacy of slavery, and modern urban life.
Harlem Renaissance
A Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres believed history was the best subject for art, a preference that can be seen in his work ____________ .
Jupiter and Thetis
Salvador Dali's work embraced ____________ , a style that portrayed the illogical and incongruous nature of the dream world and the subconscious.
Surrealism
Why did Hitler organize an exhibition of modernist art?
To show the purported danger and immorality of modern art.