Test 3

Diego Rivera

"All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters . . . Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist

Harold Rosenburg

"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act - rather than as a space in which to reproduce . . . an object, actual or imagined."

Robert Motherwell

"Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss."

Jean Dubuffet

"I see no great difference (metaphysically, that is) between the paste I spread and a cat, a trout or a bull. My paste is being as these are. Less circumscribed, to be sure, and more emulsified . . . foreign to us humans, who are so very circumscribed, so far from the formless (or, at least, we think ourselves to be)."

Stuart Davis

"In speaking of French art as opposed to American the assumption is made that there is an American art. Where is it and how does one recognize it?"

Diego Rivera

"Mural art is the most significant art for the proletariat . . . But the easel picture is an object of luxury, quite beyond the means of the proletariat."

Jackson Pullock

"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from all four sides and literally be in the painting."

Jean Dubuffet

"Remember that there is only one way to paint well, while there are a thousand ways to paint badly: they are what I'm curious about; it's from them that I expect something new, that I hope for revelations."

Francis Bacon

"Suddenly, the lines I'd drawn suggested something totally different, and out of this suggestion arose this picture . . . It was like one continuous accident."

Holgar Cahill

"Surely art is not merely decorative, a sort of unrelated accompaniment to life. In a genuine sense it should have use . . ."

Henri

"Take any American and develop his mind and soul and heart to the fullest by the right work and the right study, and then let him find through this training the utmost freedom of expression . . . and without question his art will be characteristically American, whatever the subject."

Stuart Davis

"The Armory Show was the greatest shock to me - the greatest single influence I have experienced in my work. All my immediately subsequent efforts went toward incorporating Armory Show ideas into my work

Marks Rotko and Adolph Gottleib

"We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth."

Newman

"Zip" paintings

By Stieglitz

291 Gallery

Stieglitz

Advocated "Straight Photography":

Pictorialism (Photo as fine art Leader of photo secession group in 1902 Straight photography is no dark room manipulation, truth to materials

Alfred Stieglitz and Straight Photography

(Intenatioal Exhibition of Modern Art in New York) catalyst in affecting American Art.

Armory Show of 1913

"raw art", art of the mentally ill, primitive and naive (uneducated artists) and A creative pattern that he created from just doodling with a pen that took over his art

Art Brut, L' Hourloupe Dubuffet

Art brut, part of Dubeffet's 1945 collection.

Art of the mentally ill

Sloan, Henri, and Bellows

Ashcan School

Murals for FAP, photos for FSA/ Illustrated magazine/ journal articles. Work tied to social activism. against fascism, social injustice, and hardships endured by working-poor class. Paintings of Sacco and Vanzetti trial, denunciations against legal system.

Ben Shahn and Social Realism

Manzu

Catholic Church

David Smith

Cubis

Picasso's welded steel sculptures and Gonzales' work placed a surrealist influence on Smith's sculpture

David Smith and his 2-dimensional approach to sculpting - origins in drawing )

Motherwell

Elegies to the Spanish Republic & the Opens

Fontana: new age art with modern material (neon lights and tv), perforated canvas,pieces of glass Burri: Thick paint, paste, and tar, sewn together sacks as a canvas, burned design on wood panels,melting and reforming metals and plastic Tapies: but up surfaces with powdered marble , sand, paint, varnish. Used burlap, rope, socks, other object to make rough surfaces.

Examination of the materials used by artists such as Fontana, Burri and Tapies

WPA: Works Progress Admin., set up by Roosevelt during Depression with provide jobs for unemployed. FAP: Federal Arts Project, branch for artist. commissioned for projects, about 23 dollars a weeks FSA: Farm Security Admin.

FAP, WPA, FSA

Sense of tradition form Giottoto Rembrandt to Van Gogh. Past works to a new vision in present. Film by Eisenstein, Velasquez's Pope works,

Francis Bacon and his influences

Wife of Stieglitz, painter

Georgia O'Keefe

Marini

Horse and Rider theme

student of Benton (relation between patterns of abstraction) Landscapes of Ryder, Mexican Muralists, automatic method of Miro and Masson, Picasso, ethnic and tribal art influences, jungian themes,

Influences for Jackson Pollock

Grant Wood

Iowa - connect to a particular Regionalist

African American Experience as subject of work, preference for recounting black history.

Jacob Lawrence "Harlem Series"

Worked in a tradition of assemblage, control light and space of work, surrealist inspired with found works. Large wooden boxes filled with found object, especially furniture and woodworkings.

Louise Nevelson's collections/constructions of found objects, esp. wood.

Simple monumental forms, classic solidity, bold areas of color, impressed by Renaissance frescoes in Italy. Fusion of Chars. Italian Aztec and Mayan. Instrumental in revival of Traditional mural painting in Mexico

Mexcian Muralists and Diego Rivera

Jacob Lawrence

Migration of the Negro imagery is associated with which artist?

Pullock

Navajo Sand Painting

Bacon

Pope Innocent the X" figures largely as an influence in the painting of __________________

Iowa: Grant Wood Kansas: John Stuart Curry Missouri: Thomans Hart Benton Art is specific to a certain region of America, artist of the state or area

Regionalists

Fontana

Slashed and perforated canvas

Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Subject or figuration formed by interest in the uneducated. unconstrained formal experimentation,emphasis on brush gesture, rejection of rationalism and geometric abstraction.

Source of the name CoBrA, and the character of the work of CoBrA artists

Motherwell

Spanish Republic; Elegies

Morandi

Still-life: bottles, small boxes, jars

arti s not for political statements, should not be exploited for beliefs. Art is for a broader appeal.

Stuart Davis' ideas on Modern Art

Robert Henri/John Sloan/Everett Shinn/ William Glackens/ George Luks/ Ernest Lawson/ Maurice Prendergast/ Arthur B. Davies. Macbeth Gallery, Feb. 1908. working outside the academy and doing subject matter they wanted rather than what was dictated to them.

The Eight

Ad Reinhardt

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier."

Shahn and DeKooning

Venice Biennale

Saint Peter's Basilica

What church commissioned Manzu to do work on the general theme of death?

Georgia O'Keffe

What female painter is most closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz?

The Charnal House (OR Guernica)????

What painting by Picasso was influential on the New York school artists due to its size and tragic theme conveyed in modernistic terms?

Air raid shelters and tunnels in London during WWII

Where did Henry Moore gain his inspiration/sources for his later reclining figures

Siqueiros

Which Mexican artist's experimental workshop in New York had particularly strong influence on Jackson Pollock?

Charles Demuth

Which Precisionist is known for his "intrinsically American" landscapes and architectural paintings, as well as symbolic portraits of American artists?

Charles Sheeler

Which Precisionist seems to have worked with photographs to produce his abstracted paintings?

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Which of The Eight seemed to be most conversant with European Modernism?

Polluck

Which of the American Action Painters (New York School) was assistant for a short time to Thomas Hart Benton, the Missouri Regionalist?

Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase

Which work of art from the Armory show seemed to be singled out for ridicule?

Newman

Who created a series of abstract paintings on The Stations of the Cross?