Art History Survey 2 Phillips - Final Exam

Three Phases of Cubism

1) Analytic Cubism 2) Orphism 3) Synthetic Cubism

Two directions in AbEx Art

1) Gestural Abstraction (Pollock, Krasner.) 2) Color Field (Rothko.)

Characteristics of Analytic Cubism

1) Monochromatic (usually brown) 2) Transparent, overlapping planes 3) Compression of time and space 4) Push/pull of spacial planes 5) Breaking down of space

Synthetic Cubism

1) Uses color 2) Opaque planes 3) Builds up space

Expressionism

1900's - 1910's or early 20th century. The Fauves - French Expressionists. German Expressionists

Futurism

1909 - 1918 (or early 20th century.) WWI 1914 -1918. Futurists were oddly pro - war (that's why it ends in 1918, because many died in war.) Primarily in Italy.

Dada

1910's - 1920's (early 20th century.) Hated war and militaristic thinking (which they associate with logic, order, and reason.) Questions everything. What is art? (Primary concern.) Who makes art? Where does the artistic process take place? Childhood, play, chance.

Cubism

1910's - 1920's or early 20th century. Analytic, Orphism, and Synthetic cubism.

Surrealism

1920's - 1930's (or early 20th century.)

Abstract Expressionism

1940's - 1950's (mid 20th century.) American movement.

Pop Art

1960's - 1980s (or late 20th century.)

200 Cans

Andy Warhol. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Clement Greenberg

Art critic. Loved Pollock.

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Balla. Futurism. 1909 - 1918. Daschund, lines of a sidewalk.

The Portuguese

Braque. Analytic cubism. 1910's - 1920's. Portuguese immigrant having just arrived to Paris.

"We wish to glorify war, the sole hygiene to the world"

By a guy maybe named Fillipo(???) Wrote a Futurist Manifesto.

Clothespin

Claes Oldenburg. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

The Persistence of Memory

Dali. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Childhood/time/Catalonia. Juxtaposition of the fhallic vs. anti phallic.

Soft Self-Portrait

Dali. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Sexual anxiety.

Saint Mary of Egypt Among Sinners

Emil Nolde. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. German Expressionist. Idea of even the saints become sinners in the modern world.

Georges Rouault

Fauve / Exprsm

Fate of the Animals

Franz Marc. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. German Expressionist. Very sad work. Getting very geometric.

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace

Frida Kahlo. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Death and the devil. Butterflies - rebirth.

Henry Ford Hospital

Frida Kahlo. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Miscarriage represented.

Untitled Drawing

Frida Kahlo. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Trolley/bus accident.

Broken Column

Friday Kahlo. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. References to religion.

Houses of L'Estaque

Georges Braque. Pre-Cubism. 1910's - 1920's. Very zoomed in, almost expressionistic. Very limited color palette.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German Expressionism

Speed of a Motorcar

Giacomo Balla. Futurism. 1909 - 1918. Influenced by analytic cubism, film, and photography. "A speeding automobile is more beautiful than Nike of Samothrace" -

Armoured Train

Gino Severini. Futurism. 1909 - 1918. Motion going from bottom to top (birds eye view.) Active warfare.

Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin

Gino Severini. Futurism. 1909 - 1918. Nighttime entertainment/interior of the Bal Tabarin. Burlesque dancers, real sequins, Severini has added himself.

Albert Einstein

Had a strong influence on the futurists

The Dinner Table

Henri Matisse. Expressionism 1900's - 1910's. Fauve

Harmony in Red

Henri Matisse. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. Fauve. Same subject as "The Dinner Table." Flattening the space

Karawane

Hugo Ball. Dada. 1910's - 1920's. Performed at the Cabaret Voltaire. Sound poetry.

Collage Arranged According to Laws of Chance

Jean (Hans) Arp. Dada. 1910's - 1920's.

Street, Dresden

Kirchner. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. German Expressionist. Busy, interlockters. Wants you to feel uncomfortable. African mask influences. You are in the street car tracks.

Ben-Day dots

Labor intensive dots (stencil w toothbrush)

Night Creatures

Lee Krasner. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's.

Right Bird Left

Lee Krasner. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's.

The Treachery of Images

Magritte. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Ceci n'est pas une pipe. Advertising background.

Man with a newspaper

Magritte. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Expecting a narrative to develop but it doesn't.

Untitled Rayograph.

Man Ray. Dada. 1910's - 1920's.

Nude Descending a Staircase

Marcel Duchamp. Dada. 1910's - 1920's. Kinda looks like futurism and cubism. Critiqued - "looks like an explosion in a shingle factory."

LHOOQ

Marcel Duchamp. Dada. 1910's - 1920's. Mona Lisa. Literal iconoclasm.

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp. Dada. 1910's - 1920's. Readymades. The Richard Mutt Case.

The Rothko Chapel

Mark Rothko. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's

Center Triptych, Rothko Chapel

Mark Rothko. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's.

Untitled: Black on Gray

Mark Rothko. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's.

Untitled

Mark Rothko. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's. Orange and Red.

Blue Nude

Matisse. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. Fauve. Partially inspired by The Joy of Life. Almost animalistic/grotesque (Intentional.) Mask-like face (African influence)

The Joy of Life

Matisse. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. Fauve. Unindustrialized landscape. Stained glass inspiration

Blue Nude Cutout

Matisse. Exprsm. 1950. Fauve. Increased abstraction.

Soft Toilet

Oldenburg. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's. Both a painting and a sculpture. Poking fun at Clement Greenburg.

7-up

Oldenburg. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's. References AbEx art.

Weeping Woman

Pablo Picasso. His later work. Both synthetic and analytic cubism. Dora - his gf that always cried.

Les Demoiselles D'avignon

Pablo Picasso. Pre-Cubism. 1910's - 1920's. Prostitute (you are the client.) Originally had the client in the image. African mask influence. (Problem of representation of race)

Three Musicians

Pablo Picasso. Synthetic Cubism. 1910's - 1920's.

Lavender Mist

Pollock. AbEx. 1940's - 1950's. All-over painting. Not one place our eye goes to.

The Lovers

Rene Magritte. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Explores the trauma of his mothers suicide. (Nightgown over head head when they pulled her from the river)

Hegel's Holiday

Rene Magritte. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Glass of water and an umbrella.

The Son of Man

Rene Magritte. Surrealism. 1920's - 1930's. Meant to be a self portrait. Also works as an image of the generic man. Symbol of the apple repeated frequently.

The Red Tower

Robert Delauney. Orphism. 1910's - 1920's.

Prostitute Before a Mirror

Rouault. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. Fauve. Considered prostitutes a symbol of the modern age. Similar to Blue Nude.

Head of Christ

Rouault. Exprsm. 1900's - 1910's. Fauve. Sense of mourning. Worked as a strained glass artist as well.

Drowing Girl

Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Girl with Hair Ribbon

Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

210 Coca-Cola Bottles

Warhol. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Campbells Soup Can (Tomato)

Warhol. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Marilyn Diptych

Warhol. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Skulls Series

Warhol. Pop Art. 1960's - 1980's.

Mater Dolorosa

Weeping virgin. Real glass tears.