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Gaughan
Symbolism – Art Nouveau
Maurice Deni – “A paining is a flat service covered with colors arranged and assembled in a certain order.
Painting was meant to be seen though. Find something in the painting, something spiritual.
Linear in quality
Pierre Bonnard –
(“Terrace at Vernon,” “Dining room in the Garden,” “Dining room in the country”)
Aubrey Beardsley –
(“The Peacock Skat”, “Salonne and the head of st. john the Baptist”, )
Alfons Mucha - Poster Art
Hector Guimard – The French subway entrances.
Fauvism
Subject in Color
Matisse – Associated color and pattern together for emotive qualities
(“Green Stripe,” “The Dance” “The Conversation” “The red studio”)
Andre Derain –
(“London Bridge” “The Pool of London” “Victoria Embankment”)
Van Gogh
Precursor to German Expressionism - {Edvard Munch – repressed sexuality
(“The Scream,” The Dance of Life” “Puberty” “The Sick Child” )}
German Expressionism
Die Bruche - (the bridge) - Dresdin
Heavy Color combinations
-influenced by German Woodcut
Ernst Kirchner –
Primordial Reality – get back to nature
(“Street Dresden”,“Girl under Japanese Parasol”, “La toilette”, “Berlin Street Scene”)
Emil Nolde – Capturing wild feeling, very hot in nature
(“Dance around the golden calf”, “Candle Dancers”, “Wildly dancing children” “The crucifixion” “The Last Supper", “Christ and the children”)
“Only the superficial have it easy…”
George Rouault – influenced by stained glass windows.
(“The old king” “Les Trois Clowns”)
Der Blaue Reiter ( The blue rider) – Munich
Concentrated on the Spiritual in Art.
Wassily Kandinsky - First person to paint a non-objective work. No subject matter. Was inspired by the splitting of the atom. Associated music and colors.
Invited to be a teacher at the bowhouse in berlin.
Short feelings where improvisations, Long feelings were Compositions.
(“Improvisation #28”, “Composition V”)
Kandisnsky - “Matisse liberated color, and Picasso liberated form.”
Franz Marc –
Interested in the flow of blood. Blue to him was masculine, yellow was feminine, red was brutal. Was pantheistic – felt that every living thing has its own emotions.
Great feeling for nature in all of his works
“I try to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm of all things”
(“Blue horse 1” “Stables” “Deer in the woods II” “Foxes”)
Cezanne -
Cubism -1908
Analysis
Pablo Picasso – Invented cubism, not really on purpose. “We wanted simply to address what was in us”
“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”
“We all know that art is not truth, it is a lie that shows us the real truth”
“I paint what I think rather than what I see”
Went through periods (Blue, Rose, cubism, synthetic cubism)
(“The family of Saltimbanques,” “The Absinthe Drinker”, “The Old guitarist,” “Desmoiselles d’Avignon,” “Girl with the Mandolin,” “Ma Jolie”, “Guernica”)
6 Points of Analytic Cubism (Starting with a subject and tearing it apart)
1)Fusion of the object with the surroundings
2) See different sides at the same time
3) Abstract and representational elements together
4) Held together by a grid
5) Concentrations of the form at the center
6) Limited Color
5 points of Synthetic Cubism (starting with abstract parts and moving towards a subject)
1) Importance of Collage
2) Strike against technical skill
3) A reaction against photo realism or photo illusion
4) Self-contained constructive object
5) Puts color back into the work
Georges Braque – Cubist
Did analytical and synthetic
(“Violin and Jar”)
“A painting is a flat surface and should remain a flat surface”
Juan Gris
(“Harlequin with Guitar” ”Still life”)
Said to be more decorative than Picasso and Braque. More defined lines.
Jacques Lipschitz – cubist sculpture
(“Bather”)
Cubist Extensions .
Robert Delaunay – working with seeing all sides at once. Orphism. About the machine age world.
(“Champs de Mars or the Red Tower 1911”, “Homage to Bleriot”,)

Fernand Leger – “The Machine aesthetic”, people as robots.
(“Nude Model in the Studio” ”The Smokers” “The Three Comrads” “Le Mecanicien” “Woman holding a vase” Woman with a book”)

Piet Mondrian – Works with simplifying the grid of cubism. Destijl movement – Sobriety, realism, clarity, and Logic. Neo-Plasticism
(“Composition in Red Yellow Blue” “Broadway Boogie Woogie”)
“A dynamic equilibrium” – composition for compositions sake.

Malevich, Kasimir – Uses the Grid, simplifies it into shapes, Suprematism
(“Suprematist Painting” “White on white”)
“A Suprematist does not see, does not touch, he feels”

Bauhaus - International style of architecture, brought sbout technology and merged it with the arts. Had its sources in cubism.

-Le Corbusier
-Frank Loyd Wright

Futurism – Manefesto written by F.T Marinetti. Wanted to get rid of the past. Radicals.
Movement is the difference between futurism and cubism
Absolute movement – when there is an inner potential for movement vibrating out. Tension or force
Relative Movement – Something in motion.
Lines of force

Giacomo Balla –
(“Dynamism of a dog” “Le vol des hirondelles” “Fight of the Swifts” “Arc of the lamp”)

Russolo, Luigi –
(“Solidity of Fog”)

Gino Severini –
(“Dynamic Hieroglyphic” “Suburban Train Arriving in Paris” “Sea Dancer”)

Umberto Boccioni – captured the war and violence of the futurist movement
(“Riot in the Gallery” “The City Rises” “Dynamism of a football player” “States of mind Farewell” “The Laugh” “Forces of a street” “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”)
(“Development of a Bottle in Space”) – Futurist Still life/Absolute Movement

Carlo Cara – Word poems
(“Interventionist Demonstration”)

Dadaism –
Freedom to experiment brought about this movement of modern art.
Nonsense
Did everything to try and offend society.
Illogical, immoral.

Jean Arp – the art of chance, Biomorphic forms.
(“Collage with Squares” )

8 techniques of Dadaism
1. Photo collage
2. Frottage
3. Automatic writing (doodling)
4. Free Association
5. Biomorphism
6. Juxtapositioning
7. Ready-Mades
8. Found Objects

Marcel Duchamp – Created works called “Organal –Mechanical Beings” - half organic/half robotic beings. Made art, the artist’s choice. Worked with assemblism, and painting… played on words and shapes.
(“Nude Descending a Staircase” “The Bride” “L.H.O.O.Q” “The Large Glass”)
Kurt Schwitters –
(“Merzban”
Raoul Hausmann –
“The Spirit of our time”
Man Ray –
“Gift”

Surrealism
The surrealist intention was to explore the more real than the real life, behind the real. - Andre Breton – Literary. Wrote the surrealist manifesto. Wanted to resolve conscious and subconscious into one real and ultimate reality.
Henri Rousseau - Picassos friend, claims that he got his inspiration from Mexico. Naive painter, not of his time.
(“The Sleeping Gypsy” “Monkeys in the forest” “War” “Carnival Evening”)
Georges DeChirico –
(“Autumnal Melancholy”, “The Soothsayer’s Recompose” , “Mystery and Melancholy of a street” “Song of Love”)
Marc Chagall –
(“Birthday” “The Green Man”)
Paul Klee – thought of himself as a child, in order to attain spontaneity untroubled by reason.
(“Twittering Machine” “Adam and little Eve”, “Castle in Sun”, “Painting”)
Max Ernst – Decolamania – Transfering paint to the canvas without use of a brush
(“Forest and Dove”, “Ubu Imperator”)
Juan Miro –
(“Harlequin Carnival”)
Salvidor Dali –
(“The Persistence of Memory”, “Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach”, “The Enigma of Hitler” “Soft contruction with Boiled Beans”, “Sleep”, “Crucifixion”)
Surrealism Points
1. Chance association of things and events
2. Dislocation of images and meanings
3. Scrambling of conventional concepts
4. Exploring the subconscious
5. Radical freedom of artistic choice.

Rene Magritte -Veeristic
(“collective invention”, “ Empire of lights”)
Yves Tanguy -Biomorphic
Frida Kahlo –
(“The two Fridas”)
Movie: Frida Kahlo.
Abstract Expressionism
Arshile Gorky – The Inner workings of the mind
Influenced Jackson Pollock
(“The liver is the cocks comb”, )
Jackson Pollock – Trying to cover things up
Made Famous by Peggy Guggenheim
“Action Painting” – the act of doing/Process
(“One”, “ Action Painting”, )

William De Kooning –
“The woman is disfigured by her environment”
Inspired by advertisments with women in them/Often scraped of layers of paint
Merged the background and the object
Commentary art.
(“Woman and Bicycle”, “Mona”, Woman 1”)

Hans Hoffman –
Perfect squares in chaotic background.
(“Thick Paint”, “Opitcal Illusion”)

Helen Frankenthaler – Post Painterly abstraction
Huge Paintings.
(“Bay Side”,)

Barnett Newman – Also Post painterly abstraction
“Zip Series”
Large paintings, with one zip in the middle.
Supposed to allow the viewer to become involved in the red, to be a part of the picture.
(“Vir Heroicus Sublime”)


Jules Olitski –
Be submerged in abstraction. Spiritual. Nothing really symbolic.
Mark Rothko –
Color field experience
(No. 9, Untitled 1959)
Louis Morris –
Also color field experience
Concentrated on how the paint flowed and dripped.
Experience of emotions/color/white space.
(“Seal”, “Green Shade”, “Sarahand”)
Ellsworth Kelly – Color Theory
Second generation post painterly abstractionist
(“Red Blue Green”)
Frank Stella - Shape Canvas’
The outer shape should reflect the inner shape

Pop Art (Neodadaism)
Taking something out of its environment and calling it art.
Richard Hamilton - Collages
(“Just what is it that makes today’s home so different”.

Andy Warhol – Pop art
“All about mass production.”
Mimicking marketing schemes
Silk Screens
(“Campbell Soup Can”, “Green Coca-Cola Bottles”, “Marilyn Diptych”, “Silver Liz”,)

Roy Lichtenstein – Cartoons, Mass Production. Benday Dot style.
(“The Kiss”, “Bratatatatatatatat”)
Jasper Johns – (“Flag 1954”, “Map of the United States”, “Target with four faces”, “Ballantine Ale Cans”, “High School Days”, “The Critic Sees”)
Used Pigment and Wax together = brilliant colors
Opposite Colors
Jim Dine – painted hardware items
Claes Oldenberg – Light switches, Telephones, - outs of vinyl and different media.

Assemblage
-Robert Ruaschenberg – First person to start collaging in 3D
-Red Grooms – 3D Cardboard realities
-John Chamberlain – Crushed automobles into shapes

Minimalism
In and of its self it has value. Displacement of space/Pattern/ Color/Medium
- David Smith (“Cubi XIX”)
- Carl Andre – (“Zinc Plates”, “Fire Bricks”)
- Tony Smith – (“Die”)
- Richard Serra – (“Tilted Arc”)
- Maya Ying Lin – (“Vietnam Veterans Memorial”)

Earth Works
Robert Smithson – (“Spiral Jetty”)

Perfomance Art -
- Jean Tinguely – (“Homage to New York” - The mechanical fountain outside of the Pompidou
- Allan Kaprow – Happenings/Performances

Conceptual Art
Process Art
Christo –
1. Wrapped Coast – Australia
2. Valley Curtain - Colorado
3. Running Fence – CA
4. Wrapped Walk Ways
5. Surrounded Island - Florida
6. The Point Nuef Wrapped - Paris
7. The Umbrellas – US & Japan
8. Wrapped Reichstag – Berlin
9. The Gates – Central Park - NY
10. Over the River