Art History Test 4
Art History 1003 with Wiseman at University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
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By: Daniel Spears
Created: 2010-11-09
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Paul Cèzanne (1814-1875)
- Post-Impressionist painter
- Bridged impressionism and cubism
- Painted from life (still-life, self-portraits, landscapes)
- Self Portrait
- Cezanne
- Post-impressionism
- Still Life with Apples
- Cezanne
- Post-impressionism
- Mount Sainte-Victoire
- Cezanne
- Post-impressionism
Georges Seurat (1851-1891)
- Used tiny dots of color (Pointillism) to create form
- meticulously controlled painting
- contrasts of color
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Seurat
- Post-impression
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
- Dutch Post-impressionist painter
- work was not well received during lifetime
- Expressive work, painterly strokes
- painted from life
- used complimentary colors
- van Gogh
- Post-impressionism
- Bedroom at Arles
- van Gogh
- Post-impressionism
- van Gogh
- Post-impressionism
- The Starry Night
- van Gogh
- Post-impressionism
- Wheat Field with Crows
- van Gogh
- Post-impressionism
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
- French Post-Impressionist painter
- flattened forms and bright colors
- Painter, sculptor, & printmaker
- Self-Portrait
- Gauguin
- Post-impressionism
- The Yellow Christ
- Gauguin
- Post-impressionism
- Idol with the Seashell
- Gauguin
- Post-impressionism
- Nevermore
- Gauguin
- Post-impressionism
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
- Symbolist & Post-impressionist painter
- Explored life, death, love, and melancholy
- Work influenced Expressionist movement
- The Scream
- Munch
- Post-impressionism/Symbolism
- Madonna
- Munch
- Post-impressionism/Symbolism
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
- French Post-impressionist painter
- Identified with nature
- best known for jungle scene
- Rousseau
- Post-impressionism
- The Dream
- Rousseau
- Post-impressionism
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
- Painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Very successful in his lifetime
Fauvism
- Painterly surface
- Dissonant color
- Simplification of forms
- The Green Stripe
- Matisse
- Fauvism
- Woman with the Hat
- Matisse
- Fauvism
- Harmony in Red
- Matisse
- Expressionism
- Dance 1
- Matisse
- Expressionism
- The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre)
- Matisse
- Expressionism
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Born in Spain, lived in Barcelona since age 14
- Produced astounding number of works:
- 1885 paintings
- 1228 sculptures
- 2880 ceramics
- Over 12,000 drawings
- The Old Guitarist
- Picasso
- Blue Period
- Gertrude Stein
- Picasso
- Cubism
- Le Demoiselles d'Avignon
- Picasso
- Cubism
- Head of a Woman
- Picasso
- Cubism
- Girl with a Mandolin
- Picasso
- Cubism
- Guernica
- Picasso
- Cubism/Surrealism
- Girl Before a Mirror
- Picasso
- Surrealism
Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
- Among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings
- Art was a matter of rhythmic lines, colors, and shapes
- Member of The Blue Rider
- Painting Number 201, Winter (Panel for Edwin R. Campbell NO. 4)
- Kandinsky
- Expressionism (Blue Rider)
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
- Made many pencil drawings that reveal his attraction to linear, childlike imagery
- Member of The Blue Rider
- Mask of Fear
- Klee
- Surrealism
- Oil on burlap
- Zuni War God
- Klee
- Surrealism
- Painted wood and mixed media
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
- French painter, sculptor, chess player, and prankster
- Very satirical
- Very successful
- Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
- Duchamp
- Cubism (Satirizes Futurism)
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- Fountain (Urinal)
- Duchamp
- Dada
- L.H.O.O.Q. ("She has a hot ass")
- Duchamp
- Dada
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957)
- Romanian modernist sculptor
- Simplistic form
- Influenced by African Sculpture
- Mademoiselle Pogany
- Brancusi
- Modernism
- Marble, Bronze
- Brancusi & Mondrian exhibit
- Installation
- Bird in Space
- Brancusi
- Modernism
- Bronze
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
- Spanish Surrealist painter, photographer, sculptor, & performance/film artist
- Very successful in lifetime
- Self-promoting/grandiose behavior
- The Persistence of Memory
- Dali
- Surrealism
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
- Italian Surrealist painter & sculptor
- Self-portrait
- Giacometti
- Surrealism
- Large Standing Woman III
- Giacometti
- Surrealism
Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
- Belgian painter
- Illusionistic & realistic Surrealist
- Classically trained
- Time Transfixed
- Magritte
- Surrealism
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
- British sculptor
- Organic, biomorphic work
- Reclining Nude
- Moore
- Surrealism
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
- Mexican mural painter
- Painted in cubist and organic style
- Ancient Mexico
- Rivera
- Cubism
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
- Mexican painter
- Painted from personal experience
- Primitive/Surrealism/Naive style
- Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
- Kahlo
- Surrealism
- Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick
- Kahlo
- Surrealism
Grant Wood (1891-1942)
- American Regionalist painter
- Rejected "new" modern trends
- Self-Portrait
- Wood
- Regionalism
- American Gothic
- Wood
- Regionalism
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
- American painter, printmaker, and educator
- Influences: Cubism, Matisse, Picasso, & the Harlem experience
- Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7
- Lawrence
- Regionalist/Social Realism
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
- American painter
- Famous for her relationship with New Mexico
- Abstraction with a relationship to reality
- Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
- O'Keeffe
- Abstraction
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
- American painter
- Abstract expressionist
- Action painter based on gesture
- Jackson Pollock painting
- (Hans Namuth; unimportant)
- White Light
- Pollock
- Abstract expressionism
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
- American abstract expressionist
- Painter, print maker, educator
- Famous during his lifetime
- No. 15
- Rothko
- Abstract expressionism
Pop Art
- Commercial iconography
- Everyday objects
- Reaction against non-representational art
- Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
- Richard Hamilton
- Collage on paper
- Pop Art
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
- American pop artist
- painter, printmaker, filmmaker, record producer, author, and performance artist
- Very successful in his lifetime
- His persona was part of his art
- Campbell's Soup (Tomato)
- Andy Warhol
- Pop Art
Marisol Escobar (b. 1930)
- Born in Paris, raised in USA
- Sculptor, used wood and mixed mediums
- Iconography of contemporary culture as well as contemplating past artistic movements
- Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper
- Marisol Escobar
- Pop Art
Robert Smithson (1928-1987)
- American landscape artist
- Iconography of nature
- Trained at Arts Student League
- Spiral Jetty
- Robert Smithson
- Great Salt Lake, Utah
- Rock, salt crystals, earth, and algae
- Environmental Art
Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956)
- British sculptor, Environmental artist
- Altered landscape using natural objects
- Autumn Leaves
- Goldsworthy
- Environmental Art
Christo and Jean-Claude
- Environmental artists
- Landscape and urbanscapes temporarily altered creating a new way of seeing the familiar
- The Gates
- Christo and Jean-Claude
- Central Park, New York City
- Environmental Art
- Valley Curtain
- Christo and Jean-Claude
- Grand Hogback Mountain range, Colorado
- Environmental Art
- Wrapped Reichstag
- Christo and Jean-Claude
- Berlin, Germany
- Environmental Art
Chuck Close (b. 1940)
- American Artist
- Portrait paintings in a grid format
- Source - photographs
- Influenced by Cubism, Realism, & Mosaics
- Self-Portrait
- Chuck Close
- Realism
Bill Viola (b. 1951)
- American video artist
- uses sound and video
- abstracts space and time
- Influences:
- Iconography of religions, nature, and contemporary culture
- The Crossing (Fire still)
- Bill Viola
- Video Art
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- The Crossing (Water still)
- Bill Viola
- Video Art
About this deck
By: Daniel Spears
Created: 2010-11-09
Size: 96 flashcards
Views: 673
Created: 2010-11-09
Size: 96 flashcards
Views: 673
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