Art 202 Test 5 Baldwin

avant-garde(advance guard)

to describe things that are brand new or innovative or do things that was not done before.

three major influences on art from the early twentieth century were:

1. Froyd - theories of the subconscious

2. Tribal Art

3. WWI

"Mysterious Centers of Thought" by Gagwin was about what?

imagination

expressionism

a style of art that involves heightened emotion, has loose raw brush strokes, sort of abstract.

Where did expressionism occur primarily?

Germany

Fauvism

expressionistic style of painting that has high saturation color and rough brush strokes

Three early 20th century movements related to expressionism:

1. The Fauves

2. The Bridge

3. The Blue Rider

The Fauves

French for "wild Beasts", is about the immediate experience of the painter

Henri Matisse

famous fauve painter often criticized for having too uplifting art.

Henri Matisse said:

"painting should be a comfortable arm chair"

The bridge(german expressionism)

paint inner conviction. "just do it"

Nolde

part of expressionistic bridge movement who has Christian subject matter - not traditional, arbitrary color

The blue Rider

third expressionistic movement based on non objective art, non traditional, not as strict.

Wassily Kandinsky

Blue Rider painter who wrote, "concerning the spiritual work", made comparisons with visual art and music.

Odilon Redon(could of been rassove, not sure of exact name).

inspiration to 20th century movements, made up paintings from his imagination, said art comes from within a person(just are an artist).

Cubism

comes out of tribal art and Cezanne, abstract art, different vantage points.

Cubism was founded by who

Picasso and Braque

Pablo Picasso

Spanish Avant Garde artist, paints in different periods of art-blue period, influenced by El Greco.

Braque

Cubism artist(1908-1912)

guenrica painting by Picasso

political commentary on Nazi carpet bombing(anti war painting).

Two types of Cubism

Analytic and synthetic

Analytic Cubism

system that you follow to create a painting, take away color, breaks a subject into pieces, makes things geometric

Synthetic Cubism

make more variety, add more colors and patterns, collages.

Futurism

Italian movement that celebrates technology, new things, didn't recreate old(like the realists) Ex. electricity, cars, cameras

Dynamism

Theory that all phenomenon are based on energy and movement

Umberto Boccioni

Dynamistic artist who said," unique forms of continuity add space."

Dada

nonsense art which makes fun of western civilization and rejects logic and reason.

Dada movement was a response to which war

WW1

Marcel duchamp

Dada artist, made a mockery of Mona Lisa, took a urinal and signed with a random name then put as a sculpture in an art show. ("fountain")

Ready Mades

putting two uncommon things together, found objects presented as art. (assemblages)

Surrealism

art movement containing a dream like quality, is 3-D, looks real but cant really exist.

Salvador Dali

Famous surrealist artist who made paintings of a dream, did Christian paintings later on.

Rene Magritte

illusionistic artist(part of surrealism movement)

Miro'

automatist surrealist artist that would go back and make something more obvious if an object looked like it was there.

The two types of Surerealism were:

illusionistic and automatist

illusionistic surrealism

paints scenes that look like they are real but really are not

Automatist Surrealism

paint directly from their subconscious mind(not thinking while painting).

Piet Mondrian

Dutch artist who started in a traditional way, influenced by Van Gogh, thought that his paintings were universal and truthful.

Brancusi

Reductionist Sculptor who simplified down to what the artist sees as its essence. made sculptors for the blind.

Georgia O' Keeffe

American abstract painter, editor, did oil paintings, painted to get to its true meaning, famous for flower paintings.

Edward Hopper

American realist painter, content feels loneliness or isolation. (influenced by abstract artists).

The Harlem Renaissance

performing arts music movement in New York, African Americans getting away from the south(William Johnson), influenced by African culture

Post WWII the cente rof the art world moves where?

New York - Biggest City, Nazi Germany negative impact for European artists

Abstract Expressionism

shows emotions, first strictly American movement that has international significance.

Works Progress Administration(WPA)

Payed artists

Two types of abstract expressionism

Focus on gesture and focus on color field

Focus on Gesture

sense of movement

Pallock

flings paint on canvas, paints from subconscious, non objective artist. Peggy Guggenheim helped start his career

Willem de kooning

expressionistic painter, a lot of paintings of women

Focus on color field

paintings made of big blocks of color

rothko

leading artist on focus on color field style, horizontal lines in paintings.

Pop Art

American art movement, comes from popular culture(the new realist)

Subject of pop art

popular culture, objective subject of current world.

Andy Warhol

Leader in pop art movement, painted some political paintings, wanted to be famous, has a studio in NY, Maryland Monroe=favorite subject matter). "be a machine"

Jasper Johns

American flag painting - had dreams about it(from SC)

Minimalism

Least amount of visual information, artwork that is really simple.

Dan Flavin

minimalism artist, uses neon florescent light to make a sculpture

Feminist art

artists that make work about women issues(Judy Chicago)

Eearthworks

large scale sculptures that manipulates the landscape in some way.

Super Realism

Photo Realism, makes paintings of photographs, hyper realistic

Graffiti Art

paintings on canvases(1980's)

Conceptual Art

idea is more important than the product itself