study guide 2

nkisi nkonde

what is the name of this mask, made pre-1878, in late 19th century africa?

kuakudili of kubi

what is the name of this female dance mask, made before 1935, in late 19th century africa?

burghers of calais

what is the name of this classical statue, made in 1884-1889, in the late 19th century?

casa mila

what’s the name of this gaudi-designed art nouveau apartment complex in barcelona, spain, built from 1905-10?

portrait of adele bloch-bauer 1

what is the name of this art nouveau portrait made by gustav klimt in 1907?

the joy of life

what is the name of this french expressionist oil painting made by henri matisse in 1905?

street, dresden

what is the name of this german expressionist oil painting made by ernest ludwig kirchner in 1908?

improvisation 28

what is the name of this german expressionist oil painting made by vassily kandinsky in 1912?

the outbreak

what is the name of this german expressionist etching by kathe kollwitz in 1903?

les desmoiselles d’avignon

what is the name of this french expressionist oil painting made by picasso in 1907

the portuguese

what is the name of this analytic cubist oil painting made by georges braque in 1911?

still-life with chair-caning

what is the name of this synthetic cubist oil painting by picasso in 1912?

guernica

what is the name of this analytic cubist oil painting made by picasso in 1937?

armored train

what is the name of this futurist oil painting made by gino severini in 1915?

unique forms of continuity in space

what is the name of this futurist statue made by umberto boccioni in 1913?

nude descending a staircase

what is the name of this dada oil painting made by marcel duchamp in 1912?

fountain

what is the name of this dada piece of china made by marcel duchamp in 1950?

cut with the kitchen knife

what is the name of this dada photomontage made by hannah hoch from 1919-1920?

apparition of face and fruit dish on a beach

what is the name of this surrealist oil painting by salvador dali from 1938-1939?

object

what is the name of this surrealist cup made by meret oppenheim in 1936?

the one who eats

what is the name of this latin american oil painting made by tarsila do amaral in 1928?

the jungle

what is the name of this latin american gouache painting made by wilfredo lam in 1943?

fishes

what is the name of this latin american oil painting made by amelia pelaez del casal in 1943?

the two fridas

what is the name of this latin american oil painting by frida kahlo in 1939?

black square

what is the name of this suprematist work made by kazimir malevich in 1915?

model for monument to the third international

what is the name of this constructivist model made by vladimir tatlin from 1919-1920?

composition in red, blue, and yellow

what is the name of this de stijl oil painitng made in 1930 by piet mondrian?

schroder house

what is the name of this de stijl house designed by gerrit rietveld in 1924?

shop block, the bauhaus

what is the name of this building designed by walter gropius from 1925-1926?

robie house

what is the name of this architecture designed by frank lloyd wright and built from 1907-1909?

villa sovoye

what is the name of this architecture designed by le corbusier and built in 1929?

chrysler building

what is the name of this architecture designed by william van alen?

election night

what is the name of this us modernist painting made by john sloan in 1907?

the flatiron

what is the name of this us modernist building designed by alfred stieglitz and built in 1903?

jack in the pulpit no. 4

what is the name of this us modernist painting made by georgia o’keefe?

nkisi

sculpted or natural objects seen as a sanctuary for ancestral spirits

yu

spirit powers that have human and animal features

art nouveau

an international style originating in the 1890s that applies especially to the decorative arts, architecture, and design, from the french for “new art”; it is characterized by organic shapes and curved lines.

avant-garde

an emphasis in modern art on artistic innovation, which challenged accepted values, traditions, and techniques;

expressionism

art that is highly emotional in character, with colors, shapes, or space being distorted and non-naturalistic as a means to convey vivid extremes of subjective experience and feeling.

fauvism

a movement notable for use of vivid colors for expressive effect, liberated from naturalistic description

die brucke (the bridge)

group of german expressionist artists formed in dresden in 1905

der blaue reiter (the blue riders)

group of german expressionist artists who focused on art-theoretical ideas

futurism

art movement advocating for the obliteration of all traces of traditional culture and the creation of a machine-based culture of the masses, suggested destruction of museums and academies

non-objective

abstract art that is usually, but not always, geometric and aimed to convey a sense of simplicity and purity

analytic cubism

the first phase of cubism, using many small overlapping planes to show fragmentary images of subjects arranged in a shallow picture space simultaneously from many different angles, with a minimum of color.

synthetic cubism

a later phase of cubism, characterized by building up images from preexisting abstract shapes, an increased use of color, and little to no depth

collage

a style of art in which people, places, and things are simplified into flat, geometric shapes, often seen from multiple points of view

dada

an informal international movement that arose during world war I; its adherents rebelled against established standards in art and what they considered morally bankrupt european culture

readymade

a term coined by marcel duchamp to describe a preexisting, mass-produced object given a new context and treated as a work of art.

photomontage

a composition made using fragments of photographs, sometimes combined with other two-dimensional elements, pasted into new configurations

surrealism

an artistic movement in the 1920s and later, inspired by freudian psychology, dreams, and the subconscious.

trompe l’oeil

from the french meaning to “deceive the eye”; a visual illusion in art, in which a painted image appears as a three-dimensional object

cubanidad

one’s sense of having a cuban identity as a descendant of cuban immigrants in the diaspora

mestiza

a hispanic woman of mixed blood

suprematism

the name given in 1915 by russian artist kazimir malevich to the nonobjective art he developed, characterized by severely simple geometric forms and a limited range of colors.

constructivism

abstract art movement aiming to reflect modern industrial society and urban space

non-objective art

art that contains no visual representations of figures or objects; also called nonrepresentational art.

de stijl

a movement founded in the netherlands in 1917 that used a pared-down abstract vocabulary of geometric shapes and primary colors; from the dutch for “the style.”

geometric abstraction

art in which the subject is simplified into straight or curving lines or shapes used in geometry.

bauhaus

an experimental school of art and design founded in germany in 1919 and closed by order of the nazis in 1933.

functionalism

an arcitectural philosophy that emphasizes the purpose and function of a building in its design, advocating that the form of a structure should be determined by its intended use

rationalism

architectural movement that proposed that the most varied problems posed by the real world could be resolved by reason

degenerate art

term used by the nazi part in germany to describe art that didn’t support the ideals of nazism

international style

a modern form of architecture that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by the use of simple cubic forms, absence of applied ornamentation, open interior spaces, and the use of industrial steel, glass, and reinforced concrete

1916 zoning law

a zoning code passed in new york city that attempted to stop massive buildings from preventing light and air from reaching the streets below

cantilever

a horizontal beam, slab, or other projecting structural member that is anchored at only one end.

ashcan school

artistic movement in the US that focused on works portraying daily life in new york, typically in lower class neighborhoods