Test one - Why is that art

Artists and descriptions

Edward Hopper Automat

• Isolation/loneliness

• Realism

Thomas Hart Benton City Building

• elements of cubism or European mannerism

• still retains some elements of realism

• American experience

Ben Shahn The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Social realist- sought to expose injustice, his art reflects this

• Sacco and Vanzetti represented like Christian martyrs and two individuals are holding lilies (Christian symbols of purity/innocence)

• skewed perspective

Stuart Davis Swing Landscape

• Lyrical→ “swing” jazz

• depicts a harbor

• interwoven flat shapes and thick lines

Emily Carr Big Raven

• Inspired by native totem poles/art

• Organic shapes

Tarsila do Armaral Anthropophagy

• Distorted bodies

• unclear backgrounds

Diego Rivera Man Controller of the Universe

• Crowded, renaissance like

• large, fresco murals

Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas

• mostly self portraits

• surrealist vibes, but emotions instead of dreams

Wilfredo Lam The Jungle

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia Composition

Amrita Sher-Gil Woman Resting on a Charpoy

Murayama Tomoyoshi Construction

Lee In-Sung Valley in Gyeongju

Hu Yichuan To the Front!

Arshile Gorky Water of the Flowery Mill

Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm, Number 30

Willem de Kooning, Woman I

Joan Mitchell Hemlock

Mark Rothko Green and Tangerine on Red

Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimis

Norman Lewis Alabama

Grace Hartigan River Bathers

Richard Diebenkorn Woman on Porch

David Smith (left→right) Cubi XVIII, Cubi XVII, Cubi XIX

Louise Bourgeois Quarantania

Joseph Cornell Medici Slot Machine (Object)

Georges Mathieu Les Capetians partout (Capetians Everywhere)

Pierre Soulages Painting

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Le Promeneur Invisible (The Invisible Stroller)

Lucio Fontana Spatial Concepts

Alberto Burri Sacco e bianco (Sack and White)

Karel Appel People, Birds, and Sun

Germaine Richer Hurricane Woman

Barbara Hepworth Group I (Concourse)

Francis Bacon Painting

Lucian Freud Girl with a White Dog