Modern Art Unit I Reviewer

Vocabulary flashcards covering key art movements, artists, and famous artworks from the Unit I Modern Art lecture notes.

Ernst Kirchner

German artist (1880-1938) who suffered a military breakdown in WWI, co-founded the group "Die Brücke", and painted "Artillerymen in the Shower" (1915).

Die Brücke (The Bridge)

An artist group formed in 1905 in Germany that served as a key founding group for 20th-century Expressionism.

Victorio Edades

Filipino painter (1895-1985) known as the "Father of Modern Philippine Painting" who introduced modern art to the Philippines and created "The Builders" (1928).

The Builders

A 1928 artwork by Victorio Edades depicting the lives of ordinary workers, painted after his studies at the University of Washington.

Cubism

A 20th-century art movement led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque where subjects are broken down and rebuilt using geometric figures like cubes, triangles, and rectangles.

Transparent Cubism

An art style invented by Filipino artist Vicente Manansala that uses clear, see-through geometric shapes and overlapping layers.

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881-1973) who co-founded Cubism and created iconic works such as "Guernica", "Three Musicians", and "Weeping Woman".

Guernica

A powerful anti-war masterpiece created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

Dadaism

A rebellious art movement that protested traditional art rules and social limitations by combining unrelated everyday objects to provoke thought and shock audiences.

Marcel Duchamp

French Dadaist artist (1887-1968) who redefined art as an idea, pioneered readymades, and created works such as "Fountain" and "LHOOQ".

Readymade

Ordinary, everyday manufactured objects selected, signed, and presented by Marcel Duchamp as works of art to challenge tradition.

Fountain

An iconic 1917 Dadaist readymade artwork by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a signed urinal.

LHOOQ

A 1919 Dadaist work by Marcel Duchamp featuring a modified Mona Lisa with a drawn mustache.

Surrealism

An art movement focused on revealing the human subconscious mind, dreams, and a higher reality beyond everyday awake experience.

Salvador Dalí

Spanish Surrealist painter (1904-1989) known for creating hyper-realistic depictions of subconscious dreams, including "The Persistence of Memory".

The Persistence of Memory

A famous Surrealist painting created by Salvador Dalí featuring soft, melting clocks draped across a landscape.

Abstract Realism

An art movement combining realistic representation of recognizable subjects with abstract distortions, unusual shapes, and imaginative details.

Gerhard Richter

German artist born in 1932 in Dresden known for alternating between photorealistic works like "Candle (Kerze)" and abstract pieces like "Abstraktes Bild (809-1)".

Abstraktes Bild (809-1)

A 1994 abstract painting by German artist Gerhard Richter held in the Tate Gallery collection.

Candle (Kerze)

A celebrated 1982 photorealistic oil-on-canvas painting by Gerhard Richter depicting a single candle on a surface.

Benjamin Cruz

An award-winning Filipino painter who manipulates dimensionality to create landscapes beyond traditional realism.

Pop Art

An art movement from the 1950s and 1960s grounded in consumer culture, mass media, comic strips, brands, and bright primary colors.

Richard Hamilton

A pioneer of Pop Art (1922-2011) who defined the movement as mass-produced, low-cost, young, witty, glamorous, and big business.

Optical Art (Op Art)

A 1960s art style developed in the United States that uses lines, geometric patterns, and visual interactions to create illusions of movement or pulsation.

Victor Vasarely

A Hungarian-born artist recognized as a central figure in the development of Op Art.

M.C. Escher

An artist famous for Op Art compositions featuring complex, impossible structures like staircases and waterfalls going up and down simultaneously.

Allan Kaprow

American artist (1927-2006) who developed "Happenings" and created "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" (1959) to turn art into an interactive performance experience.

18 Happenings in 6 Parts

A 1959 experimental performance artwork presented in New York by Allan Kaprow incorporating ordinary actions and viewer participation.

Marina Abramović

Serbian performance artist born in 1946 known for using her body, physical endurance, danger, and audience interaction in her art.

7 Easy Pieces

A 2005 performance art project by Marina Abramović where she re-enacted historic performance art pieces.

Impressionism

A 19th-century French art movement capturing the immediate impression of light, color, and atmosphere through quick brushstrokes and unmixed colors.

Claude Monet

The leading figure of Impressionism who painted "Impression, Sunrise" and "Gare Saint-Lazare".

Impression, Sunrise

A famous painting by Claude Monet depicting a sunrise that inspired the term "Impressionism".

Gare Saint-Lazare

An Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a train station using patches of color to represent light, steam, and smoke.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An Impressionist artist who painted social gatherings and people with warm colors, creating over 6,000 artworks throughout his life.

Expressionism

An early 20th-century German art movement (c. 1905-1925) emphasizing emotional experience, inner anxiety, and psychological distress over external reality.

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter (1863-1944) and forerunner of Expressionism whose troubled life influenced his anxiety-filled artworks, including "The Scream" (1893).

The Scream

An 1893 painting by Edvard Munch that is regarded as the most famous Expressionist painting in the world.