Mona Lisa Assessment #6

Impressionism

• themes from contemporary culture and every day life presented; fleeting moments

• experimentation in style and composition

• Plein-air painting over painting in the studio

• Light, vision, and color used to capture the way the eye perceives

• Influenced by influx of Japanese prints

Post-impressionism

• Characterized by plurality of styles and new ways of emphasizing and exploring emotional content

  • Artists within movement have individualistic styles

• Experimented with form and color as means of innovating

Pointillism/Divisionism

Symbolism

• symbolists looked inwardly to imagination, fantasy, and the unconscious mind

• variations in form and style continues

• favor literary, biblical, and mythological sources as well as allegory for subjects

Fauvism

• dynamic depictions of color and space for emotional impact

• interested in bright, dynamic color, crude, simplified forms, and in flattening of space

• refusal of direct imitation of nature

• opposition of industrialized, materialistic culture

Cubism

• Picasso and Braque

• art as intellectual enterprise

• new uses of line, shape, space, and color

• Color is subdued and limited in hue

  • line is more important

Dada

• reacting to senselessness and horrors of WW1

• rejection of past forms, ideas, and conventions in art

• favor irrationality and absence of meaning in art

• emphasis on spontaneity, intuition, anarchy, and chance as they apply to form and content in art

• questioning what art is

Surrealism

• bring inner reality and outer reality together and be suggestive, enigmatic, and disquieting

• represent the imagination, dreams, the unconscious, and the irrational

De Stijl

• “The Style”

• “Plastic Art”

• abstract geometric forms and use of 3 primary oclors

The Bauhaus

Pop Art

• wanted to make popular art based on everday objects

• combination of traditional artistic devices with images and ideas from mass media and consumerism

Site-specific

Abstract Expressionism

• influenced by De Stijl

• rejection of illusionistic art

• action vs. chromatic abstraction painters

Feminism Art

• 20th century saw increase of feminist art and struggle for recognition of women artists

Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Impressionism

capture effects of sunlight, blue shadows

portraits of artist’s friends

Monet, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877

series of train station of Saint-Lazare

new feature of industrialization

steam blurs the edges of objects

industrialized cathedral

Berthe Morisot, Summer’s Day, 1879

Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of the Grand Jatte, 1884-1886

most famous painting of Seurat

Pointillism / divisionism

(points of color divided into little dots)

people are isolated in their own worlds

Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888

dividing tree in the middle

influenced by Japanese prints

complete flattening and abstraction of space

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889

most emotional of Van Gogh’s painting

cosmic, vivid, turbulent, intense energy

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-1904

shattering landscape into cubes

Picaso’s cubism influenced by this painting/technique

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893
temper and pastel

using color to express emotion and psychology

portray something that he actually experienced (horror)

Rodin, The Kiss, 1901-1904

powerful female and male youthful figures

nude was most truthful way to represent human figure

Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-1906

using colors not usually associated with landscape (yellow grass, lavendar sky)

stylized forms and figures (simplified forms)

Picasso, Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

announces what Picasso was going to do with cubism

Fractured space and forms into geometrical elements

Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917

Dada

Made during WW1

turned a urinal into “high art”, assert that it was a sculpture (sarcastic way)

If put into a museum, does that make it a work of art?

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

meant to be contemplated, lose yourself looking at the pure forms of color

rythm in movement of black lines (have a relationship with one another)

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950

extremely lyrical, beautiful works, very complex and dense patterns

form, line, and color

convey abstraction (nothing to do with reality)

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929

emphasized simple geometric designs

believed that domestic buildings should be built on human scale

interior and exterior space should blend together

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1907-1909

Prairie style (house should hug the land, horizontal rather than vertical)

lots of windows

horizonal trajectory

Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Poppy, 1927

famous painter of flowers

combining detailed close-look at flowers into abstract form

give sense of life and personality of flower

Jacob Lawrence, The Great Migration Series, no. 49, 1940-1941

urban environment (NYC)

opportunities for African Americans to achieve, but still encountering segregation (seen in partition)

even couple sat together seem distant from each other

no communication between people

Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, 1963

used comic books as inspiration

emulate or imitate comic book style and enlarged to become painting

replicating dot style

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

earthwork sculpture

using natural site and materials (why he was allowed to create this)

expanding materials of art and what art can be about

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939

her two backgrounds (German and European from her parents)

open heart surgery that she actually had after a trolley accident

used her art to work through this

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979

associated with beginning of feminist movement

multi-media piece

thought of 13 women from history that were neglected found even more (made table setting for 39 women she wanted to include)

each table setting specific to the women at the place setting

The Guerrilla Girls, Untitled, 1985-1990

billboard

taking nude image of women inviting male gaze to reveal plight of women in art

Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005

wanted to take on Western traditions of art when African Americans were excluded

replacing Napoleon with Black man but everything else similar

background is now decorative wallpaper

empowerment of the past for African Americans