art history 2 gosser unit 4: FIN DE SIÈCLE: 1870-1900

-industrial revolution

-explosive urbanization

-scientific/social philosophy (Marx & Darwin)

-Modernism!

what is the zeitgeist of the Fin de Siècle "end of [19th] the century"

Zeitgeist

the general spirit of the time and place

Modernism

celebration of what could be

Modernism

Art that critiques itself; not pretending to be anything other than itself

en plein air

Art done on location

en plein air

this artistic process was the main influence for impressionism

Impressionism

An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel of the piece they were drawing

paint in tubes

this invention allowed for artists to paint en plein air

Japanese prints

This foreign artistic medium shaped aesthetic choices at the turn of the century, pushing for a shift in perspective

Monet

Artist that painted en plein air for their entire career

Monet

The leading impressionist artist

False, it depicts innovative modern Paris

T/F Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day is a depiction of the quaint, olds tyle

Der Blave Reiter (The Blue Rider)

The first group to do complete abstraction

Die Brüke (The Bridge)

Group that connect the old and the new

Die Brüke (The Bridge)

Group associated with primativism/naturalism (man is his raw form)

True

T/F French art is characterized by motifs; German art is characterized by a spirituality

Fauvism

Means "wild beast"; bold, shocking color

Expressionism

Art movement emphasizing emotional experience over realism

Monet

Impression: Sunrise

(Impressionism)

Caillebotte

Paris: A Rainy Day

(Impressionism)

Renoir

Le Moulin de la Galette

(Impressionism)

Manet

Bar at the Folies-Bergere

(Impressionism)

Dagas

Ballet Rehearsal

(Impressionism)

Degas

The Tub

(Impressionism)

Mary Cassatt

The Bath

(Impressionism)

Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge

(Post-Impressionism)

Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

(Post-Impressionism)

Georges Seurat

Known as "the little chemist"

Pointalism

Small dots of different colors close together to mix into one as a form of optical illusion

Van Gogh

Night Café

(Post-Impressionism)

Van Gogh

Artists with an incredibly short (and productive, and tragic) career, extremely influential

Paul Gauguin

Where do we Come From?

(Post-Impressionism)

lees family/culture to find the "natural"... creep.

Paul Cézanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

(Post-Impressionism)

Paul Cézanne

Father of modern art

Puvis de Chavannes

Sacred Grove

(Symbolism)

Henri Rousseau

The Dream

(Symbolism)

Norwegian

Edvard Munch

The Scream

(Symbolism)

Austrian

Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

(Symbolism)

Rodin

The Gates of Hell

(The one sculptor)

Rodin

First modern sculptor

Rodin

The Kiss

(The one sculptor)

Arts & Crafts movement

democratic, hand-made rejection of industrialized culture/intellectual art

William Morris

Green Dining Room

(Arts & Crafts)

William Morris

Founder of the Arts & Crafts movement in England

Mackintosh

Ladies Luncheon Room

(Arts & Crafts)

Art Nouveau

What style is this

Art Nouveau

What style is this

Spanish

Gaudi

Casa Mila

(Fin de Siècle)

Spanish

Gaudi

Sagrada Familia

(Fin de Siècle)

Spanish

Gaudi

Sagrada Familia

(Fin de Siècle)

French

Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Tower

(Fin de Siècle)

American

Louis Sullivan

Guaranty Building

(Fin de Siècle)

The Great War (1914-1918)

__________ greatly impacted art early 20th cen.

emotion

the expression of __________ trumps all other pictorial considerations

French Expressionism

Expressionism overlays traditional painting memes

Henri Matisse

Le Bonheur de Vivre

(Expressionism)

Henri Matisse

Red Room

(French Expressionism)

Henri Matisse

Leading Fauvist

Germanic Expressionism

expressionistic depictions of spiritual/psychological states

Kathe Kollwitz

Woman with Dead Child

(Germanic Expressionism)

Die Brüke (The Bridge)

Group focused on bringing Primitivism into the future

Enrst Kirchner

Self Portrait

(Die Brüke/The Bridge)

Der Blave Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Group focused on how the "meaning" of color can be "played" as music - AND - a kind of "animism"

Picasso

Still Life w/ Chair Caning

(Cubism)

Analytic Cubism

The phase of cubism that shows multiple perspectives of an object simultaneously—as if you're seeing it from all angles at once

Synthetic Cubism

The phase of cubism that moves beyond deconstructing a form—now exploring how forms and textures construct meaning

Vassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28

(Der Blave Reiter/The Blue Rider)

Picasso

Demoiselles d'Avignon

(Cubism)

George Braque

The Portuguese

(Cubism)

George Braque

Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass

(Cubism)

Futurism

Italian movement interested in depicting time, movement, speed, violence

Italy

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

(Futurism)

Dadaism

An artistic movement that had a purposely nonsensical name, intensionally meaningless art for a meaningless world

Europe/New York

Jean Arp

Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

(Dada)

Europe/New York

Duchamp

Fountain

(Dada)

Europe/New York

Duchamp

Large Glass

(Dada)

Europe/New York

Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase

(Dada)

Russia

Kazimir Malevich

Airplane Flying

(Suprematism/Constructivism)

Kazimir Malevich

The leading Suprematist

Russia

Naum Gabo

Column

(Suprematism/Constructivism)

Naum Gabo

Artist who pioneers "transparent" sculpture

Russia

Vladimir Tatlin

Monument to the Third International

(Suprematism/Constructivism)

1917 Russian Revolution

The __________ impacted Russian art, having a socialist effect

American

George Bellows

Stag at Sharkey's

(Ash-Can school/The Eight; American Realism)

American

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

(American Realism)

American

Stuart Davis

Lucky Strike

(in the wake of the Armory Show)

American

Aaron Douglas

Noah's Ark

(in the wake of the Armory Show)

American

Charles Demuth

My Egypt

(Precisionism)

American

Georgia O'Keefe

Jack in the Pulpit

(Precisionism)

Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent

(Photography)

Edward Weston

Pepper No. 30

(Photography)

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

(Photography)

Germany

Max Beckmann

Night

(New Objectivity)

Germany

Otto Dix

The War

(New Objectivity)

Surrealism

Conjoined reality - a ultimate reality. Bringing together the conscious and subconscious into a full reality

Giorgio de Chirico

The Song of Love

(Surrealism)

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

(Surrealism)

René Magritte

The Treachery of Images

(Surrealism)

René Magritte

The Human Condition

(Surrealism)

Joan Miro

Painting

(Surrealism)