Modern art unit

Man ray

Modern artist

Dada "art"

Disliked ww1

Dada art

Mocked art

Revolt against everything, reaction to ww1

Man ray: indestructible object(object to be destroyed)

Man Ray: Le Violon d'Ingres

Alphonse Mucha

-Ideas of classical past, made more modern

-art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

-decorative arts, architecture, graphic arts style

-curves and curved lines

-stylized designs from nature

-naturalize and prettify

Mucha: La Danes

Mucha: Apotheosis of the Slavs

Pablo Picasso

-Influence in African masks

-oil pastels

Picasso: La Vie

Picasso: Garcon a la pipe

Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Cubism

Breaks down an object into geometric shapes and then rearranges with no perspective

Picasso: Guernica

Fauvism

Bright colors designed to be jarring to the eye

Henri Matisse

-Went to college for law

-fauvism

Matisse: Joy of Life

Matisse

Fauvism

Went to college for law, then painted, and his dad wasn't very happy

Matisse: Icarus

Georges Braque

-Analytical Cubism

-Oil paintings

Braque: Violin and Pitcher

Edward Hopper

Isolation of figures

New York school of illustration and art

Focuses on ordinary people

Introspection

Seclusion

Hopper: Chop Suey

Hopper: Nighthawks

Diego Rivera

Fresco

Muralism

Well known Mexican artist

Academy of art in Spain, then in Europe

Rivera: Detroit Industry (North Wall)

Frida Kahlo

-Lots of injuries

-self taught artist

Kahlo: What the Water Gave Me

Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Gustav Klimt

Vienna Secession

Vienna school of arts

Painted woman sexually

Womanizer

Klimt: Death and Life

Klimt: The Kiss

Marc Chagall

Russian folk tales

Jewish culture

Fauvism

Chagall: White Crucifixion

Chagall: I and the Village

Marvel Duchamp

-Dada movement

-Fathered conceptual art

-Wanted to be apart of multiple movements, not just one

-Worked with a theater writer to see if his paintings were good enough

Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Futurism

-Compression and illusion of movement

-fusion of subject and background

-Dynamic

Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q.

Salvador Dali

surrealism

Very eccentric

Awesome mustache

Film, photography, ceramic, fashion

Juxtaposition

Surrealism

Probe the unconscious to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind

Dali: The Persistence of Memory

Dali: The Temptation of St Anthony

Rene Magritte

-Surrealist

-Inspired by his mothers death(found with drapes over her face after death)

Magritte: Time Transfixed

Magritte: The Son of Man

Joan Miro

-Spanish surrealist painter

-Liberate the mind from logic and reason

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)

Miro: Harlequin's Carnival

Alexander Calder

Civil engineer

Weird guy playing with his toys

Miro, Dutch Interior I and II

Mondrian: Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow

Mondrian: Broadway Boogie Woogie

Jackson Pollock

Abstract Expressionism/Action Painting

Expelled from multiple art schools

Uses anything he can find

Calder: Big red

Calder: Eagle

Georgia O'Keeffe

American artist that painted flowers and landscapes during the great depression.

Pollock: Lavender Mist (No 1)

Pollock: Blue Poles

Pop Art

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

O'Keeffe: Deer's Skull with Pedernal,

Jasper Johns

one of the artists pivotal to the early development of American Pop. Although Pop began in England America with its more mature consumer culture was a fertile ground for its growth. He created a series of targets, flags number and alphabets.

O'Keeffe: Radiator Building

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

Commercial illustration

Started in advertising

Silk screen prints

Claes Oldenburg

A pop artist who produced soft sculptures of gigantic everyday objects made of canvas and vinyl such as food, toilets and mixers.

Johns: 0 through 9

David Hockney

Pop Art and hyper realism

Photography and painting

Landscapes

Digital art

Gay

Used iPads

Johns: Target with Four Faces

Oldenburg: Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks

M.C. Escher

Graphic artist

Mathematical

Spiral stuff

Really cool

Hockney: A Bigger Splash

Escher: Relativity

Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract expressionism

Synesthesia

Music heavily influenced his art fr bruh

Kandinsky: Composition VII

Kandinsky: Composition X