Modern Art History midterm

Édouard Manet (French) -  “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863, oil on canvas : French Realism

Claude Monet (French) - “Impression: Sunrise” 1872 : Impressionism

 Seurat (French) - “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” 1884-1886, oil on canvas : Post-Impressionism

Rodin (French) - “Burghers of Calais”, 1884-1889, bronze : Symbolism

Ensor (Belgian)- “The Entry of Christ into Brussels” 1888, oil on canvas : Symbolism/Les XX

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch) - “The Starry Night”, 1889, oil on canvas “ Post-Impressionism/Symbolism

Edvard Munch (Norwegian) - “The Scream”, 1893, tempera and pastel on board : Symbolism ( all about expressing emotions)

Paul Gauguin (French) - “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”, 1897, oil on canvas : Post-Impressionism/Symbolism

Paul Cézanne (French) - “Mont Sainte-Victoire”, 1902-1904, oil on canvas : Post-Impressionism

Henri Matisse (French) - “Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)”, 1905-1906, oil on canvas: Fauvism

Kirchner (German) - “Street, Dresden”, 1908 (dated 1907), oil on canvas : German Expressionism (Die Brucke) (interested in urbanization)

Marc (German) - “The Large Blue Horses”, 1911, oil on canvas : German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter)

Kandinsky (Russian) - “Composition VII”, 1913, oil on canvas : German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter) (connection with spirituality, didn’t like urban life)

Brancusi (Romanian) - “Bird in Space”, 1925, bronze, stone and wood : Early Modern Sculpture 

Pablo Picasso (Spanish) - “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, June-July 1907, oil on canvas : Early Cubism/Primitivism (too expressive for cubism

Braque (French) - “The Portuguese (The Emigrant)”, 1911, oil on canvas : Analytic Cubism

Pablo Picasso (Spanish) - “Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass”, Fall 1912, pasted papers gouache and charcoal on paper : Synthetic Cubism

Marcel Duchamp (French) - “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” 1912, oil on canvas : Cubism and Futurism (inspired by stop motion photography)

Balla (Italian) - “Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Leash in Motion)”, 1912, oil on canvas : Futurism

Boccioni (Italian)- “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, 1913, bronze (cast 1931) - Futurism  (dies in world war I)

Kazimir Malevich (Russian) - “Black Square”, 1915 : Russian Suprematism (utopian)

El Lissitzsky (Russian) - “Prounenruam (Proun Room)” created for Berlin Art Exhibition, 1923, reconstructed 1965, wood : Russian Suprematism

Marcel Duchamp (French) - “Fountain”, 1917, porcelain urinal and paint : New York Dada

Hannah Hoch (German) - “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany” 1919-20, photomontage : Berlin Dada

Grosz (German) - “Republican Automatons” 1920, watercolor and pencil on paper : New Objectivity

Otto Dix (German) - “Dr. Mayer-Hermann” 1926, oil and tempera on wood : New Objectivity 

When did France overthrow constitutional monarchy

1848

When was photography invented

early mid 1800s

When did synthetic paints come to France

1860s

En Plein Air

painting outside

Impasto

build up of paint

When was the Russian Revolution

1917

When was World War I

1914-1918