AcaDeca 25-26' Art Section 2

Trivia Flashcards; Overly Detailed

Cunningham-Later Activities

Portrait Photography for magazines (ex: House and Garden)

Academy System-Popularity

1820s Most Popular System

National Academy of Design (N.A.D.)-Art Style

#1 (Impressionist) Arts Organization

Robert Henri, leader of_

Ashcan School

Robert Henri's Origins

Philadelphia & Paris -> New York

Henri's Apprentices

Glackens, Sloan, Bellows, Luks-impasto brushwork

The Eight

"Ashcan School", 8 artists, immigrant supporters

Ashcan's Style

Naturalism

International Exhibition of Modern Art

"The Armory Show", locations: New York (69th regiment building)-> Chicago & Boston

Show's Organizers

Davies, Kuhn, Pach

Armory Show's Themes

Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, some impressionists

Futurism

Italian-technology, speed, dynamism

Nude Descending a Staircase-artist & form

Duchamp-angular form

"Lawless Art"-Who?

Leila Mechlen, about modernist abstraction

John White Alexander-Role

President of N.A.D.,

Dada-Ideas, origin, member category

Anti-WW1 movement, Switerzerland origin, Conceptual Artists

Duchamp, Francis Picabia-roles

NY Dada Artists

Arensburgs-roles

NY Dada Sponsors

Conceptual Art-priorities

Concept > Execution

In Advance of the Broken Arm-description

Duchamp's Readymade, inspired artist, Man Ray

Marcel Duchamp-nickname

Father of Conceptual Art

Alfred Stieglitz-description

German Pictorialist, wrote art criticism, fundamentalist modernist

Camera Work

By Stieglitz, big work

Gallery 291

By Stieglitz, on 5th avenue, European Modernism Symbol, non-Western art. Ex: African Sculpture

Stieglitz's Other Shows

Intimate Gallery; An American Place

Modernism

Incorporates Cubism & Expressionism for abstract form

Charles Demuth: Background

Home: Lancaster. Studied: Pennsylvanian academy -> Paris. Gay man

Charles Demuth Art History

Watercolorist; Friends w Stieglist & Hartley

Geometric Abstraction

Builds shapes w straight lines.

Charles Demuth Inspirations

Cubists

Early Cubanism's Technique

Geometric Abstraction

Geometric Abstraction Practicioners

Demuth, Marin, Weber

Poster Portraits

References subject off of their life

I Saw The Figure 5 in Gold

Portrait of William Williams, by Demuth

Imagism

Conveying clear, direct message/imagery

Imagism Practioners

Ezrea Pound, Hilda Dolittle

Figure in Gold's 3 Colors

Red, Gold, Gray w thin brushstrokes

Figure in Gold's techniques

Repeated thrice, illusion of recession

Demuth Died From _

Diabetes

The Great Figure-author, main subject

By Williams, abt speeding train

Figure in Gold's Theme

Illusion of speed & sound via lack of vanishing perspective

Georgia Keefe Origins

Winsconsin born, Attended Chicago Art Institute

Georgia Keef's Influences

William Chase, Arthur Dow, Vasily Kandinsky

Composition (book)

By Dow, Japanese inspired

Arthur Dow's Philosophy

Music connects art

Biomorphic Abstraction

Forms taken from natural world

Blue and Green Music (painting)

By Keefefe, uses music to communicate

James Whistler's Philosophy

His art made in "harmonies" & "symphonies"

Kadinsky's Philosophy

Art made in "compositions" and "improvisations"

Biomorphic Abstractio Practiconers

O Keeffe, Arthur Dove

O Keeffe Relationship w Stieglitz

Model for Stieglitz Nude Photos, Married Stieglitz, freedom lost bc Stieglitz idealism

O Keeffe Other Art

Images of NY & New Mexico (ex: Hispanic Catholic pilgrimages)

Shelton with Sunspots-Artist, Subject

Featured Skyscrapers in NY, by O'Keeffe

Ernest Blumenschein, Bert Philips-Actions

Founded Taos art colony at Taos Pueblo, First white artists of Southwest

Taos Society of Artists-main purpose

Suppoted Euro-American artists

The Indian Detour-description, purpose

By John Sloan, mocks commercialization of native culture.

Mabel Dodge

moved to Taos, married Tony Lujan

Lawrence-Actions

Bought property and wrote work under "Lawrence Tree"

The Lawrence Tree (Artwork)-Main colors

Green, red-brown, blue

The Lawrence Tree (Artwork)-Author

By Keeffe

Lawrence Tree Symbolism

Height shows idea of "rushing"; Painting hung so tree stands on head

Pan in America-Content

personifies a tree

Pan in America-author

By Lawrence

4 [art styles] legitimized photography

Mainly Pictorialism; Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism

Imogen Cunningham-Origins

Born-Portland, Oregon; studied at Washington University; Chem major

Cunningham's thesis

"The Scientific Development of Photography"

Edward S. Curtis-composer of_

Native American Book (unnamed), met Cunningham

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Helped Cunningham find other pictorialists

Cunningham's studio is in___

Seattle

Cunningham Husband

"Roi"-George Roy Partridge

Cunninham's photography focus

Dreamy Narratives

Edward Weston

Leader of West Coast Modernist Photographers

Cunningham New Inspiration-Country & Style

Germany, New Objectivity

New Objectivity

Pure, objective recording -> no editing

Das Deutsche Lichtbild-Content

Plant Photos

Das Deutsche Lichtbild-Author

Renger Patzch

Film Und Foto-location, Cunningham submitted _ photos

Stuttgart, Germany;10 photo (Ex: Leaf Pattern)

Group F/-64-Name, Style

"f-stop" of Camera; Cropped, dramatic color photography; art manipulation ONLY via. camera

Seeing Photographically-Author, Subject

Edward Weston, Photography different from art bcs mechanical

Leaf Pattern-Artist, Style, Description

Cunningham; modernist; leaf with dramatic shadows

Leaf Pattern-Perspective

Middleground

Leaf Pattern-Misc.

Was still manipulated; think of choice of background or leaf

Cunningham-Later Activities

Portrait Photography for magazines (ex: House and Garden)

Man Ray-Origins

New York

Man Ray-Inspirations

Ashcan Artists & Stieglitz

Man Ray-Collaborators

Dadas, Surrealists, Duchamp

Surrealism-Origin's Date, Artist, Work

1924-When Breton published "Manifesto of Surrealism"

Surrealism-Description

Strange juxtaposition, imagery, & unconscious mind

Automatism-Users

Surrealists

Automatism-Definition

Writing without a plan

Surrealism's Hearth

France

Surrealism's Spread

Europe, U.S., Iberia

Dora Maar-Art Pattern

Splicing of photography negatives to create juxtaposition

Hans Bellmer-Art Pattern

Photographed grotesque dolls

Clade Cahun

Photographed usage of masks & mirrors

Man Ray-Art Pattern

Surrealism + Randommness through solarization, Rayographs

Solarization

Spamming light at photo; caused unpredictable reversals

Rayographs

Photos made without camera/film; used bright light.

Rayographs-colors

Solid objects=white, background=black

Photogram/Contact Print-Age

(1830s)Oldest kind of photography