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Goldfish
Date: 1912
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Henry Matisse
Context: Fauvism(energetic colors and brushwork) / Goldfish were brought from Asia, they represent serenity and tranquility
Improvisation #28
Date:1912
Location: Russia
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Vasily Kadinsky
Context: Expressionism (violent color and very abstract forms)/ Kadinskywas inspired by music / depicts transition to abstraction
Self portrait as a soldier
Date:1915
Location: Germany
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Ernst Kirchner
Context: Expressionism/ symbolizes the artists grief of his own injuries during war, painted this piece during rehabilitation
The young ladies at Avignon Street
Date: 1907
Location: Spain
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Context: Cubism (minimalistic, breaks down objects into shapes, unnatural poses) / depicts sexuality of female nude, brothel workers modeled for picasso
The Portuguese
Date:1911
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: George Braque
Context: Analytical cubism (multiple angles at once) / depicts a guitarist in a cafe, very unrecognizable and fractured form / worked with Picasso
The Kiss
Date:1907
Location:France
Material:Limestone
Artist: Brancusi
Context: Cubism / Brancusi wanted to explore the extent of simplicity / similar to prehistoric art(anthropomorphic stele)
The Steerage
Date:1907
Location:New York
Material: Photograph
Artist: Alfred Steiglitz
Context: introduces photography as a fine art / depicts the social divisions between classes, political argument
Fountain
Date:1917
Location: New York
Material: porcelain with paint
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Context: DaDa (satirical and comedic form of art to distract from world wars) / Urinal was bought from a magazine, placed in an art exhibition
Object
Date:1936
Location: New York
Material: fur covered porcelain
Artist: Merit Oppenheimm
Context: Surrealism ( dream like figures) / commentary on the struggles of being a woman in the art industry
The two Fridas
Date:1939
Location: Mexico
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Context: Expressionism / self portrait depicting her personal struggles between her identity and her divorce / LOTS of symbolism
The Jungle
Date:1943
Location:Cuba
Material: Gouche on paper
Artist: Wilfred Lam
Context: Analytical Cubism / influenced by African masks and sculpture / abstract proportions
Memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht
Date:1919
Location: Germany
Material: Woodcut
Artist: Kathe Kollowitz
Context: Karl Liebknecht was the founder of the German Communist party, he was shot to death / displays grief following the world wars
The Results of the Five Year Plan
Date: 1932
Location: Russia
Material: Photomontage
Artist: Varvara Stepanova
Context: Propoganda art, depicts portrait of Lenin and red color to symbolize communism / collage of photographs layered together
Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow
Date:1930
Location:Netherlands
Material:Oil on canvas
Artist: Piet Mondrian
Context: De Stilj ( severe geometrical simplicity) / wanted to express the purest form of color and line
Spiral Jetty
Date:1970
Location: Utah
Material: Earth
Artist: Robert Smithson
Context: coiled rock pile / reflects emerging environmentalist movements
Falling Water
Date:1940
Location: Pennsylvania
Material: glass, steel, concrete
Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright
Context: served as a retreat for wealthy families / influenced by Japanese gardens / Prairie style (architecture that builds harmony with the nature around it) / Cantilevered steel
Narcissus Garden
Date:1966
Location: Venice
Material : media installation
Artist: Yayoi Kusama
Context: Preformance art that symbolizes the ancient myth of Narcissus / commentary on consumerism and vanity
Villa Savoye
Date:1930
Location: France
Material: steel and concrete
Artist: Le Corbusier
Context: International Style (simplicity is more ) / clean and spacious, very simple, ribbon windows
Lipstick Ascending on Caterpiller Trucks
Date:1969
Location: Yale University
Material: Resin and steel
Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Context: Pop Art / political commentary against the Vietnam war / used as a podium for public speakers
Seagram Building
Date:1958
Location: New York
Material: steel and glass
Artist: Van derohe
Context: International style skyscraper / corporate building of the Seagram company / I-beams, monolith style
Marilyn Diptych
Date:1962
Location: New York
Material; Oil, Acrylic, silk screen
Artist: Andy Warhol
Context: glorifies media and consumerism / repeated imagery, color gradually fading / made after Marilyns death
House in Newcastle country
date: 1978
Location: Delaware
Material: wood and stucco
Artist: Robert Venturi
Context: Post Modern architecture (rejects international style and revives old styles and color) / Doric columns and arches in pediment form
The Bay
Date:1963
Location: New York
Material: Acrylic on canvas
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Context: Color Feild ( fluid paint and soak staining technique) / introduces Color field as a form of abstract art / colors bleed together
The Migration Series
Date:1940
Location: New York
Material: tempera on hardboard
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Context: Depicts the northern migration of freed slaves / dynamic synthetic cubism / emphasis on segregation, narrative painting, cartoon like
Woman 1
Date:1950
Location: New York
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: William De kooning
Context: Abstract Expressionism / reaction to minimalism in abstraction / commentary of female stereotypes by satirizing women in media
Dream of a Sunday afternoon in Alameda Park
Date:1947
Location: Mexico
Material: Fresco mural
Artist: Diego Rivera
Context: Depicts the 3 eras of Mexico, invokes pride for history of the country / Horror vacui, Frida depicted behind Diego, surrealist tone