Modern Art History - Exam 4

1) Bauhaus

2) German Origin

3) Economic Strife (Responding to the economics of Germany post WWI)

4) Form and Function

5) Affordable goods

Shop Block

Gropius

1925 - 1926

Bauhaus

1) Art Deco

2) French Origin

3) Luxury goods

4) European avant garde (isms)

5) Optimism about modernity

Chrysler Building

William van Allen

1928 - 1930

Art Deco

1) American Modernism

2) Conversation: Abstraction vs. Subjective

3) Subjects: Genre scene or non-objective

4) Influence of the isms through the armory show

5) Reaction to current politics: Great Depression, Great Migration, Modern art

Lucky Strike

Davis

1921

American Modernism

Pepper No. 30

Weston

1930

American Modernism

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

Lange

1935

American Modernism

1) European Influence

2) Cubism (geometric)

3) Fauvism (color)

4) Armory Show

5) Gallery 291 - Stieglitz - NYC

6) Avant Garde (Abstraction)

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

Duchamp

1912

Portrait of a German Officer

Hartley

1914

New York, Night

O’Keefe

1929

Precisionism 

American Gothic

Wood

1930

1) Harlem Renaissance

2) European Influences (cubism, fauvism)

3) African Influence (masks, colors)

4) Renaissance of many art forms (jazz, poetry, philosophy)

5) Abstraction vs. Subjective interpretation (Access to representation)

Noah’s Ark

Douglas

1927

Harlem Renaissance

No. 49 The Migration of the Negro

Lawrence

1940 - 1941

1) Frida Kahlo

2) Influences: Bus accident

3) Subject matter: Self portraits

4) Style: Embraced colors

5) Tied to Rivera but the surrealists try to claim her

The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo

1939

1) Diego Rivera

2) Influences: Heavily influenced by personal politics

3) Driven by a desire to represent Mexican History

4) Murals

*5*) Inextricably tied to Frida Kahlo

Ancient Mexico

Diego Rivera

1929 - 1935

1) Jose Clemente-Orozco

2) Modernism in Mexico/U.S.

3) Public art murals

4) Controversial

5) About representation

6) More graphic than Rivera

Epic of American Civilization

Jose Clemente-Orozco

1932 - 1934

Nighthawks

Hopper

1942

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue

De Stilji

1921

Worker and Collective Farm Woman

Mukhina

1937

Kaufmann House (Falling Water)

Wright

1936 - 1939