Modern Art History: Exam Two

Self Portrait

Edward STEICHEN (American), photograph (pictorialism), Steiglitz Circle

The Flatiron

Edward STEICHEN (American), photograph (pictorialism), Steiglitz Circle

The Steerage

Alfred STEIGLITZ (American), straight photograph, Steiglitz Circle

Wall Street, New York

Paul STRAND (American), photograph, Steiglitz Circle

From the El

Paul STRAND (American), photograph, Steiglitz Circle

Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Conneticut

Paul STRAND (American), photograph, Steiglitz Circle

Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras

Joseph STELLA (American), oil on canvas, Steiglitz Circle

The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted

Joseph STELLA (American), oil and tempera on canvas, Steiglitz Circle

Light Coming on the Plains I II and III

Georgia O’KEEFE (American), watercolor, Steiglitz Circle

The Shelton With Sunspots

Georgia O’KEEFE (American), oil on canvas, Steiglitz Circle

Radiator Building Night New York

Georgia O’KEEFE (American), oil on canvas, Steiglitz Circle

Streetlight

Giacomo BALLA (Italian), oil on canvas, Futurism

Girl Running on a Balcony

Giacomo BALLA (Italian), oil on canvas, Futurism

The City Rises

Umberto BOCCIONI (Italian), oil on canvas, Futurism

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto BOCCIONI (Italian), bronze, Futurism

Interventionist Demonstration

Carlo CARRÀ (Italian), collage, Futurism

Armored Train in Action

Gino SEVERINI (Italian), oil on canvas, Futurism

Futurist Words in Freedom

F. T. MARINETTI (Italian), printed book, futurism

Caravan

Hugo BALL (German), poem/performance, DADA

Collaged Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

Hans ARP (French), collage, DADA

Embroidery

Sophie TAUBER-ARP (Swiss), wool on canvas, DADA

Dada Head

Sophie TAUBER-ARP (Swiss), painted wood, DADA

Republican Automatons

George GROSZ (German), watercolor on paper, DADA

The Middle-Class Philistine Heartfield Gone Wild

John HEARTFIELD and George GROSZ (German), mixed media/assemblage, DADA

The Beautiful Girl

Hannah HÖCH (German), photo-collage, DADA

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

Hannah HÖCH (German), photo collage, DADA

After Ten Years: Fathers and Sons

John HEARTFIELD (German), printed poster with photomontage, DADA

Deutschland Deutschland über alles

John HEARTFIELD (German), printed book cover with photomontage, DADA

Airplane Flying: Suprematist Composition

Kazimir MALEVICH (Russian), oil on canvas, Suprematism

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

El LISSITZKY (Russian), lithograph, Suprematism

The Constructor (Self-Portrait)

El LISSITZKY (Russian), photograph, Constructivism

Monument to the Third International

Vladmir TATLIN (Russian), mixed media construction, Constructivism

Designs for Athletic Wear

Varvara STEPANOVA (Russian), print media, Constructivism

The Literate Will Improve the Farm Economy!

Varvara STEPANOVA (Russian), lithograph, Constructivism

Books on All Branches of Knowledge

Aleksandr RODICHENKO (Russian), guache and photomontage on paper, Constructivism

Pioneer Girl

Aleksandr RODICHENKO (Russian), photograph, Constructivism

Building Socialism Under the Banner of Linen

Gustav KLUTSIS (Latvian), lithograph, Constructivism

Book cover design

Valentina KULAGINA (Russian), photo collage/mixed media, Constructivism

Composition 10 in Black and White

Piet MONDRAIN (Dutch), oil on canvas, Neoplasticism

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue

Piet MONDRAIN (Dutch), oil on canvas, Neoplasticism

Red Blue Chair

Gerrit RIETVELD (Dutch), painted wood, Neoplasticism

Schröder House

Gerrit RIETVELD (Dutch), Utrecht, Netherlands, Neoplasticism

dynamism

art portraying intensity, full of movement

divisionism

dotted colors; another word for pointilism

crono-photography

photos that attempt tp document movement

pictorialism

pictures that are edited and painted over to make it appear more painterly; subject is usually nature

straight photography

taking the photo unaltered/ a documentary; city is usually the subject

photogravure

medium used in Steiglitz Circle that emphasized point of view by utilizing angles and natural geometry

Keizer Wilhelm II

German emperor before WWI that was a large target of criticism in DADA movement

Weimar Republic

took over Germany after WWi for around 30 years until Nazis took over in 1933 where elected officials ran the government

“The New Woman”

seen as a threat towards traditional beliefs.

Red Army

The communist, Bolshevic group fighting in the Russian Civil War

White Army

The anti-communist faction that included Tsar loyalists fighting in the Russian Civil War.

Bolshevik Party

“radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party that split in 1903 and seized power in 1917.” (Wiki)

Photomontage

“process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image.” (Wiki)

Assemblage

“an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate” (wiki); similar to collage

Precisionism

American movement during the 1920’s that used a smooth, sharpky defined painting style originating from Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism.

Machine Aesthetic

“Architecture that suggested something machine-made, acknowledging industrialization, mass-production, and engineering, or that used elements of metal structures.” (wiki)

Camerawork

the use of cameras by photographers