Modern Art

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Modern Art
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BAROQUE 1600-1750

• 1. Can be excessive, eccentric, and grotesque.
• 2. mellow lighting, lack of detail but often many
  figures, unbalanced.

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• 3. try to overwhelm the senses, capture one
  dramatic moment.
• 4. product of the Counter Reformation (get people
  back into the Catholic Church.)

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RUBENS
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REMBRANDT
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• Self-portrait

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CARAVAGGIO
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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
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NEOCLASSICAL 1650-1850

• 1. Copies Greek, Roman clothes, architecture,
  mythology

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• 2. heroic subjects usually sacrificing something
• 3. clean, clear, no need to imagine, stage sets

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Jacques Louis David
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Death of Socrates
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ROMANTICISM 1775-1850

• 1. product of revolutions of the time shows
  violent, emotional scenes.

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• 2. appeals to sense of emotion stresses
  nationalism.

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• 3. belief in importance of nature.

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Francisco de Goya
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Romanticism is the free expression of personal
feelings.
Casper David Friedrich
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Delacroix
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Liberty Enlightening the World Bartholdi
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REALISM 1827-1927

• 1.showed inequality of man condition against the
  Industrial Revolution.

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• 2. showed life as it really was even if
  unpleasant criticism of materialism.

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• 3. depicted lower classes, flaws in the social
  order.

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Jean-Francois Millet
Woman Sewing by Lamplight
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Albert Bierstadt
Yosemite Valley
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Honore Daumier
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IMPRESSIONISM 1863-1900

• 1. Arose to counter realism.
• 2. technique of suggesting light as main factor
  in determining appearance leaving to the mind of
  the observer to fill in details.

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• 3. shimmering quality implies the unfinished.

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Claude Monet
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POST-IMPRESSIONISM

• 1. A little more detailed than impressionism.

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Vincent Van Gogh
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CUBISM 1906-PRESENT

• Definition Breaks down objects into geometric
  figures

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• 1. Influenced by Cezanne and African art/play of
  planes and angles on a flat surface.

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Guitar on a Pedestal
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The Old Guitar Player
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Pablo Picasso
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SURREALISM 1917-PRESENT

• Definition fantastic imagery and strange placing
  of subject matter.

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• 1. complete rejection of conventional art.
• 2. bringing subconscious to the surface shock
  the conscious

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• 3. uses rational, logical objects and displays
  them in an illogical order.

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Salvador Dali
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• Christ of Saint John of the Cross

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 20TH CENTURY

• 1. Color and form more important than reality.
• 2. observer enters painting without searching for
  meaning.

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Jackson Pollock
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Paintings often used as murals
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Mark Rothko
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POP ART

• Definition Draws subjects from well known images
  seen in US

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• 1. Comments on the prevalence of advertising in
  American life.

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Roy Lichenstein
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Andy Warhol
Campbells Soup Can
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Anybody can be famous for 15 minutes.