art app midterms

• Modern Art


  • Artworks produced during 1860-1970 era
  • Broke with convention, dealt with new subject matter, focused on conceptual concerns, and changed the position of the artist w/I the society
• Surrealism


  • Unconscious and conscious to create a new "super-reality"
  • Beyond the reality
  • Captures the subj not from the real world, but from the world of dreams, imaginations and fantasies
• Surrealist Artworks


  • The Persistance of memory by Salvador Dali
  • The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo
  • Girl with Death Mask by Frida Kahlo
• Realism


  • Presents the subject as it is or objectively
  • Makes a faithful rendition of the work based on what the realist sees
  • Accuracy & honesty
• Realist Artworks


  • Old Spanish Church by Fernando Amorsolo
  • Dalagang Filipina by Fernando Amorsolo
  • Portrait of Jose Rizal by Juan Luna
  • Vendedora De Flores by Juan Luna
  • The Chess Players by Thomas Eakins
  • Miss Amelia van Buren by Thomas Eakins
• Impressionism


  • Attempts to produce vividness
  • Uses short, thin yet visible brush strokes for the painting
  • Concerned more w/ the technique of suggesting light and color to the picture than with the subject matter
• Impressionist Artworks


  • Woman with a Parasol by Madam Monet & her son
  • The Basket of Apples Still Life by Paul Cezanne
  • Girl with Peaches by Valentin Serov
• Fauvism


  • Flourished in France from 1898 to 1908
  • Uses strong colors and dynamic brushwork to connote joy and happiness, comfort and pleasure
• Fauvist Artworks


  • Portrait of Madame Matisse/The Green Stripe by Henri Mattisse
  • The Dessert: Harmony in red by Henri Mattisse
  • The Estaque by Georges Braque
• Cubism


  • Paul Cezane – father of Cubism; he advised painters to "treat nature by cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective, so that theeach side of an object or a plane is directed toward a central point"
  • Ang Kiukok - father of Cubism in PH
• Cubist Artworks


  • Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso
  • Factory Horta de Ebbo by Pablo Picasso
  • Ang Magbabayo by Vicente Manansala
  • Self Portrait with Seven Fingers by Marc Chagall
• Futurism


  • The subject relates to the future, and not to the present
  • Most controversial
  • Emphasizes speed, violence, etc.
• Futurist Artworks


  • Memories of a Night by Luigi Russolo
  • Cityscape by Tullio Crali
  • Dynamism of a car by Luigi Russolo
  • Street Light by Giacomo Balla
• Vorticism


  • Bold colors, harsh lines and Sharp angles along w/ a fascination with machine age
  • Relate art to industrialization
  • Followed the same vein as futurism
• Vorticist Artworks


  • Torso in metal from 'the rock drill' by Jacob Epstein
  • Red Stone Dancer by Gaudier-Brzeska
  • Abstract Composition by Jessica Dismorr
• Constructivism


  • Abstract
  • Art should be "constructed" from modern industrial materials such as plastic, steel, glass in order to serve a societal purpose instead of merely making an abstract statement
  • Believes that art should directly reflect the modern industrial world
• Constructivist Artworks


  • Proun 99 by El Lissitzky
  • Rising, Falling, Flying by Lajos Kassak
  • Folk Motives by Lajos Kassak
• Suprematism


  • Founded by Kazimir Malevich
  • His goal is to break down art down to its bare bones, often employing basic shapes, primary and neutral colors
  • Came from "supremacy"
• Suprematist Artworks


  • Suprematist Composition by Kazimir Malevich
  • Sportsmen by Kazimir Malevich
• De Stijl


  • De stijl = dutch for "The Style"; sums up this movement's aim while characterizing their intentions on how to achieve the aim with a simple, direct approach
  • Strict geometry of horizontals and verticals
• De Stijl Artworks


  • Composition with Large Red Plane, yellow, Black, Gray and Blue by Piet Mondrian
  • Victorie Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
• Dada/Dadaism


  • Hugo Ball – a famous dadaist poet
  • Goal: not to have art be "an end itself, but [to be] an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in"
  • About heartbreaks, sadness; created after WW1
• Dadaist Artworks


  • Glass Tears by Man Ray
• Pointilism


  • known as divisionism and chromoluminarism
  • involves placing small dots of color
• Pointilist Artworks


  • The Happy Family by Pablo Ruiz Picasso
• Contemporary Art


  • Work made b/w 1970 and the present
  • Made by the living artists; seen as something that has never been done before
  • Tackles a wide variety issues such as political issues etc
• Pop Art


  • Includes imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects
  • Founded by Andy Warhol
• Photorealism


  • Encompasses graphic media
  • Looks like it is a photo without a direct reference to the artist who created it
• Photorealist Artworks


  • Strawberry Tart by Audrey Flack
  • Mcdonald's Pickup by Ralph Goings
• Conceptualism


  • "an idea or concept is the most important aspect pf artwork. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair." (LeWitt, 1967)
  • Focuses on idea rather than the work of art
• Conceptual Artworks


  • Away from the Flock by Damien Hirst
  • One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kasuth
• Performance Art


  • Began in 1960s; the heart of the artwork is its idea or message
  • May be planned or spontaneous and done live or recorded
• Installation Art


  An immersive work where the environment or the space in which the viewer steps into or interacts with is transformed or altered
• Installation Artworks


  • Cadillac ranch
• Earth Art


  a spin-off of installation art; when the natural environment is transformed
• Street Art


  includes murals. Stenciled images, stickers, and installations or installative/ sculptural objects