Lecture and Reading
Notes 6
Chapter 28
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Henri Matisse.
The Joy of Life. 1905 - 06.
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Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner. Street, Berlin. 1913.
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Vasily Kandinsky.
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons). 1913.
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Pablo Picasso.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907.
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Georges Braque.
Houses at L'Estaque. 1908.
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Umberto Boccioni.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913.
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Vera Mukhina.
Worker and Collective Farm Woman. 1937.
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Piet Mondrian.
Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue. 1927.
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Walter Gropius.
Bauhaus Building, Dessau. 1925 - 26.
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Hannah Hoch.
Dada Dance. 1922.
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John Heartfield.
Have No Fear- He's a Vegetarian. 1936.
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Marcel Duchamp.
Fountain. 1917.
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Salvador Dali.
The Persistence of Memory. 1931.
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Georgia O'Keeffe.
City Night. 1926.
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Grant Wood.
American Gothic. 1930.
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Dorothea Lange.
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936.
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Edward Hopper.
Nighthawks. 1942.
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Norman Rockwell.
Freedom from Want. 1943.
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Frank Lloyd
Wright. Kaufmann House. 1937.
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Diego Rivera.
Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934.
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Frida Kahlo.
The Two Fridas. 1939.
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| What does the term "modernism" mean? In art, what does the term infer? |
| What is an "ism?" |
| What broad tendencies mark modern artists? |
| What was the first international modernist movement of the 20th century? |
| What does the term "fauves" mean? Why was it used to describe a group of modern artists? |
| Who inspired the fauves? |
| What is "primitivism?" |
| What view of city life do most Die Brücke paintings suggest? |
| What group of artists did Vasily Kandinsky belong to? |
| What was Kandinsky's intention for his work? |
| What did Brancusi seek to portray? |
| Who invented Cubism? |
| How is Picasso's "blue period" characterized? |
| How are works from Picasso's "rose period" characterized? |
| Where is an Iberian influence seen in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? Where is an African influence seen? |
| What does your textbook suggest is the meaning behind Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? |
| How was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon received when it was unveiled? |
| What did Picasso and Braque seek in their "difficult quest?" |
| What two phases of Cubism emerged from Picasso and Braque's quest? How is each phase characterized? |
| What is a collage? What is an assemblage? |
| What goals did Futurism express? How is Futurist work characterized? |
| What were some of the goals of the World of Art group? |
| What factors contributed to the slow growth of modernism in the United States? |
| What was "the turning point for modernist art in the United States?" Why was it so influential? What did American artists do for the first time, after seeing this show? |
| Who is considered "the greatest American architect of the 20th century?" |
| What features did the Prairie style include? |
| How did New York clients of architecture respond to the Chicago style? |
| What characterizes European architecture of the early 20th century? |
| What is a curtain wall? |
| What effect did WWI have on European artists? |
| What were the goals of the Constructivists? |
| What is "Social Realism?" Who supported it? What were its goals? |
| Who was the leading de Stijl artist? What did de Stijl artists seek? |
| What was the ultimate purpose of works like Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue? |
| How did artists in France respond to the chaos of WWI? |
| How was Leger influenced by Purism? |
| What does your book note as "Purism's most important contribution?" |
| What was the International Style? How is it characterized? |
| What was the Bauhaus? What were its goals? |
| How was the avant-garde suppressed in Germany during the early 20th century? |
| What was the Cabaret Voltaire? How did it influence/ inspire Dada artists? |
| What characterizes the Dada movement in Berlin? |
| For what reason did John Hearfield change his approach to artmaking? |
| What did Duchamp believe art should appeal to? |
| What is a "readymade?" |
| How does your book interpret Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Eve (The Large Glass)?" |
| How did the Surrealist movement differ from Dada? |
| What is automatism? |
| What method did Dali contribute to Surrealism? How does The Persistence of Memory exemplify this method? |
| Explain the "political isolationism" and "cultural nationalism" America engaged in after WWI. |
| What artist did Alfred Stieglitz champion after WWI? Why? |
| How is O'Keeffe's work characterized? |
| How does Precisionism relate to American Scene Painting? What were their goals? |
| How did the United States patronize the arts during the Depression? Why? |
| What message do Regionalist works convey? Why was this problematic? |
| Compare and contrast Hopper's Nighthawks with Rockwell's Freedom From Want. |
| What was Rockwell's intention for his work? |
| What circumstances gave rise to the New Negro movement? What did this movement stimulate? |
| How did American architecture differ from European architecture during the interwar years? |
| What intention does Wright's Fallingwater demonstrate? |
| What were Diego Rivera's goals for art? |
| What events prompted the painting of Man, Controller of the Universe? |
| What does Frida Kahlo's work typically deal with? |