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Vasily Kandinsky- Improvisation 28 (second version)-
expressionist-der blaue reiter- "The Blue Rider" more spiritual intensions that led one member to produce some of the first abstract paintings
-popular image of a blue knight-considered blue the color of spirituality
-musical titles of his paintings
-landscape
-vortext of color, line and shape
-hearing a symphony
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Pablo Picasso- Les Demoisselles D'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon
-Cubist style- proved a fruitful launching pad for allowing to comment on doern life and to investigate how we perceive the world
-lberian influence
-inspired by african art
-multifigured painting
-culturally rebellious
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Umberto Boccioni- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
-futurist painter
-bronze
-sculpture of environment
-armless nude figure in full, powerful stride
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Marcel Duchamp- L.H.O.O.Q
-Pencil on reproduction of Leonardo's Mona Lisa
-Dada
-ready mades- ordinary manufactured objects through decision of the artist
-drew mustache and beard on famous face
-assisted read-made
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Frida Kahlo- The Two Fridas
- mexican folk painting
-identity between european (on left) and mexican (on right)
-self expression
-focus on mixed herritage
-in context of Kahlo's real life
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Frank Lloyd Wright- Edgar Kaufmann House, Falling Water
-pioneer of modernism
-not simply on landscape but in it
-pennsylvania
-built into the cliff
-concrete
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Piet Mondrian- Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue
-de stijl- "the style"
-the 2 linear directions are meant to represent harmony of a series of opposites including male vs. female
-two kinds of beauty; sensual or subjective
-three primary hues , three neutrals
-horizontal and vertical lines
-dynamic equilibrium
-universal style beyond the realm of art
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Salvador Dali- Birth of Liquid Desires
-illusionistic representaion
-surrealists
-sexual urges
-cloud represents a dream
-"manifesto of surrealism"
-biomorphic form
-juxtapositions
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Jackson Pollock- Autmn Rhythm (#30)
-action painting
-exploding hierachy
-controlled disorder of a frenzied dance
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Quadrio riportato
-("transported paintings") is the Italian phrase for "carried picture"
-ceiling is intended to look as if a framed painting has been placed overhead; there is no illusionistic foreshortening, figures appearing as if they were to be viewed at normal eye level.
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Di sotto in su
means seen from below
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Tenebrism
-dramatic illumination
-violent contrast from light to dark
-carravagio used this
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Camera Obscura
"darkened chamber/room" is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen
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Fete Galante
a subject in painting depicting well dressed people at leisure in a park or country stting
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Atelier
the studio or work shop of a master artist or crafts person often including junior associates and apprentices
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Veduta
Italiean for "vista" or "view". Paintings drawings or prints often of expansive city scenes or of harbors
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Odalisque
female slave, means chambermaid
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sublime
high spiritual, moral, or intelectual value or something awe inspiring
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primitivism
the borrowing of subjects or forms by western artist
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