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- The Sacred Grove
- Artist: Chavannes
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- ornamental and reflective
- statuesque figures
- tranquil landscape setting
- motion is suspended in timeless poses
- people or sculptures?
- simple and sharp contours
- modeling is done like shallow relief sculpture
- atmosphere suggests that this place is consecrated
- simple rhythmic contours allude to the rejection of materialism
- created murals so that he wouldn't contribute to materialism
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- Jupiter and Semele
- Artist: Moreau
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- dreaming world
- alludes to sensuality in art
- one of hiw rare finished works
- intricate colors, gorgeous lines, and richly detailed shapes
- Semele is a mortal girl who is one of Jupiter's lovers
- Semele begs Jupiter to appear to her in all his majesty and then she dies
- based on Wagner's opera - dream of grand synthesis of all the arts
- towering opulent architecture that would be present in an opera
- grand hall covered in shimmering iridescent colors
- rich color harmonizes with exotic colors form Medieval enamels, Byzantine mosaic, exotic wares, and Indian miniatures
- reclining in Jupiter's lap
- he is crowned with a halo of thunder bolts
- she is swooning in suspended motion
- entranced figures
- beautiful inertia rendered with necessary richness
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- The Cyclops
- Artist: Redon
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- intense inner world
- wrote of imaginary things that haunted him
- impressionist pallet
- stipling brushstrokes
- projects a figment of his image
- whimsical through rich saturated hues
- looking at fetal head of a shy simpering polyphemus
- head rises like a balloon above a sleeping figure of Galatea
- improbable beings making them live according to the laws of probability
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- The Sleeping Gypsy
- Artist: Rousseau
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- gypsy in a silent and secretive desert world
- sleeping underneath a full moon in an empty landscape
- creating an uneasiness and anxiety of the vulnerable unconscious
- menacing stuffed animal
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- The Scream
- Artist: Munch
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- grounded in the real world because its just a man on a bridge
- evoke some sort of emotional response
- man reduced to a skeletal form
- curvilinear form of figure
- face looks like skull
- primitive scream
- sweeping curvilinear line echo the shape of the head
- scream reverberates across the setting
- inferno-like sky
- sharp angle of bridge accents drama
- couple become haunting figures
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- Christ's Entry into Brussels
- Artist: Ensor
- Era: Symbolism
- Techniques:
- hollow men
- mask-like face that symbolize Ensor's paranoia
- never see anyone's true face in a crowd
- hard strident and spotted color
- cacophony that makes the crowd even more repulsive
- Christ on a donkey with a large sombrero (halo)
- Christ surrounded by socialist
- socialism is taking over religion
- Ensor was deceived and cheated by everyone he trusted
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- Staircase in the Van Eetvelde House
- Artist: Horta
- Era: Art Nouveau
- Techniques:
- every detail adds to the organic quality of the building
- furniture, and drapery folds, and veins in the stone paneling, and patterns on door molding join with real plants to create graceful extensions of the twining plant theme
- metallic tendrils and curls
- railings have more twining plant forms
- in the ceiling which is a glass dome the tracery is made to look like twining plants
- screen and curtains have floral and leaf motifs
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- The Peacock Skirt
- Artist: Beardsley
- Era: Art Nouveau
- Techniques:
- influenced by Japanese prints - flattened sections of color and pattern
- eliminates all shading
- intense but elastic line that stretches around the figure and creates a sweeping curvilinear shape, outline of figure
- organic swirling designs
- linear rhythm and harmony support the technique of calligraphy
- "art for art's sake"
- grace and beauty of line
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- Casa Mila
- Artist: Gaudi
- Era: Art Nouveau
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Techniques:
- free form mass
- around a street corner
- very small windows that peep out from an undulating roof line
- caped with writhing chimneys that spiral into the air
- rough surface area, made to look like natural rocks that have been worn down by the elements
- entrance portals are like sea caves
- balconies with iron railings that are organic in design, with twining plant motif
- hallways look like caves, arched
- symbolically a living thing
- passion for naturalism
- spiritually connected to Expressionism
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- Death and Life
- Artist: Klimt
- Era: Art Nouveau
- Techniques:
- heavier in subject matter and colors
- river of life on right
- people cling to each other to survive
- skeleton on left represents death
- death can take away life at any moment
- amorphous background setting
- death is wrapped in a cloak of crucifixes
- everyone dies
- people gain strength from each other
- each figure has its own set of colors and patterns
- inspired by Byzantine mosaic, cloisonne, and stained glass
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- The Kiss
- Artist: Klimt
- Era: Art Nouveau
- Techniques:
- Klimt and his mistress?
- colors and shapes are like jewels
- human drama
- man is forcing the woman's head down
- different skin tones
- different patterns in garments
- man has rectangles and woman has floral
- leaf garland in man, flowers in her hair
- people question whether she is alive or dead
- why are they sitting on the edge of the cliff?
- she has elongated upper body
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- Woman with the Hat
- Artist: Matisse
- Era: Fauvism
- Techniques:
- his wife Amelie
- wide, sad eyes
- rapid, unrefined strokes
- conventional compositional layout
- resting hand on a walking cane
- half length portrait
- arbitrary colors make her look flat
- colors juxtaposed with jarring contrasts
- no light and shadow to create volume - avant garde
- could not reproduce light, only represent light with color
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- Harmony in Red
- Artist: Matisse
- Era: Fauvism
- Techniques:
- maid placing fruit and wine on a table
- compresses space
- simplifying form
- same pattern on table and wall
- uses white to manipulate the eye across the picture frame, orange too
- objects define space
- lots of curvilinear lines
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- The Dance
- Artist: Derain
- Era: Fauvism
- Techniques:
- flattens perspective and uses color to delineate space and objects
- indicates light and shadow not by differences in value but by contrast in hue
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- London Bridge
- Artist: Derain
- Era: Fauvism
- Techniques:
- atypical colors
- distorted perspective
- easily identified brushstrokes
- black outlined accents
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- The Old King
- Artist: Roulault
- Era: Fauvism
- Techniques:
- sometimes Expressionist
- dark jewel-like colors with strong heavy black outlines to outline the figure and divide him into geometric shapes
- use of stain glass windows
- Old Testament ruler, sitting on a thrown, holding flowers under an arch
- melancholy mood - vulnerability and human frailty of ruling
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