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- Three Musicians
- Artist: Picasso
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- positive lively colors
- pariot clown on clarinet
- harlequin clown on guitar
- mysterious masked monk on vocals
- interlocking shapes and flatness
- allusion to Synthetic Cubism
- shapes and colors define personality of figures
- all combined figures by dog in background
- dog helps create rhythm - creates liveliness
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- Fruit Dish and Cards
- Artist: Braque
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- mixing table with objects
- still life of fruits and cards on table
- darkground is top of table
- wood grain is underside of table
- allusion to bowl with rounded section
- cards are used because they are flat
- fruit is flat
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- Maquette for Guitar
- Artist: Picasso
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- maquette means model - didn't finish it, supposed to be metal
- took the form of the guitar and explores the volume through flat planes
- creates a cut away of the guitar - interior and exterior at same time
- front on left, back on right and side next to neck
- strings but inside of handle
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- Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass
- Artist: Braque
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- real newspaper cut outs added on
- false wood paper
- five piece of paper overlap in center to create a layering of flat planes that both echo space that the line suggest and emphasizing the flat surface area of a table with objects lying on it
- all the shapes seem to change perspective
- shading seems to carve space into flat planes and seems to create transparency in others
- complex visual interplay
- pipe is a cutout of newspaper with charcoal shading
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- Bather
- Artist: Lipchitz
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- cubic volume and planes
- spiraling movement
- looking at different angles pieced together in same space
- Classical sculpture with modern energy because all the shapes slip and slide
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- Woman Combing Her Hair
- Artist: Archipenko
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- small sculpture
- void in place of head that is shape of head outlined by hair
- right arm over head
- left arm is abstracted
- mass and void of breasts
- protruding belly
- emphasizing space and mass
- space penetrates the continuous mass and is defining form equal to mass*
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- Woman Combing Her Hair
- Artist: Gonzalez
- Era: Cubism
- Techniques:
- bars sheets and rods welded together
- reducing the figure to an interplay of lines and curves
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- The City
- Artist: Leger
- Era: Purism
- Techniques:
- harsh flashing electric lights, noise of trraffic, robotic movements, mechanized people
- massive effects of modern posters and billboard advertisements
- uses letters from Cubism
- still flat like Cubism
- mechanical commotion of the city
- solid blocks of colors
- harsh outlines
- allusions to bridges and steel structures
- purity of form
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- Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
- Artist: Balla
- Era: Futurism
- Techniques:
- Cubism's use of disecting form
- only looking down at ground
- achieved effect of motion by repetition of shape*
- like with a camera if something is moving the image is blurred
- seeing everytime the foot is in a different position all at once
- condensing of time and space
- floor accentuated by lines showing movement in space
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- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
- Artist: Boccioni
- Era: Futurism
- Techniques:
- bronze sculpture
- striding human figure
- expanded, interrupted, broken planes and contours
- figure disappears behind blur of movement
- bronze creates a fluidity like mercury
- movement accentuated by large calves kind of
- torso looks like chest armor with huge shoulder pads to define the movement of the arms
- influence by Japanese samurai armor
- Cubist shapes that represents the exaggerated muscles
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- Armored Train
- Artist: Severini
- Era: Futurism
- Techniques:
- high tech armored train with all its rivets glissening in the sun with a canon on top
- looking down on train
- beauty of speed and machinery
- military officers reduced to triangular shapes
- speeding through what remains of nature
- aiming guns at unseen target
- clean Earth of its past
- colors are light and bright
- omits sad colors of war
- dynamism and motion
- broken down into facents and planes
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- Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
- Artist: Arp
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- torn paper pasted on paper
- squares themselves have only control
- regularity in making them into square shapes
- contrasts control of squares with randomly dropping them - creates vitality
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- Fountain
- Artist: Duchamp
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- ready made, glazed, sanitary china with black paint - porcelain urinal placed on its back
- signed R. Mutt and dated
- witty sutonym for the Mott, plumbing company, and comic strip Mutt and Jeff
- "artness is in the choice of the object"
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- Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
- Artist: Duchamp
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- tons of materials
- serious and playful
- desire and sexuality
- 4 dimensional world
- diptych
- shapes and object float between to panels of glass
- glass shattered - all part of chance
- bride on top
- bachelors are reduced to clothing
- each uniform represents a different french profession
- bride reduced to machine parts
- machine created on bottom will help undress the bride
- chocolate grinding machine in middle
- machine helps the man "the bachelor grinds his own chocolate"
- sexual frustration
- she is more dominant - women can create
- men can only create machines
- woman instigates sexual desire
- all her machine parts point down
- a woman is a motor fueled by "love gasoline" that helps her blossom
- 6 dots of chocolate almost made it to the women
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- Bicycle Wheel
- Artist: Duchamp
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- ready made
- focus on motion because wheel can spin
- attack on art and the viewer and the government
- trying to force the viewer to think for himself
- shapes in relationship to eachother
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- Nude Descending a Staircase
- Artist: Duchamp
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- "pahotlogical" and "a menace" -critics
- single figure moving down a flight of stairs
- alluding to motion pictures
- film stills one right after the other layed ontop of eachother
- figure is completely fragmented
- Cubist monochromatic pallete
- human in motion like Futurism
- motion through repetition of shape
- use of diagonal to create motion
- uses value to show what comes forward and back
- "explosion in a shingle factory" -critic
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- Cadeau
- Artist: Man Ray
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- replica of a 1921 original
- 13 tacks with their heads glued on to the bottom on the flat iron
- subverts the proper function of an iron into malicious humor
- mocking art and plays on word
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- Rayograph
- Artist: Man Ray
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- lays common objects on photo sensitive paper exposes to light, turns off light, removes objects and turns on light again to get gray tones
- ghostly images
- anything that was white was the object
- pearl bracelet and a lemon
- supposed to look like flower, mushroom, leaf, and stem
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- Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
- Artist: Hoch
- Era: Dada
- Techniques:
- photo montage
- accletic mixture in a seemingly haphazard
- place favorite Dada artists next to Marx and Lenin
- lettering spells out in German " the great dada world"
- juxtaposes German military leaders heads with exotic dancers' bodies
- her head is in there too
- map of Europe shows the progress of women's enfrancisement
- aware of the power of women and dadaism to destabilize society
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