Modern and Postmodern Art (part 1)

    • Painting
    • Artist: Bacon
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • skewed perspective
    • body hangs like crucifixion
    • Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
    • Artist: Bacon
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • figure merges with dark rays that surround it
    • blurriness suggest shifting uncertainty
    • Death Comes of the Old Lady
    • Artist: Michals
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • movement expressed through grainy soft focus
    • blur represents supernatural
    • Vie Inquiete
    • Artist: Dubuffet
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • incised lines
    • layer of imposto
    • high horizon line
    • Man Pointing
    • Artist: Giacometti
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • elongated, featureless figure
    • emphasis on space around figure
    • City Square
    • Artist: Giacometti
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • featureless, elongated figures
    • face different directions because they never meet
    • Cardinal
    • Artist: Manzu
    • Era: Postwar Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • robes reduce body
    • delicately modelled irregularities in surface
    • Lavender Mist
    • Artist: Pollock
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • household paints
    • cut off edges of canvas so that paint gose off edge - alludes to eternity
    • "all over" composition - no focus
    • gestural abstraction
    • Lucifer
    • Artist: Pollock
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • household paints
    • cut off edges of canvas so that paint gose off edge - alludes to eternity
    • "all over" composition - no focus
    • gestural abstraction
    • Painting
    • Artist: Kline
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • gestural abstraction
    • enlarged jagged form
    • Woman I
    • Artist: Kooning
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • scrapes away surface everyday
    • gestural sweeping brushstrokes
    • Man and Woman in a Large Room
    • Artist: Diebenkorn
    • Era: Abstract Expressionsim
    • Techniques:
    • alternating dark and light hues
    • suggested recession into space
    • Muscians
    • Artist: de Stael
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • mosaic like colored shapes
    • simplification of form and character
    • Vir Heroicus Sublimis
    • Artist: Newman
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • color field painting
    • zips create energy
    • No. 14
    • Artist: Rothko
    • Era: Abstract Expressionsim
    • Techniques:
    • color field
    • subtle tonal variations
    • Four Darks in Red
    • Artist: Rothko
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • color field
    • implied that it is monochromatic
    • Cubi XVIII
    • Artist: David Smith
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • simple geometric forms
    • activates surface with lighting
    • Cubi XXVI
    • Artist: David Smith
    • Era: Abstract Expressionism
    • Techniques:
    • simple geometric forms
    • activates surface with lighting
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felara9614
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Card Set
Modern and Postmodern Art (part 1)
Description
Postwar and Abstract Expressionism
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