Modern Art Exam 2

• Marcel Duchamp
• Fountain
• Dada movement
• Readymade
• Submitted to the exhibit as an act of provocation. Signed R. Mutt as a poke at plumbing manufacturer J.L. Mott

• Kathe Kollwitz
• Lamentation: In Memory of Ernst Barlach (Grief)
• WWI
• Portrait of grieving, which lets show her own grieving for dead son

• Amedeo Madicliani
• Nude
• France Post WWI
• Used Professional models for nudes
• Example of artists standard formula for reclining nudes

• Piet Mondrian
• Composition 1921
• Neoplasticism / De Stijl
• edges of the paining are left open as if the composition continues off the canvas

• Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer
• Fagus Shoe Factory
• Bauhaus
• Innovation in utilization of glass even in the corners

• Paul Klee
• Death and Fire
• Bauhaus
• Painted on burlap
• Klee died less than a year after painting

• Joan Miro'
• Painting
• Surrealism
• Although images appear to be non-figurative, some observers have found similarities with forms and animals.
• Tie between subconscious and conscious
• Had impact on american abstract artists

• Salvador Dali'
• The Persistance of Memory
• Surrealism
• Fame comes from the recognizable objects that are in an unusual form with unusual attributes
• Dali' was obsessed with morphology between hard and soft
• Based on a memory of a doctor who asked to see his tongue.

• Pablo Picasso
• Guernica
• Cubism
• One of the most recognizable works of twentieth century
• Inspired by Spanish Civil War and the destruction of town of Guernica by German bombers
• Training mission for German Air Force.

• Meret Oppenheim
• Object (Luncheon in Fur)
• Surrealism
• work Oppenheim is primarily known for
• inspiration came from Picasso saying, after a discussion about her fur cover jewelry, that you could cover just about anything in fur.

• Henry Moore
• Reclining Figure
• British Sculpture
• Blockiness is from Moore's view that stone should look like stone, not flesh

• Emerged in Zurich 1916
• moved to Berlin, Paris, and New York
• Less a style or technique than an attitude
• mocked traditional notions of art
• Marcel Janco
• Jean Arp
• Hans Richter
• Marcel Duchamp

• devaluation of tradition
• simplified shapes and colors
• Theo Van Doesburg was founder
• Piet Mondrian

Shapes, lines, and colors have their own absolute autonomous values and relationships, divorced from any association whatsoever.

• Founder is Walter Gropius
• progressive artists introduced radical innovations
• Adolph Meyer
• Josef Albers
• Paul Klee
• Vasily Kandinsky

• influenced by sigmund freud
• identifiable objects portrayed in unusual ways
• Max Ernst
• Joan Miro'
• Salvador Dali'
• Meret Oppenheim

The artists aim is to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference.

Rubbing charcoal over paper to create image

A pattern created by scraping off layers of paint