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Modern Art
Modern Art
Modern Art
ARTISTS TO KNOW
Pablo Picasso: premier of cubism
- Captures ordinary life in extraordinary ways
- Guernica
- Les Demoiselles dAvignon
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Henri Matisse: Thought that colors deserved
the right to shine on their own
-large expanses of flat color/paper cuts
-heavy use of red
- The Dance
- Harmony in red
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Paul Klee
-Use of vibrant color
-created new, illustrative worlds
- the twittering machine
- landscape with yellow birds
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Franz Marc
- believed that animals had a more beautiful
life since they were closer to nature
- strong primary color yet shapes that make
the animals part of their surroundings
- the large blue horses
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Wassily Kandinsky: patches of color inspired by the way
the sun lights the land
-large shapes with strong movement in dark lines
-usually primary colors
-painted with patches of color as if composing music
- Improvisation 26
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Gustav Klimt:
-detailed faces with decorative clothing
-gold and geometric/floral patterns
- The Kiss
- The Beethoven Frieze
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Edward Hopper
everyday new york city life with people detached from each
other and absorbed in their own worlds
-fascinated with depicting light like impressionists but in a
realistic way
- Office at night
- Nighthawks
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Marcel Duchamp
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Salvador Dali
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Joan Mir
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Alexander Calder
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Henry Moore
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Frida Kahlo!
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Jackson Pollock: obviously
-used house paint and found objects, pocket
lint, etc drip style
-influenced by jazz music which he played
while creating works
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Rothko: if its horizontal squares on a giant
canvas its rothko
-interested in experiencing color
-I would list pieces but they all look basically
the same
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Andy Warhol: Pop art!
Known for the campbell soup cans (his lunch
every day)
-Marilyn Monroe portraits
-screenprinted works