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Modern Review. Crystal Palace Joseph Paxton Great Exhibition of 1851 Industrial Revolution Cast iron skeleton Glass walls Prefabrication. Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel 1889 Paris Exhibition. Michel-Eugene Chevreul. Seurat Pointillism or Divisionism Optical Mixing
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Crystal Palace Joseph Paxton Great Exhibition of 1851 Industrial Revolution Cast iron skeleton Glass walls Prefabrication
Seurat Pointillism or Divisionism Optical Mixing Middle Class people/life A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Gaugin Flat planes of color Colors can represent ideas/emotions (ex. Red as struggle…) Left his kids & wife and moved around (including to TAHITI)
Van Gogh Color= emotion (ex. Yellow = friendship & hope) Swirling brushstrokes 10 year career
Cezanne Underlying structure Multiple viewpoints Still lifes Mount Saint Victoire Color patches
Symbolism • Don’t imitate nature – create free INTERPRETATIONS of it • Inner Vision • Fantasy world • Technique individual to each artist
Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy “naïve painter” Lacked training
Munch Norway Forerunner of the Expressionists
Carpeaux (1827-1875) Count Ugolino and His Children More polished (like Neo-Classical) Vivid reality
Rodin (1840-1917) Walking Man “unfinished” style (like impressionists!) - roughly textured surface Inner feeling expressed through the body The Thinker, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, Balzac
Louis Sullivan “Father of the Prairie School Movement” Form follows function Birth of Modern Architecture
H.H. Richardson(Sullivan’s Predecessor)Trinity Church, Boston
Richard Morris Hunt • Served the aristocracy • Renaissance & Baroque influences • The Breakers – for Cornelius Vanderbilt II (railroad king) • Looks like a 16th century palazzo
Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water Bear Run, PA 1934-37 Blend in with the natural site Contrast in textures CANTILEVER construction
Art Nouveau • 1890-1914 • Natural Forms • Organic Forms
Matisse Fauvism Non-representational color Based on artist’s feeling
Picasso Blue Period (1901-1904)
Picasso Rose Period (1905-1906)
Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1906) Landmark painting that would lead to Cubism
Picasso’s Guernica (1937) • Event from Spanish Civil War in which Fascists bombed innocent civilians • Outraged Picasso painted it for Spanish section of Paris International Exposition of 1937
Georges Braque The Portuguese 1911 Analytic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism* Picasso* Still-Life with Chair- Caning* 1912
Futurism • 1909-1916 • Motion & speed • Lines of force
Russian Constructivism 1913-32 Soviet Art Tatlin Monument to the Third International
Precisionism 1915-1930 Simplified Forms Border between representation & abstraction Charles Sheeler River Rouge Plant
YOU’RE INVITED! WHAT: The Armory Show WHO: Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Fauves, Cubists WHEN: Feb. 1913 WHERE: National Guard Armory, Lexington Street, New York City