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Entirly self taught, worked first in a naturalistic style.Georgia O'Keeffe; Red Canna, c. 1923Jack-in-the-Pulpit

The Radiator Building at Night 1926She painted close up images that would lookLike something else. She was a realist at heart.

George Bellows; The Cliff Dwellers, 1913Flourished in new york just before wwI, brought a reporter's eye for drama ,colorand detail,Not an art of social commentary, but the beat of the city, regardless that most weresocialist.Inspired by Baroque and Post-impressionist painting. There is immediacy andspontinaeity.

Bellows; Both Members of the Club, 1909Most 19th century artists had ignored urban life for more tame landscapes.

Marsden Hartley; Portrait of a German Officer, 1914. Painted in Munich.

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Charles Demuth; Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, '28 (Modernism)

Precisionism after futurism to paint industrialized architecture.

Edward Hopper; Nighthawks, '42.

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Retreate of progressive modern art and a reassertion of traditional values; i.e

realism. There were regionalists trying to revive idealism in mid-west terms, while

the social realists were more for portraying the poverty during the depression.

Caf; '43

Charles Sheeler; Upper Deck, '29

He is considered the architypal precisionist. Experimented with fauvism but it had a

lack of structure.

Vassily Kandinsky; Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912

Part of the 1911 blue riders group. "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"; Kandinsky

(book)

Franz Marc; Blue Horses, 1911

Unconscious life of animals in nature is his focus in his art. He died at the age of 26

so didn't get much done. He was drafted into the war and killed. He was motivated

by pantheistic feelings. He devized a really personal color symbolism, blue is

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masculine, and yellow is feminine, he was a colorist at heart and has a spiritual

element in his work. Elements of Futurism and Orphism. Soon will abandon all

representation for a more abstract style.

Marc; Fate of the Animals, 1913.

Aristide Maillol; Mediterranean, 1901.

In sculpture a form of symbolism makes its appearance about 1900. Sculptors in

France were ready to break free of the traditional Rodin for this. Maillol could be

considered a classical primitivist. He rejected Hellenistic art because it was too

emotional.

Maillol; Venus, 1918

He thought of sculpture as architecture and it should be structural.

Robert Delaunay; Champs de Mars of or The Red Tower; 1911.

Sought to produce pure color harmonies as independent of nature as music is,

created by Delaunay Orphism, which they soon dropped for Futurism.

Cezzan recommended all natural forms be based off of the cone, the sphere and the

cyllinder.

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Henri Matisse; Bronze Sculpture; 1930's

Before he was a Fauv, now he is a sculptor. He was inspired by ethno graphic

sculpture. Progressive absraction in these bronze figures.

Constintin Brancusi; The Kiss, 1912 (Limestone)The rediscovery of ethno graphic sculpture goes back to the fauvs, the first timeit is actually seen as an influence. Brancusi is Romanian but he went to Franceand found this interesting, but he was interested in the form, not the

expressiveness. To Broncusi, a scupture was really a permanent marker.He disturbes the basic shape "as little as possible"The exact opposite of Rodin's The Kiss, 1890.Broncusi; The Newborn, 1915His genius was that he proposed the first succesful alternative to Rodin.He gave modern sculpture it's independence.He took another daring step when he produced non-representational peices ofmarble or metal. They fall into two groups, variations on the egg shape andsoaring vertical bird motifs.He strove for essences and stillness, not Rodin's illusion of growth and life.Broncusi; Bird in Space, 1928.

The culmination of his work.

Pablo Picasso; Glass of Absinth, 1914He also got into sculpture. Made of painted bronze and a perforated absinth spoon.Picasso; Maquette for Guitar, 1912."One should be able to take a piece of wood and find it's a bird" ~Picasso.

Alberto Giacometti; City Square, 1949

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He claimed he wanted to show the oppression of great space around a figure and

denied it had anything to do with portraying lonliness.

Julio Gonzalez; Woman Combing her Hair; 1936Trained as a craftsman working with Iron in Catalonia, inspired by Picasso andBroncusi who he was friends with.It was Gonzales who established iron as an importan medium for sculpture.Alexander Calder; Lobster Trap and Fish Tail; 1939.(Mobile)

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Sculpture that moves is called kinetic sculpture, influenced by constructionists.Calder's mobiles were motor driven. He was influenced by Piet Mondrian.Untitled, ca. 1940's.He drops the motorized aspect so the airconditioning can move them. It's morenatural.

Henry Moore; Reclining Figure, 1939One of Englands two great sculptors. (Barbara Hepworth)

The prescence of Mondrian and Mattisse in England greatly contributed to the riseof modern art in the 1930's. They absorb the full spectrum of 20th century art.

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