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36 Cards in this Set
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The Steerage
Stieglitz 1900 Married to O’Keeffe. Captures lower-class ship-board lodging. |
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Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
Ernst 1900 Pioneer of dada and surrealist movements. Influenced by his study of psychology. |
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Armored Train
Severini 1920 Pioneer of futurist movement. Greatly influenced by WWI. |
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Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
ARP 1920 Founded Abstraction-Création. Scattered torn pieces of paper onto canvas. |
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The Figure in Fine Gold
Demuth 1920 Influenced by poem about a fire engine. Developed precisionist style. |
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Fit for Active Service
Grosz 1920 Notorious for caricatures of German life. Prominent on German dada movement. |
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Morning in the Village after Snowstorm
Malevich 1920 Pioneer of geometric abstract art. Depicts Russian social life. |
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Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
De Chirico 1920 Profoundly impacted surrealists. Takes place in Versailles. |
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Un Chien Andalous
Dali & Bunuel 1920 Silent surrealist film. Bunuel’s first film. |
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Jack in the Pulpit
O’Keefe 1940 Married to Stieglitz. Painting of a flower. |
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Adolph the Superman: Swallows Gold & Spouts Junk
Heartfield 1940 Art was very political. Forced to flee Germany on multiple occasions. |
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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Mondrian 1940 Commonly painted vertical and horizontal lines with three primary colors. Goal of pure abstraction. |
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Object (Luncheon of Fur)
Oppenheim 1940 Inspired by conversation with Picasso. Associated with physical surrealist objects. |
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Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris
Cartier-Bresson 1940 Father of photojournalism. Candid photographer. |
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Fort Peck Dam, Montana
Bourke-White 1940 Printed on the cover of the first issue of life. Displayed power of modern technology. |
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Migrant Mother
Lange 1940 Taken of migratory farmers in California. Photographs depression-area people. |
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American Gothic
Wood 1940 Critics assumed it was a satire of American life. Depicted rural American Midwest. |
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Migrant Mother
Lange 1940 Taken of migratory farmers in California. Photographs depression-area people. American Gothic Wood 1940 Critics assumed it was a satire of American life. Depicted rural American Midwest. Man, Controller of the Universe Rivera 1940 Mexican mural artist. Mural in Mexico City. |
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Nighthawks
Hopper 1940 American realist painter. Inspired by a diner in Greenwich village. |
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The Two Fridas
Kahlo 1940 Claimed, falsely, that her birth date coincided with the Mexican revolution. Painting with focus on female experience. |
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The Migration of the Negro
Lawrence 1940 Part of a series. Cubist African American painter. |
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Fountain
Duchamp 1960 Work was rejected, even though all works were supposed to be accepte. Articles were published regarding the piece in The Blind Man, a dada journal. |
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No. 14
Rothko 1960 Abstract painter. Painted “multiforms.” |
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4’ 33’’
Gage 1960 Four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. Experimental composer. |
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Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Warhol 1960 His studio was The Factory. “Created” the Velvet Underground. |
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Number 1
Pollock 1960 Drip painting. Abstract expressionism. |
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Woman I
De Kooning 1960 Action painting. Commonly painted women. |
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Hopeless
Lichteinstein 1960 Pop art. Heavily influenced by comic books |
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etroactive 1
Rauschenberg 1960 Well known for his “combines.” Interested in iconography of American culture. |
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Meat Joy
Schneemann 1960 Performed live. Also performed interior scroll. |
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Spiral Jetty
Smithson 1960 Great Salt Lake Land art. |
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The Dinner Party
Chicago 1980 Meant to honor 39 famous women. Ended up honoring 999. |
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Paper Clip
Rosenquist 1980 Pop art. Composites of disparate objects. |
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Pink Panther
Koons 1980 Part of the ‘Banality’ series. Caused legal copyright issues. |
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Wrapped Reichstag
Christo 1980-2000 Convinced all of German parliament to go along with it. Notorious for modifying the world we live in on a massive scale. |
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Narratives of a Negress
Walker 2000 Uses silhouettes to explore sex, violence and race. Contemporary. |
