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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
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Post-Impressionism
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Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Nigh
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Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy
BASIC INFORMATION
* French Naive artist (self-taught)
* Used hard lines and flat perspectives
* Primitive, unsophisticated, and dream-like style
* Inspired by the jungle and visits to the zoo
* Mixed multiple cultures into his works
* Incorporated symbols, emotions, and memories CONNECTIONS
* Influenced Surrealists who drew inspiration from dream-like moods
* Picasso was an admirer of Rousseau's work
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Cubism
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Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
BASIC INFORMATION
* Post-impressionist
* Used landscape in a series of work
* More abstract style
* Sense of order in nature through methodical applications
* Use cool colors for atmospheric perspective CONNECTIONS
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon on Khan Academy This is our assigned painting that we used to draw connections to other artworks. BASIC INFORMATION
* Female prostitutes with angular and disjointed bodies
* Flat shapes inspired by African masks
* Broke away from traditional subjects, composition, and perspective
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Cubism
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Georges Braque, The Portuguese
BASIC INFORMATION
* Analytic Cubism: broke objects into different parts
* Various perspectives/angles for aesthetic composition
* Reconstructed a woman with a stringed instrument
* Tension of order and disorder
* Repitition and limted color choice CONNECTIONS
* Inspired by the abstracted, simple shapes, and fragmented space of Cezanne
* See many similarities in Picasso's paintings: Braque and Picasso were influenced by Cezanne, African masks, abstract/simple forms, and multiple perspectives
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Surrealism
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence of memory
BASIC INFORMATION
* Surrealist style
* Based on seaside landscapes in his home regions of Catalonia, Spain
* Time is the main theme in this painting
* Dream-state representations CONNECTIONS
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Abstract Expressionism
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Willem de Kooning, Woman I
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Jackson Pollock, The Deep
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Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing
For Rauschenberg, de Kooning represented what he distrusted in art. In one famous instance, Rauschenberg bought a drawing of de Kooning's, erased it, and displayed the result as his own work.
