ARTHI 6C Final: Art History 6C Final Study Guide
Art History 6C Final Study Guide
Social Upheaval: -isms, WWI, Roaring 20s
Fin de siecle
●“End of the century”
●Closing of one era and the beginning of another
●End of 19th century, beginning of 20th
●Era of decadence and degeneration; hope and progress
●Marked by social upheaval, political conflicts, technological modernization, artistic innovation,
rising mass culture
●Rise in abstraction
○How to represent the modern human body
●Anxiety over rise of industrialization, political turmoil, rising nationalism
Fauvism
●“Wild beasts”
●Radical use of color (flat areas of pure color)
●Separated color from usual representational meanings
●Color = emotional meanings
Cubism
●Multiple POV → across space and time
●Fragmentation of space and form
●Focuses on the flat, 2D picture plane
●Rejects traditional linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and idea of imitating nature
Matisse
●Fauvism
●Arcadia
●Large blocks of color
●Shifts in perspective
●Ambiguity
Picasso
●Cubism
●Brothel scene
●Sexual disease → pleasure and mortality
●Primitivism
Primitivism
●Aesthetic and cultural attitude found throughout modern art of W Europe and N America
●Artists draw inspo from tribal objects and other non-western art forms
●“West” and western art believed to be in crisis → drew inspo from African and Indigenous
culture
○Artists became interested in a time before modernity
●“Primitive” = eroticized, seen as lost paradise
●Deeply racist and dismissive of cultural traditions of non-Euros; narrative of white supremacy and
white straight male artistic “genius”
Marc
●Expressionism
●Founding member of Blue Rider Group
●Spirituality in Art
●Animals = innocence
●Anxiety, brutality, suffering
Kollwitz
●German printmaker (woodcut)
●War
series
Hartley
●Abstraction
●German nationalist imagery → militarism
●Roughly size of human body
●Queer sensibility and sensuality
Brooks
●Women’s contribution to WWI
●Confident, commanding gaze
●Masculine attire
●Chic androgyny associated with post-WWI “new woman”
●Fashion and lesbian identity
●Portrait of British painter Hannah Gluckstein aka “Peter Gluck”
●Quiet, empty space
●Refined identity
Baker
●Banana dance (cabaret culture)
●Opportunity in Europe
●Lost Generation
○Refers to group of American writers, artists, performers who emigrated and were active
in Europe
○More broadly refers to generation who came of age during WWI
Harlem Renaissance
●Cultural, social, artistic explosion that took place in Harlem from 1918-1930s
●Celebrated Af-Am cultural expressions and identity
●Deeply impacted by Great Migration
●Characterized by development of black identity
○Through intellect and arts could challenge racism and stereotypes
Bentley
●Black, lesbian identity
●Jazz
●Slumming
Vocab
●Fin de Siecle
○“End of the century”
○Closing of one era and the beginning of another
●Cubism
○Multiple POV → across space and time
○Fragmentation of space and form
○Focuses on the flat, 2D picture plane
○Rejects traditional linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and idea of imitating nature
●Fauvism
○Radical use of color (flat areas of pure color)
○Separated color from usual representational meanings
○Color = emotional meanings
●Primitivism
○Aesthetic and cultural attitude found throughout modern art of W Europe and N America
○Artists draw inspo from tribal objects and other non-western art forms
○Deeply racist and dismissive of cultural traditions of non-Euros; narrative of white
supremacy and white straight male artistic “genius”
●Expressionism
○Present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for
emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas
●Woodcut
○In printmaking; carves an image into the surface of a block of wood
●The Lost Generation
○Refers to group of American writers, artists, performers who emigrated and were active
in Europe
○More broadly refers to generation who came of age during WWI
●Roaring 20s
○Period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge
○Time of rebellion
●Harlem Renaissance
○Cultural, social, artistic explosion that took place in Harlem from 1918-1930s
○Celebrated Af-Am cultural expressions and identity
○Deeply impacted by Great Migration
○Characterized by development of black identity
■Through intellect and arts could challenge racism and stereotypes
●Slumming
○Putting up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used
to
Artists
●Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
●Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
●Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945)
●Hartley (American, 1877-1943)
●Brooks (American, 1874-1970)
●Van der Zee (American, 1886-1983)
Document Summary
Closing of one era and the beginning of another. End of 19th century, beginning of 20th. Era of decadence and degeneration; hope and progress. Marked by social upheaval, political conflicts, technological modernization, artistic innovation, rising mass culture. How to represent the modern human body. Anxiety over rise of industrialization, political turmoil, rising nationalism. Radical use of color (flat areas of pure color) Multiple pov across space and time. Focuses on the flat, 2d picture plane. Rejects traditional linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and idea of imitating nature. Aesthetic and cultural attitude found throughout modern art of w europe and n america. Artists draw inspo from tribal objects and other non-western art forms. West and western art believed to be in crisis drew inspo from african and indigenous culture. Artists became interested in a time before modernity. Primitive = eroticized, seen as lost paradise.
