1. AP Art History
Note-taking Outline—Chapter 33
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERNIST ART: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
(Mnemonic: “Ism’s Galore!”)
KEY VOCABULARY (not including artists’ names or works)
Modernist Expressionism Fauvism Art Deco
“Die Brücke” “Der Blaue Reiter” Cubism Organic Style
Analytic Cubism Synthetic Cubism papier coole Depression
Purism Futurism “Dada” Muralists
The Armory Show “Neue Sachlichkeit” Surrealism Avant-Garde
Of 1913 “Suprematism” Constructivism “Degenerate Art”
De Stijl Bauhaus International Style Utopian Ideals
SECTION I: EXPRESSIONISM, ABSTRACTION, CUBISM, DADA (PAGES 961-
984)
Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-2 Red Room Matisse Abstract colorist
33-6 Improvisation 28 Kandinsky Colorist symbols

2. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-9 Les Desmoiselles Picasso 1st Modernists
33-10 The Portugese Braque Analytic Cubism
33-12 Still Life with Chair Picasso Synthetic Cubism

3. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-14 Guitar Picasso Cubist sculpture
33-15 Bather Lipchitz Cubist mass
33-20 Unique Forms Boccioni Fascist futurism

4. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-23 Fountain Duchamp Dada
SECTION II: THE ARMORY SHOW, “NEUE SACHLICHKEIT,” SURREALISTS
(PAGES 984-1002)
33-29 Nude Descending Duchamp Motionism
33-30 The Steerage Stieglitz Photo images

5. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-32 Cadeau Man Ray Dadaist
33-35 Noah’s Ark Aaron Douglas Harlem Renaissance
33-37 New York, Night Georgia O’Keefe City Life

6. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-39 Night Max Beckmann World violence
33-41 Woman with Dead Child Käthe Kollwitz Maternal grief
33-43 War Monument Barlach Anti-war symbol

7. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-46 Persistence of Memory Dalí Surrealism
33-47 The Treachery of Images Magritte Image vs. Reality
33-49 Two Fridas Kahlo Personal surreal

8. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-50 Painting Miró Fantasy
33-51 Twittering Machine Klee Fanciful vision
SECTION III: UTOPIAN IDEALS: SUPREMATISM, CONSTRUCTIVISM, DE
STIJL, BAUHAUS, INTERNATIONAL STYLE, ART DECO (PAGES 1003-1014)
33-55 Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow Mondrian DeStijl simplicity

9. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-56 Schröder House Rietveld De Stijl architect
33-59 Shop Block Gropius Bauhaus design
33-62 Glass skyscraper Van der Rohe “Less is more”

10. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-64 Villa Savoye Le Corbusier International
33-65 Chrysler Building Alen Art Deco
SECTION IV: ORGANIC STYLE (PAGES 1015-1020)
33-66 Robie House F.L. Wright Prairie School

11. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-68 Kaufmann House F.L. Wright Natural
33-69 Bird in Space Brancusi Organic sculpture
33-70 Oval Sculpture Barbara Hepworth Organic void

12. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-71 Reclining Figure Henry Moore Organic forms
33-72 Untitled Calder Suspended mobiles
SECTION V: ART AS POLITICAL STATEMENT IN THE 1930’s (PAGES 1020-
1028)
33-73 Guernica Picasso War and grief

13. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-75 Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange Photojournalism
33-76 Nighthawks Hopper Urban Loneliness
33-77 Migration of the Negro Series Lawrence Black experience

14. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
33-78 American Gothic Wood Regionalism
33-80 Epic of American Civilization Orozco Mexican patriot
33-81 History of Mexico Rivera History muralist