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"Mediterrane" - Aristide Maillol
The original limestone statue is in Switzerland. The statue's beauty lies in its simplicity. Maillol's approach was the opposite of general practice at the time. No excessive emotion, no straining muscles. The face is blank, the limbs are well rounded and the skin is smooth. This simplification of sculpture after 1900 is referred to as the "return to order.” -
"Darwin D. Martin House"- Frank Lyoyd Wright
This home is located in Buffalo, New York. Wright referred to it as his "opus.” His goals were to reduce the number of necessary parts of the house and the separate rooms to a minimum and make all come together as an enclosed space—giving a sense of unity. There are nearly 400 art glass windows that Wright designed for the entire complex, some of which contain over 750 individual pieces of jewel-like iridescent glass. -
"Potato Picker"- Maurice de Vladminck
Maurice de Vlaminck is best known for his period as a fellow Fauvist, a short-lived group of early twentieth-century French artists who valued strong, bold colors over representational or realistic values. Their style of painting, using non-naturalistic colors, has been described as one of the first avant-garde developments in European art. The style was basically expressionist, and distorted forms in landscapes featured the most. The Fauvists believed in color being an emotive force. -
"The Dance"- Henri Matisse
The painting shows five dancing figures, painted in a strong red, set against a very simplified green landscape and deep blue sky. It reflects Matisse's fascination with primitive art and uses a classic Fauvist color palette, and its sources lie in folk dances of pagan times. For all its expressiveness, Matisse's "Dance" has no superfluous emotion, other than that required by the subject. The figures are drawn loosely, with almost no interior definition. -
"Casa Mila"- Antoni Gaudi
Casa Milà is located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows. Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants. -
"Mlle Pogany"- Constantin Brâncusi
Considered the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. The striking effects he produced in his bronze sculptures – their streamlined shapes and mirrored surfaces – were unprecedented in the early decades of the 20th century. The two to six bronze versions he made of each motif were not, strictly speaking, identical. The first Mlle Pogany I was carved in marble in 1912, followed by four bronze casts in 1913. -
"Theban Dancer"- Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet
Bronze Figure, circa 1920 on marble base 21 in. high, 24½ in. wide, 7½ in. STYLE: Art Deco (ca. 1920s-1930s) Silvered and gold polychrome on bronze ,with an inset bronze plaque of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Museum: Christie's, London -
"The Waste Land" - T.S.Eliot
Modernist poem known for its shifts between satire and prophecy and its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time. The five parts of The Waste Land are titled: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said. The style of the poem overall is marked by the hundreds of allusions and quotations from other texts. Eliot also includes phrases from multiple foreign languages (Latin, Greek, Italian, German, French and Sanskrit). -
"Ulysses"- James Joyce
Considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature, Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem. Ulysses is is divided into eighteen episodes, and Joyce uses the stream-of-consciousness technique and Ulysses is full of puns, parodies, and allusions. -
"Side By Side" - Paul Whiteman / Nick Lucas
"Side by Side" is a popular song with lyrics by Gus Kahn and music by Harry M. Woods. Harry M. Woods wrote catchy, wholesome, sentimental and reassuring popular songs. Born without any fingers on his left hand, he nevertheless became a professional pianist and soon began composing irresistible ditties. "Side by Side" turned out to be one of Paul Whiteman's most interesting novelties as it was performed by the Rhythm Boys (Al Rinker, Harry Barris and Bing Crosby). -
"Purple Petunias"- Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe was a groundbreaking Modernist painter who digressed from realism to express her own visionary style. Her paintings led her to become an icon of feminism. She is best known for flower paintings which made up a significant percentage of her work. One of the most influential and innovative artists of the 20th century, O’Keeffe was the first woman to have her own exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. -
"Pasadena City Hall"- John Bakewell/Arthur Brown
John Bakewell and Arthur Brown were influenced by the early Renaissance style of 16th century Italian architect Andrea Palladio. On the outside it measures 351 feet north and south, and 242 feet east and west. The 235 rooms and passageways cover 170,000 square feet. The massive circular structure rises perpendicularly for six stories. Above the sixth story rises the dome 26 feet high and 54 feet across. The highest point is 206 feet above the ground. -
"American Gothic"- Grant Wood
This icon is located at the Art Institute of Chicago. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity. It is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art, and one of the most parodied artworks within American popular culture. -
"Art Deco Vase"- René Buthaud
France Stoneware with crackled glaze, painted in enamels and lustre. The Art Deco movement of the 1920s and 1930s used boldly geometric and modernist designs, but it also absorbed influences from across the world. René Buthaud was particularly fascinated by African art, which is reflected in the vase's patterning. -
"Festival" (1934) by Daniel Celentano
Artist Daniel Celentano, an Italian American from the uptown neighborhood called Italian Harlem, saw many a Catholic procession like the one shown here. Such street festivals were vital social events that helped the Italian American Catholic communities of New York survive the stresses of the Depression. Celentano contrasted the solemnity of the traditional procession with the swing band on a platform at the right, which blares out popular tunes for people dancing joyfully in the street. -
"Over The Rainbow "- Judy Garland / Glenn Miller
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It was adopted (along with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States. -
"Our Town"- Thorton Wilder
Our Town is a 1938 three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. Set in the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners, it tells the story of an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. The play is performed without a set and the actors mime their actions without the use of props. It remains popular today and revivals are frequent. -
"Opus No. 1"- Tommy Dorsey
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"Opus No. 1" is a popular song, composed in 1943 by Sy Oliver, with lyrics by Sid Garris. The tune is often titled Opus One, or Opus #1. It has become a standard song in the swing, jazz and big band repertoire. The song was a big hit for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1944. -
"The Blue Guitar"- Georges Braque.
French artist Georges Braque has over 30 famous pieces, but he is best known for his still life works. He was a contemporary of Pablo Picasso. Together, they developed Cubism, the most influential art movement of the 20th century. He developed his own personal style by using textured surfaces and brilliant colors. He did a lot of still life paintings and placed emphasis on structure. One of his famous works, the Blue Guitar depicted this style. -
"Annie Get Your Gun"- Irving Berlin
Annie Get Your Gun premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theater on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances. Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank Butler. -
"Woman"- Willem De Kooning
His aggressive distortion of the figure is unsurpassed in his earlier figurative works, his swiftly applied paint strokes simultaneously defining the subject and dissolving it. While this appears to be a rapid, spontaneous rendering, examination shows that de Kooning worked on it in stages and selected and exploited his materials to underscore his imagery.
