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A talented craftswoman who embroidery designs had attracted notice at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900. She used highly stylized motifs form nature, as well as fantastic, abstract improvisations in her embroidery designs.
What is...Margaretha von Brauchitsch
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This has played a complex, contradictory, and sometimes quixotic role in defining the attitude toward the art we now think of as modernist.
What is..Fashion
100
This painting situates the figure in her multicolored flower hat and violet scarf against a striking gold background.
What is..Munter's Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin 1909
100
An international style in the decorative arts characterized by the stylized linear surface motifs derived from natural forms, arrived in Germany in 1869 with Hermann Obrist's exhibition of thirty-five monumental embroideries at a Munich gallery.
What is...Art Nouveau
100
Painting and sculpture developed simultaneously in a number of European capitals during the first decade of the 20th century. This form of art had a desire to break with nature and infuse the resulting art with a profound spiritual context.
What is....Abstraction
200
His designs are important in identifying women’s fashion as one of the arenas within which modernist artists, determined to free themselves from representation, explored new kinds of meaning.
What is...Wassily Kandinsky
200
By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the issue of reforming this had become one aspect of wider feminist concerns.
What is..Women's Dresses
200
Like the early abstractions of Kandinsky and Mondrian, this painting is derived from nature; the formal simplification and abstraction resulted in tightly structured compositions which replaced anecdotal content with absolute aesthetic values.
What is..Vanessa Bell Cracow 1913
200
This painters work from the Munich period was influenced by Russian folk art, Tunisian abstract geometric motifs and his companion Gabriele Munter's intervention.
What is..Kandinsky.
200
Opened in May 1913, this became a meeting place for like-minded artists and gave them a livelihood through designing and decorating fabrics, furniture, pottery, and other small items.
What is...The Omega Workshops
300
Russian artist who moved married the Cubist painter Robert Delaunay, synthesized Post-Impressionism, early Matisse, and Russian folk art in paintings.
What is...Sonia Delaunay
300
During the Summer of 1913, Sonia Delaunay began to make simultaneous dresses in reaction against the current fashions. Their patterns of abstract forms were arranged both to enhance the natural movement of the body and to establish a shimmering movement of color.
What is..Delaunay's Simultaneous Dress
300
In collages like this, forms signifying abstraction are set uneasily next to cultural signs of feminity so that gender and art are shown as social productions.
What is..Hannah Hoch The Tailor's Flower 1920
300
Ease of movement and primacy of color as expressive medium characterizes this artist's style in both painting and decoration.
What is...Sonia Delaunay
300
Working women’s independent this threatened the traditional structure of the family and became the basis for an ideology of gender relations which defined woman as managerial, in charge of the consumption in the family.
What is..Purchasing Power
400
Believing that art belonged to the proletariat and should reflect the essential elements of industrial and urban life, she founded in 1918 an Industrial Art Section of IZO Narkomopros (the Visual Art Section of the Commissariat for Public Education).
What is..Rozanova
400
His 1914 manifesto proposed replacing the drabness of men’s suits with a “living plastic complex.” His manifesto owes much to Delaunay’s pioneering experiments and the designs which resulted marked the beginning of of a new wave of fashion.
What is..Giacomo Balla "The Antineutral Dress"
400
This painting fuses Fauvism, Cubism, and indigenous Russian Decorative-Primitivism in the refracted rays of light which scatter color across the canvas surface.
What is..Natalia Goncharova Rayonist Garden Park 1912-13
400
These artists were more closely tied to Cubism. Using real materials in real space, and combined Cubist principles with Russian folk art (and used letters and fragments of words in collages, paintings and constructions.)
What is..Tatlin, Exter, Popova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova.
400
This image that promised a new world for the modern woman in the 20th century would exists as a reality of the wealthy and privileged women. It functioned more and more as a fantasy, remote from the reality of most women’s lives but strenuously asserted through media campaigns as a means to promote consumption.
What is..New Woman
500
Their pioneering experiments with photomontage helped sever this photograpgh from its existence as an autonomous artifact and emphasize its role in ideological production. They were member of the Berlin Dada.
What is..Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch
500
In this essay, Liubov Popova argued for the redefinition of dress as function rather than object.
What is..."The Dress of Today is the Industrial Dress"
500
Painting juxtaposes machine parts with a female dancer and a model who is elegantly dressed and posed but whose head had been replaced by that of a black.
What is...Hannah Hoch DADA-Dance 1919-21
500
Contempt for traditional painting as a static, materialistic form, unable to communicate with vitality of modern life, which found a sympathetic spirit in Delaunay.
What is..Dada
500
By 1921 this-belief that art should be practiced as a trade and that the production of well-designed articles for everyday use was of far greater value than individual expression or experiment-dominated the teaching of art in Russia.
What is..Productivism