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Architecture Ferroconcrete- concrete reinforced with iron

Le Corbusier

Bauhaus

Public buildings (apartments, etc.)

Gehry

Wavy, movement

Experience Music Project

Dancing House

Gropius

Bauhaus: form follows function, more interior space

I.M. Pei

Geometric

Contrast between heavy and light

Renzo Piano

Pompidou

Primary colors

Frank Loyd Wright

Falling Water

LiteratureExistentialism

Choices and responsibility

Questions life

Sarte

Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Camus

Absurdist

The Stranger

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Nietzsche

Nihilism

God is dead.

Freud

Subconscious and dreams

Ego, superego, and id

Langston Hughes

Harlem Renaissance

A Dream Differed

Poet

Joyce

Modernism

Ulysses

Stream of consciousness/ interior monologue

Technique

Hemingway

Modernism

Minimalist

Kafka

Expressionism

Metamorphosis

Kafkaesqu- bizarre

Virginia Woolf

Feminist novelist

A Room of Ones Own

MusicCage

433

Questions the definition of music

Phillip Glass

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Piano soundtracks

Reich

Minimalism

Random

Shnberg

12 tone dissonance

serialism

Stravinsky

dissonant harmonic tomes

Rite of Spring

Stockhausen

Electronic

Impressionism How light affects color

Competes with photography

Monet

Impression Sunrise

Water Lilies

Rodin

The Thinker

Post Impressionism Feeling and artists personality

Cezanne

Geometric

Broad brush strokes

2D and 3D

Gauguin

Crayon

Orange and yellow

Tahiti

Van Gogh

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Abstract Expressionism Action painting

NY School

Pollock

Rothko

Color field

Pop ArtJohns

Everyday objects; flag

Encaustic technique

Lichtenstein

Comic

Dots

Very large

Warhol

Photo RealChuck Close

Sculpture Construction- artist makes or buys objects

Assemblage- artist uses items already on hand

Oldenburg

Large everyday objects

Calder

Kinetic

Christo

Earthworks- installation in natural landscape

Orange fabric

Huge

Cornell

Boxes

Readymade assemblage

Rauschenberg

Dada and Pop Art

Combine painting

Ready made

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Maya Lin

Vietnam Memorial

Represents a wound in the side of America

Henry Moore

Bones

Holes

Women reclining