Terms of the Day for October 21

• The Arts & Crafts Movement – an international design movement between 1866 and 1930 which sought to remove the distinction between “art” and “craft”. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. 
• Orphism – an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors, influenced by Fauvism and theoretical writings of Paul Signac.
• Rayonism – a style of abstract art that developed in Russia in 1911.  Inspired by Cubism and Futurism, the movement sought an art that floated beyond abstraction, outside of time and space, and to break the barriers between the artist and the public.
• Suprematism – an art movement, founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, in 1915, that focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors.

Slide Images for October 19

 Pablo Picasso

Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)

1907

 Georges Braque

The Portuguese

1911

 Henri Matisse

Red Studio

1911

 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street, Dresden

1908

 Egon Schiele

Self-portrait

1912

 Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VII

1913

 Margaretha von Brauchitch

Embroidered Tablecloth

1901

Wassily Kandinsky

Concerning the Spiritual in Art 

1912

 Women’s Fashion Advertisements

1902, 1910

 Duncan Grant (design)

Lady Ottoline Morrell (embroidery)

Firescreen

1912

 Vanessa Bell

Cracow

1913

Wnifred Gill and Nina Hamnet modeling dresses at the Omega Workshops

c. 1913

 Vanessa Bell

Virginia Wolf Knitting

c. 1912

Vanessa Bell

The Tub

1917

Terms of the Day for October 18

• Modern Art – artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
• Abstraction – art which uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which distorts traditional representations of—or exists with a degree of independence from—visual references in the world.
• Reform Dress Movement – a late 19th and early 20th century movement to reform constricting clothing designed for women and to transform the ideal female figure from Victorian exaggerated proportions to a more natural, “healthy” shape.
• The Omega Workshops – an experimental design collective founded by the painter and influential art critic Roger Fry in 1913, whose purpose what to bring the experimental language of avant-garde art to domestic design in Edwardian Britain. 

Slide Images for October 17

 Eva Gonzales

Morning Awakening

1876

 Marie Bracquemond

Tea-Time

1880

 Édouard Manet

Berthe Morisot

1874

 Édouard Manet

The Balcony

1868-69

 Berthe Morisot

Mother and Sister of the Artist

1870

 Berthe Morisot

The Cradle

1872

 Berthe Morisot

The Bath: Girl Arranging Her Hair

1885-86

 Berthe Morisot

The Cherry Picker

1891

 Edgar Degas

Portrait of Mary Cassatt

c. 1880-84

 Edgar Degas

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre

c. 1880

 Mary Cassatt

A Cup of Tea

c. 1880

 Mary Cassatt

The Child’s Bath

1893

 Édouard Manet

Gare Saint-Lazare

1873

 Berthe Morisot

Psyche

1876

 Berthe Morisot

Psyche

1876

Mary Cassatt

Mother and Child

c. 1905

 Edgar Degas

The Pedicure

1873

 Mary Cassatt

The Boating Party

c. 1893-94

 Mary Cassatt

The Opera

1878

Mary Cassatt

Woman and Child Driving

1879

Terms of the Day for October 17

• Impressionism – a style of painting, developed in the late nineteenth century, that focused on casual subjects, the ability to paint outdoors, and divided brush strokes to capture the light and mood of a particular moment.
• En plein air – a French expression, meaning "in the open air", which is used to describe the act of painting outdoors.  This became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism after the introduction of paints in tubes in the 1870s
• Bourgeoisie – a term used to designate the upper middle class, specifically in France.  In the 19th century, the Bourgeoisie grew to prominence in France, establishing a culture centered around domestic models of family, leisure time, and an appreciation of the new industrialization of the modern Western world.
• Woman’s Gaze – a term which refers to the depictions of women as spectators.  This is in contrast to a great majority of images in which women are depicted as merely spectacles.

Slide Images for October 10

Harriet Hosmer

Zenobia in Chains

1859

 Harriet Hosmer

Beatrice Cenci

1856

Edmonia Lewis

Forever Free 

1867

 Edmonia Lewis

The Death of Cleopatra

1876

 Anne Whitney

Roma

1869

 Jennie Brownscombe

The New School-Mistress

1876

 Susan MacDowell Eakins

Portrait of Thomas Eakins

1889

Alice Barber Stephens

The Female Life Class

1879

Terms of the Day for October 10

• "The White Marmorean Flock” – a group of American women sculptors who studied and worked together as a collective in Rome in the mid- to late-19th century.  The title of the group was a pejorative name developed by author Henry James which the women decided to adopt.
• The First-Wave Feminism – a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early twentieth century, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It focused on ending officially mandated inequalities and gaining women's suffrage.
• The Centennial International Exhibition – the first official World's Fair in the United States, held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  It is notable for a “Women’s Pavilion,” which displayed a wide range of work by women artists and artisans.