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Pony Express. 1860-61. Missouri-California mail delivery. Cody.
Magenta, Battle. 1859. France, Piedmont defeat Austria creating Italian Unity. Carnage led to founding of Red Cross. Eponymous dye discovered 1859.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. 1770-1827. German composer expressing emotions in music. Tone poet. Developed form and structure. “The Shakespeare of music”. 9 Symphonies. Eroica 1804. 5th 1807. 9th 1824.
Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.
Chopin, Fréderic. 1810-49. Polish/French composer of emotional expressiveness and pianist of great technical ability. Sand.
De Kooning, Willem. 1904-97. Dutch/US Abstract Expressionist painter. Woman 1950s.
Expressionism. 1920-24. German drama style showing writers’ feelings. Author/hero.
Expressionism. 20C Literary style expressing essence of subject by exaggerating characteristics. Sounds and symbols. Joyce. Kafka. O’Neill. Woolf. Beckman.
Expressionism. 20C Music style of intense emotion, conflict, distortion. Mahler. Strauss.
Expressionism. 20C Simplified style of modern art expressing emotions with color and distortion. Munch. Toulouse-Lautrec. Van Gogh. Gauguin. Roualt.
Fargo, William. 1818-81. Founded American Express 1850, Wells Fargo 1852.
Fauvism. 1898-1908. Violently colored and distorted painting expressing strong emotion. Matisse. Roualt. Puy.
Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
Four Freedoms. 1941. Goals of Allies set forth by Roosevelt. Freedom: of expression, worship; from want, fear.
Glasnost. Openness. Gorbachev’s policy to promote freedom of expression, reduce secrecy.
Hindemith, Paul. 1895-1963. German Gebrauchmusik movement composer. Music as social expression.
Hofmann, Hans. 1880-1966. German/US improvising painter. Influenced Abstract Expressionism.
Josquin des Prés. c1445-1521. Flemish composer of motets and masses. Advanced musical expressiveness. -“Father of Musicians”.
Kirchner, Ernst. 1880-1938. German erotic Expressionist artist. Die Brücke movement. Street, Berlin 1907.
Kokoschka, Oskar. 1886-1980. Austrian Expressionist painter, writer.
Laing, R.D. 1927-89. British Existential psychologist. Madness as form of self-expression.
Minimalism. 1960s. US movement of simplified non-expressive art. Kelly. Stella.
Mother Goose. Perrault. Contes de ma mère l’oye 1697. From an old French expression = “old wives’ tales”....Mother Goose’s Melody 1781.