Art and Literature

1. Art and Literature Dominant artistic movementsin Europe1910 to 1940: how did they influence Camus?

2. Perspective Collage Abstraction Composition Landscape Portrait Dimensions Visual Literacy and Artistic Vocabulary

3. Distortion Motif Realism Primitive Rhythm Tension Framing Visual Literacy and Artistic Vocabulary

4. Line Path of movement Thick, thin, dark, light Shape and Form Solid, void Positive, negative Sphere, cube Space Interior, exterior Positive, negative Design Vocabulary

5. Light/Color/Value Shade Primary, secondary, Neutral Intensity Texture Matte, gloss Balance Symmetrical, asymmetrical Rhythm/Movement Proportion Design Vocabulary

6. Respond • Note taking: on a sheet of paper number each painting and respond to: • What do you notice about this painting? • How does the painting make you feel? • Leave room between each response for a “before” and “after” note.

7. 1

8. 2

9. 3

10. 4

11. 5

12. 6

13. The beginnings of cubism Credited to Pablo Picasso and George Braque Note: you will take notes of the text highlighted in yellow

15. Picasso and his beginnings • At thirteen, Picasso proved his mastery over contemporary realism with his admittance into the Barcelona School of Fine Arts. • As a prodigy, he was seeking new challenges in artistic representation. Cubism was born from his boredom with realism. • Still Life With Chair Caning represents primary concern of cubism: breaking subject into its parts, analyzing, reassembling into abstract form to create new meaning • Simultaneity: act of seeing from many perspectives

19. Transitions • Picasso soon tired of cubism, which he deemed to be overly analytical • Girl Before A Mirror represents his next phase of painting as he was influenced by a new movement: • DadaThe first anti-art movement. It was meant to shock, did not follow any rules, and was absurd and outrageous. The provocative and frequently nonsensical work of the Dadaists challenged the artistic norms, cultural values and traditions of the period.

20. Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968).

21. Title: The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even/The Large Glass

22. Title: Nude Descending a Staircase

23. Dada: Began in Switzerland @1916: movement of visual and literary and performing art From the Dadaist Manifesto: There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the author, produced for himself. It expresses the knowledge of a supreme egoism, in which laws wither away. Every page must explode, either by profound heavy seriousness, the whirlwind, poetic frenzy, the new, the eternal, the crushing joke, enthusiasm for principles, or by the way in which it is printed. On the one hand a tottering world in flight, betrothed to the glockenspiel of hell, on the other hand: new men. Rough, bouncing, riding on hiccups. Behind them a crippled world and literary quacks with a mania for improvement. …

24. … I say unto you: there is no beginning and we do not tremble, we are not sentimental. We are a furious Wind, tearing the dirty linen of clouds and prayers, preparing the great spectacle of disaster, fire, decomposition.* We will put an end to mourning and replace tears by sirens screeching from one continent to another. Pavilions of intense joy and widowers with the sadness of poison. Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry.

25. Title: Persistence of Memory

26. Illustration from the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

27. Illustration from the Divine Comedy

28. Surrealism • Surrealist artists primarily concerned with psychology • Strongly influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud • Rene Magritte – noteworthy in surrealist movement (both literature and visual)

29. Title: This Is Not A Pipe

30. “An object never serves the same function as its image – or its name.” Rene Magritte

31. Title: Son of Man (Man In A Bowler Hat)

32. Title: Golconda

33. Magritte wrote, “There is a crowd of men here, different men. When you think of a crowd, however, you don’t think of an individual ; accordingly, these men are all dressed alike, as simply as possible, so as to suggest a crowd……Golconda was a wealthy Indian city, something like a wonder. I consider it a wonder that I can walk through the sky on the earth. On the other hand, the bowler hat constitutes no surprise – it is a quite unoriginal article of headgear. The man in the bowler hat is Mr Average in his anonymity. I, too, wear one ; I have no great desire to stand out from the masses.”