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Art History Test Review 20th Century (1900 - Pop Art). We cannot enter into the 20 th century until we fully comprehend the importance of the following three Postimpressionists:. Van Gogh Gauguin Cezanne. There are 4 Main Currents of 20 th Century Art :. EXPRESSIONISM.
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Art History Test Review 20th Century (1900 - Pop Art)
We cannot enter into the 20th century until we fully comprehend the importance of the following three Postimpressionists: Van GoghGauguinCezanne
There are 4 Main Currents of 20th Century Art : • EXPRESSIONISM • ABSTRACTION • FANTASY • REALISM
Fauvism EXPRESSIONISM Nabis 1900 Die Brucke The German Expressionists Van Gogh Gauguin Symbolism FANTASY The Postimpressionists Dada Surrealism Conceptual Art Cezanne ABSTRACTION Cubism Futurism Purism Constructivism de Stjl
Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954 “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. The subjects I paint must be beautiful. But I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Expressionism - Fauvism Henri MatisseInterior with EggplantsMusee d’Orsay, Paris c. 1906
Andre Durain The Turning RoadMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston c. 1906
Matisse The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre) Oil on canvas The Barnes Foundation Merion, Pennsylvaniac. 1905
Henri Matisse Red Room (Harmony in Red) Oil on canvas The Hermitage St. Petersburg c. 1913
Henri Matisse Icarus (Jazz Series) cut paper MoMA, NYC c. 1953
Cubism & Futurism Pablo Picasso Portrait of Ambrose Vollard Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow c. 1910
Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon MoMA c. 1907
PicassoGuernica Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Madrid , c. 1937
Jacques Lipchitz The Bather National Gallery of Art, Washington DC c. 1917
Adolf Leger 1892 - 1959 “Purism”
Futurism Umberto Boccione Unique Forms of Continuity in Space MoMA c. 1913
Umberto Boccione Dynamism of a Soccer Player MoMA c. 1913
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase Philadelphia Museum of Art c. 1912
De Stijl Piet Mondrian Composition in Blue, Red & Yellow The Art Institute of Chicago c. 1933
Kazimir Malevich White on White MoMA c. 1918
Dada 1918 - 1924 Raoul Hausmann Spirit of the Times 1919
Marcell Duchamp The Fountain MoMA 1917
Surrealism 1924 - 1945 Giorgio De Chirico The Conquest of the Philosopher c. 1930
Rene Magritte The Son of Man MoMA c. 1940
German Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Three Nudes c. 1913
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Berlin Socialites MoMA, NYC c. 1915
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Self Portrait as a Soldier Allen Art Museum Oberlin College c. 1915
Constantin Brancusi Bird In Space 1924 MoMA
Alberto Giacometti Three Men Walking The Met 1949
Barbara Hepworth Untitled 1921
This is the look of Modernism’s International Style • Little or no façade ornamentation • Minimal geometric (asymmetrical) design • based on the rectangle • Open floor plans
Frank Lloyd Wright Kaufmann House (a.k.a. Falling Water) Bear Run, PA c. 1936
William Van Alen Chrysler Building NYC c. 1928
The 2 threads in early 20th Century American Painting: Abstraction (Modernist) Regionalism