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Week 8: 20 th cent. & between world wars

October 25, 2013 Chapters 21 & 22. Week 8: 20 th cent. & between world wars. Agenda:. Today: Early 20 th cent. & between World Wars 11/8 – Modernity; Jeopardy Review 11/15 – Warhol Museum 11/22 – Warhol Presentations 11/29 – NO CLASS 12/6 – Review for final – finish paintings!

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Week 8: 20 th cent. & between world wars

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  1. October 25, 2013 Chapters 21 & 22 Week 8: 20th cent. & between world wars

  2. Agenda: • Today: Early 20th cent. & between World Wars • 11/8 – Modernity; Jeopardy Review • 11/15 – Warhol Museum • 11/22 – Warhol Presentations • 11/29 – NO CLASS • 12/6 – Review for final – finish paintings! • 12/13 – Final Exam!

  3. Early 20th Century • Many things were changing/developing: • Wright Brother’s • Freud’s dream interpretation • Industrial Revolution: • Creating thousands of new jobs • Vaccinations and public health lead to longer life and lower birth rates

  4. FAUVISM

  5. FAUVISM 1905-1907 “les fauves” – the wild beast • Henri Matisse – leader of Fauvism • Vigorous brushwork and large flat color • Expanded on innovations of Post-Impressionism

  6. “Harmony in Red” by Matisse

  7. “Joy of Life” by Matisse; 1905-1906

  8. “London Bridge” by Andre Derain; 1906

  9. EXPRESSIONISM

  10. EXPRESSIONISM • Emphasizes inner feelings and emotions over objective depiction • German Expressionists • The Bridge – founded by Ernest Ludwig • The Blue Rider – lead by Wassily Kandinsky

  11. “Street, Berlin” by Kirchner; 1913

  12. “Self-Portrait with an Amber Necklace” by Paula Modersohn-Becker; 1906

  13. “Blue Mountain” by Wassily Kandinsky; 1908-1909

  14. “Composition, IV” by Kandinsky; 1911

  15. CUBISM

  16. CUBISM • Emphasized pictorial composition over personal expression • Reconstruction of objects based on geometric abstraction • Analyzed subjects from various angles, then painted the abstract references

  17. CUBISM con’t. • Mental concepts of seeing something from all sides • Aimed to show objects as the mind sees, rather than eye perceives them • Synthetic cubism – modifying cubism with color, texture & patterned surfaces and use of cutout shapes

  18. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” or “Young Ladies of Avignon” by Picasso; 1907

  19. “Gardanne” by Cezanne; 1885-1886 “Houses at l’Estaque” by Braque; 1908

  20. “The Portuguese” by Braque; 1911

  21. “Guitar” by Picasso; 1912-1913

  22. “Violin, Fruit, and Wineglass” by Picasso; 1913

  23. TOWARDS ABSTRACT SCULPTURE

  24. ConstantinBruncusi “Sleep” in 1908 “Sleeping Muse I” in 1909-11 “Newborn I” in 1915

  25. “Bird in Space” by Bruncusi; 1928

  26. THE MODERN SPIRIT IN AMERICA

  27. “The Steerage” by Alfred Stieglitz; 1907

  28. “Evening Star” by Georgia O’Keefe; 1917

  29. O’Keeffe, Blue Morning Glories, New Mexico, II, 1935

  30. FUTURISM & The CELEBRATION OF MOTION

  31. “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” by Umbero Boccioni; 1913

  32. “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp; 1912

  33. Chapter 22 BETWEEN World WARs

  34. DADA • Began in protest against the horrors of WWI • Began in Zurich as a rallying cry • They rejected most moral, social, political, and aesthetic values • Aimed to shock viewers into seeing absurdity of Western World’s social and political situation

  35. “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp; 1919

  36. “L.H.O.O.Q” by Marcel Duchamp; 1919

  37. “Cadeau” or “Gift” by Man Ray; 1958

  38. “The Spirit of Our Time” by RaoulHausmann; 1919

  39. “The Multi-Millionaire” by Hannah Höch; 1912

  40. SURREALISM • Launched in Paris • Group of writers and painters gathered to protest direction of European culture • Focused on unconscious mind, dreams, fantasies, and hallucinations • Drew on psychology of Sigmund Freud

  41. “The Horde” by Max Ernest; 1927

  42. “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali; 1931

  43. CONSTRUCTIVISM • Revolutionary movement that began in Russia • Seeking to create art that is relevant to modern life in form, materials, and content • Rejected traditional view of space, as did Cubists

  44. “Architectonic Composition” by LyubovPopova; 1917

  45. “Give Me Sun at Night” by AleksandrRodchenko; 1923

  46. De Stijl – “The Style” “Composition (Blue, Red, and Yellow)” by PietMondrain; 1922

  47. POLITICAL PROTEST • Many artists in the interwar period focused their art on political life • Protesting against Fascism and dictatorship was a dominant theme

  48. “Guernica” by Picasso • Influenced by “experimental” mass bombing of the defenseless down of Guernica • General Franco had allowed Hitler to use his war machinery on the down as a demo of military power • Bombing leveled 15 square block city center

  49. “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso; 1937

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