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Unites States Between the Wars

Unites States Between the Wars. WWI - WWII Social Realism versus Abstraction Abstraction (Individualism) European immigrants Armory Show 1913 Alfred Barr, Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Levy MOMA Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism Social realism (Masses) New Deal (Roosevelt) WPA

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Unites States Between the Wars

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  1. Unites States Between the Wars WWI - WWII Social Realism versus Abstraction Abstraction (Individualism) European immigrants Armory Show 1913 Alfred Barr, Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Levy MOMA Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism Social realism (Masses) New Deal (Roosevelt) WPA Depression, Fascism, Communism Jazz Age (Harlem Renaissance) Alain Locke Revival of African forms

  2. Social Causes Jacob Riis, 5 Cents a Spot, 1889 • Documentary Photography • Lower East Side, NY • “How the Other Half Lives”

  3. Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933 Great Depression WPA Pictorial Straight

  4. American Social Realist PaintingGeorge Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913 • “Ashcan School” • Robert Henri • The Eight • Real/Modern • Poor Man’s Impressionism

  5. John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 • Ash Can School • Lower Classes • New York Tenement Apts.

  6. Bellows, Boxing at Sharkey’s, 1901 • Snap shots of the everyday

  7. RegionalistsGrant Wood, American Gothic, 1930 • Iowa • Dentist and Sister • Dutch/Puritan • Gothic • Iconography? • “Americana”

  8. Wood, Young Corn, 1931 • RegionalistModernist Landscape

  9. Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930 • N.Y. • Psyche of City

  10. Edward Hopper, Carolina Morning,1955 • Muted colors • Capture a mood • Isolation • Loneliness • Anxiety • boredom

  11. Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 Isolation loneliness Muted colors Capture a mood Anxiety boredom

  12. Hopper, Room in New York , 1942

  13. Thomas Hart Benton, City Building, (American Today Series), 1930 • Regionalism • American Worker • Caricature

  14. Benton, The Art of the West, 1932 • American West • Masculinity • “American Hero”

  15. John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 • Ash Can School • Lower Classes • New York Tenement Apts. • Poor Man’s Impressionism

  16. Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life, From Slavery through Reconstruction, 1934 Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age Alain Locke (philosopher) Recover African forms in art Geometric Symbolism

  17. In an African Setting, 1934 Noah’s Ark, 1927

  18. Jacob Lawrence, No. 1, From the Migration of the Negro Series, 1940-41 • Post-slavery migration north. • Series • Hard edge

  19. Motley, Black Belt, 1934, The Nightlife, 1943 • Chicago’s South Side • Black Experience • Psychedelic colors

  20. American ModernismAlfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907 • 291 Gallery • “Straight Photography” • Balance of shapes and forms

  21. Stieglitz, 5th Avenue, 1910 “Pictorial Photography”

  22. Imogen Cunningham, Two Callas, 1939 • San Francisco • Straight photography • Pictorial • f.64 Gallery (camera f-stop)

  23. Cunningham, Datura, n.d., Three Vegetables, n.d.

  24. American ModernismGeorgia O’Keefe Jack in the Pulpit IV, 1920’s • Records flowers • Precisionism (style) • Essence of Object • Sharp lines • Intense & pure color • Misinterpretations

  25. Music in Pink and Blue, 1923 O’Keefe Black Iris, 1924

  26. City Night, 1926 Radiator Building, Night, NY, 1927

  27. Mardsen Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 • Armory Show • European Influence • Independence • War Motif Series (12) • Berlin • Friend/Lover • Karl von Freyburg • Fragments • Individual iconography

  28. Hartley, Still Life, 1911 / Chinese Sea Horse, 1941

  29. DADA c. 1913-1925, Marcel Duchamp, Urinal (Fountain), 1917(1950) Response to WWI. Tristian Tziara & Hugo Ball French = hobby horse; Rumanian = yes Zurich, Paris, Germany, New York. Nonsense, no manifesto State of mind ANTI-ART OBJECTS Readymade/Already made Loses functionality AUTOMATISM Chance Choice End result of contradiction

  30. Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (large glass), 1915-23 • New York Dada • Alfred Stieglitz • 291 gallery • Circulatory systems • “mechanamorphic” • Chance

  31. Surrealism Surrealism Paris, 1922. International in 1936. Andre Breton: Manifesto (associated with dada) Born out of a desire for positive action. Myths Primitivism Dream Analysis Chance Choice (Free association) Spontaneous Action Metonymy (metonimic)

  32. Rene Magritte,The Human Condition, 1928 • Poststructuralism • Sarte, Benjamin • Painting as Representation • Reality as representation

  33. Magritte, The Treachery (of perfidy) of Image, 1928-29 • “This is not a pipe” • Reality/Representation

  34. Joseph CornellUntitled (The Hotel Eden), 1945 • Shadow Boxes • 12-20” • Surrealism • Julian Levy Gallery • Assemblage • Discarded objects • Nostalgia • Random Juxtaposition • Search for the self • Caged Bird: sublimation, memory, and peace.

  35. Cornell, Habitat Group for Shooting Gallery, 1943 / Solar Set, 1958

  36. Cornell, Toward the Blue Peninsula, 1953 Nostalgia Mystery Fantasy

  37. Cornell, Untitled (Medici Princess), 1948 / Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall), 1942

  38. Isamu Noguchi, Kouros, 1944-5 / Remembrance 1981 • Biomorphic Surrealism • Constantin Brancusi • Zen • Contemplation of parts of the whole

  39. 20th Century SculptureConstantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925 The Newborn, 1915

  40. Brancusi and Noguchi

  41. Noguchi, Kouros / Greek Kouros

  42. Noguchi, Water Garden, 1963 • Japanese Zen Garden • Reflection/ Contemplation • Industry/ Nature

  43. Water garden (details)

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