Art of the Twentieth Century

1. Art of the Twentieth Century

5. Henri Matisse. The Knife Thrower, from Jazz. 1947.

6. Rouault sometimes kept his pictures for as long as 2S years, during which he endlessly studied and changed them, hoping to achieve perfection. Like Cezanne before him, he did not hesitate to destroy a painting if it failed to please him. It did not bother him in the least that a picture he casually threw away could have been sold for thousands of dollars.

7. The subject of this work may be praying.. Perhaps she is also staring back into her memories or trying to see into the future. What makes this painting a good example of German Expressionism? Paula Modersohn-Becker. Old Peasant Woman. c. 1905. Oil on canvas.

9. In 1938, Kirchner's works were condemned by Hitler. The artist, ill and upset about the conditions in Germany, was unable to face up to this insult and took his own life Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Seated Woman. 1907. Oil on canvas. 80.6 x

12. Before, artists showed people in anguish as they appeared to a rational, objective viewer. With Munch and the other Expressionists, this point of view changed. Instead, they showed the world through the eyes of the people in anguish. When seen that way, the shapes and colors of familiar objects change. Trees, hills, houses, and people are pulled out of shape and take on new, unexpected and often disturbing colors. The subject of this picture is fear. There is no mistaking the fact that the person in this painting is terrified. The scream that comes from the open mouth is so piercing that the figure must clasp its hands tightly over its ears Edvard Munch. The Scream. 1893. Tempera and pastels on cardboard.

13. marked the start of a new style-nonobjective art, a style that employs color, line, texture, and unrecognizable shapes and forms. These works contain no apparent references to reality

14. Wassily KandinskyI, Improvisation 28, 1912

15. the kind of inner emotions Kandinsky sought to capture in his nonobjective paintings. Gabriele Monter. Schnee und Sonne (Snow and Sun). 1911. Oil on cardboard.

16. A drawing in the style of Cubism

17. understand the process a Cubist artist used when painting a picture like The Glass of Absinthe. In this Cubist painting, recognition is hampered because shapes have been broken up and reassembled. This produces a complex arrangement of new shapes that can be confusing to the viewer. It is difficult to identify when one shape is ahead of another, because part of it seems to be in front and part of it behind. This confusion is heightened by the use of lines that end suddenly when you expect them to continue, or continue when you expect them to end. Colors associated with the objects were not used. Instead, the artist chose grays, browns, and other drab colors, which painters before this time had avoided.

18. stages. After working in the Cubist style, he returned to paintings of the human figure in which he used a greater range of colors. In 1937, he painted his famous antiwar picture, Gueirnca Pablo Picasso. Guitar. Ceret. Cut and pasted paper, ink, charcoal, and white chalk on blue paper, mounted on board of a guitar from metal and wire. The sculpture had a profound effect on other artists. For many, the new method of assembling replaced more traditional methods of sculpting. In particular, a group of Russian artists called the Constructivists found this form of sculpture very appealing and concentrated on creating assemblages. Assembling was a particular passion of Russian-born sculptor Naum Gabo (1899-1977), who worked in wood, glass, plastic, and paper, restricting the use of color to that which was inherent in the media. Gabo's subjects included heads and busts, as well as less easily identifiable objects.

20. 3) In front of her, another woman dashes forward blindly in panic 6) Another hand clutches a broken sword 7) A woman holds a dead child and raises her head skyward to scream out her horror at the planes overhead

21. Picasso lived a long and full life; he was 91 years old when he died in 1973. He left behind a tremendous number of paintings, prints, and sculptures-and a profound ontwentieth-century art. Georges Braque (1882-1963) Unlike Picasso, Georges Braque did not go through a series of dramatic style changes during his career. The changes in his painting style were more subtle and evolved gradually over time. Braque always maintained that a painting is a flat surface and should remain a flat surface. Throughout his life, he focused on ways to make that surface more interesting by using colors, lines, shapes, and textures. From 1907 to 1914, Braque worked closely with Picasso to develop Cubism. When World War I broke out, Braque was called into the army and, in 1915, was seriously wounded. In 1917, following months in recovery, he Georges Braque. Still Life with Fruit. 1920-23. Oil with sand on canvas.

22. Examples of the Art nouveau style Art Nouveau. Another art style that flourished at the same time as those mentioned in the lesson was Art Nouveau. The style, which was a reaction against both the technological revolution of the early modern period-the machine age-and the imitations of past styles, is characterized by the use of colored materials, molded stonework, floral motifs, curvilinear forms, wrought iron, and other unusual ornamentation. Although distortion of objects is a trait, the style is basically representational. The Art Nouveau style can be seen in both the applied and the fine arts, in everything from jewelry to furniture and architecture. A German version of this style, called Jugendstil, was practiced by Kandinsky early in his career