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1920s Art and Architecture

1920s Art and Architecture. Modernism. Modern thought Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism Fernand Leger, The City, 1919 Machinelike Tube shapes- mached parts like pistons and cylinders. Stuart Davis, Lucky Strike

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1920s Art and Architecture

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  1. 1920s Art and Architecture

  2. Modernism • Modern thought • Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism Fernand Leger, The City, 1919 • Machinelike • Tube shapes- mached parts like pistons and cylinders

  3. Stuart Davis, Lucky Strike • His sense of jazz tempos and perception of the energy of the fast-paced American culture.

  4. Robert Delaunay, Champs de Mars

  5. Aaron Douglas, Noah’s Ark • Harlem Renaissance Artist • Religious vision

  6. Cubism • Rejected naturalistic depictions • Preferred abstract shapes and forms abstracted • Reflects the public’s dwindling faith in a safe, concrete world. • Reflects fears fostered by physics of Einstein and others.

  7. Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911

  8. Precisionism (aka Cubist Realism) • Charles Demuth, My Egypt • Themes: • industrialization • modernization of the American landscape. • Expanding technology • Extolling industry? Comparison between Egyptian pyramids and American Grain elevators as cultural icons

  9. Charles Sheeler, Upper Deck

  10. Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette

  11. Dada • Mindset/attitude • Political anarchy, irrational • Reason and logic responsible for WWI • Absurdity • Word dada- irrational and nonsensical • Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q.

  12. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

  13. Man Ray,Cadeau, 1921

  14. Francis Picabia, Portrait of Cezanne

  15. Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

  16. Kurt Schwitters, Merz 19

  17. Abstract Photography • Edward Weston, Nude

  18. Abstract Painting • Georgia Okeefe • Simplified to almost abstraction

  19. Surrealism • Expressing the world of dreams and the unconscious • Fantasy • Exploring the inner psyche • Inspired by Sigmund Freud • Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924

  20. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

  21. Surrealist Sculpture • Incongruity, humor, visual appeal, eroticism • Meret Oppenheim, Object

  22. Art Deco • Elegant, glamorous, functional modern, decorative, bold, lavish, rich festive. • Celebrates the Machine Age through explicit use of man-made materials (particularly glass, stainless steel and the new plastics) symmetry, and repetition. • Crisp, symmetrical geometric forms. • Used in consumer products such as furniture, china, lamps, cars, jewelry, watches, ash trays etc

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  24. Art Deco Architecture • Chrysler Building

  25. The End of an EraEmpire State Building

  26. Wrigley Building

  27. Tribune Tower

  28. “Natural” Architecture • Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago, 1907-1909

  29. Frank Lloyd Wright, Kauffmann House, Pennsylvania, 1936 • “Falling waters”

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