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THE AGE OF CONFUSION

THE AGE OF CONFUSION. Ongoing industrialization and WWI quickened the crumbling of the “Old Order” – it had staggered imaginations and left traditional values open to question

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THE AGE OF CONFUSION

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  1. THE AGE OF CONFUSION

  2. Ongoing industrialization and WWI quickened the crumbling of the “Old Order” – it had staggered imaginations and left traditional values open to question • New intellectual and artistic (and scientific, political…) trends sought to fill the void; since the “rules” had been smashed, experimentation became the norm… • This created an atmosphere of relativism…many sought refuge in extremism… • This process began before the war…

  3. The theme of relativism extended into all parts of society, and Existentialism continued to be the driving force… • Life has no absolute meaning… • Individuals are accountable to themselves… • There is no god… • There is no absolute morality… • All that awaits us is the void (le neant)… • There are no rules  total freedom and experimentation… Jean –Paul Sartre – Huis Clos

  4. Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot • Theatre of the Absurd…

  5. Eugene Ionesco – The Chairs

  6. Freud… • Psychoanalysis • Id, Ego, Super Ego • Oedipus Complex • The Interpretation of Dreams • Freudian slips… • More confusion…

  7. Surrealism • James Joyce - Ulysses • “Stream of Consciousness”

  8. Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 • Late 1920s-1940s. • Influenced by Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious. • Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.

  9. Themes in Early Modern Art • Uncertainty/insecurity. • Disillusionment. • The subconscious. • Overt sexuality. • Violence & savagery.

  10. Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893) Expressionism • Using bright colors to express a particular emotion.

  11. Henri Matisse: Open Window(1905) • The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way • “Wild Beast” = Fauvism

  12. Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901) Secessionists • Disrupt the conservative values of Viennese society. • Obsessed with the self. • Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

  13. Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)

  14. Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM • The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form. • Cezanne  The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

  15. Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar(1913)

  16. Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

  17. Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

  18. Pablo Picasso: Woman with aFlower(1932)

  19. George Grosz Grey Day(1921) DaDa • Ridiculed contemporary culture & traditional art forms. • The collapse during WW I of social and moral values. • Nihilistic.

  20. Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)

  21. Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928) Bauhaus • A utopian quality. • Based on the idealsof simplified formsand unadornedfunctionalism. • The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses. • Used techniques & materials employed especially in industrial fabrication & manufacture  steel, concrete, chrome, glass.

  22. LeCorbusier

  23. Frank Lloyd Wright

  24. MUSIC…

  25. FILM…

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