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Chapter 32

Chapter 32. The Modernist Assault. Ezra Pound: “Make it new.”. Modernist Art. Cubism Futurism The fauvism Abstract sculpture Nonobjective art Constructivism. Features. Revolt against the tyranny of representation Aimed to evoke rather than describe experience

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Chapter 32

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  1. Chapter 32 The Modernist Assault

  2. Ezra Pound: “Make it new.”

  3. Modernist Art • Cubism • Futurism • The fauvism • Abstract sculpture • Nonobjective art • Constructivism

  4. Features • Revolt against the tyranny of representation • Aimed to evoke rather than describe experience • Marked by primitivism, abstraction, and experimentation

  5. Cubism • Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) • His credo: “Art must be subversive.”

  6. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso, 1907

  7. Cubism • (1) Analytical cubism: a multiplicity of viewpoints replaced one-point perspective • (2) Synthetic cubism: emerged around 1912. A combination of painting and sculpture by means of collage.

  8. Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1911-12, Picasso

  9. Guitar, 1912-13, Picasso

  10. Futurism • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Italian) • Futurist Manifesto (1909): “We declare . . . that there can be no modern painting except from the starting point of an absolutely modern sensation . . . . A roaring motorcar is more beautiful than the winged Victory of Samothrace.” (Fiero 827)

  11. Futurism • Futurist Manifesto (1909): “The gesture that we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself.” (Fiero 827)

  12. Futurism • Futurist painters multiplied the image, attempting to communicate the dynamic energy and the power associated with machines, using these as metaphors for modern life. • http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~entim/Professional/Courses/EN3524/Modernism/Modernist_design.html

  13. Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

  14. Bella, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912

  15. Giacomo Balla. Speeding Automobile. 1912

  16. Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912.

  17. Duchamp Descending a Staircase, Life Magazine 284, 1952.

  18. Russian Constructivism • Revealed the tendency towards abstraction and the quest for new methods of artistic representation characteristic of the early 20th century in Russia. • First introduced by Tatlin in 1915, it began with a focus on abstraction through "real materials" in "real space."

  19. The 3rd International Tower, 1919-1920, Vladimir Tatlin

  20. Spatial Force Construction (1920-21), Liubov Popova

  21. Aeroplane Flying, 1915, Kasimir Malevich

  22. Black Square and Red Square, 1915, Kasimir Malevich

  23. Red Square: Painterly Realism of a PeasantWoman in Two Dimensions, 1915, Malevich

  24. Suprematist Composition,1915, Malevich

  25. Abstraction • Nonobjective art • Wassily Kandinsky • Suprematism • Kasimir Malevich • De Stijl (The Style) • Piet Mondrian

  26. Wassily Kandinsky • One of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth-century. • His "inner necessity" to express his emotional perceptions led to the development of an abstract art. • Kandinsky's compositions were the culmination of his efforts to create a "pure painting" that would provide the same emotional power as a musical composition. http://www.glyphs.com/art/kandinsky/

  27. Wassily Kandinsky • Beginnings: "Mother Moscow" 1866-1896 • Metamorphosis: Munich 1896-1911. • Breakthrough to the Abstract: The Blue Rider, 1911-1914 • Russian Intermezzo 1914-1921. • Point and Line to Plane: The Bauhaus 1922-1933 • Biomorphic Abstraction: Paris 1934-1944.

  28. Composition IV, 1911

  29. Composition V, 1911 (The Deluge)

  30. Composition VII, 1913 (The Resurrection, the Last Judgment, the Deluge, the Garden of Love)

  31. Composition VIII, 1923

  32. Composition X, 1939

  33. Panel for Edwin Campbell #1, 1914

  34. De stijl: Neo-plasticism • Dutch art movement begining c.1916-17 • centered mainly around artist Piet Mondrian • often referred to as De Stijl after a magazine published by the group • http://users.senet.com.au/~dsmith/constructivism.htm

  35. De stijl: Neo-plasticism • emphasized the geometrical, ordered, simplified and precise qualities of art and design as opposed to organic forms. Saw line and primary colors as important • began as a pictorial based style like Cubism but became increasingly non-objective • http://users.senet.com.au/~dsmith/constructivism.htm

  36. Piet Mondrian at home

  37. Red Tree, 1908, Piet Mondrian

  38. Gray Tree, 1911, Piet Mondrian

  39. Trees, 1912, Piet Mondrian

  40. Composition II, Line and Color, 1911, Piet Mondrian

  41. Composition with Color Planes and Gray, Lines 1, 1918

  42. Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue,1920, Piet Mondrian

  43. Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue (1921)

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