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Abstraction. Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part 1: Art Prior to World War 1 By: Caitlin, Mackenzie, and Shayna. Abstraction:. It implies analyzing, detaching, and selecting before distilling the essence of experience. In earlier centuries, a picture was a reflection of the outside world.
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Abstraction Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part 1: Art Prior to World War 1 By: Caitlin, Mackenzie, and Shayna
Abstraction: • It implies analyzing, detaching, and selecting before distilling the essence of experience. • In earlier centuries, a picture was a reflection of the outside world. • In twentieth-century abstraction, artists freed themselves from representation.
Abstraction Three Musicians- Pablo Picasso
Abstraction Les Demoiselles d’Avignon- Pablo Picasso
The Origins of Cubism: • Cubism brought out a new way of looking at things in the twentieth-century. • The consequences of Cubism were echoed directly in sculpture and architecture and indirectly in literature and music.
Cubism Still Life with Violin- Georges Braque
Music Upside Down: • The musical counterpart of Cubist space was invented when composers began breaking up traditional tonality and searching for new musical resources and mediums of expression. • The twelve tone system is a strict form of tonal organization developed in about 1920.
Art and the Future • Futurism began in Italy before World War I. • It was under the leadership of poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. • The futurists projected an art for a fast-moving, machine-propelled age.
Armored Train in Action Gino Severini
The City and the Machine • Many hoped the machine would alleviate the hardship of human labor • In general, the machine aesthetic assumed that products would eventually free humanity from its dependence on nature
The Hand of Man Alfred Stieglitz