Early 20 th Century Art Challenging Artistic Conventions & Transatlantic Artistic Dialogue

1. Early 20th Century ArtChallenging Artistic Conventions & Transatlantic Artistic Dialogue Chapter 33 AP Art History Mr. English

2. Dada • Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1950, Ready-made glazed sanitary china with black paint. • Refused from a non-juried show. • Urinal rotated and signed by made up artist name. • Ready-made sculpture

3. Marcel Duchamp VIDEOS

4. Dada • Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-20, photomontage, 3’9”x 2’11”. • Photomontage – collage of photographic images. • Comments on women’s social roles in Germany. • Combines German leaders’ heads with women dancers’ bodies.

5. Dada (1916-25) • So what is Dada? • A movement against art, challenging the idea of what can be considered art. • Protest against the ongoing war, industrialization and conventional art. • Often absurd, whimsical, satirical or just plain nonsense. • Ready-made, collage & photomontage were popular mediums • Conceptual – about the idea not the technique. • Inspires future movements in minimalism and surrealism

6. Transatlantic Artistic Dialogue • Many Americans are still painting realist and representational images in the early 20thc. while the European art scene is going through abstraction. • The Armory Show (1913) showcases over 1600 artworks in New York of European and American artists – cross exposure.

7. The Armory Show • Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, oil on canvas, 4’10”x 2’11”. • What style does this appear to be done in? • Monochromatic color scheme • Shows movement and time like a motion film. • Controversial – “an explosion in a shingles factory” – subject of newspaper cartoons.

8. Gallery 291 • Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, photograph. • Opened Gallery 291 to showcase contemporary art & photo from US & Europe. • Founded Photo-Secession group – curated traveling photo shows across the country. • Believed in raw images for viewers to relive as he saw it. • Focused on strong formal photography, design principals & composition. • Depicts poor passengers who were rejected entrance to the US.

9. Alfred Stieglitz

10. Abstract Photography • Edward Weston, Nude, 1925, platinum print. • Explored abstraction in photography. • How has Weston abstracted the figure? How does this relate to what’s going on in painting?

11. 1920’s Culture & Music in Art Stuart Davis, Lucky Strike, 1921, oil on canvas. Aaron Douglas, Noah’s Ark, 1927, oil on masonite.

12. Precisionism • Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927, oil on board, 3’ x 2’6”. • Inspired by machines, cubists and futurists. • Depicts grain elevators with structural lines broken up with cubist like shapes/lines.

13. Precisionism • Georgia O’Keefe, New York, Night, 1929, oil on canvas, 3’4”x 1’7”. • Moves to NYC and meets Stieglitz – more involved - influenced her art. • Depicts the complexity of the city in a rhythm of precise planes and shapes.

14. Georgia O’Keefe