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A Multifaceted Study Of The Roaring 20s

This essay analyzes The Great Gatsby, a Hughes poem, or "The Hollow Men" as primary documents, along with Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Art Deco, Harlem Renaissance, Dada, and Surrealism as major modern art movements. The essay explores the themes of domestic conflict, culture of excess, reactions to WWI, and the Harlem Renaissance through a third primary document.

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A Multifaceted Study Of The Roaring 20s

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  1. A Multifaceted Study Of The Roaring 20s

  2. A Quick Review Of The Assignment: - Write an essay which analyzes two primary documents as examples of one of the major themes of the 20s (domestic conflict, culture of excess, reactions to WWI, Harlem Renaissance, etc.) - Choose The Great Gatsby, a Hughes poem, or “The Hollow Men” - Choose one school of art and at least one exemplary piece - Choose a third primary document (film, art, lit., music, etc.) SWEET!

  3. Major Modern Art Movements

  4. As we run through these, note any movements which interest you

  5. Impressionism Claude Monet – Impressionism, Sunset - 1872

  6. Impressionism Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Swing – 1876

  7. Impressionism Edgar Degas – At The Races – 1877-1880

  8. Impressionism Mary Cassatt – Summertime – 1884

  9. Impressionism - Visible brushstrokes - Emphasis on light and its changing qualities - Ordinary subject matter - The inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience - Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, etc.

  10. Cubism Georges Braque – Woman With A Guitar – 1913

  11. Cubism Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – 1907

  12. Cubism Robert Delaunay – Champs de Mars. La Tour rouge – 1911

  13. Cubism - Objects are broken up, analyzed, and then re-assembled - The subject is presented from multiple viewpoints to add context - Surfaces intersect at random angles - The background and objects intersect creating ambiguity - Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, etc.

  14. Fauvism Henri Matisse – Woman With A Hat – 1905

  15. Fauvism Andre Derain – The Turning Road – 1906

  16. Fauvism Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Marzella – 1909-1910

  17. Fauvism - Emphasis on “painterly” qualities (visible strokes, no blending, etc.) - Strong color rather than representational impressionism - Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, etc.

  18. Art Deco Santiago Martinez Delgado – Mural For The Chicago International Fair – 1933

  19. Art Deco Walter Dorwin Teague – Kodak Beau Brownie – 1933

  20. Art Deco Albert Anis – The Abbey Hotel – 1940

  21. Art Deco Rene Paul Chambellan – Chanin Building Gates – 1929

  22. Art Deco Tamara de Lempicka – Portrait of Madame Boucard – 1931

  23. Art Deco - Apolitical and aphilosophical – purely decorative - Mostly known as an architectural movement - Elegant - Functional - Ultra-modern - Santiago Martinez Delgado, Walter Dorwin Teague, Albert Anis, Rene Paul Chambellan, Tamara de Lempicka etc.

  24. Harlem Renaissance Aaron Douglas – Aspiration – 1936

  25. Harlem Renaissance Romare Bearden – One Night Stand – 1974

  26. Harlem Renaissance Jacob Lawrence – The Migration Series:The female worker was one of the last groups to leave the south – 1940-41

  27. Harlem Renaissance - Unmixed colors - Focus on shapes and patterns - Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, etc.

  28. Dada Jean Arp – Collage Arranged According To The Laws Of Chance – 1916-17

  29. Dada Marcel Duchamp – Fountain – 1917

  30. Dada Hannah Hoch – The Pretty Maiden – 1920

  31. Dada Kurt Schwitters – The Psychiatrist – 1919

  32. Dada - Anti-war movement - Rejected the standards of contemporary art - Ridiculed cultural and social standards of the day - Predecessor to abstract art - Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, etc.

  33. Surrealism Joan Miro – The Music-Hall Usher – 1925

  34. Surrealism Salvador Dali – Eggs On The Plate Without The Plate – 1932

  35. Surrealism Giorgio de Chirico – The Disquieting Muses – 1916

  36. Surrealism Rene Magritte – The Treachery Of Images – 1928-1929

  37. Surrealism Meret Oppenheim – Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure) – 1936

  38. Surrealism - Relies on surprise, juxtapositions, and non sequitors - Hoped to revolutionize the human experience by freeing people from what the artists saw as false rationality - Seeks to remove reason from thought - Surrealism is actually a mistranslation from the French which would more correctly read “Superrealism” - Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, etc.

  39. Done

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