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Early Modern Art

Early Modern Art. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Age of Anxiety. Experience of War Expectations not met—not quick and glorious Four years of utter destruction Over 9 million men killed Millions more wounded Severe shortage of men. Moral Effects of War.

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Early Modern Art

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  1. Early Modern Art Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. Age of Anxiety • Experience of War • Expectations not met—not quick and glorious • Four years of utter destruction • Over 9 million men killed • Millions more wounded • Severe shortage of men

  3. Moral Effects of War • Idea of Progress of Humanity hard to maintain • Civilized nations committed barbarities: mustard gas; trench warfare • Value of society questioned • Religion: gave up: God is Dead /redefined: resurgence of Church

  4. Cultural Effects • War seen as pointless • Literature: Novels on alienation: • Kafka: The Trial • Eliot: The WasteLand (1922) • The Hollow Men (1925) • Gerontion (1920)

  5. Music • Atonality: • Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring • Its emotional intensity caused riots • Schoenberg—Abandoned traditional harmony and tonality

  6. Decline of Reason • Uncertainty in intellectual thought: Freud: dream analysis • Nietzche: God is Dead • Wittgenstein: existentialism—existence is its own meaning • Einstein: relativity in physics brings uncertainty

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

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

  9. Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)

  10. Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

  11. 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.

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

  13. Henri Matisse: Carmelina(1903) FAUVE • The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way. • “Wild Beast.”

  14. Henri Matisse: Open Window(1905)

  15. Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM • The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form.

  16. CUBISM • Cezanne  The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

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

  18. Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

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

  20. Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

  21. Pablo Picasso: Woman with aFlower(1932)

  22. Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)

  23. Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)

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

  25. George Grosz The Pillarsof Society(1926)

  26. Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)

  27. Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)

  28. Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase(1912)

  29. Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 Surrealism • Late 1920s-1940s. • Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.

  30. Surrealism • Influenced by Feud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious. • Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.

  31. Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

  32. Salvador Dali: The Apparition of the Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)

  33. Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man (1943)

  34. Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928) Bauhaus • A utopian quality. • Based on the idealsof simplified formsand unadornedfunctionalism.

  35. Bauhaus • 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.

  36. Walter Gropius: Lincoln, MA house (1938)

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