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Modern Art & Music Movies & Radio. Objectives. Recognize the characteristics of modernism in architecture, art, and music. Trace the development and explain the significance of movies and radio between ca. 1900 and the 1930s. Modernism. rejection of old forms/values constant experimentation
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Objectives • Recognize the characteristics of modernism in architecture, art, and music. • Trace the development and explain the significance of movies and radio between ca. 1900 and the 1930s.
Modernism • rejection of old forms/values • constant experimentation • modern art = 1860s-1970s
Architecture • functionalism: idea that bldgs should be useful, “functional” • Le Corbusier: “a house is a machine for living in” Louis H. Sullivan’s Schlesinger & Mayer Dept. Store, Chicago, 1899-1904
Louis H. Sullivan’s Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890-1891, all steel frame
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hanna Residence, Stanford, CA, 1936
Walter Gropius’s Fagus shoe factory, Alfeld, Germany, 1911-1913
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Apartments, Chicago, 1948-1951
Architecture • Bauhaus: German school of design that combined the study of crafts and fine arts • 1919-1933 • Founded by Walter Gropius
Impressionism (late 19th / early 20th c.) Modern painting grew out of a revolt against French impressionism. French impressionism was characterized by the study of light – the attempt to capture the impression of light.
Pissarro, Boulevard Montmarte – at various times of day and in various types of weather, 1897
Postimpressionism / Expressionism • Sought to portray the “unseen”: emotion & imagination • Emphasis on form rather than light • Artists include: van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat, Signac, and Toulouse-Lautrec
Van Gogh, La chambre de Van Gogh a Arles (Van Gogh's Room at Arles), 1889
“You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.” - Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire – (1) c. 1897-1898, (2) 1902, (3) 1904-1906
Cubism • Compositions of shapes and forms “abstracted” from the conventionally perceived world • Founded by Picasso
Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Fragments of a warrior and a horse pierced by a spear Woman holding a dead child Woman falling from a burning house
More expressionism – extreme abstraction • Kandinsky & German Expressionist group, DerBlaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) “The observer must learn to look at [my] pictures … as form and color combinations … as a representation of mood and not as a representation of objects.” - Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Dadaism • Attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior • “Dada” = “hobbyhorse” (nonsensical)
Start of The Dada Manifesto (1918, Tristan Tzara) “The magic of a word – DADA – which has placed the Newsmen before the Gate of an unexpected world Has for us no Importance whatsoever.”
More from The Dada Manifesto “Thus was DADA born of a need for independence, of suspicion for the community. Those who belong to us keep their freedom. We recognize no theory. We have enough of the cubist and futuristic academies: laboratories of formalistic ideas. Does one engage in art to earn money and stroke the pretty bourgeois?”
Surrealism (1920s/30s) • By 1924, most Dada artists joined the Surrealist movement • Art that expresses the world of dreams and the unconscious • Inspired by psychologists Freud and Jung • 2 groups: • Biomorphic – abstract forms that suggest natural forms • Naturalistic – recognizable scenes metamorphosed into dream image
Modern Music • emotional intensity • experimentation • atonal = without a central key/tone; lacks expected pattern Ex. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913)
Movies • Movies appeared in the 1890s. 1st movie houses came out of LA in early 20th c. • First films were silents. “Talkies” came out in late 1920s. • US dominated the industry • Charlie Chaplin
Radio • Early 1920s – inventions • 1920 – first major public broadcasts of special events • Every major country quickly set up broadcasting networks – most were gov’t-owned (ex. BBC)
Movies and radio became propaganda tools • Sergei Eisenstein – October (1927) • Leni Riefenstahl – The Triumph of the Will(1935)