Original presentation Modern Art

1. Modern Art in Europe and
The Americas 1900-1945"
Chapter 31"

2.  Art Nouveau"
 Fauvism"
 Die Brücke"
 Der Blaue Reiter"
 Modernist sculpture"
 Cubism--Picasso and Braque"
 Analytic"
 Synthetic"
 Responses to Cubism"
 Futurism"
 Constructivism"

3. Art Nouveau"
Gustave Klimt
Decorative style of late 19th early 20th c characterized by its
sinuous lines and contours

4. Gustave Klimt
The Kiss
1907-08

5. Fauvism"
Mattise and Derrain
Les fauves = the wild beasts
Strong color, dynamic brushstroke

6. Fauvism
André Derain, Mountains at Collioure. 1905

7. Henri Matisse. The Joy of Life. 1905-06
The Woman with the Hat. 1905

8. Die Brücke"
(The Bridge)
1911-1913
Kirchner and Becker
Bridge between traditional and expressionist painting
One of two groups of German painters fundamental to Expressionism,
Vivid color, emotional tension, violent imagery, and an influence from primitivism.
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9. Die Brücke German expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street Berlin, 1913

10. German Expressionism
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self Portrait 1906

11. German Expressionism
The Outbreak Käthe Kollwitz, 1903. German Expressionism
The Outbreak Käthe Kollwitz, 1903. !

12. Der Blaue Reiter"
(The Blue Rider)
Kandinsky, Marc & Klee
Desired to express spiritual truths
Connection between visual art and music
Symbolic associations of color
Spontaneous intuitive approach to painting

13. Der Blaue Reiter German Expressionism
Vasily Kandinsky. Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913

14. Der Blaue Reiter German Expressionism
Franz Marc. The Large Blue Horses. 1911

15. Der Blaue Reiter German Expressionism
Paul Klee. Hammamet with its Mosque. 1914

16. Modernist sculpture"
Maioll and Matisse
From Naturalism to abstraction

17. Henri Matisse. La Serpentine. 1909
Aristide Maillol. The Mediterranean. 1902-5

18. Picasso"

19. Self-portrait 1901

20. Family of Saltimbanques. 1905

21. Cubism"
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907

22. Cubism/influences"
Cezanne

23. Cubism--Picasso and Braque"

24. Cubism"
Georges Braque. Houses at L’Estaque
1908 Violin and Palette. 1909-10

25. Analytic Cubism Synthetic Cubism
Picasso, Ma Jolie. 1911-12 Glass and Bottle of Suze. 1912

26. Cubist sculpture"
Pablo Picasso, Mandolin and Clarinet. 1913

27. Cubism"
 Simplification of form into facets/little cubes"
 Radical new way of representing objects"
 Rejects traditional perspective"
 Influenced by African art/ Cezanne"
 Grid as structure"
 Collage, lettering, new levels of reality"
 Undermines “High Art”"

28. Responses to Cubism"

29. Orphism
Robert Delauney, Homage to Blériot. 1914

30. Futurism"
Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity
States of Mind: The Farewells. 1911 in Space, 1913

31. Cubo-futurism"
Natalia Goncharova. Aeroplane over a Train. 1913

32. Futurism"
Movement that began in Italy,
Interest in movement, speed, technology, the automobile

33. Suprematist Painting--Russia"
Vladimir Tatlin. Corner Counter-Relief. 1915
Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Painting
(Eitht Red Rectangles). 1915

34. Suprematism"
 “the supremacy of pure feeling in art”
motivated by a “pure feeling for form” to
liberate the essential beauty of all great
art."
 Malevich"

35. Chapter 28
Part II"
 Europe"
 Dada"
 Early Modern and International Style architecture"
 Surrealism"
 Art in North America"
 Modern architecture"
 Painting-"
 Photography"
 Sculpture"
 Harlem Renaissance"

36. Dada"
Hugo Ball reciting the sound poem “Karawane.” John Hertfield. Have No Fear—He’s a Vegetarian
Zurich, 1916 Photomontage in Regards no. 121, Paris 1936

37. Dada"
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

38. Dada"
 Began in Switzerland."
 Rejected the corrupt values of the the
bourgeois culture, which they blamed for
the war "
 Celebrated spontaneity, chance and
irrational combinations"

39. Early Modern architecture"
Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, 1889

40. Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1851

41. Moving of Trusses

42. Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer.
Fagus Shoe Factory,
Vladimir Tatlin. Model for the
Germany, 1911-16 Monument of the Third International. 1919-20

43. Le Corbusier. Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur Siene, France. 1929-30

44. Bauhaus"
Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany 1925-26

45. De Stijl"
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42
1937-42

46. De Stijl (The Style)"
 Dutch movement interested in radical
abstractions in painting and architecture."
 Conviction that rational beauty had
more value."

47. Gerrit Rietveld. Shröder House, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1925

48. International Style
Volume vs.mass
ferroconcrete eliminates load bearing walls
Regularity vs. symmetry
standard building parts promote regularity
Rejection of arbitrary decoration
intrinsic elegance of materials and design

49. Cass Gilbert. Woolworth Building, Frank Lloyd Wright . Edgar Kaufmann House, Fallingwater,
New York. 1911-13 Pennsylvania. 1937

50. André Breton
Surrelalism
"is based on the belief in
the superior reality of
certain forms of
previously neglected
associations,
in the omnipotence of
dream, in the
disinterested play of
thought."

51. Surrealism"
Joan Miró, Dutch Interior I 1928

52. Surrealism"
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

53. Surrealism"
Meret Oppenheim, Luncheon in Fur, 1936

54. Surrealism"
 Exploration of the unconscious mind"
 Dreams"
 Free association"
 Automatic writing"
 Word games"
 Hypnotic trances"

55. Modernism in North America"
Georgia O’Keefe, City Night, 1926

56. Precisionism"
Charles Sheeler. American Landscape. 1930

57. Grant Wood, American Gothic. 1930

58. Photography"
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936

59. Edward Hopper, Night Hawks. 1942

60. Harlem Renaissance"
Aaron Douglas. Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction. 1934

61. Harlem Renaissance"
Jacob Lawrence. During the World War There Was a Great Migration North
by Southern Negroes, panel I from The Migration of the Negro. 1940-41

62. Abstraction"
Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape. 1938.

63. Sculpture"
Alexander Calder. Lobster Trap and Fish Tail. 1939

64. Mexican Painters"
Diego Rivera, Man, Controler of the Universe. 1934

65. Frida Kahlo. The Two Fridas. 1939