HOA 106 1nd Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture II Post Impressionism Cont III Symbolism IV Art Nouveau V The Arts and Crafts Movement Outline of Current Lecture VI Science and Tech VII Modernism VIII Cubism IX Fauvism X Impact of Cubism and Fauvism a Futurism b German Expressionism XI American Art Lecture 3 31 15 Twentieth Century The Modernist Revolution Science and technology o 1901 Guglielmo Marconi s first radio broadcast o 1903 Ford s automobile o 1903 Wright Brother s airplane flight o 1916 Physicist Einstein s theory of relativity Modernism o Cubism and Fauvism both represent techniques to solving the questions asked by 19 th century artists Cubism o Parallel s the Theory of Relativity o Picasso Les Demoiselles d Avignon the young women of avingnon These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o o Objects look like geometric shapes forming a picture Very simplified images Five pink ish human figures Inspired by Cezanne the Large Bathers women surrounding a watering hole and an African sculpture Kota reliquary figure a brass piece of a human figure abstracted from geometric shapes Igor Stravinsky Rite of Spring Modern dance Choreography by Nijinsky Depicts pre historic Russian fertility rights Analytic Cubism o Doesn t look anything like a man with a violin Dark earthy colors and many geometric shapes formed together Synthetic Cubism o Picasso Man with a Violin Braque Still Life on a Table The second phase of cubism Collage of 3 D mediums Gillette logo can be seen Music Fauvism o Fauve wild beast This was coined by an art critic who was not a fan of this style o Henri Matisse Used colors to make the viewer s mind feel good The Dessert or Harmony in Red The Dance Mostly primary colors Lots of red Woman figure can be seen Blue background and dancing figures holding hands The Impact of Cubism and Fauvism Before WW1 o Futurism Broke out before WW1 Founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Influenced by Cubism photography and X ray Severini Armored Train o Figures can be seen holding and pointing guns and a green canon Cubist forms Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space Bronze figure looks gold in color Supposed to be an interpretation of speed Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase Supposed to be figure moving forward Depicts space and time Yellow and gold in color German Expressionism Concerned with color and its emotional response Kirchner Street Dresden Kandinsky Improvisation o Egon Schiele Self Portrait with Twisted Arm o Wanted his paintings to represent moods Believed color represented an emotion Image of distorted male figure Very thin ribs are poking out American Art o Represented American subjects o The Aschan School Centered in NYC Underlined commonplace and urban life George Bellows Stag at Sharkey s Depicts a wrestling match Two wrestlers are bloody and fighting Referee is shown in the background Photography Edward Steichen Flatiron Building NY o Foggy dark image of the Flatiron building