HOA 106 1nd Edition Exam 3 Study Guide Lectures 16 34 Lecture 16 March 31 20th Century The Modernist Revolution 1900 1914 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 Challenges styles that precede it o Cubism and Fauvism are two ways of solving the questions of artist Cubism o A parallel to Einstein s Theory of Relativity o Picasso Les Demoiselles d Avignon The Young women of Avingnon o Five naked women figures put together from geometric shapes Very different faces Inspired by Cezanne The Large Bathers image of women surrounding watering hole and an African sculpture Kota Reliquary Figure brass piece of a human shape abstracted from geometric shapes This simplified form became known as primitivism Stravinsky The Rite of Spring o Modern dance Depicts Russian fertility rights Analytic Cubism Picasso Man with a Violin Does not literally resemble a man with a violin Appears as geometric shapes put together with muted grey colors o Synthetic Cubism The second phase of cubism Collage of mixed media The Gillette logo can be seen Fauvism o Fauve wild beast This was coined by an art critic that did not like the style o Henri Matisse Used bright colors for the viewers The Dessert or Harmony in Red Braque Still Life on a Table Used mainly primary colors mostly red A woman possibly a maid can be seen setting the table The Dance Bright blue background Depicts figures holding hands and dancing in a circle The Impact of Cubism and Fauvism Before WWI o Futurism Founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and broke out before WWI Influences cubism photography x ray technology Book The Futurist Manifesto Severini Armored Train o Black figures can be seen holding guns and a green canon Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space Bronze organic shaped figure that is gold in color A representation of speed Duchamp Nudge Descending a Staircase Gold yellow brown in color Is meant to depict a figure moving forward A representation of time and space German Expressionism Practiced with color and concerned with evoking an emotional response Kirchner Street Dresden Image of a crowd walking a city street Ghostly figures of many different colors Kandinsky Improvisation Looks like a combination of random colors shapes and lines Purpose is to represent a mood Kandinsky believed colors signified emotions Book Concerning the Spiritual in Art Schiele Self Portrait with Twisted Arm A distorted image of the artist Very thin ribs are poking out American Art o Represented American subjects o The Ashcan School in NYC Emphasized regular elements of urban life Bellows Stag at Sharkey s Image of a wrestling match Referee and cheering audience can be seen in the background Photography Steichen Flatiron Building NYC o Foggy dark image of the Flatiron building Lecture 17 19 April 2 9 20th Century Part 2 Between World Wars History and Ideas o World War 1 a modern war The Great Depression Theories by Freud Theosophy a religion based on history and rational principals Art and Architecture o Theosophy Influence Aka the Science Religion Concepts of order Brancusi Bird in Space Mondrian Composition with Large Red Plane Yellow Black Gray and Blue o Brass sculpture shaped like a feather depiction of flight Gold in color Simple composition of primary colors shaped like squares and rectangles Russian Constructivism The art of pre communist Russia utopian and ideal with futuristic and cubist roots Popova Set Design for Le Cocu Magnifique Film Aelita Queen of Mars Looks like a collage Staircases can been seen on the left and right Small man on the left in blue 1922 in top left corner A silent film of cubist shapes and forms Russian Constructivism was eliminated by the Communist Revolution Political propaganda took over Strakhov Emancipated Women Build Socialism 8th March Day of the Liberation of Women o o Black and white image of a woman carrying a red flag Red writing on the bottom Dada Expresses art as an accident by change and irrationally Usually poor taste Duchamp L H O O Q Depicts the Mona Lisa with a mustache LHOOQ means she has a hot ass in French Hannah Hoch Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Epoch of Germany Grosz Fit For Active Service o Newspaper collage Dada can be seen multiple times A Photomontage Similar to a comic book illustration Depicts a skeleton being checked by a doctor Blends social criticism and satire Surrealism Expresses the unconscious mind A response to Freud s theories of psychoanalysis and his novel The Interpretation of Dreams Libido sex id human instincts ego manager of id and superego conscience Book The Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka Metaphysical Art Chagall I and the Village o De Chirico Nostalgia of the Infinite o Skinny image of building and shadows of two figures Very simple compared to Chagall Abstract Surrealism Klee Fish Magic o Colorful neon like image of fish and flowers Looks like a doodle o Psychic automatism uncontrolled expression of subconscious Miro The Harlequin s Carnival o Close up image of two figures a goat and human facing each other Very colorful Image of village can be seen in the background Very similar to Klee s Doodle like picture of imaginative creatures like little toys Visionary Surrealism Ernst La Toilette de la Mariee Dressing of the Bride o Strange image of two naked women with obscured faces being dressed by two animal like creatures o Bride is wearing a red robe with strange texture Magritte The False Mirror o o Image shows melted clocks Dali portrayed as a jellyfish like creature o Film Bunel and Dali Andalusian Dog Frida Kahlo The Broken Column Cartier Bresson Behind the Gare Saint Lazare o Oppenheim Object o A cup plate and spoon covered in animal hair Meant to to trigger unconscious emotions Organic Abstract Sculpture Moore Recumbent Figure Meant to represent a river goddess Plays with positive and negative space Holes negative space Calder Lobster Trap and Fish Tail o Captures a moment of a body about to run through water Black and white photo Surrealist Sculpture o Self portrait of Kahlo that depicts her back injuries A column represents her spine Pins and needles are poking through her body Surrealist Photography Image of an eye with clouds and sky scape as an iris Dali The Persistence of Memory o Decalcomania creates irregular texture and illusion A Mobile moves with the wind Looks like a fish tail