III. The Emergence of Movements

1900-1909

Seminar in Art History: Twentieth Century Art

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Prarie School, Chicago, 1908-09

Frank Lloyd Wright, Mission Style Furniture, Arts & Crafts Movement

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House Stained Glass Window

Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, Oak Park, 1904

The Fauves

• Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse

• London and Paris• 1904-1907• Characterized by vibrant and shocking use

of color• Opposed to the Impressionists’ attempt to

capture an instant and naturally represent the natural world.

Andre Derain, The Pool of London, 1906

Maurice de Vlaminck, Tugboat in the Seine, Chatou, France, 1906

Claude Monet, Effects of Fog on the Houses of Parliament, London, Symbolism, 1904

Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse,

France, 1905

Henri Matisse, Joie de Vivre, France, 1905-6

Henri Matisse, The Red Room, France, 1907

Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist,

Spain, 1902

Paul Cezanne, Mt. Ste.-Victoire, France, 1904

Cubism• Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque• France, Spain• Begins in 1908• Rejects traditional treatment of form• Attempts to replace conceptual reality with

perceptual reality• Influences from Cezanne and African and

Primitive sculpture• Creates a new pictorial language by reshaping

pre-existing elements of an object• Presents a multiple points of view in a single

image• Rejects the sentimentality of earlier periods and

movements

George Braque,

Houses at L’Estaque,

France, 1908

George Braque,

Violin and Candlestick, France, 1910

Pablo Picasso,

Demoiselles d’Avignon,

Spain, 1907

Picasso, Head of a Woman,

1907

Picasso, Head of a Woman,

1909

Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques,1905

Georges Braque, Violin and Pipe, 1913-14, Chalk, charcoal and pasted paper

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, Cubism, Spain, 1911-12

Found object

Juan Gris, Fantomas, Spain, 1915

Die Brücke

• Ernst KJirchner, Emil Nolde• Germany• 1905• Subset of German Expressionism• Strong emotional content expressed

through bold color and dramatic gestures

Ernst Kirchner,

Girl Under a Japanese

Sundshade, Germany,

1909

Ernst Kirchner, Dresden Street, Germany, 1908

Emil Nolde, The Last Supper, Germany, 1909