modern art of the 20 th century modernism – “radical experimentation to challenge traditional...
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Modern Art of the 20th Century
Modernism – “radical experimentation to challenge traditional forms”
Lesson 6
Abstract Art (1907 - onwards)• a generic term• a blend of Realism and Symbolism • Something has been withdrawn to
consider it separately• Plays with visual elements: line, shape,
tone, pattern, texture, or form
GEORGES BRAQUE Violin and Pitcher, 1910 (oil on canvas)
Art Nouveau
August Klimt
The Kiss, 1908
• “New Art”• decorative • 1890 until World
War I• intricate linear
designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
Expressionism (1905-1925)• German off shoot from Fauvism• Charged with emotional vision of the world
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER The Red Tower at Halle, 1915 (oil on canvas)
Marc Chagallpioneer of modernism and a major Jewish artist. synthesized cubism and fauvism
The Birthday, Marc Chagall, 1915
Cubism (1907-1915)• Pablo Picasso and George Braque• Paris• Ignores traditions of perspective• Show many views of subject at one time• Often drew inspiration from art from other
cultures, like Africa• Breaks subject into geometric
shapes, then overlaps
Pablo PicassoAmbroise Vollard, 1915 (oil on canvas)
Les Demoiselle d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso, 1907
Guernica – Pablo Picasso, 1937
Goal: show horrors of German carpet bombing
- Evoke sympathy for Republican cause
Dadaism (1916-1922)
• not a style of art • was a form of artistic anarchy • born out of disgust for the
establishment responsible WWI• intent on destroying the artistic values of the past • intentionally confrontational and provocative to the
artistic establishment with the irrationality of their collages
• Purposefully provoked conservative complacency with outrageous actions at their exhibitions and meetings.
Surrealism (1924-1939)
• The positive response to Dada’s negativity• Goal: liberate artists imagination • Tap into “superior reality”• Drew on images of dreams• Often combined disassociated images• Purposefully lacked conscious mind control
RENÉ MAGRITTE Time Transfixed, 1938 (oil on canvas)
Salvador Dali
Persistence of MemorySalvador Dali, 1931
Modernism Architecture
Functionalism
• Buildings should have a purpose• Do not decorate with fancy ornamentation
“a house is a machine for living in”• Characterized by clean, straight lines• Symmetrical
Bauhaus
• A school to teach all new styles of functionalism
