SURREALISMInspired by Dadaists, especially their improvisational techniques, automatic writing - Dreams (sparked by the work of

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung)- Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto

The Subconscious , fantasy- Brings outer and inner “reality” together

– much like dreams

- Naturalistic Surrealism draws from life, using recognizable objects in a metaphorical way

- Biomorphic Surrealism is mostly abstract, but suggest organisms or natural forms

Giorgio De Chirico

The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

1914oil on canvas34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.

Max Ernst

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

1924Oil on wood with wood construction2’3” x 1’10” x 4”

Hitler and “Degenerate Art”

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

1931oil on canvas9 1/2 x 13 in.

“…to materialize the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision…in order that the world of imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident…as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality”

Salvador Dali

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

1937oil on canvas51.2 x 78.5 cm

Salvador Dali and Louis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou

1929motion picture

René Magritte

The Treachery of Images

1928-29oil on canvas23 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

René Magritte

The Rape

1934oil on canvas77.5 x 58.7 cm

Meret Oppenheim

Object

1936fur-Covered cup, saucer and spoon2 7/8 in. high

Joan Miro

Painting

1933oil on canvas5’8” x 6’5” Automatism – the creation of art without conscious control

Paul Klee

Twittering Machine

1922Watercolor and pen and ink, on oil transfer drawing on paper, mounted on cardboard2’1” x 1’7”

Kazimir Malevich

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying

1915oil on canvas1’10” x 1’7”

SUPREMATISM

PURE FEELING!

Naum Gabo

Column

1923Perspex, wood, metal, glass3’5” x 2’5” x 2’5”

CONSTRUCTIVISM

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

1930oil on canvas20 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.

DE STIJL – The Style

Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie Woogie

1943oil on canvas50 x 50 in.

Constantin Brancusi

Bird in Space

1924Bronze4’2”

Henry Moore

Reclining Figure

1939Elm wood3’1” x 6’7” x 2’6”

American Art 1930-1945• Exposure to modern art through Armory show and influx of foreign artists • Artists relocated to America after the havoc WWII was wreaking on Europe (Dali, Grosz,

Ernst)• Hitler and degenerate art

• Museums hosted foreign artist exhibitions• MoMa and it’s role in American Modern Art

• Many artists returned to Europe after the war, but left a strong impression on American art

Alexander Calder

Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

1939Painted sheet aluminum and wire8’6” x 9’6”

The Effects of the Great Depression

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

1935Gelatin silver print1’1” x 9”

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

1942oil on canvas2’6” x 4’8”

How are these paintings related?

Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930oil on canvas2’5” x 2’

REGIONALISM“Quaint, humorous and AMERICAN”

Benton, Pioneer Days and Early Settlers, 1936

Diego Rivera

Ancient Mexico, from History of Mexico

1929-1935

Fresco

MEXICAN ART

Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas

1939

Oil on canvas

5’7” x 5’7”