Modernist Assault on Tradition

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Modernist Assault on Tradition
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Medicine
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Travel
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Work load
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Communication
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19th century London
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Inventions
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Inventions
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Inventions
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Inventions
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Self destruction
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End of 19th Century

• Relatively peaceful
• Contrast between rich and poor
• Contrast between democracy and totalitarianism
• Fight for supremacy

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Great War
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New Physics

• 200 years based on Newtons Principia
• First law of motion
• Second law of motion
• Third law of motion
• Two distinct realms
• Atomic particles
• Space

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Atomic Particles Space
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Max Planck

• 1858-1947
• Early work thermodynamics radiation processes
• 1900 quanta
• Bio

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Albert Einstein

• 1879-1955
• Biography
• 1916 Theory of relativity

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Werner Heisenberg

• 1901-1976
• Position Momentum Uncertainty relation (1927)

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Applications of New Physics

• Practical
• Technology
• Atomics
• Theoretical
• Uncertainty
• Inaccessible

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20th Century Poetry

• Change from 19th Century
• Style in 20th Century
• Conceptual language
• Abstraction
• No fixed meter
• Use of imagery

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Ezra Pound

• 1885-1972
• American Ex-patriot
• Huge contributor to American poetry
• Imagist Manifesto (1913)
• Free verse rhythm
• Make it new

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Robert Frost

• 1874-1963
• Popular beloved poet
• Lyric Poetry
• Style
• Metered verse
• Plain speech

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20th Century Art
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19th Century Art
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Impressionist Art
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Modern Life Art

• Industrialism
• New technology in art
• Avant garde
• Stripped down style
• Unconventional techniques

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Pablo Picasso

• 1881-1973
• Major artist of 20th century
• Biography
• Art described as overlapping periods

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Blue Period

• 1901-04
• World of the poor
• Melancholy

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Rose Period

• 1905-6
• Lighter palette lyricism
• Subject matter drawn from circus life

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Les Demoiselles dAvignon
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Cezanne
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African Masks
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Picasso, Les Demoiselle dAvignon, 1907, Modern
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Western Art
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Cubism

• Geometric abstract forms most important
• 1907-1914
• Influential Picasso Braque
• To 1912 Analytical Cubism

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Synthetic Cubism

• Second phase
• Decorative shapes, stenciling, collage brighter
  colors
• Collage
• Starts with Braque

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Braques, Still Life on a Table, 1914, Synthetic
Cubism
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Picassos Guitar
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Futurism

• Make it new!
• Technology art combined
• Founded in 1909 in Italy

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

• Futurist manifesto
• Violence conflict
• Very aggressive meant to inspire anger
  controversy

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

• Umberto Boccioni
• Speed force

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Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912,
Futurism
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Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase 2, 1912,
Modernism
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Fauvism

• Color has primacy
• 1905
• Matisse forerunner of movement

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Madame Mattisse (the Green Line), 1905
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Abstraction in Sculpture
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Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1928, Abstract
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20th Century Architecture

• 2 new materials
• Ferroconcrete
• Cantilever

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• 1869-1959
• Unprecedented style
• Combined steel glass with aesthetics of Asian
  architecture

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Prairie Style
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Wright, Fallingwater, 1936-1939, Modern
More images
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Bauhaus International Style

• Walter Gropius 1918
• Form follows function
• Classical forms with no extraneous ornaments

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Music

• 19th century example
• Radical changes in 20th Century
• New Techniques
• Polytonal
• Atonal
• Polyrhythmic

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Arnold Schoenberg

• 1874-1951
• Short statements of single extreme musical state
• Opus 22

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Igor Stravinsky

• 1882-1971
• Biography
• Ballet composer
• The Rite of Spring, 1913

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Modern Dance
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Vaslav Nijinsky

• 1888-1950
• Choreographer dancer
• Sergei Diaghilevs protégé
• Controversial ballets

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Martha Graham

• 1894-1991
• Very influential
• Created one of oldest dance troops in America
• Biography