Early 20th Century Art

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Early 20th Century Art

• Neue Sachlichkeit
• (New Objectivity)
• Surrealism

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Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) (began 1923)
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Artist George Grosz Title Fit for Active
Service Date 1916 1917 Medium Ink on
paper Size 20 x 14 3/8" Museum MOMA
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Artist Max Beckmann Title Night Date 1918
1919 Medium oil on canvas
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Artist Otto Dix Title Der Krieg (The War) Date
1929 1932 Medium oil and tempera on wood
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Matthias Grünewald Isenheim Altarpiece
/ Closed(Crucifixion) ca. 1510-15
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Artist Matthias Grünewald Title Isenheim
Altarpiece (first opening) Medium Oil on wood
panel Size center panels 9'9½" X 10'9" (2.97 X
3.28 m) overall each wing 8'2½" X 3½" (2.49 X
0.92 m) Date c. 151015 Source Chapel Hospital
of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany
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War Cripples Playing Cards
The Skull
Three Wenches
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Metropolis Triptych
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Other Post-War Art In Germany
Käthe Kollwitz Woman with Dead Child 1903
Wilhelm LehmbruckSeated Youth1917National
Gallery of Art
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Surrealism (1924 1930s)

• Andre Breton (poet) Manifesto on Surrealism
• Biomorphic Surrealism
• Naturalistic Surrealism

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• Marc Chagall
• 1911
• I and the Village
• oil on canvas

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Artist Giorgio de Chirico Title Melancholy and
Mystery Date 1914 Medium oil on canvas
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Artist Max Ernst Title Two Children Art
Threatened by a Nightingale Date 1924 Medium
oil on wood with wood construction Museum MOMA
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Salvador Dali (1904 1989)
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Artist Salvador Dali Title The Persistence of
Memory Date 1931 Medium oil on
canvas Museum MOMA
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YouTube - Destino Trailer "Eyeballs"
(Disney/Dali) YouTube - Destino Trailer "Turtles"
(Disney/Dali)
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Alfred Hitchcocks Spellbound (1945)YouTube -
Dreams designed by Dalí in Spellbound (1945)
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around
a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, 1944
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used
As a Table, 1934
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• YouTube - Salvador Dali (The wierdest stuff I
  have ever seen)
• YouTube - Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?
• YouTube - Salvador Dali Gala Born From An Egg

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Artist Rene Magritte Title the Treachery (or
Perfidy) or Images Date 1928 1929 Medium oil
on canvas Museum LACMA
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Title The Human Condition Date 1933
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Title Decalcomania Date 1966
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Artist Meret Oppenheim Title Object (Le
Déjeuner en Fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur) Size
Fur-covered cup, diameter 4 ?" (10.9 cm)
fur-covered saucer, diameter 9 ?" (23.7 cm)
fur-covered spoon, length 8" (20.2 cm) overall
height, 2 ?" (7.3 cm) Date 1936 Museum The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Artist Frida Kahlo Title The Two Fridas
Medium Oil on canvas Size 5'8½" X 5'8½" (1.74
X 1.74 m) Date 1939
I paint self-portraits because I am so often
alone, because I am the person I know best.
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my
own reality.
YouTube - Frida trailer
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Artist Joan Miró Title Shooting Star Medium
Oil on canvas Size 25 ? X 21 ?" (65.2 X 54.4
cm) Date 1938 Museum National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
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• What really counts is to strip the soul naked.
  Painting or poetry is made as one makes love a
  total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds,
  nothing held back.
• Joan Miro

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Dog Barking at the Moon
Ballerina II
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Artist Paul Klee Title Twittering
Machine Medium watercolor, pen ink, on oil
transfer drawing on paper, mounted on
cardboard Date 1922
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• Identify. Compare and contrast this piece to
  another from an earlier time period .