Modern Art Rejecting the past

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Modern ArtRejecting the past

• Expressionism
• Fauvism
• Cubism
• Dada
• Surrealism
• Abstract Art
• Pop Art
• Minimalism

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Early Expressionism

• Style that portrayed emotions through distorting
  form and color
• Edvard Munch
• Mental illness, depression
• Said he would never want to cast of his illness
• Aimed to induce strong reactions in his viewers

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MunchVampire
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The Scream
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Puberty
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Fauvism

• 1904-1908
• Explosion of color, exaggerated and vibrant
• Disregard for true/actual color
• as if gremlins seized the color knob on the tv
• Influenced by non-European tribal art of the
  colonies
• Leader Matisse

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MatisseBlue Nude
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Derain Purple Bridge
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Cubism

• Break down of objects into a multitude of
  geometric shapes
• Stuck between representation and abstract
• Life through a flys eye

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BraqueFishing Boats
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Juan GrisPortrait of Picasso
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PicassoItalian Girl
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso1881-1973

• His mother said, If you become a soldier, youll
  be a general. If you become a monk, youll end
  up as the Pope. He said, I became a painter
  and wound up as Picasso.
• Painted around 50,000 pieces
• Notorious for relationships with women
• Children from many women

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Pablo Picasso

• Early Works
• Blue Phase
• Rose Phase
• Analytical Cubism
• Synthetic Cubism
• Late Works

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Analytical Cubism
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Blue Period
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Synthetic Cubism
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Early Works
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Late Works
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Analytical Cubism
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Rose Period
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Late Works
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Blue Period
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Synthetic Cubism
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Expressionism1905-1930

• Art should express the artists feelings rather
  than images of the real world
• Distorted, exaggerated forms and color
• Began with van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch
• Dark colors and woodcuts relay sadness of war

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Kathe KollwitzPoverty
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NoldeWildly Dancing Children
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What is art?

• Come up with a definition for art.
• What isnt art?

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Abstract Art

• Began with Kandinsky in 1919
• Post WWII to 80s
• Abandon any reference to recognizable reality
• No subject
• Color can convey emotion even without content
• Founder Kandinsky

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KandinskyImprovisation 31
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Black Spot I
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MondrianComposition A Composition with Black,
Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue
Used only primary colors and non-colors
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Dada Art

• 1916-1923
• Got its name from nonsense
• French for hobby horse
• Protested the madness of war
• Founded by WWI refugees
• Strategy was to denounce and shock

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Duchamp Fountain
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DuchampMona Lisa with moustache
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Surrealism

• 1920s and 1930s
• Implies going beyond realism
• Painted the bizarre and irrational to express
  truths
• Defy common sense
• Looks like a dream-world

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Joan Miro1893-1983

• Invented unique biomorphic images
• Geometric shapes and amoeba-like blobs
• Colorful, playful
• Cartoon from another planet

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The Policeman

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Dutch Interior I
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ChagallI and the Village
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Salvador Dali1904-1989

• Exploited his own personality quirks
• Fears bugs, crossing streets, trains, boats,
  airplanes, Metro, buying shoes in public
• Actual objects but distorted
• Had the canvas next to his bed and woke to paint
  dreamscapes
• Disliked by some because of his fascination with
  Hitler
• Pulled publicity stunts
• Gave speech with foot in pail of milk
• Press conference with lobster on his head
• Wore a diving suit and lectured but no one could
  hear him and he started to asphyxiate himself

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The Persistence of Memory
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Crucifixion
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Portrait of Paul Eluard
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Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition
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Cannibalism in Autumn
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Rene Magritte1898-1967Le siècle des
lumièresThe Century of Lights
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Matisse Threatening Weather
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Abstract Expressionism

• Also called action painting
• 40s-50s
• Came out of the jazz eras lack of form
• No longer was art required to be a visual
  representation of some object
• Jackson PollockJack the Dripper (1912-1956)
• Paint Hard, Live Hard
• Died drunk in a car crash-age 44

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Jackson PollockEyes in the Heat
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Lavender Mist
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Minimalists

• Color Field
• Huge canvases of color
• Representations of feelings and ideas
• Hard Edge
• Calculated, simple forms
• Colors in harmony

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Color FieldRothko1968
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RothkoWhite Center
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Hard EdgeKelly ElsworthBlue, Green, Yellow,
Orange, Red
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Frank StellaHarran II
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Pop Art

• 1950 s and 1960s
• Derived from the word popular
• Used everyday items as inspiration for art
• Soup cans and comic strips
• Mass produced
• Pope of Pop Andy Warhol
• 6 hour movie called Sleep

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Andy Warhol
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Roy LichtensteinGo for Baroque
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You, the ArtistUse objects in your backpack,
purse, or pockets to create something that
someone would consider Pop or Minimal Art.