EXPRESSIONISM

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EXPRESSIONISM CUBISM FUTURISM
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Fauvism Wild Beasts (1905-1909)

• Form of expressionism in Paris that comprised
  numerous loosely
• related styles.
• Wanted to explore new elements of art not
  embraced by the
• Impressionists or Post-Impressionists.
• Artists shared a sense of liberation and
  experiment were interested
• in the sensation aroused by the objects rather
  than the object itself.
• Their technique disturbs and dislocates the form
  of the object, so that
• it becomes a vehicle for sensory impression.
• Most significant members included Henri Matisse,
  Maurice Vlaminck,
• Andre Derain, Georges Rouault

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Henri Matisse Luxe, Calme, et Volupte 1904-05
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Henri Matisse The Joy of Life, 1905-06
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Maurice de Vlaminck. Landscape near Chatou. 1906
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Andre Derain The Turning Road, LEstaque, 1906
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Die Brucke The Bridge (1905-1913)

• Form of expressionism
• Counterpart to Fauvism-was beginning of modern
  art in Germany
• The name symbolized their bridge of common
  interests and their link
• to the future, from a passage in Nietzches Thus
  Spake Zarathustra.
• Most of the artists were untrained in art, but
  the harsh colors and
• distorted shapes in their work successfully
  expressed their strong
• feelings and vivid imaginations.
• The principal members were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
  Erich Heckel,
• Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Three Nudes 1913
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Berlin Street Scene 1913
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Emil Nolde The Last Supper, 1909
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Der Blau Reiter ("The Blue Rider") 1911-1916

• These artists were considered to be the pioneers
  of abstract art
• Their art was characterized by exuberant color
  and profoundly felt
• emotionalism.
• The painters, writers, poets, and composers who
  joined The Blue
• Rider dedicated themselves to the search for a
  common spiritual basis
• in a new international culture.
• Famous artists--Vasily Kadinsky Franz Marc

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Vasily Kadinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Warlike
Theme) 1913
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Franz Marc The Large Blue Horses, 1911
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Franz Marc Animal Destinies, 1913
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CUBISM (1907-1925)

• Created by painters Pablo Picasso and Georges
  Braque
• in Paris between 1907 and 1914.
• Emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of
  the picture plane,
• rejecting the traditional techniques of
  perspective, foreshortening,
• modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting
  time-honoured theories of art
• as the imitation of nature...

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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles dAvignon 1907
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Pablo Picasso Ma Jolie 1911-1912
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Pablo Picasso Women With Pears 1909
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Georges Braque House At LEstaque 1908
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending A Staircase 1912
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FUTURISM (1909-1915)

• Movement centered in Italy.
• Emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power
  of the machine
• and the vitality, change, and restlessness of
  modern life in general.
• Famous Artists Umberto Boccioni, Giocomo Balla,
  Gino Severini

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Umberto Boccioni States of Mind The Farewells,
1911
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Umberto Boccioni The City Rises, 1910-11
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Gicomo Balla Speed of Motorcycle 1913
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Gino Severini Armoured Train In Action 1915
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Gino Severini The Boulevard, 1910
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