MODERNISM

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• MODERNISM
• Modernism allowed artists to assert their freedom
  to create in a new style and provide them with a
  mission to define the meaning of their times..
• Early 20th Century Art was influenced by
• the beginning of the atomic age
• existentialism (Nietzsche)- God is Dead
• the invention of psychoanalysis
• Freud-inner drives control human behavior
• Jung-collective unconscious
• The Russian Revolution
• The Great War (humanitys inhumanity)
• The Great Global Depression
• the rise of the Avant Garde

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Mrs. Germano sums up the early 1900s with the
three types THE EXPRESSIVE (color) THE
ABSTRACT (shape) THE WEIRD (form fantasy)
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• Expressionism
• The use of uncharacteristic colors chosen by the
  artist
• to release of the artists inner vision
• to evoke feelings from the viewer

Fauvism German Expressionism Der Blaue Reiter
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• Fauvism
• very short-lived (1904-1908)
• influenced from the work of Post-Impressionists
  like Gauguin Cezanne
• full of violent, ARBITRARY color and bold
  distortion, brutal brushstrokes
• Shocking to the critics and the public
• Fauves- French for Wild Beasts
• Artists wore the label with pride
• Colors structural, expressive, and aesthetic
  capabilities

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Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-06. FAUVISM
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Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-06
Flat planes of color, bold outlines come from
Gauguin - also humanity in a state of nature -
pagan scene like a bacchanal genius of
omission- radical simplification The act of
painting was joyous for him and his paintings
show this
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Henri Matisse The Red Studio, 1911.
Believed that color was the formal element most
responsible for pictorial coherence Color was
not meant to imitate nature, but to express inner
emotions
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Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1909. FAUVISM
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Henri Matisse, Green Stripe, 1905. FAUVISM
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Henri Matisse, La Musique, 1939. FAUVISM
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Georges Rouault Fauvism with political
connotations Reminiscent of stained glass
because Rouault was an apprentice of the trade
A figure of merciless authority clutching flowers
Georges RouaultThe Old King, 1916-37. FAUVISM
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• German Expressionism
• Die Brucke (The Bridge)
• Color is important, but equal to that of
  distortion of images and violent brushstrokes
• Movement centered in Dresden, Germany and led by
  Ernst Kirschner
• Thought of themselves as bridging the old age of
  art with the new
• Influenced by medieval craft guilds- lived and
  worked together equally
• Focused on the detrimental effects of
  industrialization

Ernst Kirschner,Self Portrait as a Soldier,
1915.GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
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Ernst Kirschner,Two Women in the
Street,1914. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
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Kathe Kollwitz Worked almost exclusively in
printmaking and drawing Themes of inhumanity and
injustice The plight of workers and war
victims Son died during first week of WWI
Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors, 1923.GERMAN
EXPRESSIONISM
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Kathe Kollwitz, The Grieving Parents, 1932.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
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Kathe Kollwitz, Woman With Dead Child, 1903
etching. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
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• The Outbreak, Kathe Kollwitz, 1903, etching

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Der Blaue Reiter(The Blue Rider) Another German
Expressionist movement that produced feeling as
visual FORM not just color
Vassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.
Complete abstraction- non-objective work -
elimination of representation Knew about music,
literature, science (the atomic theory) -
material objects have no structure or
purpose Orchestration of color, form, line, and
space- blueprints for an enlightened and
liberated society, emphasizing spirituality
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Vassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913. DER
BLAUE REITER
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Vassily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913. DER
BLAUE REITER
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Vassily Kandinsky, Contrasting Sounds,
1924. DER BLAUE REITER
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Kandinsky. Concentric Circles.
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Franz Marc, Dog Lying In the Snow, 1910-11. DER
BLAUE REITER
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Franz Marc, Yellow Cow, 1911. DER BLAUE REITER
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Franz Marc,Foxes, 1913. DER BLAUE REITER
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Franz Marc, The Lamb, 1913-14. DER BLAUE REITER
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Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914. DER BLAUE REITER
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1913Armory ShowNew York City First American
show to exhibit works by Impressionist,
Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Fauvist and Early
20th Century Europeans Over 1250 works by 300
artists Started in New York, then traveled to
Chicago and Boston The NY Times called it
pathological
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It was a good show, but dont do it again -
critic
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Marsden Hartley was an American living in Munich
and was directly influenced by these European
movements
Marsden Hartley,Portrait of a German
Officer 1914.
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Gustav KlimtThe Kiss1907-08. VIENNA
SUCCESSION(Austrian Art Nouveau)
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Gustav Klimt Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907. VIENNA
SUCCESSION(Austrian Art Nouveau)
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Gustav KlimtJudith with Head of
Holofernes,1901. VIENNA SUCCESSION(Austrian Art
Nouveau)