Modern Art

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Modern Art

• From 1900 to World War II

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Manet Realism
Impressionism
Post Impressionism
(Colorists)
(Formalists)
Van Gogh Matisse
Cezanne
Cubism
Fauvism
Futurism
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract geometric painting
Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism
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Cubism
Cubism is no different from any other school of
painting. The same principles and the same
elements are common to all. The fact that for a
long time Cubism has not been understoodmeans
nothing. I do not read English, but this does
not mean that the English language does not
exist. Pablo Picasso -- quote
d by Guillaume Apollinaire in The Beginnings of
Cubism, 1912.
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Cubism definition
The art of painting original arrangements
composed of elements taken from conceived rather
than perceived reality. -- Guillaume Apo
llinaire, The Beginnings of Cubism, 1912.
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Cubism

• Breaking up of nature into geometric figures and
  planes
  
• leading artists Pablo Picasso Georges Braque

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Les Demoiselles dAvignon 1907 by Pablo Pica
sso
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Violin Palette 1909-10 by Georges Braque
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Bottle of Suze 1912-13 by Pablo Picasso
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Guitar by Juan Gris
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso, 1937 o/c
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Girl before Mirror by Pablo Picasso
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Futurism

• Outgrowth of Cubism
• Sought to capture motion the beauty of speed
• Revolutionary
• Championed by poet Filippo Marinetti in The
  Futurist Manifesto
  

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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
by Giacomo Balla
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913
by Umberto Boccioni
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Expressionism

• Grew out of German movement, Die Brucke (The
  Bridge)
  
• The Bridge founded in 1905 to bridge to the
  art of the future
  
• Emphasis on expressing inner feelings
• Wassily Kandinsky credited with painting 1st
  abstract painting, 1910

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Suprematism

• Founded by Kasimir Malevich, c. 1913
• Geometric abstract art
• extreme reduction
• non-objective
• supremacy of pure feeling

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Suprematism
Black Circle 1913 by Kasimir Malevich
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Suprematism
Suprematist Painting Aeroplane Flying 1915 by

Kasimir Malevich
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Kasimir Malevich
Self-Portrait 1933 by Kasimir Malevich
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toward abstraction...
by Piet Mondrian
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by Piet Mondrian
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by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
1921
by Piet Mondrian
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Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
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Composition I by Piet Mondrian
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Dada

• Western Europe artistic, literary movement from
  1916-1923
  
• Protest against horrors of war
• An anti-art movement
• Dada means hobby horse

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Surrealism

• 20th century literary, artistic movement
• Expresses subconscious with fantastic imagery
  strange juxtapositions
  
• Drew heavily on Freudian theory

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Surrealism
According to the major spokesman of the
movement, the poet and critic Andre Breton, who
published The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924,
Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and
unconscious realms of experience so completely
tat the world of dream and fantasy would be
joined to the everyday rational world in an
absolute reality, a surreality.
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