Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism

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Cubism, Futurism,Dada, Surrealism
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Cubism

• Faceted shapes
• Objects viewed from more than one vantage point
  simultaneously
• A superimposed matrix to hang shapes on
• Flattening of the picture plane

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Georges Braques, Houses at l'Estaque
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Juan Gris, Still Life with Glass
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Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie
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Juan Gris, Bottle of Banylus
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Futurism

• Italian movement
• Influenced by Cubists
• Speed, industrialization, dynamism
• Modernity
• War to cleanse the inequities of class
  socio-economic structure
• Artists Balla, Boccioni, Severini, Carra

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Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
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Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind
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Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a
Village.1915.
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Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,
bronze. 1913
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dada

• Break with all art traditions
• Against governments and societies that
  perpetrated WWI
• 2 distinct groups- Zurich, Hanover
  non-objective, spontaneous, chance Arp,
  Schwitters,
• Berlin group, political satire against rising
  Nazi party, Hoch, Heartsfield,
• Images combined from differently proportioned
  sources - Photomontage
• Ernst , Duchamp- ready-mades

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Kurt Schwitters, Blue Bird
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Hannah Hoch
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Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife in the
Beer Belly of the Weimar Republic
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John Heartfield, Have No Fear, Hes a Vegetarian
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Schwitters, Merzbild, construction
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Surrealism

• Imagery from the subconscious, dreams
• Combinations of illogical parts or machinery and
  live beings
• Suggested conflict, alienation, sexual undertones
• Meant to shock
• Presented a super reality challenging what is
  really true?
• Artists Dali, Magritte, Miro, Ernst

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Joan Miro, Dutch Interior
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Salvador Dali, Soft construction with Boiled Beans
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Magritte, The Art of Living
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Joan Miro, The Tilled Field
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Dali, The Disintegration of the Persistence of
Memory
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Which of the 4 art moments influenced these
artists?Give reasons for your answers.
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Max Ernst
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David Hockney
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Dorothea Tanning
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Charles Sheeler
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Stuart Davis, The Breakfast Table