Responses to Cubism:

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• Responses to Cubism
• 1. Italian Futurism
• - Began in February 1909.
• - Founded by poet Marinetti in Milan.
• - Goal was to free Italy from the oppressive
  weight of the past.
• 2. Russian Suprematism
• - Kazimir Malevich was leader of the Russian
  avant-garde.
• - Founded in 1915.
• - Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10
  St. Petersburg. 1915-16

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Umberto Boccioni. States of Mind The Farewells.
1911. Oil on canvas. 70. x 96cm.
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Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in
Space. 1913. Bronze cast. 111.2 x 88.5 x 40.0cm.
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Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Painting (Eight Red
Rectangles). 1915. Oil on canvas. 57 x 48 cm
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• De Stijl
• - Dutch The style
• - Founded in Leiden in 1917
• - Style of austere (severe) abstract clarity
• 1. Piet Mondrian (1872 -1944)
• 2. Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964)

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Piet Mondrian. Composition with Yellow, Red, and
Blue. 1927. Oil on canvas. 38.3 x 35.5cm
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• Neo-plasticism
• - Belief by Mondrian that art should be
  denaturalized
• - Art should be purely abstract
• - No representational relationship to the
  natural world.

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Gerrit Rietveld. Schroeder House. 1923-24.
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Gerrit Rietveld. Schroeder House. Interior.
1923-24
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Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Building, Dessau,
Germany. View from northwest. 1925- 1926
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Dada

• circa 1915-1922.
• Dada is French for hobby horse
• Characterized by a spirit of anarchic revolt
  against traditional values.
• Arose from a mood of disillusionment brought on
  by World War I
• Influential in questioning traditional concepts
  and methods, setting the stage for future
  artistic experimentation.

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• Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

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Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917. Readymade. 61cm.
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• Readymade The name given by Marcel Duchamp to
  the work he invented that consisted of a
  mass-produced article displayed as a work of art.

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• Marchel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q.. From Boîte en
  Valise. 1919.

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Surrealism

• Flourished until the 1930s
• Characterized by a fascination with the bizarre,
  the incongruous, and the irrational.
• Took Dada as its principle source of inspiration
• Andre Breton, The Surrealist Manifesto, 1924.

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• Central idea
• Release the creative powers of the subconscious
  mind
• Automatism A method of producing paintings or
  drawings in which the artist suppresses conscious
  control over the movements of the hand, allowing
  the subconscious mind to take over.

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Max Ernst. The Horde. 1927. Oil on canvas. 114 x
146 cm.
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• Frottage rubbing
• Creating a design by placing a piece of paper
  over some rough substance and rubbing it with a
  pencil.
• The result Stimules to the imagination.

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• Grattage
• - Scraping layers of paint off a canvas while it
  lays on top of another surface.

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Joan Miró. Duth Interior I. 1928 Oil on canvas.
91.8 x 73cm.
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• Biomorphic
• Adjective used to describe forms that resemble or
  suggest shapes found in nature.

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René Magritte. Time Transfixed. 1938. Oil on
canvas. 1.46 x 0.98m.
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Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory. 1931.
Oil on canvas. 24 x 33cm.
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Meret Oppenheim. Object (Luncheon in Fur). 1936.
Fur covered-cup, fur covered saucer, fur covered
spoon.
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• Assemblage
• Works of art made from fragments of natural or
  performed materials, such as household debris.