3 minute writing

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3 minute writing

• Respond to this quote by George Braque
• Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
• There is only one valuable thing in art
• the thing you cannot explain.

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Georges Braque Femme à la guitare
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Art of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
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Realism - Jean Francois Millet

• French realist, painted pictures of everyday life
• Aspired to visual accuracy (like neoclassicists),
  but did not paint heroic, dramatic scenes
• Painted peasants and other common folk performing
  everyday tasks

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Jean Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857
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Impressionism - Claude Monet

• Impressionism
• began in France
• Artists painted in nature (outside)
• Revolution in color didnt mix paint on palette,
  but rather on canvas
• Desire to record immediate impressions capture a
  fleeting moment
• Claude Monet
• Most famous of the Impressionists

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Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872-1873
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Impressionism Auguste Renoir

• Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of
  sparkling color and light
• Painting light and water

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Auguste Renoir, The Swing, 1876
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Pointillism Georges Seurat

• Small distinct points of primary colors (ooo)
  create the impression of secondary colors (ooo)
• Relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and
  mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a
  fuller range of tones

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Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86
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Post-Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh

• Thickly applied brush strokes add light and
  shadow to canvases
• Often characterized by swirls and spirals

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Vincent Van Gogh - Still life Vase with Twelve
Sunflowers, Café Terrace at Night, The Artists
Room in Arles, The Starry Night
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Post-Impressionism Paul Cézanne

• The bridge between late 19th century
  Impressionism and the early 20th century's new
  line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.
• Experimentation with form and space.
• Overlapping brush strokes, creating depth volume,
  and texture

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Paul Cézanne, House on a hill (1904)
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Primitivism - Paul Gauguin

• Renounced impressionism, moved to Tahiti, in the
  South Pacific
• Primitivism
• Celebration of the unconscious, often with the
  implication that non-western cultures are more in
  touch with the unconscious.
• Depictions of overt sexuality - The assumption is
  that non-Western cultures have a greater
  appreciation of sexuality or sensuality than
  European and European settler societies.

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Paul Gauguin, Where Are You Going?, 1893
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Paul Gauguin,Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going?1897-1898
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Expressionism

• A style in which the artist distorts reality for
  an emotional effect
• Works often express emotional angst
• Bold colors, distorted forms, painted in a
  careless manner, two-dimensional, without
  perspective, and based on feelings rather than
  rational thought.

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Expressionism Edvard Munch, The Scream1893
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Cubism - Pablo Picasso

• 20th century avant-garde art movement
• A painting of a normal scene but painted so that
  it is viewed from multiple views while the
  positions of some of the parts are rotated or
  moved so that it is odd looking and scrambled
• Objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled
  in an abstracted form

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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles dAvignon, 1907
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Modernism

• How are the new styles in art realism,
  impressionism, post-impressionism, primitivism,
  expressionism, cubism all examples of
  modernism? What do they all have in common?
• How do the changing ideas in the world of science
  and the development of new technologies influence
  these new styles of art?

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Modernist Literature

• Like Modernist art, Modernist literature revolved
  around the idea of individualism, mistrust of
  institutions (government, religion), and the
  disbelief of any absolute truths. The writing is
  often marked by the absence of a central,
  unifying figure.
• Examples include James Joyces novel Ulysses,
  T.S. Eliots poem The Waste Land, and Virginia
  Woolfs novel Mrs. Dalloway

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Explain how the art movement known as Modernism
was influenced by new ideas in science (be
specific you may refer to the impressionism,
pointillism, post-expressionism, primativism,
expressionism, and cubism to make your point
works by Monet, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch,
and Picasso are presented below)