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AVI 4M0. Mr. Griscti. Modernism. 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 20 th Century Art was influenced by… the beginning of the atomic age
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AVI 4M0 Mr. Griscti
Modernism • 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 (humanity’s inhumanity) • The Great Global Depression • the rise of the “Avant Garde”
The basic premise of the twentieth-century painting: art does not represent, but reconstructs reality.
Modernism Mr. Griscti sums up the early 1900s with these three types: THE EXPRESSIVE (colour) THE ABSTRACT (shape) THE WEIRD (form & fantasy)
Expressionism • Expressionism • The use of uncharacteristic colours chosen by the artist… • to release of the artist’s inner vision • to evoke feelings from the viewer Fauvism German Expressionism Der Blaue Reiter
Fauvism • Fauvism • very short-lived (1904-1908) • influenced from the work of Post-Impressionists likeGauguin & Cezanne • full of violent, ARBITRARY colour and bold distortion, brutal brushstrokes • Shocking to the critics and the public • “Fauves”- French for ‘Wild Beasts’ - Artists wore the label with pride • colour’s structural, expressive, and aesthetic capabilities MATISSE, DERAIN, VLAMINCK
Henri Matisse,The Joy of Life, 1905-06. FAUVISM Flat planes of colour, bold outlines come from Gauguin - also humanity in a state of nature - pagan scene like a bacchanal - A drunken or riotous celebration “genius of omission”- radical simplification The act of painting was joyous for him and his paintings show this
Henri Matisse The Red Studio, 1911. Believed that colour was the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence… colour was not meant to imitate nature, but to express inner emotions
The painting shows five dancing figures, painted in a strong red, set against a very simplified green landscape and deep blue sky. It reflects Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art, and uses a classic Fauvist colour palette: the intense warm colours against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.
Henri Matisse, Green Stripe, 1905. FAUVISM
Matisse painted this unusual portrait of his wife in 1905. The green stripe down the centre of Amélie Matisse's face acts as an artificial shadow line and divides the face in the conventional portraiture style, with a light and a dark side, Matisse divides the face chromatically, with a cool and warm side.
The left side of the face seems to echo the green in the picture's right, the corresponding is true for the right side of the face, where the pink responds to the orange on the left. The natural light is translated directly into colours and the highly visible brush strokes add to the sense of artistic drama.
Henri Matisse, La Musique, 1939. FAUVISM
Maurice de Vlaminck,The River Seine at Chatou, 1906. FAUVISM
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
German Expressionism “Die Brucke” (The Bridge) colour 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
Ernst Kirschner,Two Women in the Street,1914. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Ernst Kirschner,Street, Berlin,1913. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Ernst Kirschner, Brandenburg Gate, 1915. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin, Germany. It is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin.
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
Kathe Kollwitz,Woman With Dead Child, 1903 etching. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Kathe Kollwitz,Memorial for Karl Liebnecht, 1919.GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Kathe Kollwitz,The Grieving Parents, 1932. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Der Blaue Reiter(The Blue Rider) Another German Expressionist movement that produced feeling as visual FORM – not just colour Wassily 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 colour, form, line, and space- blueprints for an enlightened and liberated society, emphasizing spirituality
Russian painter, who was the first to abandon any reference to recognizable imagery. He experimented with two types of paintings, “Compositions” which he consciously arranged geometric shapes, and “Improvisations”, where he had no conscious control over the paint he applied spontaneously. With rainbow-bright colours and loose brushwork, he created completely non-objective paintings like, “Composition No. 2”.
Wassily Kandinsky,Contrasting Sounds, 1924. DER BLAUE REITER
Franz Marc,Foxes, 1913. DER BLAUE REITER
1913 Armory Show 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”…
1913 Armory Show It was good show, but don’t do it again… - critic
Marsden Hartley was an American living in Munich and was directly influenced by these European movements Marsden Hartley,Portrait of a German Officer 1914.
Gustav Klimt Gustav KlimtThe Kiss1907-08. VIENNA SUCCESSION(Austrian Art Nouveau)
Gustav Klimt Gustav KlimtAdele Bloch-Bauer I1907. VIENNA SUCCESSION(Austrian Art Nouveau)
Gustav Klimt Gustav KlimtJudith with Head of Holofernes,1901. VIENNA SUCCESSION(Austrian Art Nouveau)