The Modern World:

1800-1945
The Modern World:

19th century artists and writers, walking through the city streets would be equivalent to us channel surfing today 19th century also gave birth to leisure activities such as shopping, going to entertainments, or visiting art museums Art was now for everybody 1st national museum was the Louvre in Paris Introduction

Neoclassicism- greatest subject matter of all, history including Classical mythology and biblical scenes Jean-Auguste-Dominique-Ingres- student of Jacques-Louis David that made this style popular during this time Ex. Jupiter and Thetis- from Homer’s Iliad Neoclassicism

Not so much a style but a set of attitudes and characteristic subjects The style rebelled against leading thinkers and wanted to focus on emotion, intuition, individual experience, and above all imagination. Ex. Eugene Delacroix- The Women of Algiers and Liberty Leading the People Romanticism

Goya, Executions of the third of may

Art moved outdoors, the true outdoors Portable oil tubes enabled artists to bring their art outside Leisure activities of the middle class were their favorite subjects impressionism

The most faithful of all impressionists His great subject was landscape Ex. A Bridge Over a Pool of Water Lilies Claude monet

Began directly with the colors instead of building layers Straightforward painting technique devoted to capturing perception Ex. Le Moulin de la Galette Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Meaning simply the artist that came after Impressionism Artists include: Georges Seurat Vincent van Gogh Paul Gauguin Paul Cezanne Post-impressionism

Developed the technique of Pointillism- discrete dots and dashes of pure color were supposed to blend in the viewer’s eye Ex. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Seurat

Used high-keyed colors, agitated brushwork, and emotional intensity Ex. The Starry Night and Wheat Field and Cypress Trees Van Gogh

She focused on intimate domestic scenes of mothers and children-a world men rarely depicted in art Ex. The Boating Party Mary cassatt (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Did not last long (about 3 years) Crucial for the development of modern art Critics called these artists fauves or “wild beasts” FAUVISM

Used pure, unmixed pigments, applied straight from the tube at times Ex. View of Collioure Andre derain (1905)

Describes any style where the artist’s subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation Ex. Edvard Munch- The Scream expressionism

He discovered the power of nonrepresentational art when he didn’t recognize a painting in his own studio He realized that subject matter was only incidental to art’s impact He wrote that color influences the soul (color-keyboard, eyes-hammer, soul-piano with many strings) Ex. Black Lines Vasilikandinsky

The beauty of cubism was that like linear perspective, anybody could do it cubism

Born in Spain Loved women Came up with cubism “An artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other which please us in the world, though we can’t explain them.” Pablo picasso

Les demoiselles d’avignon

Seated woman

Guitar, sheet music, and glass

One of the most naturally gifted artists in history Worked with Picasso Their styles became virtually identical Georges braque

The castle at la roche-guyon

The emigrant

These artists believed that art would move forward only through exploring new subjects Fantasy and futurism

One of the most influential artist of this style “to become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere” Dreams are what come to mind in this example, nothing in nature at all Giorgio de chirico

The disquieting muses

Art style that rebelled against art itself Ready-made is a work of art that the artist has not made but designated Most notorious artist of this style was Marcel Duchamp Dada

Ordinary porcelain urinal set upright on its back After the exhibition the object was to be returned to life Wanted to prove a point Marcel duchamp

fountain

Appreciated logic of dreams, unconscious, bizarre, irrational, and marvelous Was a way of life Automatism- writing or drawing that flowed straight from the subconscious, unchecked by reason or inhibitions Surrealism

Super realistic- yet the forms could not possibly be real Perhaps in this painting Dali’s dream or fantasy was to triumph time Salvador dali

Served as a magnet for some of the greatest talents such as- artists, musicians, composers, actors, writers, poets, scientists, and educators. Lasted only a decade 3 experiences that made up this movement: Heritage of Africa Ugly legacy of slavery Modern urban life The Harlem Renaissance 1920’s

Studied West African sculpture and used flattened space Ex. Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction Aaron douglas

Dorothea Lange- Migrant Mother Rockwell Kent- Workers of the World, Unite! Other renaissance artists

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