Art of the early 20th century

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait as a Soldier in a Red Shirt,

1914

Changes in 19th century art

Berthe MorisotIn the Garden at Maurecourt

1884

Gustave CourbetThe Desperate Man

1844-45

Camouflage

A.Y. Jackson, House of Ypres, 1917

Mary Riter Hamilton, Passchendaele Ridge, 1920

Frederick Varley, For What?, 1918

“The Wild Beasts”, 1905 Salon d’Automne

Donatello au milieu des fauves!" ("Donatello among the wild beasts")

-Louis Vauxcelles, art critic

Henri Rousseau,

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope,1905

Fauvism

Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905

Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905

Andre Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1906

Andre Derain, Portrait of a Man

with a Newspaper, 1911-14

Cubism

Georges Braque, Woman with a Guitar, 1913

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , 1907

Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso, 1912

Dadaism

Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly

Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919

Photograph of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”, 1917

Marchel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

Max Ernst, “Ubu Imperator”, 1923

Surrealism

Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”, 1931

Yves Tanguy, “Mama, Papa is Wounded”, 1927

Alberto Giacometti,

“Woman with her Throat Cut”,

1932

Joan Miro, “The Tilled Field”, 1923-24

Rene Magritte, “The Human

Condition”, 1935

Socials 11 - Art HistoryAssignment

Submitted by: Mrs. Lacroix, block 3/4

Ilya Yefimovich RepinTsar Ivan the Terrible with his son Ivan, 1885

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Ilya Yefimovich RepinBorn in 1844 in the Chuguev district of Russia, Repin became

the nation’s leading artist within the Peredvizhniki movement.

Trained in the St. Petersburg Academy, Repin would stun the Russian art world with his Barge Haulers. This move away from traditional art created a furor within the artistic community, however, as artists attempted to create a unique Russian art, they were compelled to tell the true story of Russia: those of the poor and downtrodden.

Repin’s art would echo the discontent within Russian society as the nation seemed to be on the brink of a socialist revolution.

Eventually, the communist government of the U.S.S.R. would adopt Repin’s art as the country’s true national art, as Peredvizhniki art often portrayed the inequities of life in Russia and the abuses of the tsar and his royal court.

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan was painted in 1885, only 4 years after Tsar Alexander II’s assassination. Although the painting is of Russia’s 16th century Tsar, Ivan Grozny, the image was created at a time when revolution against the Royal family was coming to a head.

In the painting we see Ivan holding the lifeless body of his son, Ivan. Russians knew the horrible story of how a father killed his own son after beating his pregnant daughter-in-law for immodest dress. The look of anguish on the father’s face is unmistakable. The use of rich colours, so much blood red, creates a dramatic scene. Perhaps Repin was making a statement about the consequences of a tsar’s foolish actions.

Bibliography

http://estrand.bol.ucla.edu/

http://www.abcgallery.com/R/repin/repin.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IV_of_Russia

http://www.geographia.com/russia/rusart01.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSalexander2.htm

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Eman.html