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Modern Art The 20 th & 21 st century: The Early Years – Postmodern Dali Picasso Warhol

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Modern Art

The 20th & 21st century:The Early Years – Postmodern

Dali

Picasso

Warhol

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The Early Years

• Fauves• Cubism• Fantasy and Dada• Surrealism• The Bauhaus

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Fauvism• A critic gave them the name 

The Fauves (the wild beasts)• Like the Postimpressionists, 

the Fauves rejected the soft palette and delicate brushwork of the Impressionists.

• Their subject matter included traditional nudes, still lifes, and landscapes.

• Color and brushwork was chosen on the basis of its emotive quality.

• Fauvism did not last very long. 

• Main artist: MatisseHENRI MATISSE. Red Room (Harmony in Red) (1908‐1909)

‐Matisse believe paintings  should be joyous

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Cubism

• Cubism can trace its heritage to Neoclassicism and the art of Cézanne.

• Cubism was a new treatment of pictorial space that hinged on rendering objects from multiple and radically different views. – Instead of presenting us with a single view, the Cubists showed us many different sides of an object.

• Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque were the creators of cubism.

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The Rose Phase1905 ‐ 1908Subjects mainly from the circus life. Used pink tones 

PABLO PICASSO. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907).

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George Braque‐Met Picasso in 1907; they worked together on the same artistic goals until 1914.‐ First to begin inserting words and numbers in his work. ‐Also used trompe l’oeil on portions of his Analytic Cubism.

The Portuguese, 1911

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This form of Cubism spanned from 1909–1912.

Papier collé ‐ Artists pasted objects, such as pieces of paper, found objects, rope, etc., to their works.

Some of their compositions consist entirely of found objects.  This is characteristic of Synthetic Cubism.

Picasso, Guernica, 1937

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Fantasy

• Fantastic art represents incredible unreal images from the artist’s mind.– Greek word phantastikosmeans “the ability to represent something to the mind” or “to create a mental image”

– Fantasy is further defined as “unreal, odd, seemingly impossible, and strange in appearance.”

• Fantasy art includes images that may be joyful reminiscences, horrific nightmares, capricious thoughts, or grotesque memories.

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PAUL KLEE. Twittering Machine (1922). Watercolor, pen and ink

The "twittering" in the title refers to the birds, while the "machine" is suggested by the hand crank. 

The two elements are a fusing of the natural with the industrial world. The blue is symbolic of night which gives way to the pink glow of dawn. 

Look closely ‐ an uneasy sensation of looming menace begins to manifest itself? 

‐ Birds appear closer to deformations of nature.

‐ The hand crank conjures up the idea that this "machine" is a music box, where the birds function as bait to lure victims to the pit over which the machine hovers. 

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Dadaism

• Anti‐art cultural movement• Dadaists declared that art ‐ a reflection of the sorry state of affairs ‐ was stupid and must be destroyed. – Ironically, the movement against art actually created its own art.

• They created art that is meaningless, absurd and unpredictable. 

• Dadaism would provide the basis for Surrealism that started in the 1920s.

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Dada included collages, works mocking the masters, and  irrational themes.

Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.  Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

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Surrealism Surrealism began after World 

War I as a literary movement.

Surrealism is a cultural movement and artistic style that was founded in 1924 by André Breton.

It’s style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility. 

Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. 

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Bauhaus• Early part of the 20th 

century saw various inventions in architecture.

• Walter Gropius– German architect– Bauhaus = house of 

construction– started the expression, “form 

follows function” and “less is more”. 

– Emphasis on simplicity and economical use of space, time, materials, and money. 

The Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany