THE AGE OF CONFUSION
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THE AGE OF CONFUSION
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• Ongoing industrialization and WWI quickened the crumbling of the “Old Order” – it had staggered imaginations and left traditional values open to question
• New intellectual and artistic (and scientific, political…) trends sought to fill the void; since the “rules” had been smashed, experimentation became the norm…
• This created an atmosphere of relativism…many sought refuge in extremism…
• This process began before the war…
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• The theme of relativism extended into all parts of society, and Existentialism continued to be the driving force…– Life has no absolute meaning…– Individuals are accountable to themselves…– There is no god…– There is no absolute morality…– All that awaits us is the void (le neant)…– There are no rules total freedom and experimentation…
Jean –Paul Sartre – Huis Clos
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Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
• Theatre of the Absurd…
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Eugene Ionesco – The Chairs
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Freud…• Psychoanalysis• Id, Ego, Super Ego• Oedipus Complex• The Interpretation
of Dreams• Freudian slips…
• More confusion…
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Surrealism• James Joyce - Ulysses• “Stream of
Consciousness”
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Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),
1936 Late 1920s-1940s. Influenced by Freud’s
theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious.
Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.
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Themes in Early Modern Art
1. Uncertainty/insecurity.
2. Disillusionment.
3. The subconscious.
4. Overt sexuality.
5. Violence & savagery.
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Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)
Expressionism Using bright
colors to express a particular emotion.
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Henri Matisse:
Open Window(1905)
The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way
“Wild Beast” = Fauvism
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Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901)
Secessionists Disrupt the
conservative values of Viennese society.
Obsessed with the self.
Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.
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Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)
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Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910)
CUBISM The subject matter is
broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form.
Cezanne The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.
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Georges Braque:
Woman with a Guitar(1913)
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Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)
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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)
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Pablo Picasso:
Woman with a
Flower(1932)
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George GroszGrey Day
(1921)
DaDa Ridiculed
contemporary culture & traditional art forms.
The collapse during WW I of social and moral values.
Nihilistic.
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Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)
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Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928)
Bauhaus A utopian quality. Based on the ideals
of simplified formsand unadornedfunctionalism.
The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses.
Used techniques & materials employed especially in industrial fabrication & manufacture steel, concrete, chrome, glass.
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LeCorbusier
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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MUSIC…
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FILM…