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Themes in Early Modern ArtThemes in Early Modern Art

1. Uncertainty/insecurity.

2. Disillusionment.

3. The subconscious.

4. Violence & savagery.

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Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)

Expressionism Using bright

colors to express a particular emotion.

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Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)

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Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

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Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)

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Henri Matisse:

Open Window(1905)

Henri Matisse:

Open Window(1905)

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Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910)

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)

Georges Braque:

Woman with a Guitar(1913)

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Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

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Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

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Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937) Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937)

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Pablo Picasso:

Woman with aFlower(1932)

Pablo Picasso:

Woman with aFlower(1932)

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Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)

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Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)

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George Grosz

Grey Day(1921)

George Grosz

Grey Day(1921)

DaDa Ridiculed

contemporary culture & traditional art forms.

The collapse during WW I of social and moral values.

Nihilistic.

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George Grosz:

Daum Marries Her Pedantic AutomatonGeorge in

May, 1920, John

Heartfield is Very Glad of II

(1919-1920)

George Grosz:

Daum Marries Her Pedantic AutomatonGeorge in

May, 1920, John

Heartfield is Very Glad of II

(1919-1920)

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George Grosz

The Pillarsof Society

(1926)

George Grosz

The Pillarsof Society

(1926)

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Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)

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Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)

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Marcel Duchamp:

Nude Descending a

Staircase(1912)

Marcel Duchamp:

Nude Descending a

Staircase(1912)

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Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),

1936

Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),

1936Surrealis

m Late 1920s-1940s.

Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.

Influenced by Feud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious.

Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.

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Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

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Salvador Dali: The Apparition of the Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

(1938)

Salvador Dali: The Apparition of the Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

(1938)

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Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man

(1943)

Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man

(1943)

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Rene Migritte: Treachery of Images (1929)

Rene Migritte: Treachery of Images (1929)

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Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928)

Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928)

Bauhaus

A utopian quality.

Based on the idealsof 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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• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Project, 1921.

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Walter Gropius: Lincoln, MA house (1938)

Walter Gropius: Lincoln, MA house (1938)

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Paris 1925Des Arts Decoratifs

“Art Deco”

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Des Arts Decoratif – Des Galeries Lafayette

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• Rue de Robert Mallet-Stevens

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The Villa Cavrois at Croix,near Roubaix,

in the North of France

By

Robert Mallet-Stevens

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• HOYNINGEN-HUENE Josephine Baker, 1929

 

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• Josephine Bakerat the Folies-Bergère (1906-1975)Stanislaus Julian Walery (active 1880s-1920s)gelatin silver print, 1926

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