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Western Art through the AgesPart 3
Expressionism Surrealism
Cubism Abstract Expressionism
19th & 20th Centuries
…with music byClaude Debussey
Dmitri ShostakovichSergei Rachmaninoff
Igor Stravinskyet.al.
Expressionism
• Indebted to Freud
• Art tries to penetrate the façade of bourgeois superficiality and probe the psyche—that which lurks beneath an individual’s calm and artificial posture
Expressionism--values
• Subliminal anxiety
• Dissonance in color and perspective
• Pictorial violence—manifest* and latent**– *Manifest (adj) readily perceived by the eye or
the understanding; evident; obvious; plain– **Latent (adj) present or potential but not visible,
apparent, or realized
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Street Scene with a Cocotte in Red
1914
Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest, 1914
Max Beckmann
The Night
1918-1919
Vincent van Gogh
Self Portrait
1898
Surrealism
• Also indebted to Freud
• Explores the dream world, a world without logic, reason, or meaning
• Fascination with mystery, the strange encounters between objects, and incongruity
• Subjects are often indecipherable in their strangeness
• The beautiful is the quality of chance association
Surrealism--values
• The dream sequence
• Illogic
• Fantasy
Giorgio de Chirico
The Vexations of the Thinker
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Max Ernst
Two Children are Menaced by a Nightingale
Joan Miró, Dog Barking at the Moon
Marc Chagall
Self-portrait with Seven Fingers
1913
Cubism
• No single point of view
• No continuity or simultaneity of image contour
• All possible views to top, sides, front, and back
• Picture becomes a multifaceted view of objects with angular, interlocking planes
Cubism--values
• A new way of seeing
• A view of the world as a mosaic of multiple relationships
• Reality as interaction
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1905?
Pablo Picasso, Paysage Mediterraneen
Georges Braque, The Table
Abstract Expressionism
• Nonrepresentational art
• No climaxes
• Flattened-out planes; and values
• The real appearance of forms in nature is subordinated to an aesthetic concept of form composed of shapes, lines and colors
Abstract Expressionism--values
• Personal and subjective interpretation
• “you see what you want to…”
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure 1977
Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing
1947
(Bronze sculpture)
Mark Rothko
Ochre on Red
1954
Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, 1942