Do Now Use the following four Surrealist paintings as primary
sources, what can you infer about the early 1900s?
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The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
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Geopolitical Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
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The Angel of the Home
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Europe After Rain
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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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Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)
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Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)
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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: Wrogie sily (1901) Gustav Klimt: Wrogie sily
(1901)
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Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)
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Gustav Klimt: Danae (1907-8)
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Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903) Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903)
FAUVE The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way.
Wild Beast.
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Henri Matisse: Open Window (1905) Henri Matisse: Open Window
(1905)
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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) Georges Braque:
Woman with a Guitar (1913)
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Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)
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Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907)
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Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)
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Pablo Picasso: Woman with a Flower (1932) Pablo Picasso: Woman
with a Flower (1932)
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Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)
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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 Automaton George in
May, 1920, John Heartfield is Very Glad of II (1919-1920) George
Grosz: Daum Marries Her Pedantic Automaton George in May, 1920,
John Heartfield is Very Glad of II (1919-1920)
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George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926) George Grosz The
Pillars of Society (1926)
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Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)
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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 Surrealism Late 1920s-1940s. Came from the
nihilistic genre of DaDa. Influenced by Feuds theories on
psychoanalysis and the subconscious. Confusing & startling
images like those in dreams.
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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)
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Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New
Man (1943)
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Functionalist Architecture Bauhaus A utopian quality. Based on
the ideals of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism. 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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Walter Gropius: Lincoln, MA house (1938)
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FRQ Use at least three examples from philosophy, art,
literature, or science to explain the changes in European attitudes
after WWI.