May 17
Rise of Modernism

 

Final Exam will be given on May 22 8am - 10:30 am

 

 

The Armory Show
1913

 

 

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2. 1912.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

Described as "an explosion in a shingle factory" -Artforms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dadaism
1916 - 1923

 

 

"Dada knows everything. Dada spits on everything. Dada says 'knowthing,' Dada has no fixed ideas. Dada does not catch flies. Dada is bitterness laughing at everything that has been accomplished, sanctified... Dada is never right... No more painters, no more writers, no more religions, no more royalists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more police, no more airplanes, no more urinary passages... Like everything in life, Dada is useless, everything happens in a completely idiotic way... We are incapable of treating seriously any subject whatsoever, let alone this subject: ourselves." - Gardner's Art Through the Ages

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.H.O. O. Q.

Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q. 1919.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

Full version of L.H.O.O. Q.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.

 

 

Readymade = an object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist

 

 

 

 


"Whether Mr. Mut with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view- created a new thought for that object." - Editorial opinion as quoted in Gardner's Art Through the Ages

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photomontage - a photographic collage that is rephotographed so that the final image is converted back into a photographic print

 

 

Dada Dance

Hanah Hoch. Dada Dance. 1922.

 

 

"The excess of Hell falls into the coffers of Pastor Klatt for innocent children of criminals."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have No fear- He's A Vegetarian

John Heartfield. Have No Fear- He's AVegetarian. 1936

 

 

Surrealism
1924 - mid 1940s

Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory. 1931.

 

 

 

 

Dali Museum

 

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." - Salvador Dali

 

 

 

 

 

 

Object

Meret Oppenheim. Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur). 1936.

 

 

 

 

 

The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo. The Two Fridas. 1939.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Between the World Wars, Social Realist styles emerged in many countries
Took many forms, but generally:
Retreated from the radical innovations of Modern art
Favored realist techniques
Conservative subject

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vera Mukhina. Monument to the Proletariat and Agriculture. 1937.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man, Controller of the Universe

Diego Rivera. Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grant Wood. American Gothic. 1930.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936.

 

 

Farm Security Administration

 

 

 

 

 

And to conclude...

 

 

Guernica

Pablo Picasso. Guernica. 1937.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy." - Picasso