Healing the Madness
 

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic. Among her numerous achievements, Earhart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society.  She was a Depression-era hero and advocate for women's equality, saying, "A pilot's a pilot. I hope that such equality could be carried out in other fields so that men and women may achieve equally in any endeavor..." She disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

Amelia Aerhart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AE.jpg
Book Pages 16 - 20 Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historical Context
1900
Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"

First Miss America

Margaret Gorman,
the First Miss America
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/vanities/Margaret
GormanMissAmerica.jpg
1903
Wright brother's first flight
1905
Einstein formulates theory of relativity
1907

Swimmer Annette Kellerman is arrested for indecent exposure while trying to popularize a one-piece swimsuit worn with tights rather than bloomers
1912
Titanic sinks
1914
Henry Ford's Model-T plant opens
1919
Eighteenth Amendment makes sale, manufacture, and transportation of intoxicating liquors illegal
1920
Nineteenth Amendment gives women gain the right to vote in the United States
1921

First Miss America pageant

1926
Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926, makes $100,000 in appearance fees, an income higher than either Babe Ruth or the president of the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characteristics of 20th century art are
the characteristics of the century itself:

Boating

Gabriele Munter. Boating. 1910.
Rapid change
Diversity
Individualism
Exploration
 
Several broad tendencies mark modern art:
Tendency towards abstraction
Tendency to emphasize physical process involved in creation of the work
Continual questioning of the nature of art
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Boat and the Town

Alexandra Exter.  The Boat and the Town.  1925.

Some of the "Isms" of Modern Art
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Expressionism
Cubism
Dadaism
Surrealism
Abstract Expressionism
Minimalism
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the transition from the old guard to the avant-garde,
women artists played active roles as they challenged the limits of tradition

 

The Abandoned Doll

Suzanne Valadon. The Abandoned Doll. 1921.
Sterling, Susan Fisher. Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Garden

Paula Modersohn-Becker. Alte Armenhäuslerin in the Garden. 1906.

Expressionism =
1. general term for art that emphasizes inner feelings and emotions over objective depiction
2. a modernist art movement that was a manifestation of subjective feeling toward objective reality and the world of imagination. Characterized by bold, vigorous brushwork, emphatic line, and bright color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jawlensky and Werefkin
Characteristics of Expressionism:
 
Desire to express personal attitudes and emotions
Vivid imagery
Simplified shapes
Dramatic use of color
Bold, sometimes crude brushwork
Sense of liberation and experimentation
 
Gabriele Munter. Jawlensky and Werefkin. 1908 - 1909.
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/munter/munter4.html
impasto = painting technique in which paint is applied thickley and in a manner that draws attention to the gesture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-Portrait at Spinet
Self Portrait with Amber Necklace
Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-portrait. 1561.
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace. 1906.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paula Modersohn-Becker. Mother and Child Lying Nude. 1907.
http://www.bluffton.edu/womenartists/ch10(20c)/modersohnnursing.jpg
Expressionist characteristics in Becker's work:
 
Desire to express personal attitudes and emotions
Vivid imagery
Simplified shapes
Dramatic use of color
Bold, sometimes crude brushwork
Sense of liberation and experimentation
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neeling Mother and Child

Paula Modersohn-Becker. Kneeling Mother and Child. 1907.
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/m/p-modersohn2.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of Women
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Edmond Fortier. Type of Women, West Africa. 1906.
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic objective of Cubism was to depict
three-dimensional objects from all sides at once

Electric Prisms

Sonia Delaunay. Electric Prisms. 1914.
http://www.latribunedelart.com/Expositions/Expositions_2008/Delaunay_Prismes.jpg
To represent an object as the mind sees it
rather than as the eye sees it
 
 
 
Little to no perspective or illusionism
No chiaroscuro
No story to validate the subject
Modern, present-day subject

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le Bal Bullier

Sonia Delaunay. Bal Bullier. 1913. Oil on mattress ticking.  38 1/8" X 12'8".
http://leverrier.etab.ac-caen.fr/IMG/jpg/lebalbullier.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Couverture

Sonia Delaunay. Couverture. 1911. Appliqued fabric.
Grosenick, Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln. 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sonia and Citroen

Sonia Delaunay. Clothes and customized Citroen B-12. 1925.

 

In 1964 Delaunay became the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibiton at the Louvre