Modern Art
From 1900 to World War II
Manet & Realism
Impressionism
Post Impressionism
(Colorists)
(Formalists)
Van Gogh & Matisse
Cezanne
Fauvism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism
Futurism
Abstract geometric
painting
Cubism
“’Cubism is no different from any other school of
painting. The same principles and the same elements
are common to all. The fact that for a long time
Cubism has not been understood…means nothing. I
do not read English, [but] this does not mean that the
English language does not exist….’”
Pablo Picasso
-- quoted by Guillaume Apollinaire in The Beginnings of Cubism,
1912.
Cubism: definition
“The art of painting original
arrangements composed of elements
taken from conceived rather than
perceived reality.”
-- Guillaume Apollinaire, The Beginnings of Cubism,
1912.
Cubism
• Breaking up of nature into geometric
figures and planes
• leading artists: Pablo Picasso &
Georges Braque
Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon
1907
by
Pablo Picasso
Violin & Palette
1909-10
by
Georges Braque
Bottle of Suze
1912-13
by
Pablo Picasso
Guitar
by
Juan Gris
Guernica by Pablo Picasso, 1937 o/c
Girl before Mirror
by
Pablo Picasso
Futurism
• Outgrowth of Cubism
• Sought to capture motion & the “beauty
of speed”
• Revolutionary
• Championed by poet Filippo Marinetti in
“The Futurist Manifesto”
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
by Giacomo Balla
Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space
1913
by
Umberto Boccioni
Expressionism
• Grew out of German movement, Die
Brucke (The Bridge)
• The Bridge: founded in 1905 to “bridge”
to the art of the future
• Emphasis on expressing inner feelings
• Wassily Kandinsky: credited with
painting 1st “abstract” painting, 1910
Suprematism
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Founded by Kasimir Malevich, c. 1913
Geometric abstract art
extreme reduction
non-objective
“supremacy of pure feeling”
Suprematism
Black Circle
1913
by
Kasimir Malevich
Suprematism
Suprematist Painting:
Aeroplane Flying
1915
by
Kasimir Malevich
Kasimir Malevich
Self-Portrait
1933
by
Kasimir Malevich
…toward abstraction...
by
Piet
Mondrian
by
Piet
Mondrian
by
Piet
Mondrian
Composition with Red,
Yellow, and Blue
1921
by
Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
Composition I
by
Piet Mondrian
Dada
• Western Europe: artistic, literary
movement from 1916-1923
• Protest against horrors of war
• An “anti-art” movement
• Dada means “hobby horse”
Surrealism
• 20th century literary, artistic movement
• Expresses subconscious with fantastic
imagery & strange juxtapositions
• Drew heavily on Freudian theory
Surrealism
“According to the major spokesman of the
movement, the poet and critic Andre Breton, who
published ‘The Surrealist Manifesto’ in 1924,
Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and
unconscious realms of experience so completely tat
the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to
the everyday rational world in ‘an absolute reality, a
surreality.’”
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/