modern art

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modern art

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has an intellectual underpinning (manifesto) - statement or idea of purpose of every piece of modern art

Question 2

what caused people to change art?

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1904-1960: world wars, naziism, communism

• people were very confused about the many changes
• MOMA helped validate modern art as a category

Question 3

3 major char of modern art

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1. ma should be abstract (not focusing on subject or object but artistic material)
2. emphasis on physical process or materials
3. question barrier (blurred) on art and life

Question 4

Cubism

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1st modern art -ism that developed

• made famous by braque and picasso
• B+P=cubism

Question 5

cubist manifesto

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to show what we know to be true with our minds and what we see.

-shows both: not very logical but more realistic.

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Desmoiselle d’avignon

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• picasso
• cubism

content:

• prostitutes of red light district
• masks b/c P was fascinated with african art (thought they had vision and attitude)
• promotes woman as strong woman
• 1st view: put masks b/c prostitutes stripped woman of identity so he understood that.
• 2nd view: masks showed threateding force b/c of inner fear and fear of getting viruses in prostitute house

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types of cubism

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analytic: breaing things down
- distinguishable: cant tell subject matter
synthetic: building things up
assemblages: sculpture
- collage: build it up of real mat to make something.

(cezanne’s vision of view)

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-cubism (synthetic)

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Fauvism

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“wild beast”

• used cezanne’s view of color
• wanted to liberate color from its traditional use of describing emotion
• people thought they were beastly for using color this way
• P once said M: you’re such an optimist, you a sun in your belly.

Question 11

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• fauvism
• cezanne’s view of color used

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• fauvism
• m got sick so he cut basic shapes and created his own environment in the hospital

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fauvism manifesto

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to use color to show emotion

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-optimistic

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futurism

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• machine and mortion
• comic books start
• movement and speed

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futurist manifesto

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-moving images on our retinas constantly were multiplying htemselves, so from was always changing

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fauvism

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fauvism

-train leaing station

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fauvism

-futuristic nike

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fauvism

-KNOW

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neo plasticism

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• rxn to expressionism( expresses emotion behind painting)– world is so chaotic, we need art to bring back harmony
• trying to balance life, and get chaos out
• restore harmony and order that waasnt in the world

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neo plasticist manifesto

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world is so chaotic, need art to bring back harmony

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neo plasticism

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dadism

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• french word for hobble horse
• against the chaos of war
• total anarchists, irrational people, thought bourgeous got them into war)

Question 25

3 forms of dadaism

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1. dada performance art people would go on stage and do random
2. dada music: john cage. did wierd things with household obj.

4 min and 33 sec: piece of silence

3. art form:
   - readymades help see obj. in new way
   - did ready mades (duchamp!)
   - artist did not have to make soemthing, he can choose and place it for it to be called art.

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dadaist manifesto

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useless: everything happens in idiotic way
- incapable of treating anything seriously.

questioned the definition of art

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dadaism

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dadaism

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surrealism

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-beyond the real

had 2 movements

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2 movements of surrealism

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1. automatism : ex miro’s harlequinn
   - free association, letting mind go free and represent visually
2. artists took recognizable faces and put it in places where it did not belong
   - dali has blank canvases under bed so he could paint his dreams
   - magritte

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surrealism

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surrealism

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surrealism

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surrealism

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surrealist manifesto

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expressing thought with absence of control

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abstract expressionism

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action paitning: ollock: put emphasis of work is placed on physical action of making it.

color field painters: portray emotion with color arranged in a certain way

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abstract impressionist manifesto

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expressing emotion through only form and color

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abstract

Question 39

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abstract