Modernism Flashcards
The most dramatic and far-reaching development in the history of twentieth-century art is…
the move toward various forms of explicitly abstract art that followed in the wake of Cubist experiments.
Ever since the latter part of the nineteenth century, a number of artists were beginning to…
consider a painting as an entity unto itself rather than an imitation of, or an illusion of, the physical world.
Although Cubist pictures may represent…
highly abstracted interpretations of the material world, they were not in themselves abstract.
In Russia and Netherlands, in particular, abstraction found…
a fertile ground and its most expansive and most radical manifestations, with implications not merely for painting and sculpture but for architecture as well as graphic, industrial, and even fashion design.
Abstract, nonobjective, or nonrepresentational art:
Art that depends solely on color, line, and shape for its imagery rather than motifs drawn from observable reality.
people of time were not happy with the state of present times.
Looked to the future for better life
Development of a Bottle in Space
Futurist sculpture
Umberto Boccioni
1912
Table + Bottle + House
Umberto Boccioni
1912
SUPREMATISM
“the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.”
“the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless, the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.
Kazimir Malevich
(1878-1935)
El (Eleazar) Lissitzky
(1890-1941)
El (Eleazar) Lissitzky (1890-1941), a disciple of…
Malevich influenced the design teachings of the Bauhaus.
Lissitzky was a propagandist for
the Stalinist regime.
Prounenraum (Proun Room) created for Berlin Art Exhibition
created for Berlin Art Exhibition 1923
El Lissitzky
The Constructor
El Lissitzky, Wolkenbügel, 1924
“cloud-irons” skyscrapers,
El Lissitzky, Wolkenbügel, 1924
“Konstruktivizm”
(Constructivism)
The word “Konstruktivizm” (Constructivism) was first used
by a group of Russian artists in the title of a small 1922 exhibition of their work in Moscow.
It was Cubist art that was characterized by…
abstract, geometric forms and a technique in which various materials, often industrial in nature, are assembled rather than carved or modeled.
However, Constructivism originally referred to a movement of…
Russian artists after the 1917 Revolution who enlisted art in the service of the new Soviet system.
These artists believed that a full integration of…
art and life would help foster the ideological aims of the new society and enhance the lives of its citizens. Such utopian ideals were common to many modernist movements, but only in Russia were the revolutionary political regime and the revolution in art so closely linked.
Vladimir Tatlin
(1895-1953)
Vladimir Tatlin
was the founder of Russian Constructivism.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
(1881-1973)
Along with French artist Georges Braque (1882-1963) Picasso co-founded the…
Cubist movement.
Georges Braque
(1882-1963)
Paul Cézanne
(1839–1906)
Vladimir Tatlin
(1895-1953)
Counter-Relief
1915
Vladimir Tatlin
Model for Monument to
the Third International
1919-20
Vladimir Tatlin
What is important for the Model for Monument to the Third International
the idea of the object is important
Late 19th century explorations of the…
irrational and fantastic and a growing interest in naïve and primitivizing modes of expression in an art found a striking embodiment during World War I in the eclectic productions of a diverse group of artists who labeled endeavor “Dada.
The Dadaist felt that…
reason, logic, and Western ideals of progress had led to the disaster of world war, and that the only way forward was through political anarchy, the natural emotions, the intuitive, and the irrational.
Dada was first and foremost a…
response to the brutal, mechanized madness of war.
More distantly, dada can be seen as a descendant of…
Romanticism and Symbolism,
which themselves were proceeded by a thousand years or more of individuals and
movements concerned with some sort of personal, eccentric , unorthodox, mystical,
or supernatural expression.
MARC CHAGALL
(1887-1985)
Russian Jewish artist
MARC CHAGALL art
His art followed a divergent
from that of the Constructivists
in post-revolutionary Russia.
Child-like Art
His paintings displayed a sense
of fantasy that anticipates
aspects of Surrealism.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
(1887-1968)
By the beginning of World War I Duchamp had…
rejected the works of many of his
contemporaries as “retinal” art, or art only intended to please the eye. Although a gifted
painter, he ultimately abandoned conventional methods of making art in order, as he
said, “to put art back at the service of the mind.”
Duchamp experimented with…
everyday objects in creating of his art. For him, the conception, the “discovery,” was what made a work of art, not the uniqueness of the object.
In a deliberate act of provocation, Duchamp submitted a…
porcelain urinal, which he turned ninety degrees and entitled Fountain, to the 1917 exhibition of the New York Society of
Independent Artists
“The Fountain” by
MARCEL DUCHAMP
1917
“Nude Ascending a Staircase”
MARCEL DUCHAMP
1912
Cubist + Futurist
KURT SCHWITTERS
(1887-1948)
Hanoverian Artist
KURT SCHWITTERS work
His work was apart from Berlin Dadaist artists
KURT SCHWITTER quarreled publicly with…
Huelsenbeck, a prominent Dada artist and was denied access to Club Dada because of his involvement with the apolitical and pro-art circle around Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm Gallery.
KURT SCHWITTER established his own…
Dada variant in Hanover under the designation “Merz,” a word in
part derived from the word “Commerzbank” included in one of his collages.
Schwitter’s collages were made of…
rubbish picked up from the street –cigarette
wrappers, tickets, newspapers, string, boards, wire screens, and whatever caught his
fancy. (detritus of his surroundings into strange and wonderful beauty.)
what were KURT SCHWITTER pictures called
Merzbilder or Merzeichnungen (Merz pictures or Merz drawings)
Kurt Schwitters, Hanover
Merzbau, destroyed, photo taken
1931
