Modernism and Post-Modernism Flashcards
Avant-Garde
break with the past?
interest in traditional art and challange representation “front guard” artist ahead of these questions and reject the pass, claissical and academic and traditional
Fauves
some ways loosely tided to symbolistic because interest in literacy work
reinvestigate impressionism, love of nature and leisure (glass half full)
personal authenticity
translates to wild beast by critic
feature: bold, explosive color
Arbritary color which is color of formal elemnts in which the artist expresses self, self expression
free in color non representational
diverse inconsistant use of brush stroke, dots, vertical, and horizontal strokes
picture within a picture than a window and expanse of space
no interest in reality
avoided atmospheric depth
large band of color
inconsistant brush stroke
complementary and arbitrary color
shape, color, line, independent of subject matter
Arbitrary Color
color which is the color of the formal elements in which the artsits expresses self, self expression
German Expressionism
Two types:
- Die Brucke
- Der Blaue Reiter
interest in human experieince, objectively, science, and progress
secular: people search to define oneself and outside of Church, Church to not dicate morals and people look at/for new identity
Nationalistic: roots
Relgiious: explore other cultures to identify and express themselves.
general term art emphasis on emotional content and subject, formal element = emotional contrast (Delacroix, Scream)
20th century in northern Europe
roots:
1. romanticism emotional subject matter and personal
2. fauves: color as expressionism, flat space, energetic medium, political and competmary issues
Die Brucke
the bridge
under leader of Ernest Ludwig Kirknur
saw bridge between old and new
(Kirknur and Emile Knoll)
against industrial and break with past avant garde
Der Blaue Rieter
far reach influential than Die Brucke
centered around artist Vasily Kardinsly
non objective work painting without literal subject matter from natural world
believe art should be concerned with expressionism and spiritual not material
pursuit of spiritual transcendencing product of spirit not a learned skill
not on classical paint learn and skill but spiritual content and non representative not rooted in natural world
thought subject matter hindered and break through of a new level of abstract representation barrier, the artist too doesn’t have to be representative
Vasily break through that they don’t have to represent the natural world but spiritual representation
free use of form and color and space and skeptical of industrial revolution
mourns self out of society and retreating and not taking world openly
Cubism
root in natural elements
Cezane cracked glass but Picasso shattered it
reduce image to basic shapes and study innature by shape
not realisitc but coherent
apply structure to natural form and distilled down to shape and cone and rectangle and prisim and flat and fractured
color is not notebale all together but fractured image but breaks it down to shape
got name in 1911 from critic
Cubism Analystic
work painted
Synthetic Cubism
fractures, flattened, by starting with scraps of paper and mix medium, cahrcoal and paper naturally fractured and flat work
Futurism
1909 in Italy
Marinette II publish manifesto in French newspaper called lay figaro announcing futurism
call for aggressive action beauty of speed
role in tech advaancement, light, cars, more beauty than traditional form of art
look to the future
Dada
not style but a mindset new way of thinking
WWI 1914–1918 mass weapon, gas, and protable submarines and planes
psychological impact, shell shocked
saw way of thinking media propaganada and music
destroyed modernity and progress in a positive way
mindset and attitude literary movmenet first imppremantive art not style
common: disgust of war believe that war is caused by Bourgeears society result of too much progress and logical and rationality
Progress lead to war
life without meaning and purpose didnt believe in sociial structure and estroy norms and conveionlist of past
Dada: Readymade
prefabricated a store bought item
