Modernism + Materialism Flashcards
Cubism
shifting viewpoints, Angles and form.
-Conceptual approach, no distinctions between 3d forms, they are flattened into shapes which are multiplied across a canvas. Flat, highly patterned surfaces painted in subdued colors in which it can be difficult to distinguish objects. Uses collage.
Surrealism
-Paris, Exploration of everything irrational and subversive in art.
-More explicitly preoccupied with spiritualism.
-Aimed to create art which was ‘automatic’ meaning it had emerged directly from the unconscious without being shaped by reason, morality or aesthetic judgements. Unconscious was central.
-Strove to undermine most accepted truths and conventions.
-Explored dream imagery.
Van Gogh: Starry Night
Impressionism
Seurat: Sunday Afternoon
Post-impressionism
The movement which came after the Impressionists and somewhat rejected those ideas.
Similar to the Impressionists, however, they stressed the artificiality of the picture.
They use vivid colors
Manet: Dejeuner sur L’herbe
Impressionism and realism
Rodin: The thinker
Paris
Dali: The Persistence of Memory
Surrealism
Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon
Picasso: Guernica
Impressionism
capture an impression of what the eyes sees at a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the object
Kahlo, Frida
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist.
Freud
Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, a theory of how the mind works and a method of helping people in mental distress.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.
Darwin, Charles
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built.
Marx, Karl
Karl Marx was a German philosopher during the 19th century. He worked primarily in the realm of political philosophy and was a famous advocate for communism. He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital, which together formed the basis of Marxism.
Realism
realism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances.
Debussy, Claude
French composer Claude Debussy’s works were a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. He developed a highly original system of harmony and musical structure that expressed, in many respects, the ideals to which the Impressionist and Symbolist painters and writers of his time aspired.
Beethoven
Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Top dos top
The Louvre
Arc de Triomphe
French Neoclassicism
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution, served as first consul of France and was the first emperor of France. Today Napoleon is widely considered one of the greatest military generals in history.
Epic poem Don Juan by Lord Byron
It is a satirical, epic poem which portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womanizer as the character is historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women.
William Blake: The Tiger
It consists entirely of questions about the nature of God and creation, particularly whether the same God that created vulnerable beings like the lamb could also have made the fearsome tiger. The tiger becomes a symbol for one of religion’s most difficult questions: why does God allow evil to exist?
Ingres: Grande Odalisque
Stravinsky, Igor: Polytonality
When a chord has two simultaneous tonal centers. An example would be Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka,
Armstrong, Louis
Top do jazz
Edvard Munch: The Scream
Example of expressionism
Monet : Impression Sunrise
Renoir: Le Moulin de la Galette
Pollock: Autumn Rhythm
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
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