Modernism + Modernist Revolutions Flashcards

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Lady of Shallot
Romanticism

A
  • yearny, love, individual
  • interpretation of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, The Lady of Shalott. The poem’s about the mysterious lady of Shalott who has been cursed in a castle, forbidden to look outside.
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Psycholorial
Realism

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inner worlds of characters
are the real world

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Miss Julie

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wanted the
audience to
ask “what makes
them tick?”

Connection
Ibsen but
Ibsen worked
on a societal level

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Industrial Revolution

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transition from creating goods by hand to using machine
- makes people nostalgic

Industrialization Art turns to Realism

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Modernism

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at beginning of the 20th century, artists + intellectuals who went against tradition into radical experimentation.

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Changes at the beginning of the 20th Century

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Film
Women’s Rights

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Orientalism

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the West’s fascination with the “East.”
Middle East or Far East (Japan or China)

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Madame Butterfly

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Puccini
Sympathetic to Japanese culture. Based in Realism.

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The Mikado

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comic opera in the UK; negative depiction and disrespectful.
Lots of Othering.
Also othering in Salome

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Charles Darwin

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Theory of Evolution.
Against teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious ideas.

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Sigmund Freud

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The Interpretation of Dreams.
Dreams as a wish fulfillment?
Sexuality

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The Common Practice - 1600-1900

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1) Tonal Harmony.
- Major + minor chords.
- Sense of a home chord.
- Each chord is in relation to the one before + after.
- Consonance and dissonance.
2) Melody.

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Globalization-1889 World Fair in Paris

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Puccini hears music from Japan, and Debussy hears music from Java

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Javanese Gamelan

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Ensemble of 20-25 players playing percussion instruments.
Mostly wood and metal; many different timbres.

-osintinato
-colotomic
-pentatonic

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Osintinatio

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repeated rhythmic idea

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Colotomic

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different rhythmic cycles

17
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Pentatonic Scale

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5 note scale
2-2-3-2-T
used in Javanese Gamelan

18
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Japanese Mode

19
Q

Impressionist painters + photography

A

What were they trying to capture in their art?

Nature, colour + shapes
Spontaneity
Emphasis on light, colour and shades.

Monet Cathedral
No clear lines
Individual brush strokes, little flecks

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Debussy

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wants music to flow, rid of tonality and be free.

“Pagodes”
Floating
Like Water
No Clear Melody
No Clear or Demanding Need to Resolve

“Afternoon of a Faun”
Blurry
Dreamlike (Harp)

How?
No clear beat
No clear melody - little instrument “flecks” (in + out)
Dynamics - quiet
Harps + flutes + instruments that are quiet are not as strong as a clear timbre

21
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Traditional Ballet

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  • upward direction
  • round
22
Q

Faun

A

half human half goat waking
from a sleep with nymphs

23
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Igor Stravinsky

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Modernist Composer
“Rite of Spring”
-ballet
- primitivist

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Les Fauves
“The Wild Beasts”

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used colour to present emotion rather than an image in front of you

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Picasso
after realism "Desmoiselles d'Avignon" lots of angles colours masks lots of artists were painting the other through masks "Primitivism" painting African masks on women to represent primal emotions - othering
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Primitive
a way to escape European decadence get back to what's important basic human emotion non-western