Week 8 - Modernist Revolutions: From Disney to Diaghilev Flashcards
What is a living exhibit
The term western people used for international people coming to perform at the world fair
Elements of Fantasia (Disney)
Like alarms, falling, assertive
Elements of Henri Matisse “Dance” (1909)
Viberant colours, “Les Fauves” (the wild beasts), strong colours and overall line over realism, allow the viewer to decide and evaluate what they see
Elements of Pablo Picasso (1907)
Strange, incredibly angular, not realistic, viberant colours, masks (african), “primitivism”, shocking
Elements of Gaugin “Contes Barbares”
Non-western, sexual, more “basic” look at sexuality
Who came up with the ballet “The Rite of Spring”
Igor Sravinsky (1882-1971)
What is “The Rite of Spring”
A ballet that is scenes from “Pagen Russia”
Series of pre-Christian fertility rites that end in human sacrifice
What was the rhythm of the “Rite of Spring”
Being chased
What type of melody did “Rite of Spring” have
a lack of a clear melody
Ostinato
Repeating musical pattern
Syncopated
Placing accent on a unexpected beat
Bitonal
2 keys at the same time
What changed in ballet, music, and art occured
Change from floating to more agressive and assertive
Angles, rhythm, basic drive
How did the “Rite of spring” fight against European decedence
“The Rite” (1913) ballet, caused a riot because of the abrupt change but became one of the most popular performances of primitivism
Where and when did “expressionism” occur
Occured from 1905-1930 in Germany and Austria
Precursor to Expressionism
Notible things about “The Scream” (1893)
No plays for the eyes to rest
Colours are saturated
Ties into expressionism
Expressionism
Exaggeratred colours and forms
Notible things about Vasily Kandinsky “On White II”
No help
Up to the individual
Paintings “little worlds onto themselves”, not meant to be beautiful but to make you think
Nothing referential/representitive
Noticible things of “Ulysses” by James Joyce (1992) (Novel)
No punctuation
- Don’t know where to stop/start
- Makes you work hard
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Musical expressionists
What does the “emancipation of dissonance” refer to
Wants the freedom to play dissonance without resolving it
Atonal music
No tonality, “home”, or anchor
Like the scream, nowhere to land your eyes on
Serialism/the 12-tone method
Takes the 12 tones of a scale and plays them with ALL before repeating one
Pierrot Luniare: Commedia dell’arte stock character (clown)
Clown
Luniare = moon
Series of 21 short pieces
“the function of art is to shake us out of our complacency and comfort
Elements of “Madonna” (6/21)
Atonality
Sprechstimme = speech-song
