ARTH Quiz 4

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-"The logical and inevitable conclusion to which European art was moving." Alfred Barr, 1936. -assumption that abstract art was more "pure" than figurative/mimetic art -art about enjoyment of purities of form and color? -Marcel Duchamp, in a 1953 letter:"The American museums want at all costs to teach modern art to young students who believe in the chemical formula. All of this only breeds vulgarization and the total disappearance of original fragrance...I believe in original fragrance, but like any fragrance, it evaporates very quickly. What remains is a dried up nut, classified by the historians in the chapter, "history of art." -classic modernist understanding of abstraction: IN PURSUIT OF PURITY -"There is no and never has been any consensus in the history of abstract art about its originators, effects, and meanings.

Abstraction

MODERNISM (noun)/ MODERNIST (adjective) = a movement and a style in visual art, literature, architecture, etc that emerged in the mid-late nineteenth century -NON-MIMETIC: non-naturalistic use of color, desire to make things look NOT like they do in real life -an attempt to question the foundations of art making with particular respect to FORM. i.e. this is not a window on the world, but rather a painting composed by an artist with paint, a world unto itself. -AN AUTONOMOUS OBJECT made by a (heroic) creator, who has a duty to reshape art's ambition and appearance. -MODERNITY: a chronological description, early nineteenth century - mid twentieth century -Just one version of the development of modernist art WHAT IS the "ORIGINAL FRAGRANCE" THAT DUCHAMP IS TALKING ABOUT?! -POLITICAL, Art & Life avant-garde movements: -Futurism, 1909-1914ish -Dadaism, 1916-1920ish -Surrealism, 1921ish- 1940s (still viable as a strategy for contemporary art)

Modernism


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