modern art final

- "absolute devaluation of tradition... the exposure of the whole swindle of lyricism and sentiment" - mathematical structure as opposed to impressionism - need for abstraction and simplification

De Stijl

The Blue Riders (Der Blaue Reiter) - group of artists united in rejection of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München ("Munich New Artist's Association") in Germany - founded by Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc - considered that principles of "Munich New Artist's Association", a group Kandinsky had founded in 1909, had become too strict and traditional - named for its founding member Franz Marc's love of horses as well as Wassily Kandinsky's fondness and use of the color blue -goal was to obtain spiritual truths via their art. - promoted modern art, as well as the connection between art and music

Der Blaue Reiter

- group of German Expressionist artists in Dresden and Berlin between 1905-1913, mostly painters, they depicted landscapes, nudes, and carnival performers in strong colors and broad forms - revived the German woodcut tradition, but as a form of personal expression. - Die Brücke is German for "The Bridge," and was not intended to be a style, but as a bridge toward a better future - Interest in German and French philosophy - Develop the humanistic, expressive aspects of art

Die Brucke

- leader: Matisse - the first twentieth-century movement in modern art, was initially inspired by the examples of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat - use of intense color for describing light and space - Color could project a mood and establish a structure within the work of art without having to be true to the natural world - important precursor to Cubism and Expressionism

Fauves/Fauvism

- Andre Breton wrote manifesto of surrealism and is the leader - Dream imagery, interest in unconscious and Freudian/Jungian theory - animating the inanimate is a favorite theme

Surrealism

a style of painting in which objects are depicted with photographically realistic detail, [fools the eye] something that misleads or deceives the senses : illusion

Trompe l-oeuil

-"Father of Abstraction" - member of Der Blaeu Rieter and wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Desire for an "image free art form"

Wassily Kandinsky

"Great War" Magritte, 1966

(woman with flower on face, white dress)

- Famous for his distinctive portraits (especially those of Jeanne Hebuterne, his live-in girlfriend & mother of his child). Tragic tale - intense stereotype of the "artistic persona." - Also produced cubist and Modigliani's African influenced sculptures of limestone

Amedeo Modigliani

- define: form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time - developed in Zurich, Switzerland

Dadaism

-analytical: the early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color - synthetic:the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting - picasso's still life with chair canning - George Braque and Pablo Picasso BOTH discovered cubism and experimented with it. Collage (papier colle) developed by both Braque and Picasso.

Difference between analytical and synthetic cubism

- artistic genre that originated in Europe in the 1920s - typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. - broadly defined as the rejection of Western conventions, and the depiction of reality that is widely distorted for emotional effect

German expressionism