1. Art and Literature set out to challenge accepted values & practices

2. Themes in Early Modern Art 1.Uncertainty/insecurity. 2.Disillusionment. 3.The subconscious. 4.Overt sexuality. 5.Violence & savagery. 6.Challenge traditional representations Surrealism & Cubism 7.The Lost Generation Hemingway & Fitzgerald

3. Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893) Expressionism  Using bright colors to express a particular emotion.

4. Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901) Secessionists  Disrupt the conservative values of Viennese society.  Obsessed with the self.  Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

5. Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)

6. Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903) Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903) FAUVE  The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way.

7. Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM  The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form.  Cezanne  The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

8. Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

9. George Grosz Grey Day (1921) George Grosz Grey Day (1921) DaDa  Ridiculed contemporary culture & traditional art forms.  The collapse during WW I of social and moral values.

10. George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926) George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926)

11. Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 Surrealism  Late 1920s-1940s.  Influenced by Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious.  Influenced by dreams.

12. Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man (1943)

13. The Lost Generation Artists & Writers moved around Europe –Why? To find meaning in life Writers –Ernest Hemingway The Importance of Being Earnest –F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925) –Theme: Life empty of meaning