1. Which of the following artistic styles characterizes the salon in the picture? 1.Baroque 2.Romanticism 3.Art Nouveau

2. Which definition is suitable for Art Nouveau? 1. a style of art, music and literature that was common in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which emphasizes openness towards the beauty of nature and concentrates on human emotions 2. a style of art and decoration that uses curling lines and plant and flower shapes 3. a style in painting, sculpture and building, based on particular standards in Greek and Roman art, which was especially popular during the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe

3. Ödön Lechner, Museum of Applied Arts, 1896 Secessionist style A decorative style of art developed at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, applying whimsical and bizarre shapes, floral patterns.

4. József Rippl-Rónai, Scene at the Garden of Earl Somssich Alphonse Mucha, Summer Secessionist painting

5. Jugendstil Jugendstil, _____ style that arose in _____ about the mid-1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century, deriving its name from the Munich _____ Die Jugend (“Youth”), which featured Art Nouveau designs. Two phases can be discerned in Jugendstil: an early one, before 1900, that is mainly _____ in character, rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; and a later, more _____ phase, growing out of the Viennese work of the Belgian-born architect and designer Henry van de Velde. magazine artistic abstract floral Germany Fill in the gaps with the words given.

6. Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872

7. Paul Cézanne, La montagne Sainte Victoire vue des Lauves, 1904-06

8. Éduard Manet, Breakfast on the Grass, 1863

9.  Archaic Torso of Apollo  by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell  We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.  1907

10. Modernism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: modern art arose o reinterpretation of tradition o the modes of representation come to the foreground: the way of seeing is emphasized by the various arts o language is not only a medium high modernism and radical modernism o Romantic symbolist mode o indirection o multiplicity of senses a word may have o returning to the literal focusing on the  thing itself” o the experience of representation is emphasized o the  thingness of things” is explored e. g. T.S. Eliot,  The Waste Land” e. g. Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

11.  Imagism  by Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint  An Image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. […] It is the presentation of such a complex instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; the sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest work of art.  The  rules  of imagism:  1. Direct treatment of the thing […].  2. To use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phase, not in sequence of metronome.   The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.   In a Station of the Metro  by Ezra Pound

12. The Avant-Garde  Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.  Jacques Lipchitz Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

13. Georges Braque, Woman with a Guitar, 1913 „Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.”

14. Surrealism Salvador Dalí, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946

15. References: Buffet-Challié, Laurence. Art Nouveau Style. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982. „Jugendstil,” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1241656/Jugendstil Rainer Maria Rilke,  Archaic Torso of Apollo.  Retrieved from http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15814 The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature. Edited by Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.