1. Modern Art
From 1900 to World War II

2. Manet & Realism
Impressionism
Post Impressionism
(Colorists)
(Formalists)
Van Gogh & Matisse
Cezanne
Fauvism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Futurism
Abstract geometric painting
Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism

3. Cubism
“’Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood…means nothing. I do not read English, [but] this does not mean that the English language does not exist….’”
Pablo Picasso
-- quoted by Guillaume Apollinaire in The Beginnings of Cubism, 1912.

4. Cubism: definition
“The art of painting original arrangements composed of elements taken from conceived rather than perceived reality.”
-- Guillaume Apollinaire, The Beginnings of Cubism, 1912.

5. Cubism Breaking up of nature into geometric figures and planes
leading artists: Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque

6. Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon
1907 by
Pablo Picasso

7. Violin & Palette by
Georges Braque

8. Bottle of Suze by
Pablo Picasso

9. Guitar by
Juan Gris

10. Guernica by Pablo Picasso, 1937 o/c

11. Girl before Mirror by
Pablo Picasso

12. Futurism Outgrowth of Cubism
Sought to capture motion & the “beauty of speed”
Revolutionary
Championed by poet Filippo Marinetti in “The Futurist Manifesto”

13. Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
by Giacomo Balla

14. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913 by
Umberto Boccioni

15. Expressionism Grew out of German movement, Die Brucke (The Bridge)
The Bridge: founded in 1905 to “bridge” to the art of the future
Emphasis on expressing inner feelings
Wassily Kandinsky: credited with painting 1st “abstract” painting, 1910

16. Suprematism Founded by Kasimir Malevich, c. 1913
Geometric abstract art
extreme reduction
non-objective
“supremacy of pure feeling”

17. Suprematism
Black Circle
1913 by
Kasimir Malevich

18. Suprematism Suprematist Painting: Aeroplane Flying 1915 by
Kasimir Malevich

19. Kasimir Malevich
Self-Portrait
1933 by
Kasimir Malevich

20. …toward abstraction... by
Piet Mondrian

21. by
Piet Mondrian

22. by
Piet Mondrian

23. Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
1921 by
Piet Mondrian

24. Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian

25. Composition I by
Piet Mondrian

26. Dada Western Europe: artistic, literary movement from 1916-1923
Protest against horrors of war
An “anti-art” movement
Dada means “hobby horse”

27. Surrealism 20th century literary, artistic movement
Expresses subconscious with fantastic imagery & strange juxtapositions
Drew heavily on Freudian theory

28. Surrealism
“According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic Andre Breton, who published ‘The Surrealist Manifesto’ in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely tat the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in ‘an absolute reality, a surreality.’”