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1 Western Art through the Ages Part 3 Expressionism Surrealism Cubism Abstract Expressionism 19 th & 20 th Centuries

2 …with music by Claude Debussey Dmitri Shostakovich Sergei Rachmaninoff Igor Stravinsky et.al.

3 Expressionism Indebted to Freud Art tries to penetrate the façade of bourgeois superficiality and probe the psyche—that which lurks beneath an individual’s calm and artificial posture

4 Expressionism--values Subliminal anxiety Dissonance in color and perspective Pictorial violence—manifest* and latent** –*Manifest (adj) readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; plain –**Latent (adj) present or potential but not visible, apparent, or realized

5 Edvard Munch The Scream 1893

6 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Street Scene with a Cocotte in Red 1914

7 Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest, 1914

8 Max Beckmann The Night 1918-1919

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10 Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait 1898

11 Surrealism Also indebted to Freud Explores the dream world, a world without logic, reason, or meaning Fascination with mystery, the strange encounters between objects, and incongruity Subjects are often indecipherable in their strangeness The beautiful is the quality of chance association

12 Surrealism--values The dream sequence Illogic Fantasy

13 Giorgio de Chirico The Vexations of the Thinker

14 Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory

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16 Max Ernst Two Children are Menaced by a Nightingale

17 Joan Miró, Dog Barking at the Moon

18 Marc Chagall Self-portrait with Seven Fingers 1913

19 Cubism No single point of view No continuity or simultaneity of image contour All possible views to top, sides, front, and back Picture becomes a multifaceted view of objects with angular, interlocking planes

20 Cubism--values A new way of seeing A view of the world as a mosaic of multiple relationships Reality as interaction

21 Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1905?

22 Pablo Picasso, Paysage Mediterraneen

23 Georges Braque, The Table

24 Abstract Expressionism Nonrepresentational art No climaxes Flattened-out planes; and values The real appearance of forms in nature is subordinated to an aesthetic concept of form composed of shapes, lines and colors

25 Abstract Expressionism--values Personal and subjective interpretation “you see what you want to…”

26 Henry Moore, Reclining Figure 1977

27 Alberto Giacometti Man Pointing 1947 (Bronze sculpture)

28 Mark Rothko Ochre on Red 1954

29 Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, 1942


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