1. Toward the New Modern Consciousness

2. Changes in Science Marie Curie: Discovered Radiation
Ironically dies of radiation poisoning
Einstein: Theory of Relativity
E=MC2
Time and Distance are relative
Gives birth to new age of physics and atomic

3. New Understanding of Irrational
Nietzsche
“God is Dead.”
Superman must lead society
Rejects universal suffrage, democracy etc
Bergson
Scientific rational thought is useful but is NOT reality.
WATCH clip from Good Will Hunting
Sorel
General Strike: Screw the capitalists violent revolution

4. Freud Is a “Freak” (Don’t put that in AP Test)
Interpretation of Dreams
Psychoanalysis
Unconscious
Repression: Id, Ego, Superego
Sexual in nature
Oedipus Complex
Significance: Father of psychology

6. More -Isms Anticlericalism: Clash with Church
Naturalism: Realism but pessimistic
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamozov
Zola
Symbolism: rejected realism
Life is a combination/compilation of symbols
Art for its own sake…art doesn’t necessarily have to have a greater purpose

7. The Modern Art Impressionism: Monet Pissaro Morisot
Past times of new upper middle class
Bright colors, dynamic brush strokes
Monet
Pissaro
Morisot

8. Monet

13. Pissarro

16. Postimpressionism More attention to structure and form Cezzane
Van Gogh

17. Van Gogh

20. Cezzane

22. Other Modern Art Movements
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Abstract
Kandinsky

23. Picasso

25. Kandinsky