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Post WWI Art

Post WWI Art. “Along with millions of idealistic young men who were cut to pieces by machine guns and obliterated by artillery shells, there was another major casualty of World War I: traditional ideas about Western art”. (Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times). Themes in Early Modern Art.

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Post WWI Art

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  1. Post WWI Art “Along with millions of idealistic young men who were cut to pieces by machine guns and obliterated by artillery shells, there was another major casualty of World War I: traditional ideas about Western art”. (Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times)

  2. Themes in Early Modern Art • Uncertainty/insecurity. • Disillusionment. • The subconscious. • Overt sexuality. • Violence & savagery.

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

  4. Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)

  5. Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

  6. Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-1908)

  7. Henri Matisse: Open Window(1905)

  8. 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.

  9. Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar(1913)

  10. Georges Braque: Still Life (1929)

  11. Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

  12. Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)

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

  14. George Grosz The Pillarsof Society(1926)

  15. Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 Surrealism • Late 1920s-1940s. • Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa. • Influenced by Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious. • Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.

  16. Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

  17. Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928) Bauhaus • A utopian quality. • Based on the idealsof simplified formsand unadornedfunctionalism. • The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses. • Used techniques & materials employed especially in industrial fabrication & manufacture  steel, concrete, chrome, glass.

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