Gardner, Chapter 35

Europe & America, the Early 20th Century
(revised 8/08)



Vocabulary and Images

Expressive

Fauves
German Expressionism:  Die Brücke; Der Blaue Reiter

Formal/Analytic

Cubism: Analytic and Synthetic
Futurism
Purism
Constructivism
Suprematism
De Stijl

Exploring the subconscious and the unconscious

Dadaism
     readymades
Surrealism
     automatism
Regionalism
Bauhaus
International Style

Art Deco
curtain wall construction
(skeleton and skin)


EXPRESSIONISM

    FAUVISM
Henri Matise (1869-1954)
 *The Woman in the Hat, 1905, o/c
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/matisse/p-matisse13.htm Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908-9, o/c

Andre Derain
The Dance, o/c, 1906


      GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM - DIE BRÜCKE
*Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 Street Dresden,  1908, o/c

Emil Nolde
Saint Mary of Egypt Among the Sinners, oil/canvas (left panel of triptych, 1912

       GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM - BLAUE REITER

Wasily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
 
Improvisation No. 28 (second version), 1912, o/c

Franz Marc
 
Fate of the Animals, oil/canvas, 1912

       GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM - NEUE SACHLICHKEIT (NEW OBJECTIVITY)

Max Beckmann
Night, 1918-19, o/c

Otto Dix
Der Krieg (The War), oil and tempera/wood, 1929-32

FORMAL/ANALYTIC

      CUBISM
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Gertrude Stein, 1906-7, o/c

*Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, o/c
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/picasso/p-picasso2.htm

Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1911-12, o/c

Maquette for Guitar, cardboard, strong, wire, 1912

Guernica, 1937, o/c
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/picasso/p-picasso23.htm

Georges Braque
The Portuguese, 1911, o/c

Jacques Lipchitz
Bather, 1917, bronze.

     
     FUTURISM
 *Gino Severini
Armored Train, 1915, o/c

Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, bronze, 1913

   
    SUPREMATISM  
    

Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying,1915, o/c

   
   
DE STIJL
  

Piet Mondrian
Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Schroder House, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1924

 

EXPLORING THE IRRATIONAL AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

DADAISM

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1969)
*Fountain, 1917; second version, 1950, porcelain and black paint

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23
 http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/modern_contemporary/1952-98-1.shtml


METAPHYSICAL/SURREALISM

Giorgio de Chirico,  Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914, o/c

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

       *
The Persistence of Memory,
1931, o/c

Rene Magritte,  The Treachery ( or Perfidy) of Images, 1928-29, o/c


AMERICAN REGIONALISM & HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Nighthawks, 1942, o/c   http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/hopper/p-hopper2.htm

Jacob Lawrence (b. 1917), No. 49, from The Migration of the Negro, 1940-41, tempera/masonite

Thomas Hart Benton, Pioneer Days and Early Settlers, State Capitol, Jefferson City, 1936


PAINTING IN MEXICO


Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939, o/c

Diego Rivera, Ancient Mexico, National Palace, Mexico City, 1929-35

Jose Clemente Orozco, Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-America, Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College, 
     Hanover, c. 1932-34.



ARCHITECTURE - Modern

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

*Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Mill Run, PA, 1937
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/FLW_fallingwater.html

Le Corbusier

*Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, 1929-30
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Villa_Savoye.html
(Example of International Style)

BAUHAUS

Walter Gropius (and Adolph Meyer), Shop Block, the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1925-26


Chapter Review Questions
1.  What are some of the intellectual, scientific, technological, political and cultural developments that gave rise to Modernism? 

2.  Categorize the various modernist movements that developed before World War I in relationship to artists' interest in the 'expressive' (beginning with Fauvism) versus the 'formal/analytic' (beginning with Cubism).  

3.  Discuss the influences of non-Western art on the art of Picasso and other early 20th-century moderists.  What did Iberian and African art contribute to Picasso's work?

4.  Discuss the political and cultural issues that gave birth to Dada and Surrealism.  How did the art produced by both movements challenge artistic conventions?

5.  Discuss how the following art, architecture and design movements attempted to improve society:  Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus.

6.  Discuss the development of modern architecture in Holland, Germany, France, and America.   What 19th-century technical developments allowed modern architecture to evolve?  How did technical developments influence artitectural style?