AP EURO Unit 6 Early 20 th Century

AP EURO Unit #6 – Early 20 th Century (The World Wars) Modern Art of the 20 th Century PPT 606

Abstract Art (1907 - onwards) • a blend of Realism and Symbolism • Something has been withdrawn • Plays with visual elements GEORGES BRAQUE Violin and Pitcher, 1910 (oil on canvas)

Art Nouveau • • • “New Art” decorative 1890 until WW I linear designs flowing curves natural forms. August Klimt The Kiss, 1908

Expressionism (1905 -1925) • German off shoot from Fauvism • Charged with emotional vision of the world ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER The Red Tower at Halle, 1915 (oil on canvas)

Marc Chagall pioneer of modernism and a major Jewish artist. synthesized cubism and fauvism

Cubism (1907 -1915) • • • Pablo Picasso and George Braque Paris Ignored traditions of perspective many views of subject at one time inspiration from art from Africa Breaks subject into geometric shapes, then overlaps Pablo Picasso Ambroise Vollard, 1915 (oil on canvas)

Les Demoiselle d’Avignon Pablo Picasso, 1907

Guernica – Pablo Picasso, 1937

Dadaism (1916 -1922) • • • was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for WWI destroy artistic values intentionally confrontational Purposefully provoked outrageous actions at their exhibitions

Surrealism (1924 -1939) • • Goal: liberate artists imagination “superior reality” Drew on images of dreams Often combined disassociated images Salvador Dali RENÉ MAGRITTE Time Transfixed, 1938 (oil on canvas)

Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali, 1931

Functionalism • Buildings should have a purpose • Characterized by clean, straight lines • Symmetrical Bauhaus School