MODERNISM COLOLONIALISM Gauguin Yellow Christ 1889 Madonna Like

MODERNISM/ COLOLONIALISM

Gauguin Yellow Christ, 1889; Madonna, Like a Virgin, 1984

MODERNISM EXPRESSIONISM PRIMITIVISM COLOLONIALISM

MODERNISM IS…. 1) A break with TRADITION 2) When HISTORY becomes a problem 3) Importance of ORIGINALITY 4)The result of encountering non. Western art 5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists

Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

Photograph of Gauguin, 1888 Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

EXPRESSIONISM Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889 IMPRESSIONISM, Claude Monet, Landscape: The Park Monceau, 1876

Gauguin, self-portraits made between 1889 and 1890

Gauguin, Matu Mua/ In Olden Times, 1892 Gauguin, Matamoe/Peacocks in the Country, 1892

MODERNISM IS…. 3) Importance of ORIGINALITY

MODERNISM IS…. Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon • Modernism’s ORIGINS

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 Gauguin, Copy of Manet’s Olympia, 1891

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 • RETORTS TO OLYMPIA Gauguin, Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892

Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon Gauguin, In Olden Time, 1892

COLONIALISM Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon Gauguin, In Olden Time, 1892

MODERNISM IS…. 4) The result of encountering non-Western art

POST-GAUGUIN Henri Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

FAUVISM Henri Matisse, Green Stripe/ Portrait of Madame Matisse, , 1905

MORE RETORTS TO OLYMPIA EXPRESSIONISM Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nude Under a Japanese Umbrella, 1909

Pablo Picasso, Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1907

MODERNISM IS…. 5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists

MODERNISM IS…. 5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists…. which are played out on the female body

Gauguin, Sketch for Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1891 -3

Faith Ringgold, French Collection, Part 1, # 7 In Picasso’s Studio, 1991

Gauguin, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Gauguin, Breton Girls Dancing, 1888