Unites States Between the Wars WWI WWII Social
Unites States Between the Wars • WWI - WWII • Social Realism versus Abstraction • Abstraction (Individualism) –European immigrants –Armory Show 1913 –Alfred Barr, Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Levy –MOMA –Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism • Social realism (Masses) –New Deal (Roosevelt) –WPA –Depression, Fascism, Communism • Jazz Age (Harlem Renaissance) –Alain Locke –Revival of African forms
Social Causes Jacob Riis, 5 Cents a Spot, 1889 • Documentary Photography • Lower East Side, NY • “How the Other Half Lives”
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933 Great Depression WPA Pictorial Straight
American Social Realist Painting George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913 • • • “Ashcan School” Robert Henri The Eight Real/Modern Poor Man’s Impressionism
John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 • Ash Can School • Lower Classes • New York Tenement Apts.
Bellows, Boxing at Sharkey’s, 1901 • Snap shots of the everyday
Regionalists Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930 • Iowa • Dentist and Sister • Dutch/Puritan • Gothic • Iconography? • “Americana”
Wood, Young Corn, 1931 • Regionalist Modernist Landscape
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930 • N. Y. • Psyche of City
Edward Hopper, Carolina Morning, 1955 • Muted colors • Capture a mood • Isolation • Loneliness • Anxiety • boredom
Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 Muted colors Isolation Anxiety Capture a mood loneliness boredom
Hopper, Room in New York , 1942
Thomas Hart Benton, City Building, (American Today Series), 1930 • Regionalism • American Worker • Caricature
Benton, The Art of the West, 1932 • American West • Masculinity • “American Hero”
John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 • Ash Can School • Lower Classes • New York Tenement Apts. • Poor Man’s Impressionism
Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life, From Slavery through Reconstruction, 1934 Harlem Renaissance Recover African forms in art Jazz Age Geometric Symbolism Alain Locke (philosopher)
In an African Setting, 1934 Noah’s Ark, 1927
Jacob Lawrence, No. 1, From the Migration of the Negro Series, 1940 -41 • Post-slavery migration north. • Series • Hard edge
Motley, Black Belt, 1934, The Nightlife, 1943 • Chicago’s South Side • Black Experience • Psychedelic colors
American Modernism Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907 • 291 Gallery • “Straight Photography” • Balance of shapes and forms
Stieglitz, 5 th Avenue, 1910 “Pictorial Photography”
Imogen Cunningham, Two Callas, 1939 • San Francisco • Straight photography • Pictorial • f. 64 Gallery (camera f-stop)
Cunningham, Datura, n. d. , Three Vegetables, n. d.
American Modernism Georgia O’Keefe Jack in the Pulpit IV, 1920’s • Records flowers • Precisionism (style) – Essence of Object – Sharp lines – Intense & pure color • Misinterpretations
O’Keefe Music in Pink and Blue, 1923 Black Iris, 1924
City Night, 1926 Radiator Building, Night, NY, 1927
Mardsen Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 • • • Armory Show European Influence Independence War Motif Series (12) Berlin Friend/Lover Karl von Freyburg Fragments Individual iconography
Hartley, Still Life, 1911 / Chinese Sea Horse, 1941
DADA c. 1913 -1925, Marcel Duchamp, Urinal (Fountain), 1917(1950) • • Response to WWI. Tristian Tziara & Hugo Ball French = hobby horse; Rumanian = yes Zurich, Paris, Germany, New York. Nonsense, no manifesto State of mind ANTI-ART OBJECTS –Readymade/Already made –Loses functionality • • AUTOMATISM Chance Choice End result of contradiction
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (large glass), 1915 -23 • New York Dada • Alfred Stieglitz • 291 gallery • Circulatory systems • “mechanamorphic” • Chance
Surrealism Paris, 1922. International in 1936. Andre Breton: Manifesto (associated with dada) Born out of a desire for positive action. Myths Primitivism Dream Analysis Chance Choice (Free association) Spontaneous Action Metonymy (metonimic)
Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1928 • Poststructuralism • Sarte, Benjamin • Painting as Representation • Reality as representation
Magritte, The Treachery (of perfidy) of Image, 1928 -29 • “This is not a pipe” • Reality/ Representation
Joseph Cornell Untitled (The Hotel Eden), 1945 • Shadow Boxes – 12 -20” • Surrealism – Julian Levy Gallery • Assemblage • Discarded objects • Nostalgia • Random Juxtaposition • Search for the self • Caged Bird: sublimation, memory, and peace.
Cornell, Habitat Group for Shooting Gallery, 1943 / Solar Set, 1958
Cornell, Toward the Blue Peninsula, 1953 Nostalgia Mystery Fantasy
Cornell, Untitled (Medici Princess), 1948 / Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall), 1942
Isamu Noguchi, Kouros, 1944 -5 / Remembrance 1981 • Biomorphic Surrealism • Constantin Brancusi • Zen • Contemplation of parts of the whole
20 th Century Sculpture Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925 The Newborn, 1915
Brancusi and Noguchi
Noguchi, Kouros / Greek Kouros
Noguchi, Water Garden, 1963 • Japanese Zen Garden • Reflection/ Contemplation • Industry/ Nature
Water garden (details)
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