Early Twentieth-Century Art

Pablo Picaso (1881 – 1973) Attacking Conventional Art History History Commissioned by nobles and the wealthy to show power Commissioned by nobles and the wealthy to show power Beauty Beauty Female nude as sensual, alluring, & obliging Female nude as sensual, alluring, & obliging Portraits Portraits Ideal resemblance Ideal resemblance Photography Photography

History Diego Velasquez Philip on a Horse Pablo Picasso Boy with a Horse

Beauty Paul Rubens The Three Graces Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Beauty Etoumbi Mask Congo

Portraits Pablo Picasso Ambroise Vollard Pablo Picasso Man with a Violin

Cubism A multiplicity of viewpoints instead of the traditional one-point perspective A multiplicity of viewpoints instead of the traditional one-point perspective Could also add the fourth dimension, time, by showing parts of same object at different times Could also add the fourth dimension, time, by showing parts of same object at different times Short, angular lines that make it look like the subject exploded and had been pieced back together Short, angular lines that make it look like the subject exploded and had been pieced back together

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No , Oil on canvas

Alexander Archipenko Woman Combing Her Hair 1915, Bronze

Futurism Giacomo Balla Streetlight 1909, Oil on canvas

Futurism Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913, Bronze

Henri Matisse – Fauvism Henri Matisse Madame Matisse 1905, Oil on canvas

Henri Matisse – Fauvism Henri Matisse Dance 1

Henri Matisse The Snail 1953, Gouache on paper 9.5 x 9.5 feet

Nonobjective Art Kasimir Malevich Suprematist Composition: White on Whtie 1918, Oil on canvas

Nonobjective Art Piet Mondrian Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue 1921, Oil on canvas

Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Influenced by Asian architecture Influenced by Asian architecture “Prairie School” of architecture “Prairie School” of architecture Rectangular and low to the ground Rectangular and low to the ground Fits into natural surroundings Fits into natural surroundings Bauhaus School The ideal of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism. The ideal of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism. The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses. The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses. Steel, concrete, chrome, glass. Steel, concrete, chrome, glass.

Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Chicago, IL Brick, glass, natural rock

Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA 1936 – Reinforced concrete, stone, masonry, steel

Bauhaus