Western Art through the Ages Part 3 Expressionism Surrealism Cubism Abstract Expressionism 19 th & 20 th Centuries

…with music by Claude Debussey Dmitri Shostakovich Sergei Rachmaninoff Igor Stravinsky et.al.

Expressionism Indebted to Freud Art tries to penetrate the façade of bourgeois superficiality and probe the psyche—that which lurks beneath an individual’s calm and artificial posture

Expressionism--values Subliminal anxiety Dissonance in color and perspective Pictorial violence—manifest* and latent** –*Manifest (adj) readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; plain –**Latent (adj) present or potential but not visible, apparent, or realized

Edvard Munch The Scream 1893

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Street Scene with a Cocotte in Red 1914

Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest, 1914

Max Beckmann The Night

Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait 1898

Surrealism Also indebted to Freud Explores the dream world, a world without logic, reason, or meaning Fascination with mystery, the strange encounters between objects, and incongruity Subjects are often indecipherable in their strangeness The beautiful is the quality of chance association

Surrealism--values The dream sequence Illogic Fantasy

Giorgio de Chirico The Vexations of the Thinker

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory

Max Ernst Two Children are Menaced by a Nightingale

Joan Miró, Dog Barking at the Moon

Marc Chagall Self-portrait with Seven Fingers 1913

Cubism No single point of view No continuity or simultaneity of image contour All possible views to top, sides, front, and back Picture becomes a multifaceted view of objects with angular, interlocking planes

Cubism--values A new way of seeing A view of the world as a mosaic of multiple relationships Reality as interaction

Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1905?

Pablo Picasso, Paysage Mediterraneen

Georges Braque, The Table

Abstract Expressionism Nonrepresentational art No climaxes Flattened-out planes; and values The real appearance of forms in nature is subordinated to an aesthetic concept of form composed of shapes, lines and colors

Abstract Expressionism--values Personal and subjective interpretation “you see what you want to…”

Henry Moore, Reclining Figure 1977

Alberto Giacometti Man Pointing 1947 (Bronze sculpture)

Mark Rothko Ochre on Red 1954

Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, 1942