Modern Art 109 From mid-19 th century to mid-20 th century (left) Édouard Manet (French Realist painter, ‘father’ of the avant-garde), photograph by Nadar, 1867 (right) Jackson Pollock (American ‘Action’ painter, 1949 Life magazine photo for article, “Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?”
From lecture and reading, Marshall Berman, “The Experience of Modernity,” know how to define: 1)the avant-garde 2)modernity 3)modernism
Realism and the Origin of the Avant-Garde in Paris Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet
Gustave Courbet (French, ) Self-Portrait, c. 1845
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849 compare with Thomas Couture, Romans of the Decadence, 1847
Henri Fantin-Latour. Portrait of Édouard Manet. 1867, oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Parisian dandy, flaneur, and “Painter of Modern Life”
(left) Titian (or Giorgione), Venus of Urbino, 1538 (Uffizi) source for (right) Edouard Manet’s Olympia 1863
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French Academic painter), Phrynee Before the Judges, 1861 Honoré Daumier (French) cartoon: “This year Venuses Again, Always Venuses,” satirical cartoon, c. 1864
Alexandre Cabanel (French Academic Painter, ) The Birth of Venus, 51 x 88 inches, 1863
William Bouguereau, Birth of Venus, 1879 and Paul Baudry, Venus and Cupid, c. 1857
Édouard Manet, Universal Exposition of 1867, 1867, oil on canvas The Painter of Modern Life
Emperor Napoleon III by Hipolyte Flandrin (Salon of 1863) with Plan of Paris – radical urban renewal of Paris designed by Baron Haussmann,
Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann’s urban renewal of Paris: Contemporary view of Blvd. Haussmann with Galeries Lafayette, finished in 1912, one of the first department stores.
Interior of Galleries Lafayette finished in Modern Versaille of middle-class consumerism
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art, of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.... Charles Baudelaire Architecture as Emblem of Modernity The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Centennial of the 1789 French Revolution
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in the Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton architect, Hyde Park, London, England 1851, moved to Sydenham in 1852, burned down in 1936
Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851
Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1851, detail of exterior structure
Building The Crystal Palace from prefabricated iron parts
Cartoon from Punch, British satirical magazine
Crystal Palace Science Exhibit: Envelope Machine
Announcing the invention of photography (the daguerreotype) at The Joint Meeting of the Academies of Science and Fine Arts in the Institute of France, Paris, August 19, 1839, unsigned engraving
Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms “....every Museum of Modern Art in the United States and Europe should be required, in the spirit of truth in advertising, to change its name to Museum of Western Modernism until it has earned the right to do otherwise.” Holland Cotter NYTimes, 2012
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(left) Unknown, The Miraculous Mass of Saint Gregory, Mexico City, 1539, feather on wood, 26 x 22,” commissioned by the first colonial governor of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) as a gift for Pope Paul III (center right) Giovanni Pietro Birago, Mass of Saint Gregory, painting, Milan, c. 1490, typical source for feather painting (corner right) Pre-Conquest Aztec feathered shield, c CE
(left) Ando Hiroshige, Kameido Ume (Japanese apricot) Garden, woodcut, ink on paper, 1857, from the series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (right) Vincent Van Gogh, Plum Tree in Bloom (after Hiroshige), oil on canvas,1887
Yoshikazu, Picture of Foreigners Enjoying a Banquet, December 1860, Yokohama, color woodblock Children dance at the May Festival Ball given in honor of the Japanese ambassadors Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 6, 1860
(left) Yorozu Tetsugoro, Self Portrait with Red Eyes, oil on canvas, 1912 – Expressionist / Cubist / Futurist / Global avant-garde modernism (right) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German Expressionist, ), Self Portrait with Model, oil on canvas, 1910
Transformative influence of African tribal sculpture Picasso’s epiphany in June 1907 at the ethnographic museum in Paris Georges Braque: “It is as if someone had drunk kerosene to spit fire." “My first exorcism painting…. For me the masks were not just sculptures. They were magical objects...intercessors...against everything - against unknown threatening spirits....They were weapons... to keep people from being ruled by spirits. To help them free themselves.... If we give a form to these spirits we become free."
(left) Aina Onabolu (Yoruba-Nigerian, ), Portrait of a Lawyer, oil on canvas, 1910 (right) Egungun Mask, unknown Yoruba carver, Nigeria, late 19th/early 20th century Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, icon of Western avant-garde painting
(left) Aina Onabolu, Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), oil on canvas, 1954 (right) Onabolu, Nude Study, drawing, 1920(?)