The Age of Anxiety Art, Literature & Music

Assignment #1 – Age of Anxiety Intro through Art 1.How do you predict art and culture might change as a result of WWI? 2.How might the two pieces of music we hear be BOTH reflections of the time even though they are different?

Make a title for this piece of art – how might it be a reflection of a post – WWI world?

William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming” ( ) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Disillusionment a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be. “The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break.” - Paul Valery –READ THE VALERY DOCUMENT AND FIND 1 QUOTE THAT EMBODIES DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESCRIBE WHY

From Realism to Impressionism to Abstraction…

FOR THE FOLLOWING PAINTINGS: IDENTIFY ARTIST HOW DOES THIS REFLECT THE ART ISM AND HOW DOES THIS REFLECT THE POST WWI WORLD?

Dadaism Dadaism is a cultural movement that began during World War I and peaked from 1916 to The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, theater, and graphic design, and concentrated its antiwar politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti- bourgeois and anarchist in nature. Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray

The Fountain Marcel Duchamp 1917

L.H.O.O.Q Marcel Duchamp 1919

Mechanical Head Raoul Hausmann 1920

Surrealism Grows out of Freud and dream analysis -Some artists used realistic techniques to produce unrealistic scenes -Some used improvised art that lacked conscious control.

George Grosz: A Burning World Surrealism

Otto Dix – Modern War

Dog in Front of the Sun Joan Miro 1949

This is Not a Pipe Rene Magritte 1919

The Human Condition Magritte 1933

The Healer Rene Magritte 1941

Personal Values Rene Magritte 1952 (SF MOMA)

Pesistence of Memory Salvador Dali 1931

Apparition of Face on Fruit Dish on Beach Dali 1938

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire Dali 1940

Nostalgia of the Infinite Giorgio de Chirico 1911

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street Giorgio de Chirico 1914

The Fiddler Marc Chagall 1913

I and My Village Marc Chagall 1917

The Birthday Marc Chagall 1915

Metamorphasis I MC Escher 1933

Hand with Reflection Self Portrait MC Escher 1935

Sky and Water MC Escher 1938

Reptiles MC Escher 1943