1. AP EURO Unit #6 – Early 20th Century (The World Wars) Modern Art
of the 20th Century
Modernism –
“radical experimentation to challenge traditional forms”
PPT 606

2. Abstract Art (1907 - onwards)
a generic term
a blend of Realism and Symbolism
Something has been withdrawn to consider it separately
Plays with visual elements: line, shape, tone, pattern, texture, or form
GEORGES BRAQUE
Violin and Pitcher, 1910
(oil on canvas)

3. Art Nouveau August Klimt The Kiss, 1908 “New Art” decorative
1890 until World War I
intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
Describe what you see…
August Klimt The Kiss, 1908

4. Expressionism (1905-1925) German off shoot from Fauvism
Charged with emotional vision of the world
Try to remember what Fauvism was…
What do the colors seem to do?
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
The Red Tower at Halle, 1915
(oil on canvas)

5. Marc Chagall What am I talking about? (describe)
pioneer of modernism and a major Jewish artist.
synthesized cubism and fauvism

6. The Birthday, Marc Chagall, 1915
Can you see his emotion in the abstractness?

7. Cubism (1907-1915) Pablo Picasso and George Braque Paris
Ignores traditions of perspective
Show many views of subject at one time
Often drew inspiration from art from other cultures, like Africa
Breaks subject into geometric
shapes, then overlaps
What do I mean by that?
Can you describe what he’s doing?
Pablo Picasso
Ambroise Vollard, 1915
(oil on canvas)

8. Les Demoiselle d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso, 1907
What is he trying to say about this accepted part of French society?

9. Guernica – Pablo Picasso, 1937
Goal: show horrors of German carpet bombing - Evoke sympathy for Republican cause

10. Dadaism (1916-1922) not a style of art was a form of artistic anarchy
born out of disgust for the
establishment responsible WWI
intent on destroying the artistic values of the past
intentionally confrontational and provocative to the artistic establishment with the irrationality of their collages
Purposefully provoked conservative complacency with outrageous actions at their exhibitions and meetings.
Why would they do this?!

12. Surrealism (1924-1939) The positive response to Dada’s negativity
Goal: liberate artists imagination
Tap into “superior reality”
Drew on images of dreams
Often combined disassociated images
Purposefully lacked conscious mind control
Relate to Freud…
RENÉ MAGRITTE
Time Transfixed, 1938
(oil on canvas)
Salvador Dali

13. Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali, 1931
What might he be trying to say here?

14. Modernism Architecture

15. Functionalism Buildings should have a purpose
Do not decorate with fancy ornamentation
“a house is a machine for living in”
Describe this architecture… what you see.
Characterized by clean, straight lines
Symmetrical

16. Bauhaus
A school to teach all new styles of functionalism