1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Age of Anxiety Experience of War –Expectations not met—not quick and glorious –Four years of utter destruction –Over 9 million men killed –Millions more wounded –Severe shortage of men

3. Moral Effects of War Idea of Progress of Humanity hard to maintain Civilized nations committed barbarities: mustard gas; trench warfare Value of society questioned Religion: gave up: God is Dead /redefined: resurgence of Church

4. Cultural Effects War seen as pointless Literature: Novels on alienation: –Kafka: The Trial –Eliot: The WasteLand (1922) The Hollow Men (1925) Gerontion (1920)

5. Music Atonality: Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring –Its emotional intensity caused riots –Schoenberg—Abandoned traditional harmony and tonality

6. Decline of Reason Uncertainty in intellectual thought: Freud: dream analysis Nietzche: God is Dead Wittgenstein: existentialism— existence is its own meaning Einstein: relativity in physics brings uncertainty

7. Themes in Early Modern Art 1.Uncertainty/insecurity. 2.Disillusionment. 3.The subconscious. 4.Overt sexuality. 5.Violence & savagery.

8. Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893) Expressionism  Using bright colors to express a particular emotion.

9. Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)

10. Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

11. Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901) Secessionists  Disrupt the conservative values of Viennese society.  Obsessed with the self.  Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

12. Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)

13. Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903) Henri Matisse: Carmelina (1903) FAUVE  The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way.  “Wild Beast.”

14. Henri Matisse: Open Window (1905) Henri Matisse: Open Window (1905)

15. Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM  The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form.

16. CUBISM  Cezanne  The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

17. Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar (1913) Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar (1913)

18. Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

19. Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

20. Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

21. Pablo Picasso: Woman with a Flower (1932) Pablo Picasso: Woman with a Flower (1932)

22. Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)

23. Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)

24. George Grosz Grey Day (1921) George Grosz Grey Day (1921) DaDa  Ridiculed contemporary culture & traditional art forms.  The collapse during WW I of social and moral values.  Nihilistic.

25. George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926) George Grosz The Pillars of Society (1926)

26. Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)

27. Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)

28. Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

29. Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 Surrealism  Late 1920s- 1940s.  Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.

30. Surrealism Influenced by Feud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious. Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.

31. Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

32. Salvador Dali: The Apparition of the Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)

33. Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man (1943)

34. Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Building (1928) Bauhaus  A utopian quality.  Based on the ideals of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism.

35. Bauhaus The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses. Used techniques & materials employed especially in industrial fabrication & manufacture  steel, concrete, chrome, glass.

36. Walter Gropius: Lincoln, MA house (1938)