Post on 21-Jan-2018
Lecture II:
Modernity and Modern Art
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
Three important Thinkers
What is Modernity?
Three important Thinkers
The Effect of Modernity on Art
- Subject
- Style
- Politics and art
- Concepts
‘everything solid melts in air’
Karl Marx
‘Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the
contingent; it is the one half of art, the
other being the eternal and the immutable.’
Charles
Baudelaire
J.M.W. Turner,’ The Fighting Temeraire’ (1839)
Charlie Chaplin in ‘Modern Times’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGs2Y5WJ14
Expressionist Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcReykfvqi4
Gas Attack in World war One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22w1UVGv71M
Modernity and Technology
Claude Monet, Gare Sainte Lazare, 1877 Impressionism
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street in the rain, 1877 Impressionism
George Grosz, Berlin Street Scene, 1926 Expressionist Art
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1940’s
Realist Art
Richard Hamilton, 1956 Pop Art
Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1965
Pop Art
Gustave Courbet, Bather, 1840’sRealist Art
Bougereaux, The Birth of Venus, 1880’sNeo-Classical Art
Paul Gauguin, 1890’s
‘Primitivism’ in Post-Impressionist Art
African Tribal Mask
Emile Nolde, The Dance of the GoLden Calf, 1910
Expressionist Art
Pablo Picasso. Les Damoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Picasso
Jean Dubuffet, 1940’s
Piet Mondrian, Abstract Painting, 1921
Abstract Art
Kasmimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1920
El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920’s
Karp Trokhimenko
Soviet Socialist Realism
Nazi Art
‘Degenerate Art’ Exhibition, 1936. Art condemned by the Nazis
Chinese Communist Att
North Korean Art
Jackson Pollock, 1940’sAbstract expressionist Artt
Dada Art
Marcel Duchamp, 1920’s
Rene Magritte. 1920’s
Surrealist Art
Salvador Dali. 1930’s