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Introduction to Modern Art

Lecture II: Modernity and Modern Art

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What is Modernity?

What is Modernity?Three important Thinkers

What is Modernity?Three important ThinkersThe Effect of Modernity on ArtSubjectStylePolitics and artConcepts

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)

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Claude Monet, Gare Sainte Lazare, 1877Impressionism

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street in the rain, 1877Impressionism

George Grosz, Berlin Street Scene, 1926Expressionist Art

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1940sRealist Art

Richard Hamilton, 1956Pop Art

Robert Rauschenberg, 1960Pop ArtRauschenberg

Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1965Pop Art

Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937Picasso

Jean Dubuffet, 1940s

Piet Mondrian, Abstract Painting, 1921Abstract Art

Kasmimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1920

El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920s

Karp TrokhimenkoSoviet Socialist Realism

Chinese Communist Att

North Korean Art

Jackson Pollock, 1940sAbstract expressionist Artt

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Dada Art

Marcel Duchamp, 1920s

Rene Magritte. 1920sSurrealist Art

Salvador Dali. 1930s

Luis Bunuel, LAge dOr ( 1930)

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