Modern Characteris

tics Objective 40: Students will demonstrate

understanding by describing Modern

characteristics

Characteristics of Modern Art?

Modern art: Breaks with or redefines the

conventions of the past. Uses experimental techniques. Shows the diversity of society

and the blending of cultures.

Events that influenced art of the 20th Century

World War I infirmary

and Public

Service Advertisement

World War II American

Propaganda Posters

Events that influenced art of the 20th Century

Feminism

Civil Rights Movement

Events that influenced art of the 20th Century

                                                                                                         

1920’s: Sexual

Revolution

1960’s:Sexual Revolution

Events that influenced art of the 20th Century

Technological Advances

Globalization

Objective 41: Students will demonstrate understanding by describing Modern art

Visual Arts:O’Keefe, Picasso, and Lange

Pablo Picasso Born on October 25, 1881 in

Malaga, Spain,

Son of an art and drawing teacher.

Picasso was an art student practically from birth; he was fully trained as an artist by age 19.

He had his first exhibit in Barcelona, Spain in 1900, and soon there after moved to France.

Picasso shuffled between Barcelona and Paris for the next 5 years.

Picasso’s Early Art

Le Moulin de la Galette,

1900

The Old Fisherman (Salmerón),

1895

Sabartès Seated, 1900

Parisian Influence on Picasso

While in Paris, Picasso rejected schooling and became friends with a group of young avant-garde artists, collectively known as modernistes.

The Modernistes were known for their interest in: symbolism in art social causes, including the urban

underprivileged

Picasso would opt to paint the poor or disenfranchised: the prostitutes, beggars, street musicians, for he felt that they alone understood him and his pain.

He assimilated the ideas the Post-Impressionist painters - Van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, etc. into his own works while in Paris.

The Many Moods of Picasso 1901 – Blue Period: all works in monochromatic

blue

Represented melancholyand despair

CrouchingWoman, 1902

The Old Guitar Player, 1903

Picasso’s Rose Period Began in 1904; painted in shades of red.

During this period, Picasso painted mainly circus and fair performers (mainly a migrant community of acrobats, musicians, and clowns– saltimbanques), usually in relaxed, happy settings.

Family of

Saltimbanques,1905

The Beginnings of Cubism

In 1907, Picasso founded Cubism.

Natural forms were re-duced to fractured, geo-metric structures, or “little cubes.”

• Became the basis of allabstract art to follow Les Demoiselles

d'Avignon.

Picasso’s Cubist Works

Three Musicians

Girl with a guitarLandscape

Guernica

1937, oil on canvas

Guernica

It is regarded as Modern art’s modern art's most powerful antiwar statement.

Commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the Spanish Pavillion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris

Commemorates the Nazi bombing of

Gernika, Spain, on April 27th, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica burns for three days. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.

Georgia O’Keefe:Blazing a Trail for Women Born on 1887 in Sun Prairie,

Wisconsin.

From a very young age, declared that she would be an artist.

Moved to New York in 1917, met artist/promoter Alfred Stieglitz

They married in 1924 and formed one of the most influential partnerships in the history of art

Three Main Periods in O’Keeffe’s work:

Flower Period: began to paint giant, detailed,

almost surreal paintings of flowers

Innovative in using brilliant, bold colors with simple patterns and shapes

Some considered her work controversial and sexual

“I have painted what each flower is to me and I have painted it big enough so that others would see what I see.”

Calla Lilies On Pink, 1928

Poppy, 1927

Compare and Contrast

Claude Monet, Vase with Flowers, 1880

Ambrosius Bosschaert1620

                                                    

Calla Lilies On Pink, 1928

Ghost Ranch Period O’Keeffe journeyed with a friend to Taos, New

Mexico and the Ghost Ranch in 1930.

She fell in love with the barrenness and expanse of the unspoiled land, and created almost mythical images of them as she loved to see them: uninterrupted or spoiled by humans.

She loved the feeling of the country's symbols:

life as a struggle sadness resurrection.

Ghost Ranch Period Images

Bell/Cross, Ranchos,1930

Ranchos Church,1930

Long Pink Hills, 1931

“Bones” PeriodBones embodied the wild, wonderful

nature of the West

Cow skulls especially showed

her audience the untamed,

beautiful nature of the

desert west.

More surreal style

Bones and Hollyhock

Painted until she lost her

eyesight completely

Died in 1986

Distinctly American; not concerned with art trends in Europe.

Perhaps the most influential female artist of the 20th century

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1934

Dorothea Lange : “I am not an artist”

Dorethea Lange was born in Hoboken, NJ in 1895.

She studied photography in NYC before WWI

In 1919 moved to San Francisco to work as a portrait photographer and tried documentary photography.

                                                   

Beginnings of GreatnessConcerned with people and their situations,

appreciated the ordinary

She first photographed documentary images of Native Americans in the west in the 1920s.

In 1931, Lange was hired by

the Farm Security Admin. to photograph and document the migrant farmers and workers, forced to move west by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.

Philipinos cutting lettuce, 1938

Lange’s Documentation of the Great Depression Migration

Next Time Try the Train, 1932

White Angel Breadline, 1937

Her first lay out in Life magazine depicted her images of the desolate western land, and the sad,

depressing images of those displaced there

Migrant Mother

Migrant mother working at a pea-pickers camp in California, living in a make-shift tent, looking longingly into the distance.

Icon of the Great Depression

Social Documentation through Art: Japanese Internment Camps during WWII

Salvador Dali Born May 11, 1904 in Spain Studied art in Madrid, but expelled from school Known as much for his eccentric personality as

his art.

Heavily influenced by Picasso

Tried painting in Cubist and Dada styles, but best known for his Surrealist works

Often painted as soon as he woke up

SurrealismArtistic expression of the philosophy

that the mind, individual, and society can be liberated by exercising the “unconscious mind.”

Based on the works of psychologist Sigmund Freud. He believed that the unconscious mind and desires were expressed through dreams because the conscious mind could not understand.

The Persistence of MemorySalvador Dali, oil on canvas, 1931

Beyond Painting

Rinoceronte vestido

con puntillas, 1956

Gala in the Window, 1933

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954

Dali’s acknowledgement of the new science of physics

Andy Warhol & Pop Art

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), born in Pittsburgh, PA to immigrant parents from Slovakia

Trained in commercial art and had a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising.

Also was a avante-garde film maker

Campbell’s Soup Can, 1968silkscreen

Warhol was very interested in popular culture.

His studio was named “The Factory,” to mirror his interest in material goods that were massed produced during that time.

Pop Art: The Everyday Becomes Art

Drowning Girl (1963),Roy Lichtenstein,

Spray (1962), Lichtenstein

Jacob Lawrence: Harlem Renaissance

1917-2000; Born in New Jersey

Raised in Harlem, studied at the Harlem Art Workshop

Taught Art at Univ. of Washington in Seattle

His work documented important African- American historical events and culture

Art of Jacob Lawrence

Barber Shop, 1946

“To Preserve Their Freedom”Silk screen, 1988