Transcript Modernism - Wolverton Mountain

MODERNISM
Chagall
I and the Village
1911
Chagall
Chagall
Chagall
Abstraction
• Essence of the object, not the representation of it
• Example of abstract art: Malevich, Mondrian
Malevich
The Girl, Figure on White
Malevich
An Englishman in
Moscow
1914
Malevich
Reaper on Red Background
1912-13
Mondrian
The Mill Under the Sun
1908
The Mill Under the Sun 1908
Mondrian
Broadway BoogieWoogie
1942-1943
Dada
• Protest to the horrors of war
• Unrelated, non-human bodies used to shock
• Painters—Max Ernst
Ernst
Zoomorphic Couple
1933
Ernst The Kiss 1927
Surrealism
• Painted with reference to the subconscious
• Painters—Chirico, Kahlo, Dali
Dali The Persistence of Memory 1931
Chirico The Nostalgia of the Poet
1914
Chirico Ariadne 1913
Kahlo The Dream 1940
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
1940
Harlem Renaissance
• Dates of the Harlem Renaissance 1919-1925
• Aaron Douglas—most famous painter
• Langston Hughes—most famous writer
Douglas
Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction
1934
Wright’s Fallingwater 1937