BVA312 Art History 18/6/19

BVA312  Art History  18/6/19

20th Century Art Movements

Abstraction

Franz marc -
Wassily Kandinsky

emotion or consciousness supremacy of pure artistic feeling.

Hilma AF Klint - occult - ideas

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944  Tableau 2

Bauhaus - craft was on the same footing as art  - simplified forms

Dada - and abstract sculpture

Helen Frankenthaler -

Ref the case for abstraction  Khan Academy -

Fauvism (Wild Beasts)
Henri Matisse and Andre Derain - 1905-1910 interested in color theories -   early experiments in color and illusions in color.

Cubism - a revolutionary change to old ideas - the first abstract style in the movement.
Picasso and Braque - reflected the struggles of modern life.    Simplified forms - liberal use of cubes.
viewer feel the essence of the forms represented.  Multi perspectives of the same scene.


Instruments and sheet music featured in many works - music was important to them.
http://www.arthereandthere.com/arteducation/exploring-cubism/attachment/screen-shot-2012-10-07-at-8-42-07-pm/

Portait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

Pablo Picasso / Cubism

Duenda - a demon that bestows artistic talent to certain people - Spanish folk lore
I like that Picasso worked in multi mediums - 1958-63  revolutionized printing via lino cut process.
633 dishes of ceramics produced
Visual mythologies - based on his personal life  1920,s  - strong use of imagination - magical and powerful - suits fantasy genre ideas.


Georges Braque -  contemporary of Picasso. 

Juan Gris 1887 -1927

1940's Art Brut - Raw Art  invented by Jean Dubuffet 
scrafitto techniques - used oils - able to make heavy marks on the canvas - used other mediums to add to the paint such as sand.  - celebrating mark making - abstract expressionism
Painting - A Busy Life - 1953

Cy Twomley   - blackboard series NYC 1960s  
earlier works were Baroque styled  - beginnings of street art

Tate Modern - exhibition    - influenced by turner - atmospheric paintings of water and poetry (Keats)
Boats were motifs and showed up in the work - use of elements showed strongly in his work

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly's paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. Wikipedia
Died5 July 2011, Rome, Italy
Known forPainting, sculpture, calligraphy
SpouseBaroness Tatiana Franchetti (m. 1959–2010)
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‘Hero and Leandro 1981-1984 (Part One-Four) ’ (1985) by Cy Twombly

Objects should speak to each other not crowd each other out  - in a gallery show



Styled on outsider and primitive art




Jean Michel Basquiat  - 1960-1988
  1980s artist - died at 27 from drug overdose- street art - graffiti art 
Mixed media contemporary artist - 

Futurism  1909-1944
celebrated the modern world of industry and technology

Marinetti  started movement - Italian Futurism   - Heroic period  up to 1919
1920s - disruption became their ideal - obsessed with aviation ,

links with Fascist movement - never declared or favored the movement as the art of the state.  The movement became right wing.  Male dominated.  Umberto Boccioni
Gerardo Dottori - religious references..

Expressionism

Van gogh, Munch, the Brucke, Blaue Reiter groups - (blue rider Groups)

Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock , Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning -(action Painters) USA - the New York School 1940s and 1950s


Identified with NYC and MoMA 

The power of the object in a gallery setting - huge works in a grand setting.   seeing more than just two or three paintings - showcases the major figures of the movement.

Color field painters

Pop Art

Jeff Koons - ideas guy.  (1955-)





















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