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Modernism QTR 2
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02/12/2007

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Joan Miró, Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird, 1926
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Salvador Dalí, Apparition of a Face on a Seashore, 1938
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Max Ernst, Oedipus Rex, 1922
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Meret Oppenheim, Luncheon in Fur, 1936
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Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy of Departure, 1914
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Magritte, On the Threshold of Liberty, 1929
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Eugène Atget, Avenue des Gobelins, 1920
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Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933
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Man Ray, Gift, 1921
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Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928
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Dali and Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou, 1929
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Man Ray, L’Étoile de mer (The Starfish), 1928
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Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933
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Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928
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Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait / Henry Ford, 1932
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Calder, Button Flower, UCLA, 1959
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Hepworth, Elegy III, UCLA, 1966
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Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923
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Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, View from the Radio Tower, 1928
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Gropius, Fagus Factory, 1911
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José Luis Sert, Spanish Pavilion, 1937
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
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John, Heartfield, Those Who Read Bourgeois Newspapers will become blind and deaf, 1930
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Hannah Höch, Pretty Girl, 1920
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Höch, Cut With the Kitchen Knife:
Dada through the last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1920
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John Heartfield, The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Millions Stand Behind Me, 1932
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Diego Rivera, The Detroit Industry Murals, 1931-32
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Arno Breker, Strength, 1934 (drawing sword)
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Josep Thorak, Comradeship, 1930
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Albert Speer, Party Rally Grounds, Nurnberg 1936
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Paris World's Fair, 1937
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2 responses to WWI
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-return to order (restore cohesion)
ex: picasso reinstatement of neoclassicism
-underlying barbarism/dismantling order (way of handling the chaos in society)
ex: dada-chaos (Hannah Hoch-Pretty Girl collage)
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Uncanny
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-somewhat familiar but unfamiliar @ the same time
-doesn't fit into expectations
-understand but the meaning is unknown
ex: Man Ray-Starfish
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Formless
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-infinitely permeable
-lacking definite shape
ex: Giacometti, Women w/ Throat Cut
-victim of men's sexual aggression
-leaves woman helpless
-pschologically, she is formless due to the truama
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3 Characteristics of Fascism
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1. suppression of dissant (demonstrated by Hitler)
-when political party oppresses another party instead of constructively engaging in other party's perspective
2.centralization of authoritu under a dictator
3.rampant nationalism/rampant rascism
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3 characteristics of mural movement
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1. portraying nature & science
-Rivera (proletariat art, art i exclusive-shows distint classes, comm art-no class therefore reflects everyone)
-propaganda (art accessible in masses, not elitist, didactic/moralistic)
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Degenerate Art
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-Hitler did not condone (sickness of masses/society, art gone wrong)
-1937
-across from German Art Exhibit
-nazi propaganda throughout installation of exhibit (what art was not)
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German art exhibit
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-1937, munich (same yr as Paris world fair-contributed to potential of modern art/modern tech.-Hitler needed to control)
-pure art (Nazi art, nationalistic)
ex: Strength
-cleansing of degenerate art
-what art was
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Paris World Fair
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-1937
-international trade/sharing of modern art, science, tech.
-intended not to be political, but was (competition?)
-main attractions-countries pavilions, telephone, auotmobile
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Spanish Pavilion
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-@ Paris world fair
-Franco opposing comm. state
-Hitler supporting Franco's army
-civil war (Nationalists (Franco) vs. Republicans (for comm.))
ex: Picasso, Guernica-response to civil war (dark/agressive, colors-blues/greys/black-sets melancholy mood)
-hung in Spanish Pavilion
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The Magnetic Fields
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-1922 surrealist texts
-featured pure pysychic automatism (main precept of surrealism-expression of thought without exercised reason/control or mind)
-developed by Breton and Soupault
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2 strands of surrealism
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1. biomorphic/abstract surrealism
-free form, suggestive of shape
-many scupltures
ex: Miro
2. dream-like paintings (detail, distortion, recognizable scenes/objects)
ex:dali (artists used images of subconscious)
-both priviledged the unconscious
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Bauhuas
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-established in 1919 in Weimar by GROPIUS
-Bauhuas philosophy-learning by doing, broke down barrior between fine art and craft-consisted of course workshops that encouraged student's creativity
-2 areas of study: problems of craft and problems of form
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International Style
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-new form of advanced architecture and design
-term originated in exhibition in NYC, 1932
-resulted in new spatial organ (free flow of interior space)
-used for urban planning, low cost mass housing
-new materials: structural stee, ferroconcrete
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"Machines for Living"
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-bland housing, lack of color/decoration
-affordable housing
-la corbusier-coined the term
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Automatic Writing
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-dictation of thought without control of the mind
-exuisite corpse
-Breton "Soluable Fish"
-writer unaware of what will be written
-experimented in 1922-The Magnetic Fields
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