10-1 Arts 3

1900

1900

Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

1912

The titanic sinks

1914

World War 1 starts

1918

World War 1 ends

1928

First Mickey Mouse cartoon

1938

Superman first appearance on comic books

1939

World War 2 starts

1940

Cartoon character bugs bunny debuts in “A Wild Hare”

1945

Hitler commits suicide. The world war 2 ends

1955

James Dean dies in a car accident

1963

Martin Luther King Jr. Makes his “ I have a Dream Speech”

1964

Beatles become popular in US

1969

Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon

Impressionism

The first modern art movement

Impressionism

Representational art that did not necessarily rely on realistic depictions.

Impressionism

___ artists moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting en plein air.

Impressionism

loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors.

Impressionism

They abandoned traditional linear perspective and avoided the clarity of form.

Impressionism

records the effects of the massive mid-nineteenth-century renovation of Paris.

Post-Impressionism

Focused on abstract form and pattern in the application of paint to the surface of the canvas

Post-Impressionism

Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level

Post-Impressionism

Rather than merely represent their surroundings, they relied upon the interrelations of color and shape to describe the world around them.

Art Nouveau

Movement that swept through the decorative arts and architecture

Art Nouveau

Aimed at modernizing design, seeking to escape the eclectic historical styles that had previously been popular

Art Nouveau

Artists drew inspiration from both organic and geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms with more angular contours

Art Nouveau

The desire to abandon the historical styles of the 19th century was an important impetus

Fauvism

The Fauves ("wild beasts)" were a loosely allied group of French painters with shared interests.

Fauvism

radical goal of separating color from its descriptive, representational purpose and allowing it to exist on the canvas as an independent element.

Fauvism

Color could project a mood and establish a structure within the work of art without having to be true to the natural world.

Fauvism

The artist's direct experience of his subjects, his emotional response to nature, and his intuition were all more important than academic theory or elevated subject matter.

Expressionism

Emerged in the Germany in response to the widespread anxiety.

Expressionism

Art was now meant to come forth from within the artist

Expressionism

meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world.

Expressionism

employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects.

Expressionism

With the turn of the century in Europe, shifts in artistic styles and vision erupted as a response to the major changes in the atmosphere of society

The Scream by Edvard Munch

Most important expressionist art

Cubism

is one of the first truly modern movement to emerge in art

Analytic Cubism

in which forms seen to be ‘analyzed’ and fragmented

Synthetic Cubism

foreign materials are collaged to the surface of the canvas as 'synthetic' signs for depicted objects.

Cubism

It abandoned perspective, which artists had used to order space turned away from the realistic modeling of figures

Dada

was born in 1915, more or less simultaneously in Switzerland and the United States (specifically in Zurich and New York)—two countries that were at this time neutral during the war.

Dada

The movement reflected disgust at the horrors of the war and disillusionment with the values of the society from which it had emerged.

Dada

____’s aesthetics marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities

Surrealism

artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination.

Surrealism

powerfully influenced by Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos.

Surrealism

Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution.

Surrealism

Surrealists were interested in exposing the complex and repressed inner worlds of sexuality, desire, and violence, and interest in these topics fostered transgressive behavior.

Abstract

Vague umbrella term for any painting or sculpture which does not portray any recognizable objects or scenes

Abstract

a movement that they translated into a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma.

Abstract

Their art was championed for being emphatically American in spirit - monumental in scale, romantic in mood, and expressive of a rugged individual freedom.

Abstract

____ were profoundly influenced by the style and by

its focus on the unconscious. It encouraged their interest in myth and archetypal symbols.