Modern, Postmodern & Beyond

1. Modern, Postmodern & Beyond

2. Europe before W W I

3. Kasimir Malevich Black Circle 1913 oil on canvas 41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.

4. Kasimir Malevich Black Square 1913 oil on canvas 41 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.

5. Kasimir Malevich Black Square and Red Square 1915 oil on canvas 28 x 17 1/2 in.

6. Dadaism • Portrait of Tristan Tzara • 1916 • Geneva, Switzerland • Artist: Hans Arp • Dadaism – so called for da da (yes yes) a child’s nonsense word or first word in German, was an attempt to rebel against the war and violence with art • A combination of random shapes and colors make up this work in a world that makes no sense – so should its art make no sense • This is a portrait of the artist’s friend Tzara a poet

7. Dadaism • Fountain • 1917 • New York • Artist: Marcel Duchamp • Claimed Dada was French for rocking horse to further confuse the meaning of the movement • Saw it as anti-art • Claimed what mattered most about art was who made it not its aesthetic qualities

8. Dadaism • L.H.O.O.Q. • 1917 • New York • Artist: Duchamp • When the letters are pronounced in French they form a pun that means this woman has a hot ass • He used puns to further undermine the stability of meaning in art

9. Duchamp, In Advance of a Broken Arm, 1915

10. Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1913assemblage 23 3/4 in. high

11. Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-23 oil, lead wire, foil, dust, varnish, glass 8 ft. 11 in. x 5 ft. 7 in.

12. Man Ray Gift 1921 flatiron with nails 6 1/2 in. high

13. Surrealism/Automatism • Painting • 1933 • Paris, France • Artist: Joan Miro • Seems inhabited by abstract creatures in constant motion • Claimed he painted entirely from hallucinations • Automatism – drawing liberated from planning

14. Surrealism • Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird • 1926 • Paris, France • Artist: Joan Miro • “Biomorphic Abstraction” • Art taken from the dream world and the subconscious

16. Giorgio De Chirico The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street 1914 oil on canvas 34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.

18. Giorgio De Chirico The Great Metaphysician 1917 oil on canvas 41 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.

19. Surrealism • The Persistence of Memory • 1931 • Paris, France • Dali was a Spanish born painter • The melted watches represent that time is relative and not fixed • Many of his paintings depict the impossible and the dreamlike

20. Salvador Dali Anthropomorphic Bread 1932 oil on canvas 24 x 32 cm

22. Dali, Soft Construction w Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

23. Dali, Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1948

24. Dali, Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1969-70

25. Dali, Corpus Hypercubicus (Crucifixion), 1954

26. Dali, Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955

27. Salvador Dali The Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937 oil on canvas 51.2 x 78.5 cm

28. Salvador Dali Young Virgin Autosodomized by Her Own Chastity 1954 oil on canvas

29. Max Ernst The Robing of the Bride 1940 oil on canvas 129.6 x 96.3 cm

30. René Magritte The False Mirror 1928 oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.

34. René Magritte The Treachery of Images 1928-29 oil on canvas 23 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

35. Meret Oppenheim Object 1936 fur-Covered cup, saucer and spoon2 7/8 in. high

36. De Stijl Movement • Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue • 1920 • Paris, France • Artist: Piet Mondrian • Dutch by birth • De Stijl means the style in Dutch – the movement championed pure abstraction • Mondrian took cubism to its extreme and just painted abstract shapes and primary colors

37. Piet Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogie 1943 oil on canvas 50 x 50 in.

38. Abstract Art • Bird in Space • 1928 • Paris, France • Artist: Constantin Brancusi • Romanian born • Brancusi favored simple forms and shapes in his sculptures • It does not depict a bird but rather the flight of a bird

39. Abstract Art • Three Forms • 1935 • London, England • Artist: Barbara Hepworth • Created shortly after the birth of her own triplets – the egg shaped forms perhaps represent this event • Egg-like in shape and smooth

40. Europe before WW II

41. Abstract Art • Reclining Figure • 1939 • London, England • Artist: Henry Moore • In a classical reclining pose similar to the Parthenon sculptures • His admiration for Stonehenge and weathered prehistoric art can be readily seen here • He attempted to obtain that same weather & time worn look

42. Abstract Art • Triple Gong • 1951 • Paris, France • Artist: Alexander Calder • American born • Invented the mobile • Art that was responsive to the environment; some of the shapes did not move intentionally as a contrast

43. Abstract Art • Kouros • 1944 – 1945 • Poston, Arizona • Artist: Isamu Noguchi • Sculpted while in an interment camp in Arizona • Used flat slabs of marble because they were inexpensive • Kouros is Greek for boy • Carved and constructed so it uses two opposing techniques; viewed from different angles changes how it appears • Demands that the viewer moves to see it all

44. American Modernism • Winter, Fifth Avenue • 1893 • New York • Artist: Alfred Stieglitz • Leading photographer of his day • Taken during a winter storm – shows nature’s ability to overcome progress • Hw introduced European modernism to America through his studio in NY • He purchased the 1st Picasso in America

45. American Modernism • Yellow Calla • 1929 • New York • Artist: Georgia O’Keefe • O’Keefe painted flowers close up and animal bones • She emphasized the abstract forms and patterns of a flower close up • Many art critics say that O’Keefe’s work has many sexual symbols in it – she denied this completely

46. Georgia O’Keeffe Music—Pink and Blue, II 1919oil on canvas35 1/2 x 29 in.

50. Georgia O’Keeffe Jack in the Pulpit IV 1930oil on canvas