surrealism, regionalism, mexico
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SURREALISMInspired by Dadaists, especially their improvisational techniques, automatic writing - Dreams (sparked by the work of
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung)- Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto
The Subconscious , fantasy- Brings outer and inner “reality” together
– much like dreams
- Naturalistic Surrealism draws from life, using recognizable objects in a metaphorical way
- Biomorphic Surrealism is mostly abstract, but suggest organisms or natural forms
Giorgio De Chirico
The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
1914oil on canvas34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.
Max Ernst
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
1924Oil on wood with wood construction2’3” x 1’10” x 4”
Hitler and “Degenerate Art”
Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
1931oil on canvas9 1/2 x 13 in.
“…to materialize the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision…in order that the world of imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident…as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality”
Salvador Dali
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
1937oil on canvas51.2 x 78.5 cm
Salvador Dali and Louis Buñuel
Un Chien Andalou
1929motion picture
René Magritte
The Treachery of Images
1928-29oil on canvas23 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.
René Magritte
The Rape
1934oil on canvas77.5 x 58.7 cm
Meret Oppenheim
Object
1936fur-Covered cup, saucer and spoon2 7/8 in. high
Joan Miro
Painting
1933oil on canvas5’8” x 6’5” Automatism – the creation of art without conscious control
Paul Klee
Twittering Machine
1922Watercolor and pen and ink, on oil transfer drawing on paper, mounted on cardboard2’1” x 1’7”
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying
1915oil on canvas1’10” x 1’7”
SUPREMATISM
PURE FEELING!
Naum Gabo
Column
1923Perspex, wood, metal, glass3’5” x 2’5” x 2’5”
CONSTRUCTIVISM
Piet Mondrian
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
1930oil on canvas20 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.
DE STIJL – The Style
Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie
1943oil on canvas50 x 50 in.
Constantin Brancusi
Bird in Space
1924Bronze4’2”
Henry Moore
Reclining Figure
1939Elm wood3’1” x 6’7” x 2’6”
American Art 1930-1945• Exposure to modern art through Armory show and influx of foreign artists • Artists relocated to America after the havoc WWII was wreaking on Europe (Dali, Grosz,
Ernst)• Hitler and degenerate art
• Museums hosted foreign artist exhibitions• MoMa and it’s role in American Modern Art
• Many artists returned to Europe after the war, but left a strong impression on American art
Alexander Calder
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
1939Painted sheet aluminum and wire8’6” x 9’6”
The Effects of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley
1935Gelatin silver print1’1” x 9”
Edward Hopper
Nighthawks
1942oil on canvas2’6” x 4’8”
How are these paintings related?
Grant Wood
American Gothic
1930oil on canvas2’5” x 2’
REGIONALISM“Quaint, humorous and AMERICAN”
Benton, Pioneer Days and Early Settlers, 1936
Diego Rivera
Ancient Mexico, from History of Mexico
1929-1935
Fresco
MEXICAN ART
Frida Kahlo
The Two Fridas
1939
Oil on canvas
5’7” x 5’7”