Transcript Toward the Modern Consciousness

Toward the Modern
Consciousness
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Modernity
187-1914
 Rebellion against traditional
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Literature
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Naturalist style
– Realistic
– Address social problems
– Henrik Ibsen and Emile Zola
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Symbolist writers
– External world = symbols of the human mind
– Not criticize or understand society
Painting
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Impressionism
– 1870s France
– Reject traditional indoors  outside/nature
– Claude Monet
 Light, water, sky
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir
– Berthe Morisot
Monet Impression Sunrise
Pierre Auguste Renoir Porträt
Claude Monet
Renoir The Theater Box
Renoir Dance in the City
Painting (con’t)
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Postimpressionism
– 1880s France
– Paul Cezanne
– Vincent van Gogh
– Color and structure to express mood
– Paint feelings
Van Gogh Self Portrait with Straw
Hat
Van Gogh Vase with 12 Sunflowers
Van Gogh, Starry Night
Van Gogh, The Church at Auvers-
sur-Oise
Van Gogh, self portrait
Painting (con’t)
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Decline in realistic painting (1900s)
– Photography (1830s)
 George Eastman—Kodak 1888
– Individual expression
– Avoid “visual reality”
– Pablo Picasso (1905)
 Cubism
– Geometric designs
– Human form from many sides
– Einstein relativity
Picasso Portrait of Igor Stravinsky
Picasso, Dora Maar au Chat
Picasso, Massacre in Korea
Picasso, The Three Musicians
Picasso, Guernica
Painting (con’t)
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Abstract
– 1910
– Wassily Kandinsky
– Art should speak directly to soul
– Only line and color
Kandinsky, Munich-Schwabing with
the Church of St. Ursula
Kandinsky, Landscape With Two
Poplars
Kandinsky, Composition X
Architecture
Functionalism
 Urban growth
 Louis H. Sullivan
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– Reinforced concrete, steel frames, electric
elevators = skyscrapers
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Frank Lloyd Wright
– Geometric lines
– Overhanging roofs
Sullivan, Carson Prarie Scott Store
(Chicago)
Sullivan, Prudential Building (NYC)
Wright, Nathan G. Moore House
(Illinois)
Wright, Robbie House (University of
Chicago)
Wright, Falling Water in West
Orange (Pennsylvania)
Music
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Igor Stravinsky
– Expressive sounds
– Bold rhythms
– The Rite of Spring
 Paris 1913
 Near riot
Stravinsky
Stravinsky costume design for The
Firebird