Lecture II:

Modernity and Modern Art

What is Modernity?

What is Modernity?

Three important Thinkers

What is Modernity?

Three important Thinkers

The Effect of Modernity on Art

- Subject

- Style

- Politics and art

- Concepts

‘everything solid melts in air’

Karl Marx

‘Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the

contingent; it is the one half of art, the

other being the eternal and the immutable.’

Charles

Baudelaire

J.M.W. Turner,’ The Fighting Temeraire’ (1839)

Charlie Chaplin in ‘Modern Times’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGs2Y5WJ14

Expressionist Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcReykfvqi4

Gas Attack in World war One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22w1UVGv71M

Modernity and Technology

Claude Monet, Gare Sainte Lazare, 1877 Impressionism

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street in the rain, 1877 Impressionism

George Grosz, Berlin Street Scene, 1926 Expressionist Art

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1940’s

Realist Art

Richard Hamilton, 1956 Pop Art

Rauschenberg

Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1965

Pop Art

Gustave Courbet, Bather, 1840’sRealist Art

Bougereaux, The Birth of Venus, 1880’sNeo-Classical Art

Paul Gauguin, 1890’s

‘Primitivism’ in Post-Impressionist Art

African Tribal Mask

Emile Nolde, The Dance of the GoLden Calf, 1910

Expressionist Art

Pablo Picasso. Les Damoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Picasso

Jean Dubuffet, 1940’s

Piet Mondrian, Abstract Painting, 1921

Abstract Art

Kasmimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1920

El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920’s

Karp Trokhimenko

Soviet Socialist Realism

Nazi Art

‘Degenerate Art’ Exhibition, 1936. Art condemned by the Nazis

Chinese Communist Att

North Korean Art

Jackson Pollock, 1940’sAbstract expressionist Artt

Dada Art

Marcel Duchamp, 1920’s

Rene Magritte. 1920’s

Surrealist Art

Salvador Dali. 1930’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pTjZ2ld5o