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Art Movements of the Post WWI Years. 1919-1939. Kelvin Chin. modernism. 1916 - 1940. Principles of Modernism. The expression of the Artist’s right to freedom of choice in subject and style. Departure from literal representation – no longer needed with birth of photography. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Art Movements ofthe Post WWI Years
1919-1939
Kelvin Chin
modernism1916 - 1940
The expression of the Artist’s right to freedom of choice in subject and style.
Departure from literal representation – no longer needed with birth of photography.
“Art for Art’s sake”
Reject tradition and society.
Principles of Modernism
“Modernism” by the Critics“ For the younger artists of France have
completely thrown overboard the ideals of perfection and form, of grace and measure and tranquility, which we are accustomed to think as their most valuable possession.”
“…their (Dadaist’s) manifestos and tracts – with which it is proposed to ‘purge’ French art of its slavish subservience to rules.”
from “The Aesthetic Upheaval in France” by Edmund Wilson Jr., Vanity Fair February 1922
“Modernism” by the Artists“ Seven years ago, I tried to make a painting that would live by its own resources…At the present time I am doing research in art. My conclusions? I cannot explain my present researches until I myself have evolved out of them, that is to say, until I have gone further in my artistic evolution.”
Francis Picabia, quoted from “Francis Picabia and his Puzzling Art (an extremely modernized
academician)”, from Vanity Fair November 1915
dadaism1916 - 1924
Tristan Tzara – founder of Dadaism
“ Freedom : Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE”
“Dada Manifesto” [1919]
Began in neutral Switzerland in WWI
Also big in Paris.
Reached its peak between 1916 – 1924
“Anti – Art”
A movement against rigidity of society and art, and the barbarity of war – the public didn’t deserve art after the war.
Dadaism
Tristan TzaraBorn in Romania in 1896.
Lived most of his life in Paris.
Wrote the first Dada text, La Premiere Aventure celeste de Monsieur Antipyrine in 1916.
Penned the movements manifestos, Sept manifestes Dada, in 1924.
Became an active member of the French Communist Party in later life.
Characteristics of Dada Art
Nonsensical drawingsPastel and faded colorsUsed collages and layers – to confuse the “unworthy beholder.”“The beginnings of surrealism” – many Dada artists went on to become members of the Surrealist movement.Subjects sometimes mundane, called art as irony. (e.g.– bicycle wheel, flyer.)
Francis PicabiaMachine Turn Quickly1916-1918
Francis PicabiaFeathers
1921
Francis PicabiaChapeau de Paille1921
Kurt SchwittersThe Cherry
Picture1921
Kurt SchwittersMerz 448 (Moscow)1922
Kurt SchwittersKleine Dada Soiree1922
Marcel DuchampMonte Carlo
Bond1924
Marcel DuchampYou Me (Tu-M)
1918
Example covers of Dada Magazine(1917 & 1920)
Example articles from De Stijl and Dada