Kim Judd Literature, Arts and the Humanities Competency 112.1.2 Comparison: Dada and Surrealism Western Governor’s University September 9, 2013 Comparison: Dada and Surrealism The creative process is challenged to constantly create new ideas and techniques. Artists form communities which allows them to discuss and compare their thoughts on art and world issues. The resulting art works are like a conversation without words, each new piece a reflection on the works that came before. Art is constantly evolving by this means, thus one movement in art leads to the next, which is how Dada evolved into Surrealism. Dada, 1916-1924 War was always a part of human culture, but with the advent of the machine age, it took on a whole new atrocity.
Die Brucke was dissolved by 1913, and World War I and stopped most groups activity. The World War I period was from the years 1914 to 1918 and a lot of changes happened during this era. (1) The bridge that the artist wanted to design and make was one which was going to be built through art to enlighten the future. One of the founders was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner who illustrated Street. In the painting there are intense colors show and the Expressionism is linking with Fauvism and making a great influence on the painting.
But once he heard of the Guernica bombings, he knew that he had the perfect subject that would make an impact on the people and began painting almost 15 days after the bombing occurred. Picasso had always been politically aware of the situation in Spain although he said he was not a “political artist” he changed his mind after this. Francisco Goya was one of the people who really influenced Picasso to create “Guernica”. Goya’s main focuses was on war and man’s cruelty. In his painting ‘Third of May’ was said to be the first modern war picture.
Thompson 1 John Thompson Ms. Wu The Arts Around Us 6 September 2012 Corruption Triptych When writing a paper on a triptych, most people would probably do it on something simple like love or happiness. I took a slightly different approach by basing this triptych on the easily fooled and corrupted souls of man. The music portion is a song called "Fire Coming Out of Monkey's Head" by the Gorillaz. The poetry portion is a work from Henry Vaughan called "Corruption." The final part is the painting "The Expulsion From Paradise" by Charles Joseph Natoire.
Roderick Bright Professor Hutchinson Art Appreciation April 23, 2013 Cubism: Picasso vs. African sculpture Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form which were displayed in a retrospective at the 1907 Salon d'Automne. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. A style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using brownish and neutral colors. Both artists took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their shapes.
Like many artists if the modern age (1860-1990) his art dealt with real life and everyday experiences, based on natural or man made form for example in the “Clarinet and bottle of rum on a mantelpiece”, his subject matter is the title and the same for “Glass guitar and bottle”. Picasso was part of the cubist movement. When he painted “Clarinet and a bottle of rum on a mantle piece” the subjects in cubist paintings were so broken down into facets that they became difficult to recognise, a phase known as analytical cubism. To remind the viewer of the subjects in the painting Picasso began to introduce images that would remind the viewer of the original subject such as lettering, musical signs and pieces of newspaper. By the time he came to construct “glass, guitar and bottle, analytical cubism had moved onto synthetic cubism.
Pepper’s” at first, but decided against it due to obvious, potential lawsuit reasons, but the concept was truly unique. Instead of marketing themselves as the Beatles, they created a fictitious concert band. The way it was organized was different too; the songs are all synced, like they are really performing a concert on tour. But that wasn’t the only illusion within the album; their new psychedelic sound, sampled into the public with Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever, skyrocketed, blowing the minds of everyone who purchased this record. The Beatles hard work became noticed with this album, and so did their increasing interest in drugs.
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism An Analysis and Critique of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Rachael Polston Western Governors University January, 2011 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism An Analysis and Critique of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Impressionism and Post-Impressionism were two artistic movements that began late in the 19th century and ended during the beginning of the 20th century. The Impressionism era brought about new subject matter and techniques that were criticized for many years. However, it eventually became as authoritative as the traditions it replaced, bringing with it many great masterpieces that inspired future generations many years later. Post-Impressionists pushed the acceptability even further, with new techniques and radical uses of color. Rebellion and independence defined these movements, creating artist that were bound together by their unique style of creating art.
Ece Manolya YALÇIN Aylin VARTANYAN AE 221.04 10.01.2014 THE HORROR OF WAR The artwork that I have selected was a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, “Guernica” which was done by one of the greatest and most influential artists of the twentieth century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism, Pablo Picasso. Picasso was commissioned to paint for the 1937 World Fair in Paris, although “Guernica” was not the painting Picasso had in mind when he agreed to paint. The bombing of the Basque village of Guernica, in Spain, on April 26th 1937, inspired him and he painted “Guernica” to point out the inhumanity and horror of war. Picasso explained feelings about Guernica in these words: "My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. In the picture I am painting — which I shall call Guernica — I am expressing my horror of the military caste which is now plundering Spain into an ocean of misery and death."
The Dadaists put forward their loathing of that ideology through the medium of artistic expression. This new expression of art appeared to reject rules and logic, instead embracing irrationality and the absurd. George Grosz, who was a German artist and a prominent member of the Berlin Dada group, remembers that his Dadaist art was meant as a protest “against this world of mutual destruction”. The surrealists created a far more positive philosophy than the Dadaists, even though they both shared the same rejection of the current bourgeois values. Surrealism spun off Dadaism in 1924, when Dadaist activist Andre Breton and other sympathetic artists, could no longer do Dada because to them it lead nowhere, creating havoc.