Monday, July 25, 2011

Early 20th Century



Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red





E.L. Kirchner, Artist With Model, German Expressionism






Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907





Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie, Cubism








Wassily Kandinsky, Painting with Black Lines





Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, Dada






Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, Surrealism






El Lissitzky, "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!", poster, Russian Avant Garde






Walter Gropius and others, The Bauhaus campus, Dessau, Germany, Bauhaus





Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie






Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, Abstract Expressionism




EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART


Henri Matisse
--fauvism
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
--E.L. Kirchner
Picasso
--Cubism
Wassily Kandinsky
--abstraction
Dada
--Marcel Duchamp
Surrealism
--Salvador Dali
The Russian Avant Garde
--El Lissitzky
The Bauhaus
--Walter Gropius
Abstract Expressionism
--Jackson Pollock


Metropolis

Director Fritz Lang's 1927 epic movie Metropolis was history's first science fiction blockbuster.  Set in an immense city in the year 2026, the movie shows a struggle between exploited workers forced to live underground who their superiors regard as more disposable than the machines they toil over, and a privileged elite who live high above in the great city.  Though the movie was a huge hit throughout Europe, it was so expensive to make that even with sell out shows, the production company was forced into bankruptcy.  Metropolis is the grandfather of all the science fiction epics that come out every summer from Star Wars to Blade Runner to The Matrix to Star Trek.

Metropolis still has devoted fans around the world, and Kino-Lorber, the company that now owns it, is cracking down on YouTube postings of this movie.  So here is the official trailer for their new fully restored release of the movie from a few years ago.  You get a glimpse of a lot of the cool parts.

Twentieth Century art is an art of great expectations and great anxieties, and both of those come together in this spectacular movie.







Friday, July 22, 2011

Post Impressionism


Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon



Paul Gauguin, Manao Tupupau (The Spirit of the Dead Watches)





Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night






Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait




Paul Cezanne, Apples and Pears




Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire





Edvard Munch, The Scream



POST IMPRESSIONISM

Vincent Van Gogh
--Theo Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
--decorative form
Paul Cezanne
--motif
Edvard Munch
--expressionism

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Beginnings of Modern Architecture

Daniel Burnham, Monadnock Building, Chicago




Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott Store, Chicago






William Morris, Red House, Bexleyheath, UK






Victor Horta, Tassel House, Brussels, Belgium, Art Nouveau




Antonio Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, Barcelona, Spain, Art Nouveau






Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank, Vienna





Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago, Prairie Style House



BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Chicago
Daniel Burnham
Steel Frame
Louis Sullivan
William Morris
--Arts and Craft Movement
Art Nouveau
--Victor Horta
--Antonio Gaudi
Otto Wagner
Frank Lloyd Wright
--Prairie Style House

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Photography and Impressionism

Louis Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, photograph



 William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, photograph (calotype)




Edward Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), Impressionism






Edward Manet, Bar at the Folies Bergere, Impressionism






Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, Impressionism






Claude Monet, Haystacks, Impressionism





Claude Monet, Waterlilies, Evening Effect, Impressionism







PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMPRESSIONISM

Nicephore Niepce
Louis Daguerre
William Henry Fox Talbot
Charles Baudelaire
Edward Manet
--Salon des Refuses
Claude Monet
--Impressionist brush stroke
--chromatic palette

Romanticism



Francisco de Goya, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters", etching from Los Caprichos





Francisco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808





Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children






Joseph Mallord William Turner, Hannibal Crossing the Alps





JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament












John Constable, Lane in Suffolk





John Constable, The Haywain






Caspar David Friedrich, Monk By the Sea





Caspar David Friedrich, The Large Enclosure





William Blake, Albion Rose...



William Blake, page from Jerusalem







Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa




Theodore Gericault, Severed Heads






Eugene Delacroix, The Massacre at Chios





Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People







JAD Ingres, The Grande Odalisque






JAD Ingres, Madame d'Hausonville




ROMANTICISM

Francisco de Goya
--Los Caprichos
Romantic Landscape
--the sublime
--JMW Turner
--John Constable
--CD Friedrich
William Blake
Theodore Gericault
Eugene Delacroix
JAD Ingres

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Beethoven 

'O Welche Lust' (The Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio) "O Freedom Freedom! Come to us again..."