Art Appreciation 1301                                                                                      Simon

 

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 22

 

FAUVISM

Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse), 1905

Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red(The Red Room), 1908-1909, p. 109

 

CUBISM

            Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, 1907, p. 53

            Georges Braque, Violin and Palette, 1909

 

DADA

Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917, ready-made, glazed china

 

SURREALISM

            Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, p. 44       

 

TERMS:

Fauvism. An art movement of the early 20th century led by Henri Matisse, characterized by its use of bold arbitrary color. Its name derives from the French word "fauve," meaning "wild beast".

 

Cubism. An early 20th century art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions, shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world.  The style is noted for the geometry and analysis of form, the fragmentation of the object, ambiguous or multiple spatial perspectives, and its increasing abstraction.

Dada. An art movement originating during World War I in several world capitals, including New York, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich, which was so antagonistic to traditional styles and materials of art that it was considered by many to be "anti-art".  Prompted by a revulsion against the horror of war, Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, the intuitive and was characterized by a disdain for convention, often enlivened with humor.

Surrealism. A style of art of the early 20th century that emphasized dream imagery, chance operations, and automatic, non-preconceived forms of notation that expressed the unconscious mind.