2. E=mc2
Energy=Mass x speed of
Light 2
Describes energy as a
form of matter.
A large amount of energy
could be released from a
small amount of matter.
7. WORLD WAR I • THE GREAT WAR
“The war to end all
wars”
…the dreams
& promises of
an
industrialized
UTOPIA are
shattered
…a glimpse
of the
future
THE 20TH
CENTURY
22. 1949 People’s Republic of
China
Executed 2-5 million people
Indoctrination, exile, and
purges
li-Hua”China,Roar!”1936
23. sought to use color
and line to describe
their emotional
responses
VAN GOGH 1853-
1890
CEZANNE 1839-
GAUGUIN 1848-
1903
THE
FOUNDATIONS
OF 20th
CENTURY
PAINTINGPOST
IMPRESSIONISTS
(1880’s - early
1900’s)
25. Subjects reduced to geometric shapes
such as cubes
like a 3-D picture flattened out.
The Three Musicians (1921) and Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso,, Bottle and Fishes
(1910) and Man and a Guitar (1911) by George Braque
30. Picasso said, "...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If
you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may
be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What
ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but
instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the
painting. I paint the objects for what they are." [1]
35. 10. An open door. - symbolizing hope for the future.
9
10
36. Italian, - noise, technology,
machines, war, photography and
movement.
Street Light, Study of Light (1909) and Dynamism of
a Dog on a Leash (1912) by Giacomo Balla,
Dynamism of a Soccer Player (1913) by Umberto
Boccioni, and Armoured Train (1915) by Gino
Severini.
39. Fauvism (wild beasts) -intense sometimes clashing
colors and bold brush strokes .
Joy of Life (1905) and Harmony in Red (1908) by Henri Matisse,
The Blue House (1906) by Maurice de Vlaminck, and St. Paul’s
Cathedral seen from the Thames (1906) by André Derain.
41. human feelings = fear, horrors of
war, darker colors, and angry
strokes
Scream (1893) and The Dead Mother (1897) by Edvard
Munch, Christ’s Entry into Brussels (1889) and
Skeletons Warming Themselves at a Stove (1889) by
James Ensor.
54. Early to mid 1900’s, non-representational 2
dimensional forms, simple shapes and lines, no
blending, pure colors
White Center - Mark Rothko, bBroadway Boogie Woogie - Piet
Mondrian, Red Canna - Georgia O’Keeffe (1924), and - Wassily
61. Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife,
1919
Photomontage, Berlin
62. The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is
known as montage. Let’s see the first montage!
Sergi M. Eisentein, The Battleship Potemkin 1925
63. Falling Waters
Depended on the inventive use of the
cantilever.
Pennsylvania,
Mill Run
64. Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1957-59, ferroconcrete
66. Le Corbusier, villa France 1929
International Style
use of steel and reinforced concrete, wide windows, uninterrupted
interior spaces, simple lines, and strict geometric forms.
67. Louis Armstrong
The most important new musical genre of the
20th
century.
A major component is
improvisation, syncopation,
and the blues motif.
W.C. St. Louis Blues, 1914,
Lillian Hardin, Hotter than that, 1927 King Oliver’s Creole
Jazz Band
Duke Ellington, Black , Brown and Beige, 1948
73. Andre
DERAIN
LES FAUVES - FAUVISM
THE WILD
BEASTS
20th CENTURY
EXPRESSIONISM
• wild “VIOLENT” colors
• distortion of forms and
perspective
74. LES FAUVES - FAUVISMTHE
WILD
BEAST
S
VLAMNIC
K
20th CENTURY
EXPRESSIONISM
75. CUBISM
…an
evolution of
a style
Juan
GRIS Robert
DELAUNAY
Sonya
DELAUNAY
THE 20TH
CENTURY
• widespread
influence of
CUBISM
• evolves into
many variations
• introduction
of strong
color
ABSTRACTIO
N
77. Orphism is an art
movement sometimes
called Orphic Cubism,
characterized by use
of circles, and
overlapping planes of
bright, contrasting
colors as seen in
Simultaneous
Contrasts: Sun and
Moon (1912) and
Carousel with Pigs
(1922) by Robert
Delaunay and Rythme
Couleur (1958)
Electric Prisms (1914)
by his wife Sonia
79. 20TH CENTURY …after WORLD WAR
I
SUPREMATIS
M
…a new art for the
new WORKER’S
UTOPIA• LINE, SHAPE and COLOR
distilled to its PURE essence
Kasimir
MALEVICH
• rejects all the “OLD” / creation of a NEW
81. 20TH CENTURY …
after WORLD WAR I
Alexander
RODCHENK
O
Novyi Lef
(Left Front of
the Arts) Poster of LENIN:
BREAD, PEACE ,
LAND
CONSTRUCTIVISM
82. 20TH CENTURY …
after WORLD WAR I
CONSTRUCTIVIS
M
• incorporates
MALEVICH’S
ideas -
PROMOTION of
SOCIALLIST
VALUES
• visual foundation of
today’s GRAPHIC
DESIGN
Lazar Markovich
LISSITZKY
20TH CENTURY …
after WORLD WAR I
so cial•ism, n. 1. The theory or system of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by the society or community rather than by private individuals, with all the members of the society or community sharing the work and the products
com mu•nism, n. (Fr. communisme, from L. communis, common)
1. An economic theory or system of the ownership of all the property by the community of society sharing in the work and the products
He proposed a radically new approach to the concepts of time, space , and motion. In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate this principle. The atomic bombings of Japan occurred three months after the surrender of Germany, whose potential for creating a Nazi a-bomb had led Einstein to push for the development of an a-bomb for the Allies. Einstein withheld public comment on the atomic bombing of Japan until a year afterward. A short article on the front page of the New York Times contained his view: "Prof. Albert Einstein... said that he was sure that President Roosevelt would have forbidden the atomic bombing of Hiroshima had he been alive and that it was probably carried out to end the Pacific war before Russia could participate." ("Einstein Deplores Use of Atom Bomb", New York Times, 8/19/46, pg. 1). Einstein later wrote, "I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan." (Otto Nathan & Heinz Norden, editors, "Einstein on Peace", pg. 589).
In November 1954, five months before his death, Einstein summarized his feelings about his role in the creation of the atomic bomb: "I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."
German. Luger, biplane, zeplin
allied
Race Riots were vey numerous all over the North.
The FALL of the LAST MAJOR AUTOCRATIC MONARCHY in EUROPE
so cial•ism, n. 1. The theory or system of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by the society or community rather than by private individuals, with all the members of the society or community sharing the work and the products
com mu•nism, n. (Fr. communisme, from L. communis, common)
1. An economic theory or system of the ownership of all the property by the community of society sharing in the work and the products
Autocratic monarchy - a society or nation ruled by a person with absolute authority. — autocrat, n. — autocratie, adj.
See also: Society
Refers to the period from 1/30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to 5/8/1945 (V-E Day) the end of the war in Europe.
Jules Verne Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. Liberty is worth paying for. On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
Between 1901-06, several comprehensive van Gogh, Gauguin & Cezanne exhibitions held in Paris and Germany
deconstruction of the notion of beauty
• redefined painting: rejects the idea of BEAUTY as the goal of art
• fractured & redefined pictorial space
The Bull is a symbol of Spanish pride It is also a symbol that shows “fecundity, protector qualities, sacrifice, chastity and patience” (from ht
tp://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/)
( from Notice how It’s getting yelled at and turning away from the rest of the painting?
In most traditions, birds have a predominantly positive connotation. They represent the human desire to escape gravity, to reach the level of the angel. The bird is often the disembodied human soul, free of its physical constrictions.
3. The horse also represents Spain in many texts and pieces of artwork. Here it has been stabbed with a spear and is shreeking in pain as it’s crumpling to the ground. Check out the nose and top teeth. They form a human skull.
5. The dead soldier holds a sword which has been known to symbolize justice... “power, protection, authority, strength, and courage” It is broken and has a flower growing from the hilt
6. The light is shaped like an eye. Light means truth, goodness, purity, wisdom and intellect.
The woman with the lantern; coming in from the window is probably the outside world, shocked to see what’s going on here and illuminating the tortured horse.
. This women is mesmerized by the light
10. An open door. Western hemisphere paintings are read from left to right. The last part of the painting to be read is an open door symbolizing hope for the future.
characterized by contrast, speed, and restlessness of modern life as seen in
• optimism and faith in a better future through technology
industrial UTOPIA
leader of this loosely knit group
experimentation and exploration
an angry, cruel world
• DA: YES in RUMANIAN
• the French word for “HOBBY HORSE”
a child’s first few words
• attacked the notions held by BOURGEOIS society
• celebrates & elevates absurdity
challenges every artistic notion of the value of artistic skill
...SHOCK, PUZZLE & TEASE
• an outgrowth of DADA • DADA falls apart
• new visions of the “INTERNAL WORLD”
Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. Eisenstein wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda film,[5][6] but also used it to test his theories of "montage".[7] The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein attempted to edit the film in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the characterization is simple, so that the audience could clearly see with whom they should sympathize.
Eisenstein's experiment was a mixed success; he "was disappointed when Potemkin failed to attract masses of viewers",[8] but the film was also released in a number of international venues, where audiences responded more positively. In both the Soviet Union and overseas, the film shocked audiences, but not so much for its political statements as for its use of violence, which was considered graphic by the standards of the time.[2][9][10] The film's potential to influence political thought through emotional response was noted by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who called Potemkin "a marvelous film without equal in the cinema ... anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film,"[10][11] The film was not banned in Nazi Germany, although Himmler issued a directive prohibiting SS members from attending screenings, as he deemed the movie inappropriate for the troops.[10]
Notice that the warm glow from the interior lighting resonates with the autumn colors in this fall photo. Dramatic cantilevered terraces reflect the similar structure of the rock ledges below. Roomy terraces on either side of the living room on the main level, as well as the large terrace above it, create strong horizontal lines balanced by the almost unbroken vertical lines in the tower on the left (which in addition to stone columns over 10 meters tall, has 3 stories of floor-to-ceiling windows). These and many other clear horizontal and vertical lines in the house may be compared with the formation of the rock, with the horizontal and vertical of ground and trees, and with the water moving horizontally in the stream (Bear run) and vertically as "falling water" in the form of waterfalls (visible in the photo and downstream just out of view in this photo). The falls visible in the photo break at an angle, creating an illusion of water flowing out from beneath the middle of the house. The sound of the flowing water fills the house continuously. There is no grand front entrance, if that means big double doors flanked by decorations and symbolizing the barrier between outside and inside. Rather, the continuity of inside and outside is emphasized, in keeping with the theme of a harmonious and natural relationship to the setting. Other examples of this, besides everything mentioned above, include windows wrapping all the way around 3 sides of the huge living room, and at the corners where two window panes meet - here and at other places in the house such as the west tower (as well as in other Frank Lloyd Wright houses) - there are no bulky vertical support beams.
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[1] Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
Metallic bronze and amber glass
Sleek, unadorned slab a monument to the “form follow function”.
In·ter·na·tion·al Style
noun
a functional style of 20th-century architecture, so called because it crossed national and cultural barriers. It is characterized by the use of steel and reinforced concrete, wide windows, uninterrupted interior spaces, simple lines, and strict geometric forms.