Time Periods - Early Twentieth Century - Modernism

4 important questions on Time Periods - Early Twentieth Century - Modernism

What are the key characteristics of Modernism?

  • Indicator of a period and style.
    • ca. 1900-1945 (until the end of WW2).
  • Two underlying principles:
    • Breaking with traditions, searching for new aesthetics.
    • Search for Abstraction
  • Art should be innovative, artist is the innovator.
    • Artists as Avant-Garde.
    • "Era of the -isms."
  • Three forms of Abstraction:
    • Expressive art:
      • Inner world of the artist.
    • Formalist art:
      • Search for universal truths in abstraction.
    • Fantastic/imaginative art:
      • Imagining new societies, exploring subconscious.

What are the four Modernist art movements 'before' WW1 and what form of abstraction did they use?

  • Fauvism.
    • Abstraction of color.
  • Cubism.
    • Abstraction of form.
  • Futurism.
    • Abstraction of movement.
  • German Expressionism.
    • Abstraction of emotion.

Explain German Expressionism and its characteristics:

  • Modernism: Abstraction of emotion.
  • Characteristics:
    • Emphasis on artist's inner feelings.
      • Replicating reality.
    • Simplified shapes.
    • Bright colors.
    • Gestural brush strokes.
  • Two German Schools:
    • Die Brücke.
    • Der Blaue Reiter.
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What is Der Blaue Reiter?

  • Form of German Expressionism.
    • 1911, Munich.
    • Informal, no manifesto.
  • Abstraction of emotion:
    • Expres of spirituality.
    • Things that's under the surface.
  • No "bridge" to society/reality.
    • Made art, that is free from references to the outside world.
    • Difference with die Brücke (the bridge).
  • Key artist(s):
    • Wassily Kandisnky (1866-1944).
      • Composition VII (1913).

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