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The Age of Anxiety
Art, Literature & Music
Assignment #1 – Age of Anxiety Intro through Art
1. How do you predict art and culture might change as a result of WWI?
2. How might the two pieces of music we hear be BOTH reflections of the time even though they are different?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ohcKQst4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQFqWyFeKk
Make a title for this piece of art – how might it be a reflection of a
post – WWI world?
William Butler Yeats“The Second Coming” (1920-21)
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.
Disillusionment
•a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
“The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break.” - Paul Valery
–READ THE VALERY DOCUMENT AND FIND 1 QUOTE THAT EMBODIES DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESCRIBE WHY
From Realism to Impressionism to Abstraction…
FOR THE FOLLOWING PAINTINGS: IDENTIFY ARTIST
HOW DOES THIS REFLECT THE ART ISM AND
HOW DOES THIS REFLECT THE POST WWI WORLD?
Dadaism 1916-1920Dadaism is a cultural movement that began during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, theater, and graphic design, and concentrated its antiwar politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.
Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray
The Fountain
Marcel Duchamp1917
L.H.O.O.Q Marcel Duchamp 1919
Mechanical Head
Raoul Hausmann1920
Surrealism
Grows out of Freud and dream analysis
-Some artists used realistic techniques to produce unrealistic scenes
-Some used improvised art that lacked conscious control.
George Grosz: A Burning World
Surrealism
Otto Dix – Modern War
Dog in Front of the Sun
Joan Miro1949
This is Not a Pipe Rene Magritte 1919
The Human
Condition
Magritte 1933
The Healer
Rene Magritte 1941
Personal Values Rene Magritte 1952 (SF MOMA)
Pesistence of Memory Salvador Dali 1931
Apparition of Face on Fruit Dish on Beach Dali 1938
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire Dali 1940
Nostalgia of the Infinite
Giorgio de Chirico1911
Mystery and Melancholy of a
Street
Giorgio de Chirico1914
The Fiddler
Marc Chagall1913
I and My Village
Marc Chagall1917
The Birthday Marc Chagall 1915
Metamorphasis I MC Escher 1933
Hand with Reflection Self
Portrait
MC Escher1935
Sky and Water
MC Escher 1938
Reptiles MC Escher 1943