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A Crash Course in
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& Enjoying Modern and Contemporary art)
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Contents
A crash course in modern art
Introductory part .
Talking about modern art
Eggsistantional guide to
eating your art out
Module 1 Impressionism
Part 1 Impresionism
(1) Subjects of impresionist
painting
(2) Impresionist technigues
Artists's eye. Klod manet
Part 2 Neo-Impressinism
Part 3 Post-Impressinism
(1) Dear Vincent...
(2) Van Gogh's chair
(3) Toulouse-Lautrec
Quiz-test
Module 2 Fauvism movement
Module 5 Expressionism
(1) What is expressionism?
Quiz-test
Module 6 Abstract Art
(1) Abstract Art movement
Understanding abstract art
Quiz-test
Module 7 Dada art movement
(1) Dada art movement
How to create dada art
Quiz-test
(2) Performance art
Pussy Riot prank in
cathedral
Module 8 Surrealism
(1) What is Surrealism?
(2) Surreal images & ideas for
a paining
Quiz-test
Module 9 Op & pop art
(1) Op art movement
(2) What pop art?
Quiz test
Module 10 Final Discussion : Modern
art
Jars & Modern Art Trends
Arguing for & against
References
Talking about
modern art
Introductory part
Art Un-Appreciation
Cartoons
by T. McCracken
taken from
http://members.pioneer.net/~mchumor/art_appreciation_cartoons.html
b) These words are used to describe art. Can you match each
with its definition?
1. abstract art
a. modern art movement that originated in the 1920s and 1930s. Objects are shown
out of their normal context or as being made of inappropriate material. Humor, the
world of dreams, and "the absurd" are three important themes of this movement.
b. art movement that started in the early 1900s. Objects are painted in somber colors,
like brown or gray, and are broken down into geometric shapes and planes, with
several views depicted simultaneously.
form of art in which there is no attempt to represent objects or people, but which
relies totally on lines, colors, and shapes
d. form of art that developed in the 1960s based on
aspects of twentieth-century life such as movies,
advertising, comics, and everyday products
e. art movement that started in France in the 18b'0s. The artists use bright colors, and
they try to capture the effects of sunlight on water, trees, and fields.
b) Pair work Use the concepts in Exercise A to classify these
paintings. Do you know other examples of each style?
Modern Era
Medieval Ages
Renaissance
(5th-13/14th)
(13/14th-
16th)&Reformation
(16th)
Post Modern
era (coined 1949)
Modern or
Contemporary
art
Enlightenment
epoch (="Age of
1.
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mock at
ridicule smth
obese
pot
morose
urinal
'develop in its distinct way'
dimensions
stunning Freud
'left an indelible mark on
out species'
11. 'many-headed creature'
12. be embedded in DNA
13. 'art could no longer feature
unrealistic art'
Talking about
modern art
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23.
glowing babies
feudal society
hierarchy
social stratums
people's sense of self
be expressed
via
faith in some form of deity
linear perspective
render a more natural reality
in painting
24. age of discoveries
25. Roman empire
36.
37.
38.
39.
papacy
spiritual intermediaries
rise of capitalism
gradual but widespread
educational reform.
40. ideas concerning... God,
reason, nature, and man
41. be synthesized into a
worldview
42. great cravings for liberty,
43. mass literacy
44. proliferation of mass media
individual self-fulfillment.
EGGSISTENTIAL GUIDE
TO EATING YOUR ART OUT
Column B
1. Things sounded
2. smooth
3. he felt
4. his eyes fell
5. his face flickered
6. short-lived
7. bold
8. loosely
9. be dyed with
10. the eyes were
11. the man was
12. smear smth across
animosity towards
tempting
movement
slightly
shapes
cooked
the plate
purple & red
deadlocked
constipated
on the item
expressionless face
Column A
13. it was
14. push smth
15. variety of
16. on succeeding
17. he was backed
18. imaginative
19. the kitchen was
20. she was
21. he was
22. you wronged
23. dizzying
24. he needed an
excuse
Column B
to the side of the plate
inedible
by the kitchen
days
seduced by the landlord
kitchen
baffled
the woman
variety
poisoned
to choose smth else
styles
out, even at a seaside hotel there are new problems. Such as what to have for
breakfast.
The man studied the breakfast menu on the first day and hesitated. There were
things on the menu that he hadnt eaten for months. Things that sounded
simultaneously tempting and threatening. Black budding. Kippers. Arbroath
smokies.
May I take your order, sir?
He looked up into the face of the waiter, a smooth expressionless face. He smiled
at the waiter. The waiter did not smile back. Suddenly he felt animosity towards
the waiter. He looked again at the menu. His eye fell on an item he had not noticed
before. It said, Eggs, any style.
Id like eggs, please, he said
How would you like them?
Art Deco.
Excuse me, sir?
It says, eggs any style. My favorite style is Art Deco.
The waiters face flickered ever so slightly.
Ill see what can be done, sir.
He returned ten minutes later with a boiled egg sitting at the top in a very thin, very
tall, undeniably Art Deco eggcup. It had a very long, undeniably 1920s spoon with
it.
Thank you, the man said
Not at all, said the waiter
the next morning at breakfast the man looked the
waiter in the eye and asked for neo-classical eggs.
Ill see what can be done, sir, said the waiter
He returned with a plate of scrambled eggs, arranged
tastefully under a Palladian arch of toast.
Thank you, said the man
Not at all, said the waiter
on the third day the man asked for Fauvist eggs.
I beg your pardon, sir? said the waiter .
Fauvist. Fauvism was a short-lived painting movement which preceded Cubism,
distinguished by its love of bright colors and bold shapes
I am perfectly well aware of the nature of the Fauvist movement, sir, said the
waiter. I was just not sure whether you had actually said Fauvist. It sounded a
little also like Fascist and a little like Vorticist and a little like
Fauvist, said the man
Very good, sir, said the waiter.
What he brought back was a plate of eggs loosely cooked and dyed with purple and
red, smeared across the plate to look like an angry sunset. It was inedible. But it
was undeniably Fauvist.
Thank you, said the man, pushing the mixture to the side of the plate.
Not at all, sir, said the waiter, taking the plate away.
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On succeeding days the man asked for his eggs to be done in a dizzying variety of
styles. Futurist, absurdist, Celtic revivalist, Early English, Jazz Age, even
melodramatic.
The waiter, backed by the imaginative kitchen, was never once baffled.
The Celtic revivalist eggs had come coddled in a nest of seaweed. The Jazz Age
eggs were done with gin. For the eggs in the style of the melodrama, the waiter had
brought them simply boiled, then yelled out: For Gods sake, sir, before you eat
those eggs, think of your daughter Nell who even now is being seduced by her
cruel landlord for a matter of rent money so small that you could easily have paid
it yourself for a very small price of these eggs themselves, which have incidentally
been poisoned not a moment ago in the kitchen by the very woman you wronged
so many years ago in Calcutta!!!
The rest of the dining room had listened aghast, but the man
had to agree that the waiter could not be faulted. On the last
day, at breakfast, the man asked for his eggs to be done in a
post- modernist style.
We at this hotel do not think that post-modernism is
worthy to be called a style, sir, said the waiter coldly. It is
merely a ragbag of cultural mannerism.
So you will not bring me a post-modernist style egg?
No, sir.
The two men stared at each other, eyes deadlocked.
In the case, said the man, bring me Abroath smokies.
The waiter went away triumphant. He told the kitchen that
they had outsmarted the egg-eater. In fact, the truth was
quite different, after nearly two weeks of eggs, the man was
desperately constipated and needed almost no excuse to
choose something else.
(by Miles Kington, Independent 11/09/96)
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4810136.html
c) Answer the following questions:
1. Why should the guest have decided to order eggs in different art styles?
2. What was the first style he ordered eggs in?
3. What kind of dish were the eggs in Art Deco style?
4. How did the kitchen staff manage to present Neo-Classical style?
5. Why did the waiter find it difficult to understand the term "Fauvist Style"?
6. How did they cook Fauvist Style eggs?
7. What style did the client choose on the succeeding days?
8. What were the Celtic Revivalist eggs like?
9. What did they invent for the Jazz-Age style eggs?
10.How did the waiter introduce the melodramatic eggs?
11.Why wouldn't the waiter serve a post-modernist style egg?
12.Who won this 'game'?
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verb
Adjective/participle
distinguished
coddle
yell
animosity
undeniable
poison
mixture
C) Follow-up.
Draw or paint eggs in all modern styles? Compare the
drawings & prove that the paintings are really executed in this
or that style?
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Variant: Just show painting /sketching of yours without naming the trends in
modern art that your pictures are done in & make everybody guess the trend
giving their reasons.
Video file 'It's not funny, it's
5. Watch the video file & say
what you think of it. What is
moral????
art'
the
Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TcRzvjIMj4
Module 1 Part 1
Impressionism
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Impressionism
1. a) Look at the pictures below. What do they have in
common? Do the pictures look appealing to you? Do the
picture something in common?
Aldo Gaverini
Mary Cassat
Column B
from the traditions
hits the object
style
the mood of a moment
effect
in 1870
brush strokes
Column A
7. gain
8. prescribe
9. annual
10.execute
pictures
11.exhibition
12. apply
Column B
style to painting
art exhibition
outdoors
standards
was held
independence
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Text 2
a with their
Column B
of Paris
activities
resort
revolution
depiction of
reality
Paris
Still life
everyday, informal situations: the middle class during leisure time activities in
gardens, parks, or at the seaside, and workmen or rural people at work. One novelty
of people portraits was the introduction of nudes who, "at the time, ... were an
acceptable subject in allegorical or historical paintings, but not in scenes of everyday
life." (Pierre Renoir: Oarsmen at Chatou)
With the 19th century Industrial Revolution and the reconstruction of Paris into
a modern city, the city scene became one of the Impressionists' favorite subjects:
"women wearing the latest fashions, the airy new streets and suburbs of Paris,
modern modes of transportation ..., and the riverside and seacoast resorts where
Parisians spent their leisure time. (Gustave Caillebotte: Paris, a Rainy Day, 1877)
Painting still life allowed the Impressionists to experiment
with the depiction of changing light and to study the effects of
light and shadow on the look of ordinary objects.
(Paul Czanne: Natura Morta Con Tenda)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_impressionist_art
http://www.impressionism.info/info.html
Impressionist Technique
Column B
the use of black
of the brush
details
from somber tones
Column A
1. vibrant
2. passing
3. give a work
4. capture
Column B
a spontaneous feel
a given moment
moment
colors
Locale [lu'kl]
Composition
Color
Brush work
Impressionist Technique
.. The Impressionists distanced themselves from the somber tones of
earlier paintings. They generally avoided the use of black and earth s and
instead of light, vibrant ..s to give their paintings luminosity and to capture
the changing effect of sunlight on the scenes they painted. Bright, contrasting
..s were put onto the canvas one next to or on top of each other, often without
prior mixing or subsequent blending.
. In order to convey the movement and changing nature of a
passing moment, the Impressionists used quick, broken brushstrokes that were left
without any further smoothing. This method allows the viewer to clearly see the
traces of the brush and gives impressionist paintings an unfinished appearance. The
Impressionists worked quickly, sometimes in one sitting, in order to capture the
fleeting moment and to give their work a spontaneous feel.
.Impressionist painters often worked outdoors, not in a studio,
to be in close touch with nature and to be able to directly observe the effects of
changing sunlight, weather and movement.
.. The Impressionists broke the traditional
rules of and opened their style to experimenting. In
their attempts to capture a given moment, they omitted detail in
favor of the overall effect of the painting. They looked at their
subjects from unusual angles and often cropped (crop
) or framed their work in a way that was new to
painting. A scene is often captured as if in passing or through
the lens of a camera (a new invention at the time that enabled the Impressionists to
study movement and gesture in real-life situations). (Edgar Degas: Blue Dancers)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_impressionist_art
http://www.impressionism.info/info.html
b) Surf the net & make up a quiz on Klod Monets life story.
Look at these sample quiz ideas:
Claude Monets Biography Quiz
1. Monet struggled with . a) depression,
poverty and illness throughout his life; b)
luxury, popularity & fame
2. His father, Adolphe, worked in his family's
. a) shipping business; b)
construction business; c)
grocery store
business.
3. His mother was a . a) a trained dancer;
b) a trained painter; c) a trained singer.
4. In the community at the start of his career,
Monet became well known for his . a)
sculptures; b) caricatures; c) ivory
5. a) Eugene Boudin; b) August Renoir; c)
Eduard Manet. was his mentor & taught
him to use oils & "en plein air" (outdoor)
techniques for painting.
6. What brought him recognition? a) charcoal caricatures; b) his painting
Camille (Woman in the green dress); c) his new style of painting.
7. Why did he live in England in September 1870? a) to study works of John
Constable & William Turner; b) after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian
War; c) he found a job there.
8. Who or what inspired Monet's innovations in the study of color? a) the works
of John Constable & William Turner; b) an accident of being outdoors where
he noticed the game of light & shadow on the objects around; c) the Royal
Academy exhibition.
9. Monet died of on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the
Giverny church cemetery. a) cataract; b) lung cancer; c) tuberculosis.
10.His famous home and garden with its waterlily pond are . a)
bequeathed by his heirs to the French Academy of Fine Arts; b) the two main
attractions of Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world; c)
refurbished & sold to a private collector.
c) Bring in some of his pictures & comment them on.
6. Videofile 3.
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Text 1
a crash course in
look appealing to smb
originate in
divided brush strokes
the light hits the object
break away from traditions
capture the mood of a passing
moment / reality / a given
moment
transitory effect
gain independence from
prescribe standards
annual art exhibition
execute pictures outdoors
apply the style / techniques to
painting
exhibition was held
preliminary drawing
wallpaper pattern
Text 2 subjects
17. focus emphasis on
18. emphasize smth
19. idealized beauty
20. riverside / seaside
21. suburbs of
22. experiment with
23. at a given moment
24. portray people in everyday life
25. leisure time activities
26. nudes
27. industrial revolution
28. study the effect of
Videos
29. water lily pond
30. forger (forge)
31. oblong of
32. mere (ly)
33. streak
34. essentially
Text 3 techniques
35. locale
36. distance themselves from
somber tones
37. avoid the use of black
38. traces of the brush
39. omit details
40. vibrant colors
41. passing moment
42. give a work a spontaneous feel
43. crop a picture
44. frame a picture
45. angle
46. triangle
47. rectangle
48. circle
49. smooth colors
50. mentor
Videofile 4.1.
9. A Forgers Masterclass (ep-4). Watch the video & express
your opinion on the pictures the students were trying to
forge. Which one you liked or dislike most? Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9wI-qoI6b8
10. Video file4.2. A beginners guide: Paint like Monet with
Berry Whitehouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ftb1mkN30g
a) Discuss:
Have you ever thought of painting a piece of art in any style? Do you think you
would cope with it? Are you too shy to try it?
b) Watch the file & Answer the questions:
1. What are the colors on the palette called?
2. What was the era when people started to think freely & move away from
formal styles of that day?
3. What invention help the movement develop?
4. What was the technique Monet used?
5. What did the artist do step by step?
b) Try to produce a piece of art after some painters you liked
from impressionist art style. As you in the videos your work is
not supposed to be as skillful & professional as real painters
do. Try your best & have fun with the paints & the brush.
11. Additional video file 5:
Gustave Gaillebotte. An Artist portrait.
a) Surf the net & look through Gustave Gaillibottes picture.
Analyse what makes the pictures different from other
impressionist works.
b) Watch the video & tell as much as you can about the artists
& his works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8d45ETt78o
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Module 1 Part 2
Neo- Impressionism
Column B
colors on the palette
Column A
5. minuscule
6. create
7. luminescent
8. mix colors
Column B
a specific hue
surfaces
optically
dots
decorative design.
http://www.ehow.com/about_6569030_post-impressionism-art_.html#ixzz1l0VUc6Le
http://www.ehow.com/about_6569030_post-impressionism-art_.html
Why do French people not like Seurat according to the opinion of an art critic
in the file?
What kind of theory did Seurat have? How is he viewed in modern art?
What did Seurat believe an artist had to do before he would go to colors?
What kind of person was he? What episode from his life proves he was a
taciturn & secretive person?
What do many people read Seuratfor?
What two pictures are considered pendants to each other & why?
Put down the description of these two pictures from 03.53-4.57.
c) Say what you think of the artist & his works. Make a review
of his pictures. Were you inspired or bored by looking at them?
4. Credit activity. Bring in any neo impressionist painting &
comment on its contents and technique in class.
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pictorial techniques
place dots side by side
founding masterpiece
optical mixture
the word take off as a
name for
luminescent (surfaces)
minuscule dots (=tiny)
followers
a.k.a.
subdivision
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Module 1 Part 3
Post-Impressionism
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pendants to smth
poverty
impoverished
resist smth
ritualized performance
leisure
Paulo zeerbato
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be influenced
share
the term
influencial
5. impressionist
6. unifying
a few similarities
examples
characteristics
was coined
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7. notable
8. unveil
9. eclectic bunch
10.push the ideas
11.convey
of individuals
the truth
into new direction
his struggle with
depression
examples
c) Read the text & sum up the differences between all three
art movements.
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism follows Impressionism. The artists involved were influenced
by Impressionism although their work shares few similarities. Disinterested in
recording light and color phenomena, Post-Impressionism is characterized by bright
color, sharp, often outlined edges. In pursuit of individual goals, theories, and
interests, they don't work or exhibit together.
Although Post-Impressionism describes French art created during the period of
1886 to 1941, the term itself was not coined until 1910 by English art critic and artist
himself, Roger Fry. He named it Post-Impressionism simply because it followed the
Impressionist era.
As with many other forms of artistic expression, these artists were trying to reveal
something about themselves. They used their talents to convey truths they had
discovered about themselves and the world around them. Van Gogh used a great deal
of grays and blues in most of his paintings unveiling his struggle with depression and
the idea that everyone has an inherently evil soul. Cezanne focused more on the
structure of his subjects. He once stated "With an apple I will astonish Paris." Suerat
was a believer in optical truth; the idea of using color and form to show the real
world. He took the rapid, "broken" brushwork of Impressionism and developed it into
the millions of colored dots that create Pointillism, while Paul Czanne elevated
Impressionism's separation of colors into separations of whole planes of color.
The most notable and influential examples of Post-Impressionism are Van
Gogh's "Starry Night" (painted outside the Saint-Remy mental asylum) and his floral
work "Irises", Cezanne's use of depth perception in "The Card Players", Rousseau's
almost surreal "The Dream", Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec's inspired work, "Seated
Dancer In Pink Tights" and most certainly, Seurat's most famous piece, "Sunday
Afternoon On The Island Of Le Grande Jatte."
Post-Impressionists pushed the ideas of the Impressionists into new directions.
The word "Post-Impressionism" indicates their link to the original Impressionist ideas
and their departure from those ideas -- their modernist journey from the past into the
future.
The Post-Impressionists were an eclectic bunch of individuals, so there were no
broad, unifying characteristics. Each artist took an aspect of Impressionism and
exaggerated it.
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living may be here, and even if it became worse and harder the French air clears the
brain and does good - a world of good.
Yours truly,
Vincent
c) Read the letter again. Underline words to do with painting,
and circle words to do with money and finance.
6. Van Goghs chair
A) Look at this picture by Van
Gogh. Do you think the picture is
very interesting / fairly interesting
/ not at all interesting. Can you
say Why?
Do you know what colors Van
Gogh painted: the chair? The
walls? The tiled floor? If not can
you guess?
What does the picture tell us
about the man who uses this
chair? Choose the sentences you
agree with.
Hes old.
Hes heavy smoker.
He has gone away forever.
Hes lonely.
Youll hear a woman talking about the picture. How would she
answer the questions above?
B) Your own chair. Four people imagine a picture in the style
of Van Gogh showing their own chair.
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Do the Quiz-Test
Module 1 Part 1
Fauvism movement
Fauvism movement
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Column A
1. revolutionize
2. earn
3. issue
4. clumsy
5. arbitrary way
Column B
the name
style
to express oneself
the concept of colors
theoretical manifesto
Column A
6. form
7. pure
8. blobs of
9. go
10.the peak
Column B
colors
paint
ones separate &
personal way
a cohesive group
was over
use of color affected Henri Matisse (whose Woman with a Hat is shown below) and
it affected Maurice de Vlaminck.
Fauvism is a movement in French painting that revolutionized the concept of
color in modern art. Fauves earned their name (les fauves- wild beasts) by
shocking exhibit visitors on their first public appearance, in 1905. One art critic
(Louis Vauxcelles) compared the paintings to "fauves" which was French for wild
beasts. So, this term was coined by this art critic& then it was exploited (=used) by
other hostile critics. The paintings were
displayed in Room 7 which became known as the
"cage for the wild beasts." This art style became
known as Fauvism even though the Fauves never
used the term. The wild beast idea helped these
artists sell lots of paintings, which was grrrrrreat.
At the end of the nineteenth century, neo
Impressionist painters were already using pure
colors, but they applied those colors to their
canvases in small strokes. The fauves rejected
the impressionist palette of soft, shimmering
() tones in favor of radical new
style, full of violent color and bold
distortions().
They greatly admired van Gogh, who said
of his own work: Instead of trying to render
what I see before me, I use color in a completely
arbitrary () way to express myself
powerfully. The Fauvists carried this idea
further, translating their feelings into color with a
rough, almost clumsy style.
Mattisse was a dominant figure in the movement; other Fauvists included
Vlaminck, Derain, Marquet, and Rouault. However, These painters did not form a
cohesive [ku'hisv ] () group& they never formed a movement in the
strict sense of the word, but for years they would nurse a shared ambition(),
before each went his separate and more personal way. And
by 1908 a number of painters had seceded() to
Cubism.
The Fauves never issued a theoretical manifesto. By
the time Matisse wrote his "Notes of a Painter" in 1908, the
peak of Fauvism was over. Matisse himself moved from the
spontaneous and exuberant (, ) use of color
that characterized Fauvism to a more decorative formalism.
below, Spared from the Storm (1906) and Houses at LEstaque (1908). Look
at the change in style that happened in just two years!
http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/matisse.htm
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/fauvism.shtml
http://wwar.com/masters/movements/fauvism.
htmlhttp://www.towson.edu/~sisaacs/docs/StudyGuide.pdf,
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html,
http://arts.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/fauvism
definition
a) a public declaration of policy and aims, esp. one issued before an election
by a political party or candidate;
b) pull or twist out of shape;
c) refuse to agree to (a request);
d) the action or fact of forming a united whole;
e) characterized by departure from tradition; innovative or progressive;
f) filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement;
g) 1)(of a person or manner) so confident as to suggest a lack of shame or
modesty 2) (of a color or design) having a strong or vivid appearance;
h) a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring
determination and hard work;
i) withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a
political or religious organization;
j) demanding that rules concerning behavior are obeyed and observed.
noun
distortion
verb
adjective
reject
violent
accessible
admire
compare
Art techniques in fauvism art movement
2. Read the passage
below & say what their
idea of colors is.
Fauvists used exaggerated
colors when painting subjects.
In fact, color was the most
important aspect of a fauvist
painting, with the subject taking
a backseat. For example, when
painting a portrait of a woman
with very dark hair, a fauvist
might choose to use blue in the hair to show just how dark it was. He might use
yellow for the skin instead of a carefully mixed bronze. Shadows might be drawn in
greens and purples instead of grey.
Shown above is Andre Derains The Turning Road, LEstaque. I love this
painting for the way Derain has taken the colors of the changing fall leaves and used
those colors throughout the painting, in the trees, the earth, and the people.
Main representatives of fauvism art movement
3. a) Vocabulary 1. Match the words from column a with their
parts in Column B
Column A
1. bold
2. intense
3. bizarre
4. profound
Column B
emotions
stokes of
colors
art
Column A
5. notable
6. brief
7. unselfconscious
8. give
Column B
use
adherent
flourishing
visual pleasure
brushwork helped liberate painting from the representational expectations that had
dominated Western art since the Renaissance. Fauvism was the first explosive 20thcentury art movement.
http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/fauvism.shtml
http://wwar.com/masters/movements/fauvism.
htmlhttp://www.towson.edu/~sisaacs/docs/StudyGuide.pdf,
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html,
http://arts.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/fauvism
verb
adjective
dominate
explosive
influential
emphasis
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
13.Who called his pictures decadent then? What happened to the pictures then?
14. What broke out that time? Where did he want to enlist? Why was he rejected?
15.Why does the author of the documentary made parallel talking about
concubines and odalisques?
16.Where did he go in 1940& why?
17.How did NewYork affect his works or ideas? What was he commissioned to
do in New York?
18.What was he diagnosed by? Where did he move? What was his art like there?
What style did he pioneer?
19.What is Miffi? Why is its making related to Matisse?
20.Stop the video & write down what the author said about his picture Snail
(47.50-48.58) . How did fashion desighner (Paul ) comment Matisses
works?
21.Why did Matisse set up a chapel?
22.Comment the documentary: was it unusual to watch? what makes it different
from other documentaries about art? What were the effects the author used to
make it interesting to watch?
b) Make a 2-minute speech Matisse pioneered the modern
look
Main representatives
5. Make a report about representatives of this
art movement. Mention a few details of his
biography, then comment on his paintings, after
that select one painting &analyze it profoundly
(=thoroughly) based on the appreciation
painting plan.
Henri Mattisse Andre Derain Raoul Dufy George Braque
Maurice de Vlaminck Albert Marque George Rou
6. a) A Forgers Master class (ep-2). Watch the video &
express your opinion on the pictures the students were trying
to forge. Which one you liked or dislike most? Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9wI-qoI6b8
b) Just for fun follow the steps &create your own painting or
picture in the style of the Fauves. Use crayons or paint or oil
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sticks. Dont use the actual color of what you see but be sure
to exaggerate the color. If the sky is light blue you might want
to use bright purple or green. Keep choosing bright colors and
use strong thick brush strokes or movements with your
crayon. Go Wild like the Fauves.
How to paint like a Wild Beast:
1.
Start with Thumbnail Sketches: Using the plain sheet of paper , draw a grid
using the ruler and your pencil . Try to make even boxes (this can be prepared
for the child ahead of time, and even photocopied if you have multiple children
doing this project). I liketohaveatleast 20 squarestotal
2. Give a time limit to make all thumbnail sketches with a pencil . An example I
use: 90 seconds a box - so no sketch is over thought. Thumbnail sketches should
be based on any kind of landscape that the imagination can come up with
including, outerspace, parks, homes, farms, cities, another planet, etc.
3. Choose the most interesting thumbnail sketch and with a pencil , lightly sketch
the thumbnail sketch onto the Watercolor paper, filling the entire page with what
was in the thumbnail sketch box. (Depending on the size of the paper vs. the
box, you may have to make slight adjustments.)
4. Chooseyourpaintpalette.
5. After painting in your landscape, let it dry a bit and go back in with a small
brush and outline everything in black paint. This will help to tidy up the painting
and give it a consistant look.
Tips:
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http://sv-modernizm.narod.ru/fovism.html
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Cubism
Module 3 Part 1
Cubism
George Braque
Column B
Column A
Visualize
6. begin the move
further
7. geometric
the approach to
8. flatten
multiple shots of
9. tangible
movement
10.musical
pieces
11.to the point of
Column B
collages
angles and shapes
the picture
two-dimensionality
to look at
sense of movement
What is Cubism?
Cubism was the first 'abstract' art style. In the early 1900s, some artists became
interested in African and Native American art. The styles
of those cultures inspired cubism.
The Cubists tried to create a new way of seeing
things in art. Many of their subjects, be they people or
landscapes, were represented as combinations of basic
geometric shapes - sometimes showing multiple
viewpoints of a particular image. This approach was
related more to the way we
see images in our 'mindseye' rather than in real life,
that is if we close our eyes
and try to see an image,
perhaps of a friend or a
family member, it is often
hard to visualise the
'whole' image - we usually see parts or fractured
pieces. Cubist pictures are therefore often described as
looking like pieces of fractured glass.
The cubists were influenced most by the art of the
Post Impressionist painter Paul Czanne. Picasso
described Czanne as 'the father of us all'. It was Czanne who began the move to
look at the basic shapes in nature.
Cubism is full of geometric angles and shapes, and the picture itself it
flattened almost to the point of two-dimensionality. The piece will usually have a
tangible sense of movement. The artwork is not meant to be realistic; it displays
multiple shots of movement or viewpoints in one
painting.
And thats exactly what the cubists had in
mind. Just like the ancient Egyptians, cubists
wanted to show the most important parts of the
things they painted. Look at the face in Juan Gris'
Portrait of Picasso (aside). Gris shows you every
detail of Picasso's face even though you would
never be able to see all sides of his face at the same
time. The cubists took this idea much further than
the ancient Egyptians, of course. Cubists wanted to
show all the sides of an object in the same picture.
Some cubist paintings were extremely
abstract. In Picassos The Guitar Player (above), it
is difficult to see the person in the painting.
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At first, cubists used very little color in their paintings. They used mostly
browns, greys, and blues. In 1912, color re-entered the picture and some
artists, like Picasso, began using more than just paint and canvas in their art.
You may remember reading about Picassos musical collages in which he used
paper and cloth in his paintings.
http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/09/cubism.html
d) Make up questions to the text.
1. What inspired this art movement?
2. What was the cubist was related to?
3. What are artist are the dominant figures here?
4. Who was Picasso influenced by & why? (presuppose)
5. How was the cubist idea to paint compared with Egyptian techniques?
6. Did they use much color in there painting?
f) Vocabulary2. Look through the text again & explain the
meaning of the words in bold.
Vocabulary3. Match the word with its definition
word
1. tangible
2. dimension
3. collage
4. multiple
5. viewpoint
6. approach
definition
a) a way of dealing with something;
b) a form of art in which various materials such as photographs and pieces of
paper or fabric are arranged and stuck to a backing;
c) having or involving several parts, elements, or members;
d) perceptible by touch;
e) a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or
height;
f) a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Module 4 Part 1
Futurism
Futurism
1. a) Look at the pictures below. Can you
recognize the style? What are the striking
differences?
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Marinetti
Depero 1919
Column A
1. be launched
2. the reason is not
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
dynamism of
major
aesthetic
cosign (v)
destroy (v)
emerge (v)
Column B
exponents
in Italy
force
the manifesto
the modern world
the boundaries
to move
from
9. push the spectator taken seriously
Column A
10. factors contributed to
11.be politically
12.be viewed as a
13.be plain
14.become
15.initial spark
16.flout (v)
17.be marked by
Column B
the rise of futurism
second arte
travesty, incongruity
off-shoot of cubism
was gone
values
commonplace
backwards
seriously in France. Futurism exalted the dynamism of the modern world, especially
its science and technology. Futurist ideology influenced all types of art. It began in
literature but spread to every medium, including painting, sculpture, industrial design,
architecture, cinema and music. However, most of its major exponents were painters.
It ceased (=stop) to be an aesthetic force in 1915, shortly after the start of the First
World War, but lingered in Italy until the 1930s.
Futurism as an Italian movement came to the forefront of European art in 1909
when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Founding and Manifesto of
Futurism. At the Time, Marinetti was the only member of the movement, but within a
year artists such as Giocomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Gino Severini had joined
when they cosigned The Manifesto of Futurist Painting.
Several factors contributed to the rise of Futurism. Having formed barely more
than fifty years prior, Italy was politically and socially backwards when compared
with the rest of Europe. The Futurists desperately wanted to bring Italy into the 20th
century, no matter what it took.
Artistically, Futurism is often viewed as an offshoot of Cubism. Balla's,
Boccioni's, and Severini's use of hard lines and geometric shapes that characterized
early Futurism is closely related to the Cubist movement. How the Futurists explored
speed, light, and movement, however, was very original.
Futurism can be divided into two phases, and five areas of experimentation.
The first phase occurred during the early 1910s, and is considered the "analytical"
phase. This phase was based in artistic experimentation. The second phase occurred
during the latter half of the 1910s and was dubbed the "synthetic" phase. It is during
this phase that some of the most innovative Futurist work was done.
Almost as soon as futurism was born, it began to die. With the onset of World War
One, many Futurists joined the Italian Army. Many, including Boccioni, were killed.
After the war, many "Futurists" joined the movement. However, "many were copyists
or just plain second rate." (www.futurism.org.uk). The movement's initial spark was
gone. Much of what was new during the beginning of the century, such as
automobiles and airplanes, had become commonplace.
A few new movements emerged from the ashes of Futurism. A so-called
"Second Futurism," again with Marinetti at the forefront. Dada was a reaction against
the war and the Futurists and flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by
producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
to sum it up, lets say: The Futurist painters were searching for new visual
approaches to express the typical character of modern time, especially in the modern
city. The movements and speed of trams, cars and the people in the cities was for
them the challenge to visualize in a way that the spectator on his turn could
experience this.
They went even further than that. Futurist painters wanted to pull the
spectator in the painting, you could say. They didn't accept the distance between the
art and the spectator any more, and this was their vivid critic on Cubism. the Futurist
wanted to push the spectator to move.
Another important aspect of Futurism was the new sensing that everything in
the world is connected and mixed. They wanted to destroy the boundaries between
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things which kept them too separated. Here a quote of Boccioni and other painters:
"The sixteen people around you in a rolling omnibus are in turn and at the
same time one, ten, four, three; they are motionless and they change places; they
come and go, bound into the street, are suddenly swallowed up by the sunshine, then
come back and sit before you., like persistent symbols of universal vibration. How
often have we not seen upon the cheek of the person with whom we are talking the
horse which we passes at the end of the street.
from 'Manifesto of Futurist Painters', Boccioni, Carr, Russolo, 1912;
as quoted in "Futurism", ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan,
2008, p. 146
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Futurism_art
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/scultpureplastic/SculptureHistory/European20thCentury/Futuristsculpture/WhatisFuturism/WhatisFuturism.
htm
d) Make up questions:
1. Where was the art movement launched? Why?
2. Why was it taken seriously?
3. What was the idea of this art movement?
4. What were the two phases?
5. How long was it burning? Why did cease to be an aesthetic force?
6. What new movements emerged from Futurism?
e) Vocabulary 2. Look through the text again & explain the
meaning of the words in bold.
Vocabulary 3. Match the word with its definition
definition
word
a) come to an end;
1. commonplace
b) stay in a place longer than necessary, typically because of a reluctance to
2. cease
leave;
3. spark
c) happen; take place;
4. travesty
d) a light produced by a sudden disruptive electrical discharge through the
5. incongruent
air;
6. explore
e) raise to a higher rank or a position of greater power;
f) a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something;
7. occur
g) incongruous; incompatible;
8. linger
h) openly disregard (a rule, law or convention);
9. exalt
i) a distinct period or stage in a process of change or forming part of
10.flout
something's development;
11.phase
j) inquire into or discuss (a subject or issue) in detail;
k) not unusual; ordinary, not interesting or original; trite;
cosign
challenge
incongruity
emerge
2. Watch the Video file 1 The idea of futurism & do the
exercises below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHpmJvU7sM
a) Vocabulary 1. Get familiar with vocabulary taken from the
video. Match the English words with their equivalents in
Russian.
politically-charged rejuvenation
abandon (doing) lack of
menswear glorify war cure (n/v)
revolt (v) in demolish (v) be solely
confined to be reminiscent of dog
on a leash be judged by anarchist
scorn (n) (for women) be badly
wounded traumatize esteem n chaotic
vulnerable winged advent of
armored bullet obscurity
, ,
, (),
, , ,
, , ,
, ,
(), , ,
(), ,
, -,
Vocabulary 2.
anarchist ............................... vulnerable . wounded
chaos .. chaotic .. solely ..
advent . trauma . traumatize .
obscurity ..
Vocabulary 3. Match the words & definitions.
a) complete disorder and confusion;
1. traumatize
b) pull or knock down (a building);
2. chaos
c) susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm;
3. vulnerable
d) tending to remind one of something;
4. scorn
e) the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless;
5. demolish
f) relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition;
6. reminiscent
g) give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking);
h) a strap or cord for restraining and guiding a dog or other animal;
7. leash
i) rise in rebellion;
8. revolt
j) (describe or represent as admirable, esp. unjustifiably or undeservedly)
9. cure
(or reveal or make clearer the glory of (God) by one's actions);
10.abandon
k) cause physical injury to;
11.glorify
l) (of a space) restricted in area or volume; cramped.
Make up sentences with the words.
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6. Comment on the picture by Boccioni The city rises. What color is dominant
? Why?
7. Who is Luidgi Russolo? Why was he mentioned in the video?
8. What was the Louvre center of? What does it praise? What did it have to do
with futurists?Why did they mention Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of
the best-known ancient Greek statues?
9. Comment on the pictures by Giacomo Balla The car has passed and
Dynamism of the dog
10.To sum it up what were the futurist concerned with in comparison with
impressionists, expressionists and cubists?
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11.What made the group unpopular? What happened to most active futurists?
c) Watch again & restore the context for the vocabulary taken
from the video.
Vocabulary 4. Part 1 Match the beginning & ending of the
phrases
Politically charged
through radical progression
The movement sought for the
the only cure for the world
rejuvenation of Italy
with exception of Marinetti
It wasnt solely confined
train
Eating Italian pasta
caused a lack of passion
We want to glorify war
to visual arts
They were killed or traumatized
museums and libraries
Armored
classical depiction of heaven
Esteem of disorder was reminiscent of victory of Samothrace
The winged
aggressive art movement
Demolish
Part 2 Restore the context for the rest of the vocabulary
(Additional activity: 1) Video file 1.2. Bernstein -- Marinetti's
Futurist Manifesto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJNlaDkCXZA)
3. Video file 3. Futurism
exhibition at Tate Modern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EswQIW_Qfgs
Main Representatives
4. Bring in any futurist painting & analyze the technique / the
idea proving the message carried in the text above. Comment
on the biographies of the artists.
Umberto Boccioni Gino Severini
2. be centered
3. be not taken seriously
4. exalt the dynamism of
the modern world
5. spread to every
medium
6. exponents
7. cease to be an aesthetic
force
8. shortly
9. linger
10. come to the forefront
of European art
11. cosign
12. contribute to the rise
of Futurism
13. this was their vivid
critic on
14. push the spectator to
move
15. sense that
16. be separated
17. vitality
18. barely
19. be politically and
socially backwards
20. be compared with the
rest of Europe
21. desperately want
22. Artistically,
23. Be viewed as an
offshoot of Cubism
24. be closely related to
25. explore smth
26. be divided into two
phases
27. occur
28. be dubbed
29. With the onset of
World War One
30. join the Army
31. be copyists
32. challenge (challenging)
33. be just plain second
rate
34. to infuse art with
35. initial
36. spark was gone
37. automobiles
38. become commonplace.
39. emerge from the ashes
of
40. with smb at the
forefront
41. flout conventional
aesthetic and cultural
values
42. be marked by
43. nonsense / travesty
44. incongruity.
45. to express the typical
character of modern
time
46. pull the spectator in the
painting
47. accept the distance
between the art and the
spectator
48. a quote
49. motion (motionless)
9. demolish (v)
10. be solely confined to
be reminiscent of
11. dog on a leash
12. be judged by
13. chaotic
14. vulnerable
15. winged
16. anarchist
17. scorn (n) (for women)
18. be badly wounded
19. traumatize
20. esteem n
21. advent of
22. armored bullet
23. obscurity
Video 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
politically-charged
rejuvenation
abandon (doing)
lack of
menswear
glorify war
cure (n/v)
revolt (v) in
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12. ,
.
: , ,
.
http://slova.org.ru/n/futurizm/
Follow-up Quiz-Test
Make up your own quiz of this art
movement
The questions to be answered
Module 5 Part 1
Expressionism
Expressionism movement
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Column A
1. emphazise
2. emotional
3. distort
4. events arouse
5. impose artist's
6. achieve
Column B
subjective emotions
reality
emotions in smb
sensibility to the world's
representation
expression
intensity
angst
Column A
7. profoundly
8. culturally
9. revelation of
10.express intense
11.sense of
12.gain
13.heightened
Column B
turbulent era of
isolation
emotional state
significance
problematic
feelings to the world
problems
that the chief function of art was to express their intense feelings to the world.
The Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor was such an artist - with his
sense of isolation. The Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch dealt - with
different fears.
The Vienesse painters Oskar Kokoschka and EgonSchiele first started with
their expressionistic styles within Klimt's circle of the Vienna Secession. Vienesse
Expressionism later gained significance between years 1905 and 1918 during a
politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic
conditions of the turn-of-the-century Europe.
In the years just around 1910 the expressionistic approach pioneered by Ensor,
Munch, and van Gogh, in particular, was developed in the work of three artists'
groups: the Fauves, Die Brucke (The Bridge) , Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm
d) Answer the questions:
1. Why can Matthias Grunwald and El Greco be called expressionist?
2. Why did the expressionist distort & exaggerate reality?
3. How did they accomplish their aim?
4. How did Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh influence this art movement?
5. Where did expressionism assessed itself?
6. What is the chief function of this art?
7. When did it gain significance?
noun
verb
exaggerate
adjective
revelation
emphasize
intensity
assess
3. a) Watch the video lecture (video file
1.2) on what expressionism is by BBL
Ep4 German Expressionism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m20td2mb_Ww
Get familiar with the vocabulary from
the video. Matcht he English phrases with their equivalents in
Russian.
tackle snorky be a culture vulture guttural feelings (gut) be an apple pie
Answer the questions:
1. Why did she say it was hard to talk about it ( from the historical viewpoint)?
2. What was Die Brucke? What was the meaning?
3. What were the paintings she was talking about? How did she illustrate the key
moments of expressionism/
b) Watch the video file 1 called Expressionism in c1) and
the fill in the chart about the leading figures of expressionism
Aleksei von
Jawlensky
James Ensor
Edvard
Munch
August
Macke
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Max
Pechstein
Alfred
Kubin
Oskar
Kokoshka
b) Edward Munch
Scream
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=OtOUg1gyanw
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Born in Moscow in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky played the piano and cello at an
early age. The influence of music in his art was profound; many of his paintings had
musical connotations: "Improvisations," "Impressions," and "Compositions." In 1895
Kandinsky attended a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Monet's
"Haystacks at Giverny." He was upset he had not recognized it as a haystack, and
also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an vague way. Yet he was
intrigued by the picture. A short time later he left Moscow for Germany to study
sketching and drawing. He is considered to be one of the founders of abstract art.
Paul Klee is ranked as one of the most original masters of contemporary art.
He was born in Bern, Switzerland and lived for many years in Germany. He was one
of the instructors at the Bauhaus. In 1931 he began teaching at Dusseldorf Academy,
but he was dismissed by the Nazis, who termed his work "degenerate." In 1933, Klee
went back to his native Switzerland. He died on June 29, 1940.
The Brcke, or the "Bridge," was a very important group of young artists who
worked together in Germany during the years 1905-1912. Among those included in
the Brcke were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and
Emil Nolde. These artists produced an intense body of work that was to drastically
alter the direction of twentieth-century art.
During World War I Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a volunteer in the army, but
he could not stand the discipline and constant subordination. He suffered a nervous
breakdown and was moved to a sanatorium, where he became dependent on Veronal
(sleeping pills), morphine and alcohol. The addictions did not hinder him from
painting. He slowly recovered, and worked on paintings and woodcuts. His art was
exhibited in Switzerland and Germany. The Germans banned his work, and he
became increasingly depressed. On June 15, 1938, he took his own life.
Emile Nolde was an expressionist painter and graphic artist known for his
religious works. His distortion and violent use of color attracted the attention of Die
Brcke resulting in an invitation in 1906 to join the group. Nolde's temperament was
not suited for collective work and he left Die Brcke in 1907 after learning the
technique of woodcut. Nolde was able to remain in Germany during the Nazi regime,
but over one thousand of his works were confiscated.
Franz Marc died before Hitler's rise
to
power, but his work influenced and helped
lay
the foundations for the abstract art
movement. With Kandinsky, he founded
the
artist's group Der Blaue Reiter in 1911 and
organized exhibitions with this name. The
Blaue Reiter group exhibited a new art
style based on exuberant color and on
strong emotional and spiritual feelings. He
volunteered for military service during
W.W.I. and died near Verdun, France, on
March 4, 1916.
Edvard Munch is probably best
known for his painting The Scream. His
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preoccupation with the more sorrowful aspects of life was perhaps a result of loosing
both parents, a brother, and a sister when he was young. Munch was a painter and
printmaker.
Max Beckman was influenced by Edvard Munch. Beckman served in the
medical corps during World War I, an experience that led to extreme pessimism in
his artwork. Many of his paintings were sold by the Third
Reich after the Entartete Kunst exhibition. Beckman was able
to escape to Amsterdam and then eventually made his way to
the United States.
Otto Dix was another expressionist painter whose
work was influenced by the experience of World War I. He
was appointed professor at the Dresden State Academy, but
was dismissed in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. Two
hundred sixty of Dix's paintings were removed from German
museums in 1937. Many of these were burnt on Goebbels's
order. Dix survived on a remote farm until 1945 when he was
drafted by the Nazis and then captured by the French and
made a prisoner of war. After the war, Dix returned to teaching.
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artdegen.htm
C) Write an essay challenging or support the idea in the
documentary.
6. Credit activity. Bring in any expressionist painting &
analyze the technique / the idea proving the message carried
in the text.
Make reports on works of painters mentioned in the text
or some other representatives of this art movement
MainRepresentatives
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Emile Nolde, Oskar
Kokoshka, Georges Rouault and Otto Dix, etc.
7. Your vocabulary bank. Think up exercises & fun activities
to practice using the following vocabulary units in their
contexts
1. be opposed to
2. (standards) prevail in
Europe
3. emphasize artist's
subjective emotion
22. be an expressionism
addict.
23. heightened emotional state
24. assume
25. chief function
4. distort (reality)
(distortion)
5. exaggerate (reality)
(exaggeration)
6. imply
7. implies
8. emotional angst
9. (emotions) arise insmb
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29.
30.
printmaker
sense of isolation.
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gain significance
politically and culturally
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32. profound
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Module 6 Part 1
Abstract art
Abstract movement
1. a) Look at the pictures below. What do they have in
common? Do the pictures look appealing to you?
Jackson Pollock
a2) Watch video file 1 there are some abstarct paintings. Say
what you think of them.
b1) Vocabulary. Match the words from column a with their
parts in Column B
Column A
1. relate to
2. abstract art is
3. encourage (v)
4. assign some
5. it takes
6. harmony of
7. rhythms of
Column B
non-objective
smth external
patterns
color, form & lines
free association
meaning to the work
heightened sensitivity
to do smth
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8. make a
9. simplification of
10.abstract art is
11. apparent spontaneity
12.the essence of
13.break from
14. the color & design
15.the melodies
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Column B
the notion
from harmony
distinction between
more fluid
belies planning
resonate off the canvas
recognizable form
reality
reality, where detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence
or some degree of recognisable form.
In Western art history, the break from the notion that a painting had to
represent something happened in the early 20th century. Impressionsim, Fauvism,
Cubism and other art movements of the time all contributed by breaking the "rules"
of art followed since The Renaissance. Impressionism saw painters not "finishing"
their paintings. The Fauvists used colour in a non-realistic way. Cubism introduced
the idea of painting an object from more than one view point. From all of these the
idea developed that colour, line, form, and texture could be the "subject" of the
painting.
Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in the 1940s, applied the principles of
Expressionism to abstract painting. The action painting of Jackson Pollock, in which
paint was dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown on the canvas, is a
good example.
In 1864 the critic Ernest Chesneau wrote that if the trend the Impressionists
were setting continued, paintings would eventually consist of nothing but "two
broadly brushed areas of colour". What would he have thought of the art being
produced 100 years later?
Abstract art is visual music. The colors and designs form harmonies and
melodies that resonate off the canvas and reverberate in the mind and heart of the
viewer. Many of the first abstract artists were influenced by music, such as Paul Klee
and Wassily Kandinsky.
Abstract art expresses things that are beyond what we can see with our eyes.
Instead of portraying images that we can easily grasp or understand, abstract art
focuses on the non-linear world of emotions and the subconscious. It is a language of
color. Through colors, shapes and designs, abstract artwork explores inner worlds and
essences, corresponding to an inner reality. It is the perfect platform for exploring the
nature of consciousness, and the contemplative and timeless questions of
transcendence and spirituality.
http://painting.about.com/od/abstractart/a/abstract_art.htm
http://abstractart.20m.com/
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2. contemplative
3. smear
4. resonate
5. consciousness
6.transcedence
7. reverberate
Vocabulary 4. Word formation. Fill in the chart. Make up
sentences with the words used as different part of speech.
noun
verb
adjective
grasp
spirituality
recognisable
consciousness
eventual
3.Watch the art documentary
called Jackson Pollock
&about the titans of modern
art that have influenced the
world we live in now &
discuss the questions in class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwUxQrDGqw
4. Bring in any abstract painting & analyze the technique /
the idea proving the message carried in the text
Make reports on works of French painters in the texts
MainRepresentatives
Paul Klee
Wassili Kandinskii
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-Pablo Picasso
Picasso has a point. Art can't be explained adequately in words, because it's
influence on people is so personal and speaks to the nonverbal parts of our existence.
Therefore, art is an experience. You must let go of your need to put things into words,
and let the artwork take you somewhere... even lift you into higher spheres.
You have to 'understand' abstract art
with a different part of you, one that you
may not normally use or be familiar with.
Essentially, you must:
Accept that it is what it is. Don't try
to pinpoint an exact meaning for an image.
Look at abstract art in the same way
that you would listen to a symphony. When
you listen to music, you don't try to hold on
to the notes - you let them wash over you.
Let your eyes wander over the painting the
way the notes of a symphony wash over
your soul. Let your eyes play with the
painting, slipping around corners,
following the twirls, twists and turns,
dipping in and out of the surface. Let your
eyes dance around the piece.
Rather than trying to figure out what the painting looks like, just allow yourself
to be taken in by the painting. See what emotions, sensations or memories emerge.
Let your eyes relax and travel around the piece without expectation. Examine the
colors, forms, materials, surface, and how they interact with each other. Take your
time. Let the painting "speak" to you.
Notice how the various elements like shape, color and form
affect you. An intricately detailed, vibrant painting will affect you
differently than a calm, cool Malevich.
Take a look at the two artworks below. What are the
differences in how they make you feel?
It is best to see abstract art in person to truly get the full
effect. This will help you immeasurably with understanding
abstract art. You can't get the full impact of a piece of art from a
small photo in a book or pixelated image online. In person, you
can see up close the texture, size, stroke of the paintbrush, shine or
matte of the surface. You can feel the strength of the painting
from across the room. You can stand in the space the artist once
occupied, and try to imagine his or her thoughts upon each stroke
of the brush.
Understanding abstract art requires an inventiveness that invites you to
discover for yourself the meaning behind the work. It is not easy to grasp, like still
lifes, portraits, or other form of representational art, because it is open to
interpretation in a way that representational art is not.
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http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-understand-abstract-art.html
b) Watch the video called Kazimir Malevich: A
Visionary's Tragic Journey & sum up the ideas in
writing. Express your understanding of this art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNS0qtMxXs
c) Watch the Russian program
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whose point of view you agree with & why.
6.1. Watch the art documentary about Wassily
Kandinsky . Make up a quiz about his biography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_q0h903-Kc
6.2. Watch the art documentary about Piet
Mondrian . Make up a quiz about his
biography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd-vS1bPVF4
7. Your vocabulary bank. Think up exercises & fun activities
to practice using the following vocabulary units in their
contexts.
50. recognisable subject,
51. non-objective
52. non-representational.
53. encourages free
association
54. assign your own
meaning to the artwork
55. it takes a heightened
sensitivity
56. appreciate abstract
artwork
57. distinction
58. apparent
59. bely
60. spiritual experience
61. be dripped
62. be dropped
63. be smeared
64. be spattered
65. be thrown
66. eventually
67. resonate off the canvas
68. easily grasp
to be skillful & professional. Try your best & have fun with the
paints & the brush and the idea.
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Module 7 Part 1
Dada art movement
Marcel Dushamp
Column B
upside down
standards
an implicit
in the society
the loss of
meaning
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The artists of the Dada movement had become disillusioned by art, art history
and history in general. Many of them were veterans of World War I and had grown
cynical of humanity after seeing what men were capable of doing to each other on the
battlefields of Europe. Thus they became attracted to a nihilistic view of the world
(they thought that nothing mankind had achieved was worthwhile, not even art), and
created art in which chance and randomness
formed the basis of creation. The basis of Dada is
nonsense. With the order of the world destroyed
by World War I, Dada was a way to express the
confusion that was felt by many people as their
world was turned upside down.
The existence of this movement was not
stable. By 1925, this movement gave way to
surrealism and later other movements took its
place.
The movement influenced later styles,
Avant-garde and Downtown music movements,
and groups including Surrealism, Nouveau
Ralisme, Pop Art and Fluxus
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_dadaism
http://www.blurtit.co
d) Answer the questions:
1. Who was the Dada movement founded by? & When & Where?
2. What does the term dada mean?
3. What activities does it include? What does it stand for?
4. What were the dada works characterized by? (use at 6 vocabulary units from
the text)
5. Comment on: 1) If art is to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada
strives to have no meaning; 2) If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada
offends.
6. What way was this movement influential?
e) Vocabulary2. Look through the text again & explain the
meaning of the words in bold.
Vocabulary3. Match the word with its definition
definition
word
o) the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief
1. oppression
that life is meaningless ;
2. nihilism
p) prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
3. implicit
q) disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less
4. random
good than one had believed ;
5. latent
r) (of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest;
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6. be
disillusioned
7. rigid
8. cynical
hidden; concealed ;
s) contemptuous; mocking ; believing that people are motivated by selfinterest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity;
t) implied though not plainly expressed;
u) unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible;
v) made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious
decision.
1. a) Discuss:
Can you presuppose how to create an art
work in the style?
b) Read the text & find out
Instructions How to Create Dada Art:
1. Stop making sense. Put a pineapple next to
an Eskimo, or a dog house on top of a trailer. In an effort to challenge the
prevailing opinions about art in the early 1900s, members of the Dada
movement cultivated irrationality, deliberately placing incongruent images
together and combining the mundane with the spiritual. Some of what they
made poked fun at serious ideas and institutions, while some of it made no
sense whatsoever. At least part of what Dada heightened in the art world were
the senses of humor, anarchy and irony.
2. Glue many pieces of small paper together, overlapping on one background to
form an image or just an abstract shape. Collage in its most basic form uses
many different pieces of paper. But collage may also use pastels, paper,
feathers, crayons, clay and other textures and media.
3. Shoot some photos, then chop them up and reconfigure them, combine them
with other media, or display them out of order. Photo-montage takes the
distinctive attributes of photography, particularly its journalistic aspect, and
plays with them. Experiment with jumbling up your photographs or
photoshopping them to create original photographs, made up but seemingly
real. Dadaists probably would have loved Photoshop. A strong element of
Dadaism is asking the viewer to question his assumptions about the legitimacy
of what he sees.
4. Stick things together that
shouldn't be together.
Assemblage is like collage, but
three-dimensional, so it has the
capacity to fill up spaces with
objects that confuse and
confound audiences. Dada
liked to put an object that had
sacred symbolism next to
something ordinary or even
debased.
5. Pick up a random object, sign it
and call it art. This is found or
ready-made Art. Artist Marcel Duchamp shocked the art world in 1917 by
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4. Listening (7.1 & 7.2) Listen to the talk of two people who
are discussing what modern art is?
Answer the questions:
What kind of art did they see? What did look like?
What is their attitude to the art like this?
5. Watch video file Kunsbar. Discuss its issues
While watching write down the titiles of the things (works
of art) youve recognized in the file.
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Module 7 Part 2
Performance art
1. a) Discuss:
What have you
heard of this
kind of modern
art?
b) Look at the
picture & say where the girls are what they are doing; why
they were dressed like this?
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a with their
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sentence on them at
shrines & churches
in public
are unfounded
the offense
leniency
the European Court of
pardoned/encouraged
to condemn the prank
Vocabulary1b.
*Consult the dictionary how these words are pronounced.
Transcribe the words in the space aside. Pay attention to the
way the stress is placed
altar .. mosquesynagogue .
Patriarch .condemntrial
leniency
Pussy Riot prank in cathedral
has Russians divided in their assessments
March 30, 2012
Russia Beyond the Headlines
The Pussy Riots feminist rock band provoked
a scandal within Russia's community. Source: ITAR-TASS
Part 1
On Feb. 21, 2012, five young women in masks tried to stage an improvised
performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, chanting: Virgin
Mary, Mother of God, Expel Putin! The song lasted for less than a minute and was
stopped by the cathedrals security service. The act had taken place in the closed area
behind the icon screen where the altar is located and only priests and other church
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There have also been appeals for leniency, though. Vladimir Legoida,
chairman of the Synodal information department of the Russian Orthodox Church,
sees no reason for the women to be kept in custody and insists that everything should
remain within the bounds of the law: The Church has called for mercy at all times.
This situation is not an exception. A part of society has formed a false opinion that
the guilty women are kept in custody at the insistence of the Church, which is not
true. Furthermore, the media and the public are emphasizing that some of these
women have little children. Those who took part in that action seem to be unaware
of the gravity of their offense and are attracting sympathy. It is good that our society
is still capable of sympathy and forgiveness, even when its feelings have been so
hurt.
Sergei Smirnov, an attorney with Yukov, Khrenov and Partners Law Office,
does not believe that criminal charges are applicable to the actions of the Pussy Riot
activists: There are material elements of an administrative crime, subject to
disorderly conduct () charges. Therefore I believe that keeping them in
custody as a pre-trial restriction () and bringing criminal charges of
hooliganism is ungrounded and fails to correspond to the gravity of the offense.
However, the 60-day restriction term is normal practice; there is nothing too severe
here. When the investigation insists on custody as a pre-trial restriction, the court
normally opts for two months. It is hard to say what will happen later. Unfortunately,
judging from our practice of criminal law administration, if a case comes to trial, and
it is not a trial by jury (as in this case), then it will likely end in a guilty verdict.
Pussy Riots lawyer Violetta Volkova said that in the event of an guilty verdict,
she would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.No cases of
this sort have ever been qualified as criminal offences before,she said.
http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/03/27/for_what_should_pussy_riot_be_responsible_and_how_15183.html
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Module 8 Part 1
Surrealism
Salvador Dhali
Igor Lysenko
a with their
Column B
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poets
the unconscious
the imagination
thought
realm of experience
Surrealist art
Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early
'20s as a literary movement that experimented with a
new mode of expression called automatic writing, or
automatism. It attempted to express the workings
of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and
incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
Though the Surrealist movement was officially
founded in 1924, the term was first coined in 1917,
when Guillaume Apollinaire used it in program notes for the ballet Parade, written
by Pablo Picasso, Leonide Massine, Jean Cocteau, and Erik Satie. It began as a
literary group strongly allied to the Dada movement, and emerged in the wake of the
collapse of the group in Paris, when Andr Breton's eagerness to bring purpose to the
group clashed withTristan Tzara's anti-authoritarianism. Breton - who is occasionally
described as the 'Pope' of Surrealism - would go on to be the most important figure
in the movement, the impresario whose strong leadership gave it cohesion through
its many reincarnations until his death in 1966.
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Module 9
Op & Pop art
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Part 1 Op art
1. a) Look at the pictures below. Do the pictures look
appealing to you? Express your way you see them. React to
the paintings with descriptive words in your active vocabulary
a new movement
the term referenced
6. be comprised of
7. be enraptured with
8. he pioneered
9. noteworthy
10. eliminate
11. be given
12. create smth
13. be of
14. be viewed with
15. represential
16. be invaded by
17. employ
artist
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equal importance
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color, light , shape
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circumstances .idyllic . de-emphasized
enrapture ..oscillate . pioneer
c1) Watch the video file 1 called Op art to get pre-knowledge
of this art movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2j7lJcGCU
c2) Read the text & express your attitude to the this style of
modern art. Answer the questions below the text.
What is op art?
Flashback to 1964. In the United States, we were
still reeling from the assassination of our President,
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escalating the Civil Rights movement, being "invaded" by British pop/rock music
and, in general, pretty much done with notions of achieving idyllic lifestyles (despite
that which was touted in the 1950s). Given the circumstances, it was a perfect time
for a new artistic movement to burst on the scene.
In October of 1964, in an article describing this new style of art, Time
Magazine coined the phrase "Optical Art" (or "Op Art", as it's more commonly
known). The term referenced the fact that Op Art is comprised of illusion, and often
appears - to the human eye - to be moving or breathing due to its precise,
mathematically-based composition.
After (and because of) a major 1965 exhibition of Op Art entitled The
Responsive Eye, the public became enraptured with the movement. As a result, one
began to see Op Art showing up everywhere: in print and television advertising, as
LP album art and as a fashion motif in clothing and interior decoration.
Although the term was coined and the exhibition held in the mid-1960s, most
people who've studied these things agree that Victor Vasarely pioneered the
movement with his 1938 painting Zebra. M.C. Escher - whose style has sometimes
caused him to be listed as an Op artist - created works with amazing perspectives and
use of tessellations that certainly helped point the way for others. And it can be
argued that none of Op Art would've been possible - let alone embraced by the public
- without the prior Abstract and Expressionist movements that de-emphasized (or, in
many cases, eliminated) representational subject matter.
As an "official" movement, Op Art has been given a life-span of around three
years. This doesn't mean, though, that every artist ceased (=stop) employing Op Art
as their style by 1969. Bridget Riley is one noteworthy artist who has moved from
achromatic to chromatic pieces, but has steadfastly created Op Art from its beginning
to the present day. Additionally, anyone who has gone through a post-secondary fine
arts program probably has a tale or two of Op-ish projects created during color theory
studies.
It's also worth mentioning that, in the digital age, Op Art is sometimes viewed
with bemusement. Perhaps you, too, have heard the (rather snide, in my opinion)
comment: "A child with the proper graphic design software could produce this stuff."
Quite true, of a gifted child, with a computer and the proper software at his or her
disposal, in the 21st century. This certainly wasn't the case in the early 1960s, and the
1938 date of Vasarely's Zebra speaks for itself in this regard. Op Art represents a
great deal of math, planning and technical skill, as none of it came freshly-inked out
of a computer peripheral. Original, hand-created Op Art deserves respect, at the very
least.
What are the key characteristics of Op Art?
First and foremost, Op Art exists to fool the eye. Op
compositions create a sort of visual tension, in the viewer's mind,
that gives works the illusion of movement. For example,
concentrate on Bridget Riley's Dominance Portfolio, Blue (1977)
- for even a few seconds - and it begins to dance and wave in
front of one's eyes. Realistically, you know any Op Art piece is
flat, static and two-dimensional. Your eye, however, begins
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sending your brain the message that what it's seeing has begun to oscillate, flicker,
throb and any other verb one can employ to mean: "Yikes! This painting is moving!".
Because of its geometrically-based nature, Op Art is, almost without
exception, non-representational.
The elements employed (color, line and shape) are carefully chosen to
achieve maximum effect.
The critical techniques used in Op Art are perspective and careful
juxtaposition of color (whether chromatic [identifiable hues] or achromatic [black,
white or gray]).
In Op Art, as in perhaps no other artistic school, positive and negative spaces
in a composition are of equal importance. Op Art could not be created without both.
http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/matisse.htm
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/op_art.htm
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Part 2Pop art
Module 9Part 2
Op & Pop art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IxcJsXyWtQ
c2) Read the text & express your attitude to the this style of
modern art. Answer the questions below the text.
What is Pop Art?
The Impressionists changed everything when their art
was accepted. From this point on, artists had free rein to
experiment. Even if the public loathed the results, it was still
Art, and thus accorded a certain respect. Movements, schools
and styles - in dizzying number - came, went, diverged from
one another and sometimes melded.
"The term first appeared in
Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a
number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising,
comics and consumer products. The term ``Pop Art'' was
first used by the English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958
issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that
celebrate post-war consumerism, defy the psychology of
Abstract Expressionism, and worship the god of
materialism. The most famous of the Pop artists, the cult
figure Andy Warhol, recreated quasi-photographic paintings of people or everyday
objects.
The 1950s were a period of optimism in Britain following the end of war-time
rationing, and a consumer boom took place. Influenced by the art seen in Eduardo
Paolozzi's 1953 exhibition Parallel between Art and Life at the Institute for
Contemporary Arts, and by American artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg, British artists such as Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group
aimed at broadening taste into more popular, less academic art. Hamilton helped
organize the 'Man, Machine, and Motion' exhibition in 1955, and 'This is Tomorrow'
with its landmark image Just What is it that makes today's home so different, so
appealing? (1956). Pop Art therefore coincided with the youth and pop music
phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of
fashionable, 'swinging' London. Peter Blake, for example, designed album covers for
Elvis Presley and the Beatles and placed film stars such as Brigitte Bardot in his
pictures in the same way that Warhol was immortalizing Marilyn Monroe in the
USA. Pop art came in a number of waves, but all its adherents - Joe Trilson, Richard
Smith, Peter Phillips, David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj - shared some interest in the
urban, consumer, modern experience."
It is a moot point as to whether the most extraordinary innovation of 20thcentury art was Cubism or Pop Art. Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted
style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while
Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionist pretentious and over-intense. Pop
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Art brought art back to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture
(hence ``pop''), in which ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure from
television, magazines, or comics.
One of the main conceptual objectives of Pop Art was to blur the boundaries
between high art and low or popular culture. The concept behind Pop Art is not
limited to the art produced within this group of artists, it also referred to the attitudes
that surrounded and inspired them. Some experts interpret these attitudes as a
reaction to Abstract Expressionism, which was an American post WWII art
movement characterized by emotional intensity and associated with anarchy,
freedom, and rebellion.
Pop Art on the other hand is for the most part emotionally cold towards its
subject matter and is associated with mechanical means of reproduction such as
photography and printmaking.
Pop Art's World Wide Influence
In the United States Pop Art gained momentum in the 1960s and is now mostly
associated with the work of New York artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenberg, however they were part of a
bigger phenomenon happening in various parts of the world. For example, the French
equivalent of pop art was called Nouveau Ralisme and although it shared the
concerns of its American counterparts in dealing with commercial culture, the French
artists focused their art production in the area of sculpture.
In Spain, Pop Art is associated with the new figurativism and among the best known
artists working in this style were Manolo Valdes and Rafael Solbes who made up the
artist duo EQUIPO CRONICA and worked in Valencia during the late 1960s and the
the 1970s.
The Pop Art movement still influences new generations of artists today. It
opened up a world of possibilities by allowing the use of everyday culture and its
symbols and objects to become valid subject matter in art, questioning the elitism
that was associated with art and bringing it closer to a broader audience.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/pop-art.html
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Some art educators argue that concepts of fine art and popular art are relative and
that the distinction between the two is slight if not illusory. What we see in art museums and art galleries includes a lot of different things from all over the world, from
cultures and periods of time
in which the concept of art, as we know it, did not exist. In their original
contexts, such objects often served a variety of functions, such as magical,
ritualistic, narrative, or utilitarian but almost never aesthetic. .
It is well known that many of the things we regard so highly today, such as
Gothic cathedrals, El Grecos, Rembrandts, Goyas or Cezannes, were ignored or
scorned at different periods of time. Many things we ignore or scorn today, such
as the work of the French or Royal Academies in the 19th century, were at one
time highly regarded. A work's reputation can be affected precipitously by the accident of reattribution. A highly regarded Rembrandt, subsequently discovered to
be not by Rembrandt drops in value immediately. The same thing can happen in
reverse. Finally, there are cases in which objects have lost not only their
monetary and intrinsic value, but also their status as art objects because they
are fakes.
B) Discuss the text in pairs. One partner will take the
optimistic view and insist that popular arts should be
included in the art curriculum. The other will defend the
opposite point of view.
Consider the following:
FOR
1. The differences between
popular and fine art are often
matters of classification.
2. Popular art facilitates the
aesthetic experience and
therefore is appropriate for
study in the field of art
education.
3. The content of the popular
arts is of relevance to the
students and, through
art criticism, can lead to a
more penetrating analysis of
these and other art forms.
4. The popular arts allow
students to talk about
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AGAINST
1 Fine arts in each epoch supplied the
models from which the rules and
principles were derived.
2 Fine arts are more noble, more
worthy than all the other
opportunities
available for visual aesthetic experience
around us.
3 Tastes should be developed through
images of high artistic culture, whereas
works of popular culture as a rule
meet consumer's tastes.
4 Excellent, or fine art. is better than
poor art for providing students with a
strong personal and cultural
awareness.
5. A lot of popular art is debased and
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understanding of his culture
as well as the cultures of
other peoples.
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6. We have no right to "condemn"
students to the easily comprehensible
forms of popular art. Any student can
develop an appreciation of the fine arts.
7. The habit of looking at good pictures
is in itself a means by which taste can be
formed.
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All videos taken from Youtube.com
All images & reproductions of paintings taken from google.com
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How to Make Cubism Art. ttp://www.ehow.com/how_5214911_make-cubism-art.html
Futurism
Futurism http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Futurism_art
what is futurism
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http://3514.blogspot.com/2010/12/dadaism-images.html
How to Create Dada Art http://www.ehow.com/how_7345064_create-dada-art.html
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has Russians divided in their assessments
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