Working our Way to AbsSTraCT EXPRESSIONISM

It all starts with an explosion in the armory.

American Art Prior to 1913

• American Realist or Naturalist Painters.• Capturing daily life and the beauty of nature.• Mostly non-political in nature.

Meanwhile in Europe, This is guy was Happening. MATISSE

Fauvism (Wild Beasts)

• Henri Mattiss and Andre Derain• Introduced unnaturalistic color and vivid

brushstrokes.• Painted directly from the tube!

These wild beasts didn’t come out of nowhere

• Inspired by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and neo-impressionists like.

Van Gogh

Gauguin

Seurat

It all really came from this Cezanne and this Painting.

Cubism: Revived by Cezanne’s vision of order and structure of nature,

people started to reject the emotionalism of fauvism for the logic of cubism.

Cubists• One of the most influential visual art styles of the early 20th century.

• Rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or the they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling and foreshortening. They wanted instead to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. So they reduced and fractured objects into geometric forms and then realigned them.

• While Picasso and Braque are credited with creating this new visual language, it was adopted and further developed by many painters including. Marcel Duchamp.

The Armory Show

• The International Exposition of Modern Art (the”Armory show”)

Created international buzz about New York becoming the new cultural epicenter.

Artists begin to flood to New York because of the message received from the Armory Show. “Freedom”

What is the subject of this painting?

How could this change the world of art?