Art Nouveau

• Popular at the turn of the century – 1890-1905

• Style of art, architecture and decorative arts

• Characterized by organic, floral, plant-inspired motifs, with highly stylized curvilinear forms.’

• Bridges Neoclassicism and modernism

• Organic, floral, plant-like motifs, stylized curvilinear forms– Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)'Job'1898Colour lithograph

Alfons MUCHA

"DONNA BIZANTINA BRUNA", 1897

Gustav Klimt, Judith, 1901

• Art Deco (c. 1925- 1939) widely considered to be an eclectic form of elegant and stylish modernism, being influenced by a variety of sources. – Among them were the so-called "primitive"

arts of Africa, Ancient Egypt, and Aztec Mexico.

– It also drew on machine-age or streamline technology, such as modern aviation, electric lighting, the radio, the ocean liner and the skyscraper for inspiration.

Built 1930

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Since 1933

• Machine-age, old Hollywood, geometric shapes, influenced by modern aviation, ocean liners, and skyscrapers

– Art Deco

Piet Mondrian (1872 -1944)

•Art should be ‘denaturalized’

•Art should be purely abstract

•No representational relationship to the natural world.

•Most universal signs of order = horizontal and vertical lines and the primary colors,

•Mondrian thought of his canvases as places where we could turn to stabilize ourselves and restore our calm.

De Stijl:Dutch = ‘The style’ Founded in Leiden in 1917Style of austere (severe) abstract clarity

LESS/MORE

• “Less is more” Mies van der Rohe

• “Less is only more when more is no good” Frank Lloyd Wright

• “Achieve more with less” Norman Foster

• “More matter with less art” William Shakespeare

PIET MONDRIAN, Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930. Oil on canvas, 2’ 4 5/8” x 1’ 9 1/4”.

GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD, Schröder House, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1924.

Gerrit Rietveld. Schroeder House. Interior. 1923-24

How to look at a Mondrian

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Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany. View from northwest. 1925-1926

• The Bauhaus and De Stijl both sought to create harmony between individual lives and modern industry and technology. – The Bauhaus was designed to eliminate

divisions between painters, sculptors, architects, crafts, and designers.

• “A return to order”. Objects and buildings were stripped of superficial embellishment and pared down to clean lines.

• This is when the elements and principles became common terminology in arts education.

MARCEL BREUER, tubular chair, 1925.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Chair and Ottoman, 1929 (Bauhaus)

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936–1939.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Denver Art Museum made for the office of the Larkin Soap Company in Buffalo NY

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, Bird in Space, 1928. Bronze (unique cast), 4’ 6” x 8” x 6” high.

AARON DOUGLAS, Noah’s Ark, ca. 1927. Oil on masonite, 4’ x 3’. Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee.

CHARLES DEMUTH, My Egypt, 1927. Oil on composition board, 2’ 11 3/4” x 2’ 6”.

Charles Demuth, The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, New York, Night, 1929. Oil on canvas, 3’ 4 1/8” x 1’ 7 1/8”.

GRANT WOOD, American Gothic, 1930. Oil on beaverboard, 2’ 5 7/8” x 2’ 7/8”.

THOMAS HART BENTON, Pioneer Days and Early Settlers,

State Capitol, Jefferson City, 1936. Mural.

Thomas Hart Benton, The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934

PABLO PICASSO, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11’ 5 1/2” x 25’ 5 3/4”. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,

Madrid.

Guernica shows the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250 and 1,600 people, and many more were injured.

Edward Hopper, Ground Swell, Oil on Canvas, 1939

Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939, Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 40 1/8 in.The Museum of Modern Art, New York

EDWARD HOPPER, Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas, 2’ 6” x

4’ 8 11/16”.

First Row Orchestra, Oil on Canvas, 1951

Left: Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at the Window, 1822

Right: Edward Hopper, Room in Brooklyn, 1932

Office at Night 1940, Oil on canvas, 22 1/8 x 25 inches