#2. The Impact of Cubism: Key Concepts:
- "The Breakfast Table": Juan Gris, used the spiritual elements, abstraction, imagination, and real objects.
-Unfamiliar ways to represent space and form.
-"The Violin" used the musical composition to layer elements of sound.
-Spirals forms direction, focus attention and symbolizes electric lights.
-Kazimir Malevich, Mysticism
-"Nude on a Staircase": Duchamp, controlled motion is balanced in a fixed setting.
-Mystical experiences shown in religious icons.
-"Farewells":Umberto Boccioni
Dada and Surrealism: Key Concepts:
-Dada movement was a reaction to WWI.
-German artist Kurt Schwitters
-Surrealism opened a new avenue for artistic creation by ignoring the reasoning process and tap directly into the unconscious mind.
-Realization of the unlimited possibilities of collage, used rural objects in his art
-Light dances off of his objects
-Hannah Hoch, Dadaist
-Used art to attack society that she detested
-The 1919 "Cut With the Kitchen Knife" used chaotic figures to make a monumental political statement
-"The Saddest Man in Europe": George Grosz
-Nazis burned his art
-"Pillars of Society": bitter attack on his enemies
-Joan Miro: Spanish Surrealist
-Despairs that WWI did not end the wicked ways of government
-"Dutch InteriorII": paintings one experiences two different ways of looking at the world
-"La Fortune": Man Ray
#3. Both the readings videos and text relate talking about Surrealism, Dada, and Cubism and how it effected the viewers feelings when looking at art like paintings from the movement. Explained the main artists and their works that best represent the movement.
#4. I enjoyed learning from these videos and especially the artist Sonia Delaunay. The basic concepts of Cubism in her work line of fashion designer and interior decorating. She also contributed to the Avant Garde trend in fashion.
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