Pp Chap32

The Modernist Assault

Chapter 32Hum103Instructor Beth Camp

The New Physics

Absolute and rational model of the universe

Heisenberg’s Principle of uncertainty

Einstein theory of relativity

The New Physics

Quantum physics,Atomic physics

Cause and effectnot reliable

Indifferent universe, beyond control

and unpredictable

The New Physics

Atomic BombTested in 1945

We could destroy the world

The average person no longer understood or was reassured by

Science

Early 20th Century Music

Modern composers rejected tradition Polytonal and atonal works Unorthodox sources of sound

Schoenberg’s serial technique = all 12 notes equal and must be used before any one note is repeatedStravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Early 20th Century Art

Avant garde artists rejected the academy and “representation”Fiero says these artists “evoked” rather than “described” experience (5) Primitivism Experimentation Abstraction

Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Paris, 1907

Braque: Collage Picasso: Guitar, 1912-1913

Picasso: Gertrude Stein Picasso: Celestina

Picasso: MariePicasso: Dora

Picasso: Weeping Woman

Picasso: Dora

Matisse and Fauvism

Matisse: Red Room

Matisse: The Girl with Green Eyes, 1908

Futurism

Victory of Samothrace Boccioni: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

Brancusi and Abstraction:A Muse, 1911

Nonobjective Art: Mondrian

Mondrian: Red Tree, 1911

Nonobjective Art: Mondrian

Mondrian: Amaryllis, 1910

Mondrian: Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue, 1920

Ezra Pound: Modernism

Day by day make it newCut underbrushPile the logsKeep it growing.

Sources

Mark Hardin ArtchivePortland Art Museum