Thomas Eakins The Swimming Hole, 1884/85
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Mrs Knowles and her Children, 1902
Henri Matisse, 1869-1954 The Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907 oil, 36 1/4 x 55 1/8.
Ezra Pound – Make it new!
Isabel, Caroline, Denise,
Jelena
Chantalia, Valerie, Annika
Lena, Julia, Mirjam, Caroline
Luisa, Katharina Steven
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Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912
"Take the picture which for some reason is called 'A Naked Man Going Down Stairs'. There is in my bathroom a really good Navajo rug which, on any proper interpretation of the Cubist theory, is a far more satisfactory and decorative picture. ... and from the standpoint of decorative value, of sincerity, and of artistic merit, the Navajo rug is infinitely ahead of the picture." (Theodore Roosevelt )
“In
1913, a single exhibition changed the face of American art forever. The International Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the Armory Show,endeavored to combine the newest and most striking examples of European art with their American counterparts in a magnificent, unparalleled show.“
Daniela, Sofia, Jan, Maria Christoph, Nadja, Kathi, Falko
The Armory Show 1913
• Watershed date in American art • Introduced astonished New Yorkers to modernism • Teddy Roosevelt said, ―That’s not art!‖
Ezra Pound, 1913
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
William Carlos Williams, 1923
American Modernism
Phases of Modernism
• Early • 1890-1920 Avant-garde (Dadaism, Surrealism, Cubism) • High • 1920 – 1929 Modernist Classics (Ulysses, The Waste Land, Manhattan Transfer,The Great Gatsby, Cane), Experimenalism, Minimalism, Black modernism • Thirties 1930 – 1940 Socialist realism, proletarian novel, black modernism • Late Modernism: 1940 - 1960 modernism is canonized • Post-Modernism 1960 - 1990s radicalization of modernism or break with high modernism
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d‘Avignon, 1907 The Birth of Modernism
Ezra Pound – Make it new!
In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier), 1912 oil, 58 x 35.
"Duchamp’s Nude creates an atmosphere of release, color release, release from stereotyped forms, trite subjects. I (William Carlos Williams) laughed out loud when I first saw it, happily, with relief." (Williams 134).