Leah+Wilson

Gustav Klimt's "Forest of Beeches" c.1903 This is one of several paintings Klimt made of the interior of a beech wood. In this Masterwork, the sky is unreachable, imprisoned behind the thick bars of tree trunks. []



My favorite thing about Art Nouveau is the architecture, and without a doubt my favorite architectural feature are the graceful and winding stairs of the period. These are various views of the Lello Bookstore in Portugal, which opened in 1906. I love how the curvature of the lines is not only in the balustrades, but in the stairs themselves. Notice all the details typical of the period in the woodwork, and how the stairs themselves play such a prominent role in the space.
 * ART NOUVEAU**







Artist Franz Von Stuck Franz Stuck was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. He is considered by some to be one of the artistic inspirations to German Fascism. //Self Portrait 1905//
 * DECADENCE**

Artist Pablo Picasso Around 1906, Picasso, Matisse, [|André Derain] and other artists in Paris had acquired an interest in primitivism, [|Iberian sculpture], [|[16]] [|African art] and [|tribal masks] , in part because of the compelling works of [|Paul Gauguin] that had suddenly achieved center stage in the avant-garde circles of Paris. //Boy Leading a Horse// c.1906
 * PRIMITIVISM**

Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.
 * POST IMPRESSIONISM**

Artist Vincent Van Gough This is one of my all time favorite paintings. The view outside Van Gough's window at the sanitorium, he painted it during the day from memory. It sort of falls in between the artistic movements we have discussed.

//Starry Night// c. 1889

Denotes the use of distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect, which first surfaced in the art literature of the early twentieth century. When applied in a stylistic sense, with reference in particular to the use of intense colour, agitated brushstrokes, and disjointed space. Rather than a single style, it was a climate that affected not only the fine arts but also dance, cinema, literature and the theatre.
 * EXPRESSIONISM**

Mary Wigman, pioneer of expressionist dance.

Artist Alvar Cawen Sokea Soittoniekka (Blind Musician) c.1922




 * CUBISM**
 * Cubism ** was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Artist Georges Braque //Mandola// c.1911

Artist Paul Cezanne //Steinbruch Bibemus c.1900//


 * FUTURISM**
 * Futurism ** was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.

Futurism in Music Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) wrote //The Art of Noises//  (1913), an influential text in 20th century musical aesthetics. Russolo used instruments he called //intonarumori //, which were acoustic noise generators that permitted the performer to create and control the dynamics and pitch of several different types of noises. Russolo and Marinetti gave the first concert of Futurist music, complete with //intonarumori//, in 1914.

Below is the //intonarumori.//

Russolo's //Macchina Tipografica// media type="youtube" key="VcHJySm7ZO0?rel=0" height="315" width="420"


 * ORPHISM**
 * Orphism ** or **Orphic Cubism ** (1910-13), the term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, was a little known art movement during the time of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors influenced by Fauvism and the dye chemist Eugene Chevreul . This movement was pioneered by the Delaunays, a couple who relaunched the use of color during the monochromatic Cubist movement.

Artist Robert Delaunay //Circular Forms// c.1930

Artist Sonia Deluanay //Rythme// c.1938

A school of early 20th century Russian poetry whose practitioners were strongly opposed to the vagueness of symbolism and strove for absolute clarity of expression through precise, concrete imagery.
 * ACMEISM**

Acmeist poets include: Anna Akhmatova

Nikolay Gumilyov

Osip Mandelstam

Mikhail Kuzmin

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The group originally met in <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Stray Dog Cafe, St Petersburg, then a celebrated meeting place for artists and writers

The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in the Russian empire and Soviet Union from approximately 1890-1930. The movement reached its creative and popular height between the Russian Revolution in 1917 and 1932, when Communist regime dictated that the official art of the new Russia would be Soviet Realism.
 * RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE**

Artist Alexander Rodchenko //Dance// c. 1915

Artist Lyubov Popova //Spatio-Power Design// c. 1923

Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. It concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works and its primary purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.
 * DADAISM**

Artist Marcel Duchamp //Fountain// c. 1917

Artist Man Ray //Le Violon d'Ingres// c. 1924

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur. However, many Surrealist artists and writers who regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being merely an expression of those views. Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris.
 * SURREALISM**

Artist Max Ernst //The Elephant Celebes// c. 1921

Artist Max Ernst //The Clothing of the Bride// c. 1940