Megan+Baird

"The Kiss" (1907-1908) by Gustav Klimt

This is the Municipal House in Prague.

=**Symbolism**= //Oedipus & the Sphinx//

Gustave Moreau
"Gustave Moreau was born in 1826 and was one of the most recognized Symbolist artists of his time. He studied under Chasseriau and was greatly influenced by the masters of the Romantic movement. Gustave Moreau appreciated the bizarre and random, but went past that to create a highly distinctive personal style. Gustave Moreau preferred mystically intense images that realted to ancient and unknown civilizations. Mythological figures were of great interest to Gustave Moreau and his paint almost paid hommage to these figures with it's jewel-like texture. Much of Gustave Moreau's life was spent in seclusion but he did become a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1892. He was an inspirational teacher who was able to bring out the individual talent of his students rather than set the guidelines for their personal expression. Gustave Moreau's pupils included Henri Matisse, Marquet, and his favorite Rouault. Most of Gustave Moreau's works are preserved at his home, now the Moreau Museum. Gustave Moreau died in 1898." (taken from http://www.arthistoryguide.com/travel/travel35.aspx)

=Primitivism= //The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope//, Henri Rousseau 1905

=Cubism= Woman's Head, 1912-13, Otto Gutfreund

Two Figures, 1913-14, Liubov' Popova

= = =Futurism=

Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy. (taken from http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/)

Jolts of a Cab, 1911, Carlo Carrà

Ritmi Plastici, 1911, Carlo Carrà

=Expressionism= The Large Blue Horses, 1911, Franz Marc

=Russian Avant-garde= Kandinsky YouTube video:

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Composition No.7, 1913 (oil on canvas) by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)/ Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

The term “entartet,” or “degenerate,” was used to describe primarily avant-garde art which was characterized as signifying decay, decadence, and chaos. Artistic movements such as Dada, Expressionism, Surrealism, Bauhaus and Impressionism were part of this designation. In the exhibition, works by artists such as Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Emil Nolde were deliberately hung askew and displayed anti-aesthetically in the gallery alongside defamatory commentary. (taken from http://www.bridgemanart.com/EN-US/news-and-features/collection-highlights/2010/july/regime%20against%20art.aspx )



=Dadaism=

French painter Francis Picabia is best known as an early pioneer of the Dada movement. Between 1915 and 1917, he lived periodically in New York where he was active in the New York Dada group. There he met Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray, Walter Arensberg and Beatrice Wood, among others. Picabia was involved with a number of Dada publications, including '391'. He traveled between the New York, Zurich, and Paris Dada groups taking ideas from one place to the others. (taken from http://www.askart.com/askart/p/francis_picabia/francis_picabia.aspx )

Francis Picabia, //Cyclope 1926//

=Surrealism=

//The Hats Make the Man//, Max Ernst

//Dangerous Liaisons//, Rene Magritte