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C H A P T E R  13

Modern Post Modern

PLURALISTIC ART

M O D E R N I S M
PRESENTATION | guide
	THE BRIDGE Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) He was the founder of the The Bridge. They laid the foundation of Expressionism. Kirchner volunteered in World War I. He had had a breakdown, and was discharged. The Nazis banned his work, and over 600 paintings were destroyed. Ernst Kirchner committed suicide in 1938.
Sitting Woman, 1907 Tavern, 1909 Naked Playing People, 1910 Portrait of a Woman, 1911 Nollendorfplatz, 1912 Self-portrait as Two Brothers, 1921 View of Basel and the Rhine, 1921 Erna, 1930   Marzella, 1909–1910 Self-Portrait as Soldier, 1915   view gallery view video   E X P R E S S I O N I S M
The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893)
Franz Marc (1880–1916) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement.   Franz Marc - Red and Blue Horses, 1912, tempera on paper   The Dream   Komposition III (1914)   Kleine Komposition (II) (Haus mit Bäumen) (1914)   Träumendes Pferd (1913)   Blaues Pferd I (1911) The Little Blue Horses (1911)   Horse in a Landscape (1910) Red and Blue Horses (1912)   Cows, Yellow-Red-Green (1912)   Rote Rehe II (1912)   English: Cows under trees Deutsch: Kühe u   The Bull (1911)   Reh im Walde II (1912)   Füchse (1913)   Liegender Hund im Schnee (1910-1911) The Tiger Blue-Black Fox (1911)   Kater auf gelbem Kissen (1912)
F A U V I S M
MATISSE video 1 | 2 BBC Matisse Le bonheur de vivre, 1905, Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA Open Window, Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Bathers with a Turtle, 1908, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The Dance (second version), 1910 Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907, Baltimore Museum of Art Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line), 1905, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark The Conversation, c.1911, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Henri Matisse   Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French artist, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Matisse is regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century.
C U B I S M   Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) The Bathers by Paul Cézanne (1905)   The Opening of the Fifth Seal by El Greco (1614)            WILFREDO LAM (1902-1982)   He was a Cuban artist who also inspired Picasso, and was inspired by Afro-Cuban culture.
FUTURISM & MECHANISM Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - 1912
	Metropolis - Fritz Lang
Umbero Boccioni - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space - 1913
SURREALISM & DADA   Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) Giorgio De Chirico
D A D A   Man Ray Gift - 1921     www.understandingduchamp.com

 

 

 

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

ABSTRACTION

 

Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta (1911 – 2002), was a painter and architect from Chile, and a leading figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.
 

http://www.matta-art.com
 

 

POP ART

 

 

Pop Art Gallery

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL and EPHEMERAL ART

 

 

POSTMODERN

 

Media Art and New Media

Rockit by Herbie Hancock - (Robotics by Jim Whiting)

This was one of the first videos of an African American artist on MTV. It won five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 - including Best Concept Video and Best Special Effects. Hancock only appears as an image on a television - which is smashed at the end.

  

American Realism

MUSIC and MODERNISM

 

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 - Mov 1 (Martha Argerich)

 

 

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PLURALISM

 

Cultural pluralism is the coexisting of diverse cultures in a community. Contemporary art is an example of cultural pluralism because diverse styles exist side-by-side, and the art of diverse cultures are accepted as legitimate.

 

HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Harlem Renaissance Art History ART	1919 - 1930s   African American Renaissance   Harlem New York
JACOB LAWRENCE Jacob Lawrence (1917  – 2000) is one the best-known African American painters. His Migration Series depicts the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. GALLERY
GALLERY:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4  (1916-1919)	MIGRATION SERIES
CHARLES HENRY ALSTON    Charles Henry Alston (1907 – 1977), was an African American artist, muralist, and teacher.
Romare Bearden    Romare Bearden (1911 – 1988) was an African- American artist and writer.   gallery
Aaron Douglas   Aaron Douglas (1899 – 1979) was an African American painter in the Harlem Renaissance.   VIDEO SLIDE SHOW
Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life 1934, Commissioned by the US Government
Archibald John Motley, Jr   Archibald John Motley, Jr (1891-1981) is was a major contributor of the Harlem Renaissance.      VIDEO
Lois Mailou Jones    Lois Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998) was a teacher and painter. VIDEO
Palmer Hayden    Palmer C. Hayden (1890 – 1973) was a prolific African American painter.    GALLERY   VIDEO
Sargent Claude Johnson   Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) was a painter, potter, ceramist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. Johnson was in the Communist Party for most of his life.
William Henry Johnson   William Henry Johnson (1901–1970) was an African American painter.    COLLECTION
Norman Lewis   Norman W. Lewis (1909 – 1979)   African-American abstract expressionism painter, scholar, and teacher GALLERY
Beauford Delaney    Beauford Delaney (1901– 1979) was an American modernist painter. GALLERY
Prentiss Taylor   Prentiss Taylor (1907 - 1991)   American illustrator, lithographer, and painter in the Harlem Renaissance.   Taylor illustrated many of Langston Hughes publications.
LITERATURE   W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois     Du Bois was a civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, economist, author, and editor. He was the first African American to graduated from Harvard University where he earned a PhD in History. He was a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was the founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. He rose to national attention with his book The Souls of Black Folk where he argued against Booker T. Washington. Du Bois advocated activism to achieve civil rights while Washington argued that confrontation would lead to disaster, and that cooperation with whites was the only way out of racism. Du Bois wanted blacks to have the same liberal arts education, voting, and legal rights as whites. Washington believed in a slow approach with a practical education. Booker T. Washington was the head of the Tuskegee Institute where African Americans were educated to teach agriculture, trades, and academics. They were locked out of universities - something that Washington accepted, but Du Boise argued against. Read Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.     Books by W. E. B. Du Bois   The Conservation of Races The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2 Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil The Negro The Negro Problem The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel The Souls of Black Folk The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America (1638-1870)   Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) was an African American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist during the Harlem Renaissance. The Poetry of Langston Hughes   Claude McKay Claude McKay (1889 – 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet. During the the Harlem Renaissance McKay wrote: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller, Banjo (1929), and Banana Bottom (1933). McKay also authored a collection of short stories, Gingertown (1932), and two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home (1937) and Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940). His book of poetry, Harlem Shadows (1922) was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. His book of collected poems, Selected Poems (1953), was published posthumously. If We Must Die     MUSIC   Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (born Elinore Harris; 1915–1959) was an African American jazz singer and songwriter during the Harlem Renaissance. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." Several of her songs are jazz standards: God Bless the Child, Fine and Mellow, and Lady Sings the Blues. Interview   Duke Kennedy Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899 – 1974) was an African American composer, pianist, and big band leader  during the Harlem Renaissance. His received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood Take The "A" Train   Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901 – 1971) was an African American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans. What a Wonderful World     Fletcher Henderson Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. (1897 – 1952) was a prolific  African American pianist and composer during the Harlem Renaissance. Stealin' Apples     Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (1896 – 1977) was an African American blues and jazz singer and actress during the Harlem Renaissance. She was the second African American ever nominated for an Academy Award.

 

Georgia O'keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 – 1986) was an American artist. She was married to Alfred Stieglitz - the founder of Straight Photography. She played an important role in bringing American art to Europe. She was inspired by the landscapes of New Mexico.
VIDEO

 

 

Joshua Johnson - Portrait of Adelia Ellender, c. 1830-1832

 

Joshua Johnson, The Westwood Children, c. 1807

Mrs. Abraham White and Daughter Rose, c. 1808

 

ART GALLERY
 

Mask from Around the World

African ART

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Romare Bearden - Foundation Site

LOIS MAILOU JONES

GOLDENEYE ART GALLERY

 

 

African American Music

 

Keith Jarrett - Tokyo Encore
Keith Jarrett Köln Concert

Andre Watts, Chopin's Revolutionary Etude

B. B King the Thrill is Gone

Jamie Foxx - Brady Bunch

Herbie Hancock - Jazz Fusion Cantelope Island

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Native American Music

Rhythm of the Heart - Native American - Buffalo - Plains - Sioux

Native American Indian

tatanka-manantial

 

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Latino Art

 

Gipsy Kings - Un Amor

Gipsy Kings - Djobi Djoba

Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings

Santana Soul Sacrifice

Santana - Smooth

Chick Corea on LEGENDS OF JAZZ

Tito Puente Mambo Birdland

PACO DE LUCIA , John McLaughlin , AL DI MEOLA

Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas (1976)

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1CRJ5rx7Z4
 

 

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

 

Miguel Piñero (1946 – 1988) was a Puerto Rican playwright and  actor. Along with Miguel Algarín he founded of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - ("New York-Puerto Rican") Poets Cafe.
 

Pinero - Seekin The Cause