Victorian Avant-gardeAre artists observers, experimenters or rebels?
https://smarthistory.org/becoming-modern-an-introduction/ A/ The PRB.
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Millais's portrait of John Ruskin depicts the most influencial art critic of the Victorian Period .
Millais belonged to the Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood ( see file below ) .
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Read Dickens's reaction to Millais's painting.
Jot down the words showing how strongly Dickens disapproves of the PRB. List the reasons for his fury . Do you think his description does justice to the painting ?
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Task ( pair work) :
Dickens and Ruskin meet . Imagine their conversation.
B/ Turner
Watch the video.
Present the exhibition. Show how the video puts forward Turner's paintings.
drive.google.com/file/d/1xs4oYYbEzglK02l7nH6okVuFgiJsSjJc/view?usp=sharing
Show what makes William Turner's painting modern for his time.
List the different reactions his work triggered at the time and contrast them with today's recognition .
drive.google.com/file/d/1gKhdND_0_h8LSIftkPn1GD10gW0BKf8v/view?usp=sharing
Present the exhibition. Show how the video puts forward Turner's paintings.
drive.google.com/file/d/1xs4oYYbEzglK02l7nH6okVuFgiJsSjJc/view?usp=sharing
Show what makes William Turner's painting modern for his time.
List the different reactions his work triggered at the time and contrast them with today's recognition .
drive.google.com/file/d/1gKhdND_0_h8LSIftkPn1GD10gW0BKf8v/view?usp=sharing
Film director Mike Leigh, well known for his social realistic films declared about Turner :
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‘This guy was a revolutionary, anticipating the impressionists and 20th-century art – anticipating Rothko* probably – and yet he was timeless.”
* www.moma.org/artists/5047#works
Does this statement correspond to what Ruskin wrote about him ? ( see doc. above ? ) . Why do you think Mike Leigh was interested in making a film about this artist ? Choose a painting by Turner and try to explain the reasons to the class.
Modernity and Heritage : The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Read the article on the following website : franklloydwright.org/impact/
Sum up the architect's views on architecture.Do you think his creations were easily acepted by the public ? Can you name any of his architectural works ?
Sum up the architect's views on architecture.Do you think his creations were easily acepted by the public ? Can you name any of his architectural works ?
Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union".
—Frank Lloyd Wright
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Task
You are the curator of the Guggenheim museum.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its opening, you deliver a short speech to recall its controversial history.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its opening, you deliver a short speech to recall its controversial history.
Pop Art
“The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”
What is Pop art ?
Postwar Context
In the years following World War II, America enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic and political growth. Many middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, spurred by the availability of inexpensive, mass-produced homes. A new kind of music, rock and roll, burst into popular culture and became the soundtrack of teenage rebellion. Marilyn Monroe was a reigning film star, and television replaced radio as the dominant media outlet.
But by the late 1950s and early 1960s, a cultural revolution was underway, led by activists, thinkers, and artists who sought to change, and even overturn, what was, in their eyes, a stifling social order ruled by conformity. The Vietnam War incited mass protests, the Civil Rights Movement sought equality for African Americans, and the women’s liberation movement gained momentum.
Pop Art: Inspired by the Everyday
It was in this climate of turbulence, experimentation, and increased consumerism that a new generation of artists emerged in Britain and America in the mid- to late-1950s. These artists began to look for inspiration and materials in their immediate environment. They made art that mirrored, critiqued, and, at times, incorporated everyday items, consumer goods, and mass media messaging and imagery. In reference to its intended popular appeal and its engagement with popular culture, it was called Pop art.
Pop artists strove for straightforwardness in their work, using bold swaths of primary colors, often straight from the can or tube of paint. They adopted commercial advertising methods like silkscreening, or produced multiples, downplaying the artist’s hand and subverting the idea of originality and preciousness—in marked contrast to the highly expressive, large-scale abstract paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, whose work had dominated postwar American art. Pop artists favored realism, everyday (even mundane) imagery, and heavy doses of irony and wit.
But many Pop artists, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, were very aware of the past. They sought to connect the traditions of fine art with the mass culture of television, advertising, film, and cartoons. At the same time, they challenged traditional boundaries between mediums and techniques, merging painting with photography and printmaking, combining handmade and readymade or mass-produced elements, and bringing together objects, images, and sometimes text to make new meaning.
Source : https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art/
Postwar Context
In the years following World War II, America enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic and political growth. Many middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, spurred by the availability of inexpensive, mass-produced homes. A new kind of music, rock and roll, burst into popular culture and became the soundtrack of teenage rebellion. Marilyn Monroe was a reigning film star, and television replaced radio as the dominant media outlet.
But by the late 1950s and early 1960s, a cultural revolution was underway, led by activists, thinkers, and artists who sought to change, and even overturn, what was, in their eyes, a stifling social order ruled by conformity. The Vietnam War incited mass protests, the Civil Rights Movement sought equality for African Americans, and the women’s liberation movement gained momentum.
Pop Art: Inspired by the Everyday
It was in this climate of turbulence, experimentation, and increased consumerism that a new generation of artists emerged in Britain and America in the mid- to late-1950s. These artists began to look for inspiration and materials in their immediate environment. They made art that mirrored, critiqued, and, at times, incorporated everyday items, consumer goods, and mass media messaging and imagery. In reference to its intended popular appeal and its engagement with popular culture, it was called Pop art.
Pop artists strove for straightforwardness in their work, using bold swaths of primary colors, often straight from the can or tube of paint. They adopted commercial advertising methods like silkscreening, or produced multiples, downplaying the artist’s hand and subverting the idea of originality and preciousness—in marked contrast to the highly expressive, large-scale abstract paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, whose work had dominated postwar American art. Pop artists favored realism, everyday (even mundane) imagery, and heavy doses of irony and wit.
But many Pop artists, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, were very aware of the past. They sought to connect the traditions of fine art with the mass culture of television, advertising, film, and cartoons. At the same time, they challenged traditional boundaries between mediums and techniques, merging painting with photography and printmaking, combining handmade and readymade or mass-produced elements, and bringing together objects, images, and sometimes text to make new meaning.
Source : https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art/
Watch the video : drive.google.com/file/d/1S6qtM7mEYs4_R5K2AvO__qceb2K9lFZd/view?usp=sharing and browse the Tate website. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/andy-warhol/exhibition-guide
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Now turn to the worksheets underneath to get a better idea of the critical reception of Warhol's artwork.
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Homework :
Warhol wasn't the only artist who promoted Pop Art . Browse the Tate Galery website : www.tate.org.uk/search?q=pop+art
and find an art work that you find emblematic of this movement . Present the artist briefly, the source of inspiration and his / her intentions and the critical response to the artwork.
NB : the https://whitney.org/ can also prove very useful as lots of artworks are commented .
and find an art work that you find emblematic of this movement . Present the artist briefly, the source of inspiration and his / her intentions and the critical response to the artwork.
NB : the https://whitney.org/ can also prove very useful as lots of artworks are commented .
A Supermarket in California
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