CUBISM and SURREALISM
1. Compare and contrast the fragmentation in Les Demoiselles D’Avignon with The Portuguese by Braque?
2. How does Collage reinforce cubist principles?
3. KLIMT/RODIN
A. How does Brancusi push Rodin’s ideas further?
B. Brancusi and Klimt are both included with the subject “the Kiss”. How does each one reflect the movement in which they are created4. How might collage anticipate other ideas in modern art movements like Surrealism or Pop?
4. Who is Andre Breton? Why would WWI be one of the catalysts for a movement like Surrealism?
5. Dali and Man Ray are 2 of the most well known Surrealist painters. Try to identify them and the other artists on the slide set. The college board mandates Meret Oppenheim and Duchamp’s fountain. Wilfredo Lam is the choice to represent a Surrealist painter. What elements from Surrealism does he mix with his own Cuban tradition?
6. What philosophical and scientific ideas are explored in Surrealism? What, if anything do you connect with in Surrealist work?
BAUHAUS-GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
ARCHITECTURE and PAINTING
1. What ideas does Mondrian communicate in is paintings?
2. How do his paintings link with BAUHAUS ideas of design and architecture?
3. Why would Karl Liebknecht be a subject for Kathe Kollowitz?
4. What is the tradition and Change from the Sullivan to Bauhaus and Mies van der Roe and Robert Venturi (post modernism)
5. Find another Munch, Kirchner and Kandinsky. Which one(s) do you like and why? How does each reflect the time period and how is each unique? How do they incorporate Dada?
6. What movements do you think Kandinsky anticipates?
7. What is The Blue Rider and The Bridge in German Expressionism?
8. Do you think Kandinsky's work is spiritual- he wrote On the Spiritual in Art
1. Compare and contrast the fragmentation in Les Demoiselles D’Avignon with The Portuguese by Braque?
2. How does Collage reinforce cubist principles?
3. KLIMT/RODIN
A. How does Brancusi push Rodin’s ideas further?
B. Brancusi and Klimt are both included with the subject “the Kiss”. How does each one reflect the movement in which they are created4. How might collage anticipate other ideas in modern art movements like Surrealism or Pop?
4. Who is Andre Breton? Why would WWI be one of the catalysts for a movement like Surrealism?
5. Dali and Man Ray are 2 of the most well known Surrealist painters. Try to identify them and the other artists on the slide set. The college board mandates Meret Oppenheim and Duchamp’s fountain. Wilfredo Lam is the choice to represent a Surrealist painter. What elements from Surrealism does he mix with his own Cuban tradition?
6. What philosophical and scientific ideas are explored in Surrealism? What, if anything do you connect with in Surrealist work?
BAUHAUS-GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
ARCHITECTURE and PAINTING
1. What ideas does Mondrian communicate in is paintings?
2. How do his paintings link with BAUHAUS ideas of design and architecture?
3. Why would Karl Liebknecht be a subject for Kathe Kollowitz?
4. What is the tradition and Change from the Sullivan to Bauhaus and Mies van der Roe and Robert Venturi (post modernism)
5. Find another Munch, Kirchner and Kandinsky. Which one(s) do you like and why? How does each reflect the time period and how is each unique? How do they incorporate Dada?
6. What movements do you think Kandinsky anticipates?
7. What is The Blue Rider and The Bridge in German Expressionism?
8. Do you think Kandinsky's work is spiritual- he wrote On the Spiritual in Art