Week 3

17th MARCH 2011

ART NOUVEAU (1890-1910)

*NOUVEAU- means new art. Direct descendant of "ARTS & CRAFTS" 


*VICTOR HORTA - influences

 - organic style, natural, light soft curves, no sharp edges, plant-like.
- unified, sweeping things. 
                                                 FEMININE      Female Oriented.
                                                 ELEGANCE    Stencil work.


*1898, hand-carved, timber, on chairs, handles, etc; fine details.
 -Influenced by Japanese style, because of Europe & Asia Trades.
-Vincent VanGogh


*JULES CHERET - lithographer

- invented life-size (7 foot tall) posters.
-He was influenced by Japanese Art. Abstract shpae, silhouettes.
-Female form, with text. Like japanese block works, outlined in black.
-theme is 'DANCING' on posters.

" FATHER OF THE WOMANS LITIGATION" 

- ( Looking happy, drinking & smoking) .

-uses diagonals

- blending the bright & dark areas of work together.

*PIERRE BONNARD

-Pierre Bounard & Toulouse-Lautrec influenced off each other.
-Silhouette, hand-drawn. Good balance, females.
-The Illusionist - art nouveau style influence


*TOULOSE-LAUTREC


-French painter, print maker, illustrator
-capturing people in their working environment, using colour, movement.


*ALPHONSE MUCHA

-Czech Art Nouveau painter, and decorative artist

-Work featured beautiful young women, with flowing features, neo-classical looking robes, luscious flowers, and halo features behind their heads.
-Used pastel colours , very different poster makers of his time.

SIXTIES PSYCHEDELIA 1960-1975

having the vivid colours and complex patterns popularly associated with the visual effects of psychedelic states

*Psychedelia drugs, tripping out.

*Work with - 

• coloured lines
• bright colours
• vibrating lines
• high intensity
• optical illusions

 - just like art nouveau except for the colours.

*ROBERT CRUMB

*pre-witch, racy, sexual.

*Rolling Stones

- Andy Warhol (writing had a melting look)

*If you could read it, it wasn't cool enough.

*The writing was printed like a pattern (wave). 


*BOB DYLAN POSTERS

• PEACE
• MONKEY
• ROCK-ON

EARLY MODERNISM 1910-1935

-beginning of modernism

*Modern & Contemporary are different.

*CONTEMPORARY MEANS NOW!

*Avante-garde are early modern artists.

*BAUHAUS 

- Geometry, simplicity. square, geometric, circle. PRIMARY COLOURS!

*Early modern covers a multitude of art

• realism
• expressionism
• constructivism
• futurism
• surrealism
• dada
• new typography, etc.

THE MODERN LABEL IS OFTEN APPLIED WHEN THERE IS A DELIBERATE BREAK WITH THE PAST.

*Henry Ford said "You can have any colour, aslong as it's black." 

*PICASSO


*cubist art "OSKAR KUKOSCHKA"


*GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM.
-Bold lines
-abstract
diagonals


*POSTER ART
- Putting one item on the poster only.
-DE STIYL , -one image one text.


*THE HERO IS THE POSTER!


*FUTURISM


*a celebration of machinery.
*An artistic movement originating in Italy around 1910 whose aim was to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary life, especially as embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery.


*DADA


*A nonsense movement.
*rebellious era
*mocking art.
*A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.


*CONSTRUCTIVISM


-red, black,white
-san serif
-diagonal
-purist movement


*Lissitzsky Constructivism

*BAUHAUS & CONSTRUCTIVISM

*Influences in a lot of cubism.

-bauhaus a leaning place.