Post on 11-May-2015
SYMBOLISM• Rejected optical world in favor of
a fantasy world
• Expression of the individual spirit
• Spoke like “prophets” in signs and symbols
• Rejection of Realism, found it “trivial”
Sigmund Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Sacred Grove
1884oil on canvas2 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 6 ft. 10 in.
Odilon Redon
The Cyclops
1898oil on canvas2 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 8 in.
“All my originality consists…in making unreal creatures live humanly by putting, as much as possible, the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible”
Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897oil on canvas4 ft. 3 in. 6 ft. 7 in.
Aubrey Beardsley
The Peacock Skirt for Oscar Wilde’s Salome
1894pen-and-ink illustration
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893oil, pastel and casein on cardboard2 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 2 ft. 5 in.
“I stopped and leaned against the balustrade, almost dead with fatigue. Above the blue-black fjord hung the clouds, red as blood and tongues of fire. My friends has left me, and alone, trembling with anguish, I became aware of the vast, infinite cry of nature”
Gustav Klimt
The Kiss1907-1908oil on canvas5 ft. 10 3/4 in. x 5 ft. 10 3/4 in.
Gustav Klimt
Death and Life
1908-11oil on canvas70 1/8 x 78 in.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Adams Memorial
1891bronze5 ft. 10 in. high
Auguste Rodin
Walking Man
1905bronze6 ft. 11 3/4 in. high
Auguste Rodin
Burghers of Calais
1884-1889bronze6 ft. 10 1/2 in. high
Architecture & Decorative Arts
Arts and Crafts• Shaped by ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris• distrust of machines and capitalism Socialism• Produced function objects with high aesthetic value for
a wide public• Floral or geometric designs, drawn from nature
William Morris
Green Dining Room
1867
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Ingram Street Tea Room
Glasgow, Scotland
1900-1902
Art Nouveau (1890-1914)
Developed in Europe – Brussels, Barcelona, Paris and Vienna
• Combines artistic media into one unified experience• Art Nouveau buildings were designed, furnished and decorated
by the same artist or team
Characteristics: • vegetal or floral design• complexity of design• undulating surfaces• NO straight lines
Victor Horta
staircase in the Van Eetvelde House
Brussels, Belgium
1896
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Lotus Table Lamp
ca. 1905leaded favrile glass, mosaic and bronze2 ft. 10 1/2 in. high
Antonio Gaudi
Casa Milá
Barcelona, Spain
1907
ARCHITECTURE
- Skeletal architecture with a “curtain wall”
- Emphasis on the vertical, building UP as modern cities grew- Greatest advances made by the Chicago School, formed after
the Great Fire of 1871- Terracotta wrapped iron or steel
- Invention of THE ELEVATOR
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1889wrought iron984 ft. high
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1889wrought iron984 ft. high
Henry Hobson Richardson
Marshall Field wholesale store
Chicago, Illinois
1885-1887
Louis Henry Sullivan
Guaranty Building
Buffalo, New York
1894-1896
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Louis Henry Sullivan
Carson, Pirie Scott Building
Chicago, Illinois1899-1904
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