Dankook University:Introduction to Modern Art

Lecture V:Abstract Art

• abstract art - a term referring to various art styles that first emerged in the early twentieth century in Europe and which do not use representational imagery, or which select and then exaggerate or simplify forms suggested by the world around us. Cubism and Futurism explore abstraction, while Vassily Kandinsky, (Russian, 1866-1944) and Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) are two of the first creators of pure abstraction.

Keywords

Expression - Emotions as shown through bodily gesture.

The Spiritual - Describing a non-material and transcendent reality that is often related to religious practice, and which is usually considered to be of more significance than material reality.

Non-objective – Not based on an external reference – on an object - such as something from nature.

Rationalism - the belief that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience.

The Machine Aesthetic – based on the forms and values of machines and technology.

Paul Cézanne

Claude Monet

Picasso

Georges Braque

1. Organic Abstraction

Vassily Kandinsky

2. Geometric Abstraction

Kandinsky and Arnold Schonberg: Music and Abstract Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA3JSI2yd3Y&list=RDqA3JSI2yd3Y#t=50

Suprematism

Kasimir Malevich

Constructivism

El Lissitzky

Naum Gabo

De Stijl

Piet Mondrian

Mondrian and Dancehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Km8yTnmzTI

Theo van Doesberg

Gerrit Rietveld

Purism

Le Courbusier

Le Courbusier

Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Introduction to the Bauhaus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQa0BajKB4Q

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

Josef Albers

Bauhaus documentaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq8AnYL5-30

Excerpt from Robert Hughes, ‘The Shock of the New’ tv programmehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C04JZsoqs1A