ARTH232

Modern Art and the Search for Roots

 

 

Required readings

á      Ades: 125-149

 

 

Important names & terms

á      Late 19th Century European movements:

o      Impressionism, 1870s-1880s

o      Post-impressionism, 1880s-1890s

á      European avant-garde movements:

o      Fauvism, c. 1898-1906

o      Cubism,  c. 1907-1911

o      Futurism, c. 1909-1915

o      Dada, c. 1916-1924

á      Mexican Revolution, starts in 1910

á      Emiliano Zapata, 1879-1919

á      Semana de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, 1922

 

 

Links to Images

á      Diego Rivera, Zapatista Landscape, 1915 (Ades: 128)

á      Anita Malfatti, The Yellow Man, 1915-16 (Ades: 132)

á      Tarsila do Amaral, Central Railway of Brazil, 1924 (Ades: 135)

á      Tarsila do Amaral, Anthropophagy, 1929 (Ades: 133)

á      Pedro Figari, African Nostalgia, nd (Ades: 140)

á      RenŽ Portocarrero, Little Devil no. 3, 1962  (Ades: 137)

á      Xul Solar, Saint Dance, 1925 (Ades: 142)

á      Joaqu’n Torres-Garc’a, Constructive Art with Large Sun, 1942 (Ades: 146)

á      Joaqu’n Torres-Garc’a, Pachamama, c. 1942 (Ades: 147)

á      Dr Atl (Gerardo Murillo), The Volcanos, 1950 (Ades: 127)

á      Armando Rever—n, Macuto Beach, c. 1934 (Ades: 148)

á      Armando Rever—n, Self-Portrait with Dolls and Beard, c. 1949 (Ades: 149)