Mrs contreras language Arts 9th Grade – Eng I igcse honors Room C209 Weekly Forecast 4/16/07 – 4/20/07

MODERNISM

• MODERNISM

Throughout this time many artists rebelled towards the realistic styles. An example of such an artist was Pablo Picasso, he “transformed natural shapes into fragmented geometric forms.” (1102)

• Throughout this time many artists rebelled towards the realistic styles. An example of such an artist was Pablo Picasso, he “transformed natural shapes into fragmented geometric forms.” (1102)

• Russian Wasilla Kandinsky, an expressionist painter, expressed emotion on his art by using bold colors as well as distorted shapes

Movies

• Movies define the modern age

• Founding filmmakers like American D.W Griffith and Russian Sergei Eisenstein “helped turn popular entertainment into works of art.

• Some movies were known as “silent films” The greatest producer was Charlie Chaplin, who was turned into an international star due to his extraordinary silent films

Americans such as:Alfried Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Man Ray are held responsible for the evolution of photography onto an art form.

• Americans such as:Alfried Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Man Ray are held responsible for the evolution of photography onto an art form.

• Photographers held exhibitions of their works to profit from bidders, similar to what the painters before them did.

• Opposing to traditional styles, like the traditional harmonies and musical scales.

• “The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky relied on irregular rhythms and new sound combinations.” (1103)

The new styles of architecture include materials such as glass, steel, and concrete. The architect generally has the use of clean lines, and open interiors.

• The new styles of architecture include materials such as glass, steel, and concrete. The architect generally has the use of clean lines, and open interiors.

• This modern, international Style was led by the German Walter Gropius and his Brauhaus design school.

• One American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with new materials and designs

• 1990- Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud publishes his theory of the unconscious in The Interpretation of Dreams

• 1907- Pablo Picasso and George Braque start artistic movement called Cubism in Paris

• 1913- Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring marks beginning of modernism In music

• 1915- Franz Kafka publishes “Metamorphosis”

• 1916-1924- Dadaism, an artistic protest movement, attacks established values and ideas

• 1919- In Germany, Walter Gropius founds influential school of design that produces International Style of functional, boxy architecture

• 1920s- In jazz Age, Europeans dance to rhythms of American Jazz

• 1921- Luigi Pirandello’s innovative play Six Characters in Search of an Author performed

• 1922- James Joyce publishes his novel Ulysses in Paris

• C. 1924-1937- Influenced by Freud’s ideas, Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Salvador Dali depict odd dream-worlds

• 1928- Frederico Garcia Lorca publishes his popular Gypsy Ballads

• 1929- Virginia Woolf publishes groundbreaking feminist work, A Room of One’s Own

• 1930s- Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire found the Negritude Movement

1942- Albert Camus publishes classic novel of alienation, The Stranger

• 1942- Albert Camus publishes classic novel of alienation, The Stranger

• 1944- U.S. composer Aaron Coplland uses folksong melodies and jazz rhythms in Appalachian Spring

• 1945- Abstract Expressionism, led by new York artist Jackson Pullock, gains respect of international art world

• 1948-1952- Pablo Neruda exiled from his native Chile for publicly criticizing the president

• 1948- Yasunari Kawabata publishes his novel Snow Country

• 1949- French writer Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex, arguing for an end to women’s second class status

• 1950s- Theater of the Absurd thrives with works by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Edward Albee

• 1956- French philosospher and writer Jean-Paul Satre explains existentialism in Being and Nothingness

• 1956-1957- Naguib Mahfouz publishes novels in his great Cairo Trilogy

• 1952- Pioneering French photojournalist Henri Cariter-Bresson publishes photo collection, The Decisive Moment

1958- Elie Wiesel publishes Night, about his experiences in a Nazi death camp

• 1958- Elie Wiesel publishes Night, about his experiences in a Nazi death camp

• 1962- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, based on his experiences in a Soviet prison camp

• 1963- Anna Akhmatova publishes her long poem Requiem, a moving account of Stalin’s abuses

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