13.1: Overview
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What You’ll Learn To Do: Examine Modern art and its influence on art history as a whole.
In Module 13 we will continue to examine Modern art. We will look at how artists like Pollock contributed to the development of Western art. It is imperative to understand Modern art in order to see how it impacted later artistic developments.
Learning Activities
The learning activities for this module include:
- Read: Key Learning Items
Surrealism
- Read: Man Ray, The Gift
- Watch: Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. (2:20)
- Watch: Giacometti, The City Square (7:26)
- Watch: Magritte, The Treachery of Images (3:40)
- Watch: Dali, The Persistence of Memory (6:27)
- Read: Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus (includes a video: 4:07)
Art in Nazi Germany
- Read: House of Art (includes a video: 7:21)
Ashcan School
- Watch: George Bellows (3:35)
American Regionalism
- Watch: Grant Wood, American Gothic (6:19)
American Abstraction
- Watch: Georgia O’Keeffe (2:35)
American Realism
- Read: Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (includes a video: 4:47)
Latin American Modernism
- Watch: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (3:48)
Abstract Expressionism
- Read: Origins of Abstract Expressionism
- Read: Impact of Abstract Expressionism
- Watch: Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950 (7:34)
- Watch: Pollock’s Painting Techniques (12:17)
- Watch: Rothko, No. 3/No. 13 (5:11)
- Watch: Rothko’s Painting Technique (3:28)
- Watch: Newman, Onement 1 (4:52)
- Watch: Newman’s Painting Technique (3:44)
- Watch: de Kooning, Woman I (3:39)
- Read: Robert Motherwell (includes a video: 4:00)
New York School
- Watch: Jasper Johns (6:04)
- Watch: Rauschenberg (4:47)
- Watch: Reinhardt (4:34)
Photography
- Read: Introduction to Photography
- Watch: Cartier-Bresson (4:02)
Sculpture
- Watch: Brancusi, Bird in Space (2:38)
Architecture
- Read: Gilbert, Woolworth Building
- Watch: Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum (7:12)
- Watch: Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building (9:08)
Extra Review
- Review: External Resources
Assignment
- Submit: Module 13 Quiz (5 points)
- Submit: Museum Project (100 points)
Contributors
CC licensed content, Original
- Art History II. Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution
Public domain content
- Image of Finger. Authored by: geralt. Located at: pixabay.com/en/finger-touch-hand-structure-769300/. License: Public Domain: No Known Copyright