Visual Arts History 1040 Chapter 24: Chapter 24 Summary Kleiner Text
8 Jan 2012
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Picasso and georges braque radically challenged prevailing artistic conventions with cubism in which artists dissect forms and place them in interaction with the space around them. The armory show of 1913 introduced avant-garde european art to american artists, man ray for example embraced dada s fondness for chance and the displacement of ordinary objects and stuart davis adopted the cubist interest in fragmented form. The harlem renaissance brought african american artists to the forefront including aaron douglas whose paintings drew on cubist principles, charles demuth, georgia o keeffe and the precisionists used european modernist techniques to celebrate contemporary american subjects. Wwi gave rise to the neue sachlichkeit movement in germany, new objectivity artists depicted the horrors of the war and explored teh themes of death and transfiguration. The surrealists investigated ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious, natural biomorphic surrealists aimed for concrete irrationality in their naturalistic paintings of dream like scenes.
