Events
Frank Lloyd Wright and Greene 2x were both influenced by Japanese architecture.
Exposed to it at WCE
-Ho-O-Den and Tea House 1893, Masamichi Kuru
influenced Gamble house by Greene 1907-8 and Robie House by Wright 1909-10Kenyon cox, Tradition, 1916
Painted nude women but not in an erotic way
-"the classic spirit of art"Ashcan school sort of splits up. Not all of them are in NY in 1917Sort of random about Wright:
-he loved corner windows
-he needed everything to be HIS design, kind of a snob and an asshole
-Hated GR furniture
-wanted his designs to feel united and harmoniousPeriods
dada going into more precisionism
examples:
Sheeler (Skyscrapers 1922, doesn't focus on the sky, all building)
(American landscape, 1930, its just a bunch of factories and industrial equipment which is fitting to the new "landscape")
(upper deck, 1929, focuses on industrial elements of a ship)
(interior, 1926, nothing is really in perspective)
Lozowick (tanks, 1929)- how he contrasts the really old industry with the new being the foreground and focus
Weston, Pepper (f64 photography group)Architectural movements: skyscrapers
Chrysler Building 1929, William Van Allen
Woolworth building 1913 Cass Gilbert
Also, industrial design became popular (toasters started to look sleek, and modern)
Ford cars, assembly line
-Raymond Loey was an industrial designer at the time
streamlining:making things modernMAINLY DADA , PRECISIONISM, ART DECO
dada was "making art about nonsense" taking the humanity out of art
precisionism focuses on sharp objects and smooth surfaces, technology and industryprecedent of the masses:
NAACP "A man was lynched yesterday, 1920"
The Masses: messages about American culture, WW1, Spanish flu
Masses art:
Freedom of press, 1913, Art young (painting a picture of magazine ads being a whore house, fiendish)
Gee Mag, Stuart Davis, 1913 (puts ugly women on the front cover to oppose what was being done at the time)
Ludlow, John Sloan
Robert Minor, A perfect soldier, WW1
James Montgomery Flagg, I want you, 1917, (classic uncle sam war propaganda, the OG)Wright's run of houses
-fallingwater 1936
-Larkin Building 1904
-GuggenheimArmory Show (TURNING POINT FOR ART): a lot of European art but some American, cubism, impressionism
Okeeffe, Blue and Green Music 1919
Duchamp Nude descending stairs, 1912
Dada starting: anti art, readymades, avante garde
Ici Cest Stieglitz: Francis Picabia, 1915 (a blueprint like photo of stieglitz camera)
Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 (the urinal)
Elsa von Freytag and Morton Schamberg, God, 1918, (the sink pipe)
Show was actually promoted thru the popular press which was relatively new for art.
popular artistStieglitz and the 291 gallery: showcased a ton of new art techinques and styles, cubism, photography, abstract, okeeffe
-Max Weber Chinese Restaurant 1915
-John Marin Movement, 5th avenue, 1912
-Mardsen Hartley, Portrait of a german officer, 1914
-Arthur Dove, Nature symbolized, 1911
-Okeeffe special charcoal, 1915Photography came about:
-Stieglitz, The Steerage 1907
-Bellows Stag at Sharkeys, 1909, the boxing one
-Edward Steichen, Self Portrait, 1903, looks like a painting
-paul strand, Blind, 1916
-Lewis Hine, photographing child laborCapturing movement in a city:
-Winter , fifth ave, stieglitz, 1892
-Steichen, the flat iron, 1905Ashcan Artists! they painted the real world as it was, they loved the rawness of reality "wanted to draw real life", Ashcan was a derogatory name because people thought they were painting trash
-Sloan, Hairdressers Window, 1907
-John Twatchman, River in Winter 1890
-Coca cola billboard, 1980, inspiration
-the art student, Henri, 1906
-Hester street, George Luks, 1905 (the jewish one)
-Bellows 42 kids, 1907Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
-27 million people came and went
-people thought it was like "peak innovation"
-it was incrediblein the 20s, Native art becomes more popular
people start to appreciate the "primitivism" but also recognizing it as a form of modernity
John Marin, Maine Islands, 1922
Fred Kabotie, untitled watercolor, 1925
Mardsen Hartley, Fishermans last supper, 1941 (drawn in a simple way but conveys emotion)
Maria Martinez, Olla, 1935
Tonita Pena, Corn dancers, 1921
A lot of NYC/north American based artists migrate to the southwest for inspiration:
Okeeffe, Rancho de Taos Church, 1930
Mardsen hartley, El SantHarlem Renaissance and the influence of black art going forward
Many blacks move north or East during great migration in late 1910s, a lot residing in Harlem
some influential players:
-Meta Warrick Fuller, Ethiopia Amakening, 1914 (similar to a mummy tomb, egyptians are still African!, classic design in a more modern time)
-Aaron Douglas, designs from New negro, Building Stately Mansions, 1944 (looks extremely modern and depicts black culture from a more ancient perspective)
-Archibald Motley, Black Bel
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