Revolution of Modern Art

Now we are dealing with the revolutionary development that art underwent from Impressionism (around 1880) up to the 1970s. We are going to use an aicle (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras) from Junta de Andalucía. There is the link for the pdf archive.

Revolution of Modern Art

There you will find activities to understand the latest art.

Now an example of what we are going to find: The Kidnapping of modern art by the New Yorker (Russell Connor)




68" x 64"
1985
Collection of John Parker Willis

In the 1980s a French critic named Serge Guilbaut wrote a book called How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art. Provoked by such works as Irving Sandler's famous The Triumph of American Painting, Guilbaut claimed that the postwar boom in the New York art world was due to a sinister conspiracy led by the U.S. government, with the aid of galleries and critics, to bring the center of the art world from Paris to New York. They did it by making Abstract Expressionism a symbol of artistic freedom and a weapon in the Cold War. I found this idea so appealing that I was inspired to call on my favorite Baroque painting, Rubens' The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus. To represent Modern Art, I replaced Rubens' weighty women with two figures I freely adapted from Picasso's revolutionary painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 

The origins of this painting:


Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus 
Rubens (1618)



Ladies of Avignon
Picasso (1907)

And now a good web page about Art


Art History: A preliminary Handbook (The University of British Columbia)

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