А.Н. Войткова
A Crash Course in
the 20th Century
Art
(A Guide to Understanding
& Enjoying Modern and Contemporary art)
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Войткова, А.Н.
В65 A crash course in the 20th century art: a guide to understanding & enjoying
modern and contemporary art. / авт.-сост. А.Н. Войткова. – Иркутск: ИГЛУ, 2013.
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Contents
A crash course in modern art
Introductory part .
Talking about modern art
Eggsistantional guide to
eating your art out
Module 1 Impressionism
Part 1 Impresionism
(1) Subjects of impresionist
painting
(2) Impresionist technigues
Artists's eye. Klod manet
Module 2 Fauvism movement
Part 2 Neo-Impressinism
Part 3 Post-Impressinism
(1) Dear Vincent...
(2) Van Gogh's chair
(3) Toulouse-Lautrec
Quiz-test
(1) Art techniques in fauvim
art movement
(2) How to paint like a wild
beast
Module3 Cubism
Quiz-test
(1)What is cubism ?
(2) How to make cubism art.
Let's draw a cubist portrait
BOOK 2
Module 4 Futurism
Quiz test
(1) What is futurism?
Quiz-test
Module 5 Expressionism
Module 6 Abstract Art
(1) What is expressionism?
Quiz-test
Module 7 Dada art movement
Quiz-test
(1) Abstract Art movement
Understanding abstract art
Quiz-test
(1) Dada art movement
How to create dada art
(2) Performance art
Pussy Riot prank in
cathedral
Module 8 Surrealism
(1) What is Surrealism?
(2) Surreal images & ideas for
a paining
Module 9 Op & pop art
Quiz-test
Module 10 Final Discussion : Modern
art
(1) Op art movement
(2) What pop art?
Quiz test
Jars & Modern Art Trends
Arguing for & against
References
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Talking about
modern art
Introductory part
Art Un-Appreciation
Cartoons
by T. McCracken
taken from
http://members.pioneer.net/~mchumor/art_appreciation_cartoons.html
1. a) Look at the cartoon aside. Does it seem funny to you?
What does it ridicule? Surf the net & find more cartoons that
are mocking at art & discuss their message in class.
Speak up your mind about the cartoon based on this plan:
1. Describe its content; 2. Are some elements recognizable? 3.
Comment on the message if any; 4. Say what you think of it.
Go to http://www.mchumor.com/art_cartoons.html& loot through the art un-appreciations cartoons there
b) These words are used to describe art. Can you match each
with its definition?
1. abstract art
2. cubism___
3. Impressionism 4. pop art___ 5. surrealism
a. modern art movement that originated in the 1920s and 1930s. Objects are shown
out of their normal context or as being made of inappropriate material. Humor, the
world of dreams, and "the absurd" are three important themes of this movement.
b. art movement that started in the early 1900s. Objects are painted in somber colors,
like brown or gray, and are broken down into geometric shapes and planes, with
several views depicted simultaneously.
с form of art in which there is no attempt to represent objects or people, but which
relies totally on lines, colors, and shapes
d. form of art that developed in the 1960s based on
aspects of twentieth-century life such as movies,
advertising, comics, and everyday products
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e. art movement that started in France in the 18b'0s. The artists use bright colors, and
they try to capture the effects of sunlight on water, trees, and fields.
b) Pair work Use the concepts in Exercise A to classify these
paintings. Do you know other examples of each style?
Andy Warhol Twenty
Marilyns
2. Challenge or support the ideas below.
Classic art was the art of necessity, modern romantic art bears the stamps of
caprice & chance (Ralph Walde Emerson)
There is no such things as modern art … There is art - There is advertising
(Albert Stainer)
Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl
of alphabet soup.~ Anon
Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be
sterilised. ~ Adolph Hitler
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are
others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a
yellow spot into the sun. ~ Pablo Picasso
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ~
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease
to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde
[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
Video File “History of art in 3 minutes"
3. a) How knowledgeable are you about art history?
Watch the video & sum up the ideas. What place
does modern art take in art history? Did it occur
logically that modern emerged that way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOsR0TzbJ8
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b) Answer the questions:
1. Why did the proper history began (Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, etc)?
What provoked it? What did those civilization give to us?
2. What were medieval ages dominated by? Did they dispute the validity of all
Gods? As a result what was the medieval art like?
3. What came then? What kind of world did it return to? What are distinguishing
features of that epoch?
4. What did they say about Eastern art (China)?
5. What featured of the world was modern art based on?
6. What is art like today? What did the rise of television & cinema lead to?
c) Vocabulary. Watch the video again trying to catch up the
words & phrases below & restore the context when these
words were said
faceless obese woman
'glowing babies' dimensions 'develop in its distinct way'
lead to dissemination of common visual culture
pot 'art could no longer feature unrealistic art' morose
urinals
'visual culture' 'popularization of theories of the universe & the human mind'
stunning Freud 'left an indelible mark on our species' unmade beds
'many-headed creature' be embedded in DNA
be democratized
d) To give you a critical understanding of why
modern art emerged & what it is do some
research on the net (#encyclopedias or any
reference books) & fill in the table
speculating what distinguishing features
there were in Western Europe in art history
periods that made modern art appear &
provoke that kind of art that we have today Make a report.
Pre-Modern Era
Prehistoric times /
Ancient World &
Creek & Roman
Cultures
Medieval Ages
(5th-13/14th)
Modern Era
Renaissance
(13/14th16th)&Reformation
(16th)
Enlightenment
epoch
(="Age of
Reason") (17th and 18th )
Variant: Below are the ideas that reflect the key
factors for each epoch. Match the idea to the
epoch & discuss the pros & cons of each
historical cultural period
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Post Modern
era (coined 1949)
Modern or
Contemporary
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1.
3.
4.
feudal society: strong hierarchy (social stratums)
2. many people's sense of self and purpose was often expressed via
a faith in some form of deity
the development of linear perspective --> rendering a more
natural reality in painting
age of discoveries
5. Roman empire: democracy, political & law system -- > collapse
of Roman Empire
6. man is the hub of the universe
7. based on the traditions of Roman empire
8.
9.
availability of paper and the invention of metal movable type
(=printing press) (1440)
trade is flourished
10. Crusades to establish Christian states in the Near East
11. Christianity (absolute power) --> people humble & obedient
12. the building of Gothic cathedrals (artistic achievements)
13. Intellectual life - scholasticism and the founding of universities;
14. in science- an increased reliance on observation.
15. were marked by difficulties and calamities (famine, plague, and
war)--> diminished the population of Western Europe
16. cultural and technological developments transformed European
society
17. the development of diplomacy
18. intellectual transformation - bridge between the Middle Ages &
Modern Era
19. Martin Luther (G.Calvin, etc) (against church & papacy as the
spiritual intermediaries to the common person)
20. rise of capitalism
21. gradual but widespread educational reform.
22. ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were synthesized
into a worldview
23. revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.-->
science
24. the use and the celebration of reason, the power by which man
understands the universe and improves his own condition.
25. spread of social movements
26. the goals of rational man were considered to be knowledge,
freedom, and happiness.
27. urbanization
28. great cravings for liberty,
29. increasing role of science and technology
30. mass literacy and proliferation of mass media
31. institution of representative democracy
32. industrialization
33. humanism
34. individual self-fulfillment.
Your Word Bank 1. Let's sum up the vocabulary from the
introductory part (1)
1. mock at
2.
3. obese
4. pot
5. morose
6. urinal
7.
8.
9.
ridicule smth
'develop in its distinct way'
dimensions
stunning Freud
10. 'left an indelible mark on
out species'
11. 'many-headed creature'
12. be embedded in DNA
13. 'art could no longer feature
unrealistic art'
Talking about
modern art
14. glowing babies
15. feudal society
16. hierarchy
17. social stratums
18. people's sense of self
19. be expressed
20. via
21. faith in some form of deity
22. linear perspective
23. render a more natural reality
in painting
24. age of discoveries
25. Roman empire
26. collapse of Roman Empire
27. the hub of the universe
28. the invention of metal
movable type (=printing
press)
29. trade is flourished
30. Crusades
31. to establish Christian states
in the Near East
32. humble
33. obedient
34. calamities (famine, plague,
and war)
35. diminish the population
36. papacy
37. spiritual intermediaries
38. rise of capitalism
39. gradual but widespread
educational reform.
40. ideas concerning... God,
reason, nature, and man
41. be synthesized into a
worldview
42. great cravings for liberty,
43. mass literacy
44. proliferation of mass media
individual self-fulfillment.
EGGSISTENTIAL GUIDE
TO EATING YOUR ART OUT
4. a1) Vocabulary1. Get yourself familiar
with some of the vocabulary from the text below.
Make up sentences with them
1. feel animosity towards smb - You hate smb or feel strong dislike towards
the person
2. flicker - shine
3. precede smth - smth occured (=happened) before smth
4. be distinguished by - be different from smth
5. smear - (размазать по тарелке)
6. dizzy - I feel dizzy = everything is spinning around
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7. coddle - Don't spoil the child = don't spoil him
8. seaweed - a plant in the sea
9. yell out - scream
10. outsmart - (обхитрить)
11. be desperately constipated - it's hard to go to loo
12. (listen) aghast - ошеломлённый; объятый страхом; поражённый ужасом;
a2) Vocabulary2. Match the words from column a with their
parts in Column B
Column A
1. Things sounded
2. smooth
3. he felt
4. his eyes fell
5. his face flickered
6. short-lived
7. bold
8. loosely
9. be dyed with
10. the eyes were
11. the man was
12. smear smth across
Column B
animosity towards
tempting
movement
slightly
shapes
cooked
the plate
purple & red
deadlocked
constipated
on the item
expressionless face
Column A
13. it was
14. push smth
15. variety of
16. on succeeding
17. he was backed
18. imaginative
19. the kitchen was
20. she was
21. he was
22. you wronged
23. dizzying
24. he needed an
excuse
Column B
to the side of the plate
inedible
by the kitchen
days
seduced by the landlord
kitchen
baffled
the woman
variety
poisoned
to choose smth else
styles
a3) Vocabulary 3. Transcribe the following words
simultaneous(ly) ................................. smooth......................... mixture
......................... expressionless ................................ threatening ..........................
undeniably .............................. variety ......................... incidentally .........................
triumphant ............... desperately ...............................
precede ........................
b) Read the text & discuss the styles mentioned there.
EGGSISTENTIAL GUIDE
TO EATING YOUR ART OUT
Today, a complete Post-Modernist tale entitled: “Eggs any Style”.
When you have booked yourself in for a fortnight at a seaside hotel to get away
from it all, the last thing you want is another set problems. But, as the man found
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out, even at a seaside hotel there are new problems. Such as what to have for
breakfast.
The man studied the breakfast menu on the first day and hesitated. There were
things on the menu that he hadn’t eaten for months. Things that sounded
simultaneously tempting and threatening. Black budding. Kippers. Arbroath
smokies….
“May I take your order, sir?”
He looked up into the face of the waiter, a smooth expressionless face. He smiled
at the waiter. The waiter did not smile back. Suddenly he felt animosity towards
the waiter. He looked again at the menu. His eye fell on an item he had not noticed
before. It said, “Eggs, any style”.
“I’d like eggs, please,” he said
“How would you like them?”
“Art Deco.”
“Excuse me, sir?”
“It says, ‘eggs any style’. My favorite style is Art Deco.”
The waiter’s face flickered ever so slightly.
“I’ll see what can be done, sir”.
He returned ten minutes later with a boiled egg sitting at the top in a very thin, very
tall, undeniably Art Deco eggcup. It had a very long, undeniably 1920s spoon with
it.
“Thank you”, the man said
“Not at all,” said the waiter
the next morning at breakfast the man looked the
waiter in the eye and asked for neo-classical eggs.
“I’ll see what can be done, sir,” said the waiter
He returned with a plate of scrambled eggs, arranged
tastefully under a Palladian arch of toast.
“Thank you”, said the man
“Not at all,” said the waiter
on the third day the man asked for Fauvist eggs.
“I beg your pardon, sir?” said the waiter .
“Fauvist. Fauvism was a short-lived painting movement which preceded Cubism,
distinguished by its love of bright colors and bold shapes…”
“I am perfectly well aware of the nature of the Fauvist movement, sir”, said the
waiter. “I was just not sure whether you had actually said ‘Fauvist’. “It sounded a
little also like Fascist and a little like Vorticist and a little like…”
“Fauvist,” said the man
“Very good, sir,” said the waiter.
What he brought back was a plate of eggs loosely cooked and dyed with purple and
red, smeared across the plate to look like an angry sunset. It was inedible. But it
was undeniably Fauvist.
“Thank you,” said the man, pushing the mixture to the side of the plate.
“Not at all, sir”, said the waiter, taking the plate away.
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On succeeding days the man asked for his eggs to be done in a dizzying variety of
styles. Futurist, absurdist, Celtic revivalist, Early English, Jazz Age, even
melodramatic.
The waiter, backed by the imaginative kitchen, was never once baffled.
The Celtic revivalist eggs had come coddled in a nest of seaweed. The Jazz Age
eggs were done with gin. For the eggs in the style of the melodrama, the waiter had
brought them simply boiled, then yelled out: “For God’s sake, sir, before you eat
those eggs, think of your daughter Nell who even now is being seduced by her
cruel landlord for a matter of rent money so small that you could easily have paid
it yourself for a very small price of these eggs themselves, which have incidentally
been poisoned not a moment ago in the kitchen by the very woman you wronged
so many years ago in Calcutta!!!”
The rest of the dining room had listened aghast, but the man
had to agree that the waiter could not be faulted. On the last
day, at breakfast, the man asked for his eggs to be done in a
post- modernist style.
“We at this hotel do not think that post-modernism is
worthy to be called a style, sir,” said the waiter coldly. “It is
merely a ragbag of cultural mannerism.”
“So you will not bring me a post-modernist style egg?”
“No, sir.”
The two men stared at each other, eyes deadlocked.
“In the case,” said the man, “bring me Abroath smokies.”
The waiter went away triumphant. He told the kitchen that
they had outsmarted the egg-eater. In fact, the truth was
quite different, after nearly two weeks of eggs, the man was
desperately constipated and needed almost no excuse to
choose something else.
(by Miles Kington, Independent 11/09/96)
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4810136.html
c) Answer the following questions:
1. Why should the guest have decided to order eggs in different art styles?
2. What was the first style he ordered eggs in?
3. What kind of dish were the eggs in Art Deco style?
4. How did the kitchen staff manage to present Neo-Classical style?
5. Why did the waiter find it difficult to understand the term "Fauvist Style"?
6. How did they cook Fauvist Style eggs?
7. What style did the client choose on the succeeding days?
8. What were the Celtic Revivalist eggs like?
9. What did they invent for the Jazz-Age style eggs?
10. How did the waiter introduce the melodramatic eggs?
11. Why wouldn't the waiter serve a post-modernist style egg?
12. Who won this 'game'?
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