Western Modern Art (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24CVA A702
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to understand, learn and critically analyze the artistic techniques, mediums, styles, paradigms, historical development, visual perception of the art works of the western modern artists.

 

Course Outcomes: 

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24CVA A702

Western Modern Art (Theory)

CO169: Assess the achievements, experiments and advancements of each of the mentioned artists in Neo Impressionism, Post Impressionism and Fauvism to formulate a deep appreciation of the legacy before and after them.

 

CO170: Examine two major groups, their manifestos, artists, artworks, and aesthetic values of Expressionism to assess the qualities of works of art in their historical, artistic and cultural settings.

 

CO171: Develop analytical, critical skills, to contemplate technique, experimentation, manipulation of form, and socio-cultural and biographical context of listed works of Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism and related artists.

 

CO172: Construct critical understanding of the technique, aesthetics, style, formalism, manifestos, socio cultural and biographical background of selected artists and art works of Surrealism, De Stijl and Constructivism.

 

CO173: Recognize and critically assess various techniques, compositional sense, mediums, socio cultural context of the selected artists of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Op Art. Observe and learn to formulate a language of art which they can later use in their own artwork.

 

CO174: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in Teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading Assignments, Multiple Points of View

 

Learning Activities for The Students: Self-Learning Assignments, Effective Questions, Giving Tasks, Oral Explanation

Continuous Assessment Test, Semester end examination, Quiz, Solving Problems in Tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual And Group Projects

 

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Neo Impressionism, Post Impressionism and Fauvism

Neo Impressionism: 

  • Georges Seurat (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnières, Le Chahut) 
  • Paul Signac (Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, Les Andelys, the Riverbank, The Milliners)

Post Impressionism

  • Van Gogh (Bedroom in Arles, The Starry Night, The Sower, The Church at Auvers, The Potato Peasants series, The Weavers series)
  • Paul Cezanne (The Large Bathers 1898-1906, Table Napkin and Fruit (A Corner of the Table), The Card Players, A Modern Olympia (1869-70).
  • Toulouse Lautrec (Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, Avril, Femme en Corset)
  • Paul Gauguin (The Yellow Christ 1889, The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch 1892, Jacob’s Fight with the Angel 1888, Self Portrait ‘Les Miserables’ 1888, Still Life with Fruits and Lemons 1880)

 

Fauvism

  • Henri Matisse (The Moroccans, Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre), The Woman with a Hat, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, The Green Line, 1905)
  • Andre Derain (The Dance 1905-06, The Bathers 1908, The Houses of Parliament 1905-06)
  • Maurice Vlaminck (Reclining Nude 1905, At the Bar 1900, Houses at Chatou 1905-06, Under the Bridge at Bezons (Under the Bridge at Chatou)1906, The Dancers from the Rat Mort 1906)

 

6.00
Unit II: 
Expressionism
  • Die Brucke
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Street 1913 Berlin, Marzella 1909-10, Nude Dancers (NackteTanzerinnen) 1909, Self-Portrait as a Soldier 1915.
  • Erich Heckel (Bathers in the Reeds 1910, Crystalline Day (Day of Glass)1913, Praying Woman 1916, Portrait of a Man (Männerbildnis)1919)
  • Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Christ 1918, Dr. Rosa Schapire 1919, Evening in the Room 1935, The Black Mask 1956, Woman with a Bag 1915)
  • Otto Mueller (Three Girls in a Wood 1920,
  • Der Blaue Reiter
  • Wassily Kandinsky (Composition series IV, VII, VIII, X, Der Blaue Berg (The Blue Mountain)1908-1909, Moscow I (Red Square)1916, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)1903)
  • Franz Marc (The Yellow Cow 1911, Tiger 1912, The Tower of Blue Horses 1913, Portrait of the Artist's Mother 1902)
  • Auguste Macke (Promenade 1913, Indians on Horseback 1911, A Stroll on the Bridge 1913, Portrait of the artist’s wife with a blue hat 1909).
  • Paul Klee (Winged Hero (Der Held mit dem Flugel)1905, The Twittering Machine [Die Zwitschermaschine]1922, Affected Place [Betroffener Ort]1922)
  • Oskar Kokoschka (The Tempest (Or Bride of The Wind)1914, Der Rentmeister 1910, Self-portrait as Warrior 1909)
  • George Henri Rouault (Jeu de massacre (Slaughter)1905, Two Nudes (The Sirens)1906-08, Miserere 1912-27, Pierrot 1937-38
  • Marc Chagall (White Crucifixion 1938, Peace Window 1967, Green Violinist 1923-24)

 

6.00
Unit III: 
Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism

Cubism

  • Pablo Picasso (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, Still Life with Chair Caning 1912, Guernica 1937, The Three Musicians 1921, Maquette for Guitar 1912)
  • Georges Braque (Houses of l'Estaque 1908, Violin and Pipe 1913, Fruit on a Table-cloth with a Fruit Dish 1925)
  • Juan Gris (Portrait of Picasso 1912, Harlequin with a Guitar 1918, The Man from Touraine 1918, Still with Checkered Tablecloth1915)
  • Fernand Leger (The Big Black Divers 1944, Mona Lisa with Keys 1930, Three Women 1921, The City 1919, The Card Players 1917)

Futurism

  • Umberto Boccioni (The City Rises 1910, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913, The Charge of the Lancers 1915, States of Mind I: The Farewells 1911)
  • GiocomoBalla(Street Light 1909, (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash 1912, Abstract Speed + Sound 1913-14)
  • Gino Severini(Dancer = Propeller = Sea 1915, Maternity 1915, Still Life 1919, Mosaic of San Marco 1961, Le Boulevard 1910-11)
  • Luigi Russolo(Self Portrait 1909, Memories of Night 1911, La Musica 1911-12, 'Plastic synthesis of a Moving Women' 1912)
  • Carlo Carra(The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli 1910-11, Western Horseman 1917, Rhythms of Objects 1911)

Dadaism

  • Marcel Duchamp (Fountain 1917, L.H.O.O.Q 1919, The Large Glass 1915-23, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 -1912)
  • Francis Picabia(Portrait de Mistinguett 1907, Dances at the Spring 1912, (Very Rare Picture on the Earth 1915, Here This is Stieglitz 1915, Adam and Eve 1930-31)
  • Giorgio De Chirico (The Child’s Brain 1914, The Disquieting Muses 1916, Self Portrait 1922, The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon 1910)

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
Surrealism, De Stijl and Constructivism

Surrealism                                                                                                      

  • Andre Breton (The African Mask 1947-48, Egg in the Church or the Snake, Poeme 1924)
  • Salvador Dali (The Persistence of Memory 1931, Dream Caused by the Flight 1944, Christ of Saint John of the Cross 1951, Soft Construction with boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)1936)
  • Max Ernst (A week of Kindness 1934, Here Everything is Still Floating 1920, Celebes 1921, Ubu Imperator 1923, The King Playing with the Queen 1944)
  • Yves Tanguy (Multiplication of the Arcs 1954, Indefinite Divisiblity 1942, Noyer Indifferent 1929, Mama Papa is Wounded 1927)
  • Joan Miro (The Farm 1920-21, Harlequin’s Carnival 1924-25, Dog Barking At the Moon 1926, Dutch Interior (I) 1928, The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers 1941)
  • Andre Masson (Automatic Drawing 1924, The Metamorphosis of the Lovers 1938, Gradiva 1939, Meditation on an oak Leaf 1942, Pasiphae 1942)
  • Jean Arp (Collage with squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance 1916-17, Shirt Front and Fork 1922, Sculpture to be lost in the Forest 1932, Metamorphosis (Shell Swan) 1935)
  • Marc Chagall (Paris Through the Window 1913, Green Violist 1923-24, White Crucifixion 1938, Peace Window 1967, Bella with White Collar 1917)
  • Henri Rousseau (Myself, Portrait -Landscape 1890, Surprised Tiger in a Tropical Storm 1891, The sleeping Gypsy 1897, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope 1905)

Supermatism

  • Kazimir Malevich (Black Square 1915, Airplane Flying 1915, White on White 1917-18, Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement)

De Stijl

  • Piet Mondrian (The Gray Tree 1912, Composition with Color Planes 1917, Composition with Large Red Plane Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue 1921, Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43)
  • Theo Van Doesburg(Stained Glass Composition IV 1918, Rhythm of Russian Dance 1918, Composition VIII (The Cow)1918, Dancers 1916)

Constructivism

  • Vladimir Tatlin(The Sailor: Self Portrait 1911, The Nude 1913, The Bottle 1913, Corner Counter Relief 1914-15, Monument to the Third International 1919-20)
  • Alexander Rodchenko(The Staircase 1930, Books (The Advertisement Poster for the Lengiz Publishing House)1924, Construction No. 127(Two Circles)1920, Non-Objective Painting No 80(Black on Black)1918)
  • El Lissitzky(The Print Shop of Ogoniok 1932, The Runner 1930, USSR RussischeAusstellung 1929, Proun 99 1925, Had Gadya 1919)

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op Art

Abstract Expressionism

  • Barnett Newman (Onement I 1948, Vir heroicussublimis 1950-51, The Wild 1950,
  • Third Station 1960, Canto VII 1963, Broken Obelisk 1963-69)
  • Willem De Kooning (Seated Woman 1940, Pink Angles 1945, Untitled 1948-49 Excavation 1950, Woman III 1951-53, Rosy-Fingered Dawwn at Louse Point 1963)
  • Clyfford Still (Indian Houses, Nespelem 1936, 1944-N No.2 1944, 1948-C 1948)
  • Mark Rothko (Orange and Tan 1954, Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea 1944, No.9 1947, Four Darks in Red 1958, The Rothko Chapel 1965)
  • Robert Motherwell(Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive 1943, At Five in the Afternoon 1949, Je taime No.2 1955, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 1971, Tobacco Roth Handle 1974)
  • Arshile Gorky (The Artist and his mother 1926-27, Staten Island 1927, Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitations 1937, Organization 1933-36)
  • Hans Hoffman (The Wind 1944, Self-Portrait with Brushes 1942, Ecstasy 1947, The Conjurer 1959, The Garden 1956, To Miz – Pax Vobiscum 1964)

Pop Art

  • Richard Hamilton (Fun House 1956, Hommage a Chrysler Corp. 1956, Interior 1964-65, My Marilyn 1965)
  • Class Oldenburg (Pastry Case, I 1961-62, Floor Cake 1962, Soft Toilet 1966, Clothespin 1976)
  • David Hockney (A Bigger Splash 1967, A Bigger Grand Canyon 1998, Winter Timber 2009, A Bigger Message 2010)
  • Allen Jones (Life Class 1968, Chair 1969, The Tango 1984)

 

Op Art:

  • M.C. Escher
  • Victor Vasarely
  • Bridget Riley

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Ackroyd,Christopher, History & Techniques of The Great Masters : Toulouse Lautrec, London : Eagle Edition Ltd., 2002
  2. Archer,Michael, Art Since 1960, London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2002
  3. Arnason, History of Modern Art, London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.,
  4. Bazin,Germain, A Concise History Of Art, Thames and Hudson, 1958
  5. Bumpus,Judith, Van Gogh's Flowers, Oxford : Phaidon Press Ltd., 2001
  6. Cassou,Jean, Piccasso, London : Oldbourne Press
  7. Chaturvedi,Gopal, Aadhunik Chitra Kala, Devrishi Prakashan,
  8. Dodiya, Atul, Malevich Matters & Other Shutters, New Delhi: Vadhera Art Gallery,
  9. 2010
  10. Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, Phaidon & Los Angeles County Museum, 1971
  11. Faerna, Matisse, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,Publishers,
  12. Faerna, Mondrian, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,Publishers,
  13. Gauguin, New Delhi: Vadhera Art Gallery,
  14. Girard,Xavier, Matisse : The Sensuality of Colour, London : Thames & Hudson Ltd.,
  15. Goswami B.N., Adhunik Bhartiya Chitrakala ke Aadhar Stambha, Rajasthan Hindi granth Academy,
  16. Hall,Douglas, Klee, Oxford : Phaidon Press Ltd., 2001
  17. Herbert Read, A concise history of modern painting, Thames & Hudson, 1967 reprint
  18. John Elderfield, The “Wild Beasts”: Fauvism and its affinities, MOMA, 1976
  19. John Golding, Cubism — a history and analysis (1907 – 1914), Faber & Faber, 1968 reprint
  20. Jaffe,Hans L.C., Picasso, New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,Publishers, 1982
  21. James,Jamie, Pop Art, Oxford : Phaidon Press Ltd., 2002
  22. Janson, History of Art (2Vol), New Jersey : Prentice Hall International
  23. Kandinsky, The Great Artists;80, Marshall Cavendish Ltd.,
  24. Levi,Julian, Modern Art : An Introduction, London : Pitman Publishing Ltd.,
  25. Malevich, The Great Artists;81, Marshall Cavendish Ltd.,
  26. Miro, The Great Artists;87, Marshall Cavendish Ltd.,
  27. Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, (Centennial exhibition catalogue), Solomon
  28. R.Guggenheim Museum, 1971
  29. Pontus Hulton, Futurism & amp; Futurisms, Thames &Hudson, 1987
  30. Rose,Barbara, American Art since 1900, London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 196
  31. Sakhlakar R.V., Aadhunik Chitrakala Ka Itihas, Rajasthan Hindi Granth Academy,1995 & 2016
  32. Sayre,Henry M., A World of Art, New Jersey : Prentice Hall International, 2004
  33. Stevenson,Lesley, Gauguin, PRC Publishing Ltd., 2002
  34. Taschen, C'ezanne, Delhi : Bharat Prakashan,
  35. Taschen, Expressionism: A Revolution in German Art, Benedikt Taschen
  36. Taschen, Marc Chagall 1887-1985, Benedikt Taschen
  37. Taschen, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Benedikt Taschen
  38. Taschen, Salvador Dali 1904-1989, Benedikt Taschen

 

Suggested Readings:

  1. Thompson, How to Read A Modern Painting, Thames and Hudson, 2014
  2. Uhde, Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd.,
  3. Valminck, Masters of World Painting, Aurora Art Publishers,
  4. West, Chagall, London: Bison Group, 1990
  5. West,Shearer, Chagall, PRC Publishing Ltd., 2002
  6. Whitfield,Sarah, Fauvism, London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1996
  7. JOA - Journal of Arts
  8. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
  9. Atishay Kalit- A Bilingual Research Journal of Fine Arts, Culture and Humanities
  10. Kala: The Journal of Indian Art History Congress
  11. https://www.researchgate.net/
  12. https://scholar.google.com/

 

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