Culture+in+Modernity

Karen Chou Culture of Modernity Literature Visual Arts Music: folk music, nationalistic spirit http://toffsworld.com/lifestyle/art-information/post-impressionism/# http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm
 * Naturalism: accepted material world, realistic, pessimistic realism
 * Zola: // Rougon-Macquart //: alcoholism and different environments affected people’s lives, series of novels on “natural and social history of family
 * Tolstoy- // War and Peace //, fatalistic view of history that proved irrelevant in the face of life’s enduring values of human love and trust
 * Dostoevsky- // Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, //failure to incorporate spirit would result in tyranny, suffering and faith could the human soul be purified
 * Symbolists: against Realism, objective of knowledge of the world was impossible; art should function for its own sake of serving, criticizing, and understand society
 * W.B. Yeats and Rilke: poetry ceased to be a part of popular culture, only understand if one had knowledge of poet’s personal language
 * Impressionism: paint nature directly
 * Pissarro: Impressionism founder, changing effects of light on objects in nature
 * Monet: interplay of light, water, and atmosphere; // Impression, Sunrise //;
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 * Morisot: woman professional painter, more delicate, // Young Girl by the Windo //
 * Post-Impressionism: revolutionized light and color by paying more attention to structure and form
 * Cezanne: // Woman with Coffee Pot //, geometric shapes, express underlying structure and form of everything he painted
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 * Van Gogh: spiritual experience, color could act as its own form of language, paint what they feel, // Starry Night //
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 * Eastman: first Kodak camera
 * Picasso: extremely flexible styles, Cubism: geometric designs to recreate reality in the viewers mind, // Les Demoiselles d’Avignon // (first cubist painting)
 * Abstract Expressionism: avoid representation
 * Kandinsky: founders of Abstract Expressionism, // Painting with White Border //, art should speak directly to the soul, concentrate on color
 * Nationalist
 * Grieg-simple melodies, better suited to smaller compositional forms, // Peer Gynt Suite //, national music style in Norway
 * Impressionist: elusive moods, haunting sensations
 * Debussy- close association between painters and musicians; // Sketches, Images, //and // Prints; // based off a poem: // Prelude to the Afternoon Faun // didn’t tell a story, overall feeling of the poem,
 * Stravinsky-primitive forms, more genuine feelings, Ballet Russe, // The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring //, unusual dancing, irrational forces in his music