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INSANELY DATED YET CHARMING MINI-DOC ON "THE MODERN ART MOVEMENT"

SURREALIST FILM: MAN RAY'S "LE RETOUR A LA RAISON" (1923)

SURREALIST FILM: UN CHIEN ANDALOU BY LUIS BUÑUEL (1929)

CEZANNE: BRINGING FOLKS TOGETHER (TAKE TWO!)

FORMAL ANALYSIS WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Pick (2) two works you saw from The Clark visit to do a formal analysis of each. This assignment should be at least two pages (at least one page per work), typed or handwritten and due in class on Friday, January 19th MMXVIII.

The link above to the Clark's collection, so you, if unable to go back in person to see the works in person (which is always preferable), can see the information on their website. 

A formal analysis is quite simply an analysis of the forms utilized in the work of art. It is a close inspection of the artist's use of aspects such as color, shape, line, mass, and space. The formal analysis moves beyond simple description in that it connects the elements of the work to the effects they have on the viewer. A formal analysis does NOT concentrate on the interpretation of subject matter, function, culture, etc., but it may consider them when they apply to decisions about formal element, things like color, line, size, etc. A clear, well-written formal analysis will contain three things: it will name the formal elements discussed, it will describe the use of the formal elements, and it will discuss the effects of that use of said formal element. 

List of Formal (and Design) Elements:

• Color
• Line
• Light 
• Shape 
• Texture
• Size
• COMPOSITION
• Proportion
• Scale
• Placement
• Space/Depth
• Pattern (repetition and rhythm)
• Unity and Variety 
• Contrast
• Balance
• Emphasis and Subordination
• Directional Force

Special categories and terms for Sculpture:

• Mass and Volume
• Patina

DEGENERATE ART SHOW

Degenerate art is the translation of the German "entartete Kunst", a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to denounce virtually all modern art.Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism. The Entartete Kunst exhibit, featuring over 650 paintings, sculptures, prints, and books from the collections of thirty two German museums, premiered in Munich on July 19, 1937. Among them works of Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinski, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Barlach and other German avant-garde artists. The footage was shot by the American cinematographer Julien Bryan.