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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM WOODCUTS

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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.

1400, a poem by Albert Goldbarth

1400

Saps, and the anal grease of an otter, and pig's blood,

and the crushed-up bulbous bodies of those insects

that they'd find so thickly gathered on barnyard excrement

it makes a pulsing rind, and oven soot, and the oil

that forms in a flask of urine and rotting horseflesh,

and the white of an egg, and charcoal, and the secret

watery substance in an egg, and spit-in-charcoal

in a sluggish runnel of gray they mixed

with the harvested scum of a bloated tomato,

and steamed plant marrows beaten to a paste,

and orange clay, and auburn clay, and clay bespangled

with the liquid pearl of fish scales stirred in milt,

and suet, and glue boiled out of a hoof,

and ash, and grape-like clusters of fat grabbed

out of a chicken carcass and dried in the sun

until it became inert and yet still pliable, and lime,

and the pulp of the cherry, and the pulp of the cherry

immersed in egg, and coral in a powder,

and silver flake, and fig, and pollen, and dust, and beeswax,

and an iridescence scraped with infinite care

from the wings of hundreds of tiny flying things,

and salted iridescence, and human milk, and ores,

and gall, and stains expressed from teas, and gobs of squeeze-off

from the nettings of cheese, and rouge, and kohl,

and luster, and oyster, and lees: and so from these

they made their paints: and then

their Gods and their saints.

–Albert Goldbarth (born 1948)

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CEZANNE: BRINGING FOLKS TOGETHER

The Painted Marks

EXQUISITE CORPSE also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, in this case Camille Cezanne's The Bathers, 1898-1905

THE DAWN OF MODERNISM