INTC 248 Twentieth Century Mass Movements

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INTC 248Twentieth Century Mass Movements

• The Art in My Name is Asher Lev

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Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna with the Child and two
Angels1465 Tempera on wood, As background for
Twentieth Century artistic themes, consider first
the Italian Renaissance
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DomenicoGhirlandaio, Adoration of the
Magi1488 Tempera on wood Spedale degli
Innocenti, Florence Color, symbolism, and
perspective
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Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482Tempera on
panel, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Trinity (detail)1425-28Santa Maria Novella,
Florence Mary points to Jesus, the focal point
of the painting, as God the Father watches from
above and the Beloved Disciple (John) waits
beside the cross. Masaccios use of perspective
and architecture would inspire a generation of
artists.
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Reni, Massacre of the Innocents, 1611 Oil on
canvas, 268 x 170 cmPinacoteca Nazionale,
Bologna Jacob Kahn asks Asher to review this
painting as he was studying Picassos
Guernica. Renis work is Late Renaissance
(Baroque), with high emotional content, based on
the biblical story of the slaughter of innocent
Jewish children by Herods guards.
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Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Madrid (but in N.Y.
Museum of Modern Art in Asher Lev book) 116 x
258 Guernica does not present the illusion of
3D perspective but is cubist in style. Its goal
is to show emotional content related to the
bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Jacob Kahn paints like this
Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism,
1940s-50s Abstract Impressionism is a form of
art where the artist expresses himself through
the use of form and color, with no objective
representations.
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Willem De Kooning, Abstract Expressionism, 1940s-5
0s All areas of the piece are filled with
movement and paint (instead of creating a focal
point, or an area of the most interest).
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Asher eventually paints like this
Marc Chagall, Paris Through a Window,
1913 Cubism questions logical, fixed point of
view Eiffel tower and French flags Person with
two faces (as Asher paints in Brooklyn
Crucifixion)
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Marc Chagall, Resurrection, 1941 The Jews are
told to leave France after the Fall of France in
1940. Chagall shows a rooster (symbol of France),
a woman suffering, and Christ, who again is the
symbol of the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Marc Chagall, Yellow Crucifixion, 1943 Chagall
depicts refugees leaving Russia or Germany for
other places. Christ is an adult and there are
many Jewish symbols, such as the Torah, candle,
prayer shall, and burning village.
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Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion, 1938 Chagalls
most significant crucifixion masterpiece, painted
in response to the persecution of Jews in Germany
after Kristallnacht. White sorrow / ghostly
color Candle hope