February 10,2010

Important topics introduced tonight

• Pictorial Modernism
• Plakastil
• Sachplakate
• Lucian Bernhard
• Cubism replaced a rendering of natural appearances with purely invented form.
• Lucian Bernhard
• Hans Rudi Erdt
• Julius Gipkens
• Joseph Leyendecker
• Mythical Realism - promoted patriotism at all levels of society through national symbol full of realism.
• Futurism- voiced enthusiasm for war, danger, and the machine age,
• DADA- “Replace man’s logical non- sense with illogical nonsense”.
• Stephane Mallarme
• Guillaume Apollinaire - Closely associated with the Cubist helped define its principles.
• simultaneity: text playing several roles at once both visual and verbal. Poets began considering the arrangement of words on a page as much as the words themselves when making poetry.
• Synthetic Cubism
• Filippo Marinetti
• Avant-garde poets of the 1910s became the graphic designers, teachers, and systematic theorists of the 1920s and 1930s.
• Duchamp
• Propaganda Art
• Kurt Schwitters
• Andre Breton- emerged as a new leader. Believed DADA had lost its relevance.
• Automatism- A pure psychic exercise intended to express verbally or visually the true function of thought “dictated” by the absence of all control exerted by reason.
• Max Ernst
• Rene Magritte
• Salvador Dali
• Man Ray


In tonight's class we discussed the works of Surrealists Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, which I find very interesting. I like Dali's works because to really understand them you have to look closely and analyze every little detail and even like that many times it is not easy. The entire Surrealist movement is actually interesting, especially their works. In class we also saw various posters and works of other times that called my attention such as the posters of Uncle Sam that became very popular and still are very popular today.