{"id":2589,"date":"2024-04-28T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2024-04-28T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:40:58","slug":"4-24-lecture-journal-early-20th-century-art-fauvism-and-expressionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/28\/4-24-lecture-journal-early-20th-century-art-fauvism-and-expressionism\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/24 Lecture Journal: Early 20th-century Art: Fauvism and Expressionism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fauvism and Expressionism represent the two distinct ways in which artists of the early 20th century approach creation and grapple with the progress of modernity. In Andr\u00e9 Derain\u2019s <em>Mountain at Collioure, <\/em>we observed the artist\u2019s attempts to subvert reality in the complete abstraction of space and depth, as well as the usage of color for its own enjoyment, rather than any intention to express any underlying message. This represents the spirit of Fauvism. Similarly, in Henri Mattise\u2019s <em>Le Bonheur de vivre,<\/em> the arbitrary application of colors, organization of shapes, figures and space showcase the focus on conveying the idea, the feelings of the scene. There\u2019s, however, a complete rejection of the previously existing artistic institution that links this movement with the next prominent groups of works seen in this period: Expressionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For expressionist artists, there is an even wider divergence against any intention to visually portray reality. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner\u2019s painting, <em>Street, Dresden, <\/em>along with his print, <em>Tribulation of Love, <\/em>with sharp contrasts, a lack of coherent composition (with crowded space placed between completely blank spots), and clear, expressive brush strokes, are great representations of this movement. We sensed a sort of hyperfixation on creating structured yet chaotic images that reflects abstract ideas through the now-meaning-filled colors. There was also an emergence of different manners of artistic interpretation of the human\u2019s psyche, with Freud\u2019s psychoanalytic method and Rimbaud\u2019s assignment of colors to emotions. This all accumulates into an artistic movement that puts forward the most important factor being the human\u2019s emotions, ideas, and psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fauvism and Expressionism represent the two distinct ways in which artists of the early 20th century approach creation and grapple with the progress of modernity. In Andr\u00e9 Derain\u2019s Mountain at Collioure, we observed the artist\u2019s attempts to subvert reality in the complete abstraction of space and depth, as well as the usage of color for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}