Dankook Lecture

1. INTRODUCTION TO MODERN
WESTERN CULTURE
Prof. Simon Morley
Lecture:
Science, Technology, Urbanization,
the Mass Media, and Art
1900 - 1920

9. Albert Einstein

10. Sigmund Freud

11. Mass media
The means of communication to a large population — a mass of people.
These generally include newspapers, magazines, radio, or television.
mass culture - the popular culture that is widely disseminated via the
mass media.

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CaieEwEuiw
Take a look at the Year 1912

13. Robert Delaunay, 1912

15. Robert Delaunay

16. • 1. Primitivism
Picasso,
Les Damoiselles d’Avignon,
1907

17. Picasso landscape, 1909.

18. CUBISM
One of the most influential art movements (1907- c1920) of the twentieth
century, Cubism was begun by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1882-1973) and
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) in 1907. They were greatly inspired
by African sculpture, by painters Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906) and
Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), and by Fauvism. In Cubism the
subject matter is broken up, analyzed and reassembled in an abstracted
form.

19. 1. Analytic Cubism
Picasso, 1910

20. Picasso, 1911

21. Picasso, 1911

22. Georges Braque, 1910

23. Georges Braque, 1911

24. Picasso, collage, 1912

25. Braque, 1912

26. Braque, 1912

27. Picasso, collage 1912
collage – an artwork made by sticking various
different materials such as photographs, magazine and
newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored
paper or fabric onto a flat surface.

28. Picasso, collage, 1913

29. Braque, collage, 1912

30. Georges Braque, 1912

31. Braque, 1913

32. Fernand Léger

34. FUTURISM
Futurism or futurism – A movement originating among Italian
artists in 1909, when the poet Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of
futurism appeared, and lasting into the 1920’s. It was a celebration of
the machine age, glorifying war, and later supporting the growth of
fascism. Futurist works were especially concerned with expressing
movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.
Important artist include Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871-1958), Carlo
Carrà (Italian, 1881-1966), Umberto Boccioni (Italian, 1882-1916

36. Gino Severini, 1914

37. Severini, Armoured Train, 1915

38. Giacomo Balla, 1915

39. Balla, 1912

40. Balla, Speeding Car, 1913

41. Carlo Carra, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911

42. Carlo Carra, Demonstration, 1913

43. Fernand Léger, ‘Ballet Mechanique’ (1924) film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0
Futurist Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHJySm7ZO0