ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marcel Duchamp, Surrealist Automatism, Plumbing Fixture
25 Aug 2016
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Early twentieth century modern art: reflects aspects of modernity and modern society (with some artists embracing these conditions, others recoiling from them, emphasis on innovation and invention. Marcel duchamp, lhooq, 1919, pencil on reproduction of leonardo da vinci"s mona. Interested in symbolism as well in evoking meaning outside of the canvas. Salvador dali, birth of liquid desires, 1931-32, oil on canvas, surrealist illusionistic dreamscape: trying to record his dreams in a less mediated way, and free himself from the conventions of thought that individuals normally had. York); became the centre of a global avant-garde movement: like art from the first half of the century, was still an interest in the changing world and innovation. Informed by political and social happenings of the era, with artists responding to the even greater destruction of the second world war, the cold-war, and burgeoning globalism: typically non-representational, divided into two-strains, action painting and colour field painting.
