Interwar Years The World Goes Mad! by Beyza Komban

1. Pablo Picasso: Weeping Woman, 1937

bk41755 — 2024-04-11 22:26:10 UTC

a. Pablo Picasso was a proponent of the art form Cubism. Cubism is a style of art using geometric shapes taking a slightly abstract appearance

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

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b. This piece Guernica by Pablo Picasso represents the horror and chaos of war.

1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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c. The piece 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon represents five female prostitutes in a brothel.

Girl Before a Mirror, 1932

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 22:39:58 UTC

c. Girl Before a Mirror portrays a young woman looking in the mirror. Her reflection does not exactly mirror herself, as her reflection represents her morality. Her morality is much darker than what is shown on the outside.

Girl with a Mandolin, 1910

bk41755 — 2024-04-11 22:40:35 UTC

Girl with a Mandolin represents a sense of peacefulness and meditation

Ma Jolie, 1912

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c. "Ma Jolie" means "my pretty girl". This is also what he called his lover, which he crafted loosely within the work.

The Old Guitarist, 1903-1904

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This painting showcases a frail man cradling a guitar with his head bowed and eyes closed. The hollows in his cheeks is said to be because that he may be impoverished, he only has his guitar for comfort.

The Accordionist, 1911

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 22:48:06 UTC

This painting is about a man playing the accordion, through an abstract lens.

Maya with Doll, 1938

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 22:50:10 UTC

Maya with Doll, is a painting of Picasso's daughter clutching a doll in the outfit she wore as a young child.

Dora Maar au Chat, 1941

bk41755 — 2024-04-11 22:50:17 UTC

This painting was made in 1941, at the beginning of World War II. Picasso had already painted Maar many times before creating this painting. When the Nazis occupied France, the tension between Maar and Picasso increased, resulting in Picasso portraying Maar in a much more abstract way, sometimes depicting her in tears

Three Women, 1908

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 22:54:45 UTC

Three Women is about Picasso's hatred and anger towards the brutality of war.

2. Famous DADA work sitting in the Museum of Modern Art

bk41755 — 2024-04-11 22:55:22 UTC

a. Dada is a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality of traditional artistic values.

Fountain

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b. This fountain is sculptured by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"

bk41755 — 2024-04-11 23:00:11 UTC

c. They wanted to destroy the traditional values of art and question everything after the war.

3) Sigmund Freud

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 23:03:15 UTC

a) Psychoanalysis

b) Freud's book was about deconstructing the layers of dreams: the actual dream and the meaning behind the dream.

c) England, because the Nazi's took over Austria.

German design school BAUHAUS

mr37035 — 2024-04-11 23:07:12 UTC

a) house of architecture

b) art, craft and technology

c) mitchell park library (pasted above)

4)

bk41755 — 2024-04-15 19:22:23 UTC

b. For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.

4)

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Excerpt from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

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a) stream of consciousness

b) captures character's thought processes

c) virginia woolf ("mrs. dalloway", "to the lighthouse", "the waves")

d)"bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" - this word represents the thunderclap associated with the fall of adam and eve.

e) there was so much turmoil in world war 1. stream of consciousness may have been inspired by the desire to understand why human's wanted to cause destruction to their enemies. writers wanted to explore the fundamental inner thoughts of humans and how this could have led to the devastating impacts of world war 1.

4)

bk41755 — 2024-04-15 19:33:45 UTC

a. Early jazz orignated in African American communities, specifically from New Orleans and Louisiana. It was invented in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Jazz was inspired by African rhythmic rituals and European harmonies. Most people consider Buddy Bolden the father of Jazz music. He was from New Orleans and played the cornet.