Week 4 - Duchamp, Dada, Fluxus - the explosion of art

Impressionism (1860 -1900)
 
Claude Monet - Impression, soleil levant (1873)


Post- Impressionism (1880-1920)

Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night (1889)

Fauvism (1904-1910)

Henri Matisse - Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907)


Cubism (1908-1914)

Pablo Picasso - The Musicians (1921)

Juan Gris - The Man in the Cafe (1912)

Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2  (1912)

Edward Muybridge - Woman Walking Downstairs (1887)


 Eliot Elisofon - Marcel Duchamp Descending a Staircase (1952)


Collage and readymades - new Art Materials!

Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Chair-Caning (1912)


Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel Readymade (1913)


Marcel Duchamp - With Hidden Noise (1916)


Marcel Duchamp - Fountain (1917)


Marcel Duchamp's "assisted readymade" Mona Lisa (1919)

Duchamp talks about his Readymades


Dada - complete indifference to art

Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich

Karawane - Hugo Ball
Kurt Schwitters - Ursonate (1932)

Kurt Schwitters - Collage

Kurt Schwitters - Merzbau (1923-37)


Surrealism (1920-1930s)

Rene Magritte - Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée, 1938)




Salvador Dali - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of a Civil War (1936)


Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1960s)

Jackson Pollack - Convergence (1952)


Minimalism

Rothko - Untitled Red Blue Orange (1955)


Pop Art:





Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable:




Fluxus:

George Maciunas - Piano Piece #13 (for Nam June Paik)



Gyorgy Ligeti - Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes:


Marcel Duchamp talks about his art:


Week 3 - Experimental Music

Luigi Russolo's Itonorumori (1913)




Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark (1906)



George Antheil - Ballet Mecanique (1924)



Henry Cowell - The Banshee (1925) - extended technique


Theremin - electronic instrument patented in 1928 by Leon Theremin


John Cage - Sonata and Interludes (1946) - prepared piano


Edgard Varese - Deserts (1954) - orchestra and electronic "interpolations"



Harry Partch



Musique Concrete - Pierre Schaeffer - etude aux chemins de fer (1948)


Elektronische Musik - Herbert Eimert - Klangstudie 2 (1952)



Edgard Varese: Poeme Electronique (1958):


David Tudor - Rainforest (1973)


Rainforest IV - 2013





John Cage on silence:


John Cage: