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‘In 1846[ce]* the qualities proper to a specifically modern art were discussed by the French writer Baudelaire in his essay on the French Salon. He discerned that colour** would be foremost among these modern qualities, but he still imagined the new art in the context of the Romantic movement. *** In the decades that followed, after 100 years of historicism, the need for modernity was seen to involve not only a new style but contemporary subject matter, and in 1863 Baudelaire praised the draftsman Constantin Guys as “le peintre de la vie moderne” (“the painter of modern life”).

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(19th-century[ce] origins)


‘The idea that some current types of painting are more properly of their time than others, and for that reason preferable, developed during the second half of the 19th century.

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‘The evolution of abstract painting corresponded to architecture's reversion to first principles, but while modern architecture found some coherence, modern painting continued to be the reflection of unfettered individualism; in its energetic, teeming creativeness, eloquent and significant expressions mingle with those that are obscure, impatient or tentative. Modern art is the sum of its greatest exponents, a record of outstanding individual artists.’*

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*[Source text continues:] ‘… later development as Action Painting, tend to confirm it as the characteristic expression of the modern movement.’

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{(This page filled over a period of several weeks)}

Modern Art

*

I hope that abstraction will be relatively easy for this period, at least until c[irca]1945[ce], given that the major movements have already been identified.**

(Chart amended subsequently)

(From p3)*








Neoclassicism ends c[irca]1850









Romanticism ends c[irca]1850



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A~

1848


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m~|G~

1852


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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1848-c[irca]1856



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C

1856

C

/ \


1855[ce] Courbet’s exhibition: “Realism G. Courbet[“].



/

g~M~

1860


\


{Intellection?}


16


A~

1864

r~S~

>


REALISM/NATURALISM c[irca]1855(-c[irca]1874ff?)[ce] {Cézanne….}



\

m~G~

1868


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1866ff 1st steps to Impressionism in Monet’s coast scenes (EB)



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C

1872

g~M~



\


1869 Monet & Renoir painting together at La Grenouillère – the decisive development of Impressionism (EB).

{...Impressionism founded the new tradition of modern art…. (EB)}(Rodin from c1870s)



/

g~M~

1876


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1874 Monet’s ‘Impression: Sunrise’ exhibited & gives rise to title ‘Impressionists’ (EVA)


16

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A~

1880

j~U~

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{Implementation? (Empirical)} IMPRESSIONISM. After 1880 Impressionist movement became international (EB) but the Impressionists began to go their own ways artistically (EVA)



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m~G~

1884


/ \

>

?1880-c1890?Post-Impressionists Seurat,Gauguin,VanGogh (this is disputed)(EVA)(/→1918ff (EB)



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C

1888

A~

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/

1886 Last Impressionist group show (EB); the group as such had virtually ceased to exist (EB)

(at which also 1st Neo-Impressionist work was shown). 1886 Symbolist Manifest launched.

1889 Cafe Volpini exhibition of SymbolismSynthetism’ starts spread of movement (EB)

{‘Modern’ painting began as a reaction to … Impressionism’ (EB)}



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g~M~

1892


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Beardsley’s ‘Japonesque’ style (EB) +Seurat (EB) +Neo-impressionism (EB) c[irca]1886?ff


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1896

u~J~

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{Innovation? (Creative)} For the next 15 years Symbolism was the effective avant-garde (EB)



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m~G~

1900


/


{SYMBOLISM}

+ Art Nouveau / Jugendstill spread across Europe & the Americas in the 1890s (EB) until c1910ff(EB)



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C

1904

m~G~

/

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By 1903 the impetus of Symbolism was expended (EB)

{?}1905{/1911} (Expressionism) ‘Die Brucke’ (The Bridge) group founded (EB);

also Fauvism, 1905 {–} Transitional style



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g~M~

1908



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1907\ Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ initiates cubism (EB)

1909/ 1st phase of Cubism – accentuation & disruption of planes(EB) 1909 Futurist manifest (by poets)


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1912

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{Intuition??} {CUBISM} 1911 Blue Rider [group] 1909-20 Avant-garde sculpture (EB)

1910\ 2nd phase of Cubism – irrelevance of the subject (EB)

1912/ 1st completely Abstract paintings 1912-14 Emergence of Constructivist ‘sculptors’ (EB)



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m~G~

1916



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1914 3rd phase of CubismSynthetic Cubism – collage (EB). 1914 Abstract painting increases

1914 Dadaism (on the outbreak of war) attacks art artistically (EB). 1916 Dadaist manifesto

1915 End of Futurism in visual arts


2048

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m~R~C

1920

C

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1917 Piet Mondrian’s de Stijl movement (EB)

1918 Malevich paints ‘White Square on a White Backgound’ & stops painting.

1918ff End of Post-Impressionism (EB) (disputed)



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1924


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c1922 International Style of architecture begins.

In the years after 1918, a mood of classical consolidation affected European painting (EB)

1922 All experimental Soviet art suppressed; ‘Socialist Realism

In the 1920s modern art underwent a conservative reaction (EB). 1922 End of Dada (→ Surrealism)

1924 André Breton’s manifesto for the Surrealist movement (EB) (not primarily visual)


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1928

r~S~

>


1928 Breton’s ‘Surrealism & Painting’. 1928, 1929 Internal strife is Surrealism

1929 Breton’s ‘2nd Surrealist Manifesto’.



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1932


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{SURREALISM}

c1932 End of International Style of Architecture.

1930, 1932 Abstract groups formed in Paris. 1933 Hitler prohibits Abstract Art.

Early 1930s: German Bauhaus & Russian non-figurative movement extinguished.



/


1936

g~M~

/


1930s Surrealism successful & notorious; new recruits less rigorous or daring. 1936 De Stihl breaks up.



/


1940



Metamorphism in Paris. 1939 Outbreak of war splits up Surrealist groups in Paris.


{16}

/


1944

j~U~



{(War disrupts pattern?)} 1942 Surrealist-oriented review ‘VVV’ starts in new York.

New York development of Abstract Art into Abstract Expressionism & Action Painting.



/


1948



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1945 onwards: Metamorphism in Britain. Post-war Europe: informal Abstraction; Constructivism,

1948 Art Brut.


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1952

A~

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1956



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{Informal ABSTRACTION} Informal Abstraction (+Metamorphism in Britain)


{16}

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1960

u~J~


/

1960 Abstract art begins to win public acceptance. 1960 situational Abstraction in GB.



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1964



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1960s New idioms eg Pop art, Photo-realism, environmental sculpture, &c in USA.

1960s Neo-Dada; Pop art. 1964 ‘Post-Painterly Abstraction; in USA.



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1968

m~G~

\


2nd half 20th century: existence of Abstract Art is accepted; considered viable.


(16)

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1972


>


{CONCEPTUALISM:(+ Performance art & Minimalism, Environmental scuplture, Photorealism, (Pop art) &c.



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1976

s~R~

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1980








1984

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