Monday 4/10/17 Agenda

Modernism Discussion

The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." 
Modernism marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, it presents a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism.

SF Modernism Gallery SF

Nude Descending Staircase Image

Study the Nude Descending Staircase and discuss with your elbow partner why this piece should or should not be considered a Modernist piece of art. Discuss what you think the painting means?  What is the message/or ideas that the artist is trying to convey?

Provide three examples that prove that this piece of art should be considered modernist art or provide three examples that prove why it should not be considered modernist art. Provide a one sentence description about what the painting means to you.

Title your paper Nude Descending Staircase and be prepared to turn in at the end of the period.

HW=
1. Reread e.e. cummings poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town" Text
2. Read your LC text and be prepared for an LC Analysis Presentation that is due on May 19th, 2017!