VISUAL CULTURE

trends & styles chapter 2
destruction, radicalism and the big nothing

David Carson, 1993

> Great War: technology and millions of victims
> Visual design: less is more
> Art vs photography: new language
> Art vs war: emotions and absurdity

MODERNISM (radically new features in art)
> Expressionism -> colours and forms against academic rules
> Cubism -> cubic-like forms, no depth
> Futurism -> dynamic movement
> Dadaism -> anti-art, ready-mades

Käthe Kollwitz, Expressionism

Edvard Munch, Expressionism

Franz Marc, Expressionism

Wassily Kandinsky, Expressionism

Pablo Picasso, Cubism

Mbangu mask (DR Congo)

Dan mask (Liberia)

Njil Fang mask (Gabon)

Futurism

Futurism

Hannah Höch, Dadaism

Marcel Duchamp, Dadaism