by Jeanne Willette | Dec 23, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp in New York The Americanization of Dada, Part One Francis Picabia (1879-1953) arrived in New York for his second visit early in 1915, a few months before the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915. Born in Cuba to a...
by Jeanne Willette | Dec 16, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Creating a Language for the Revolution The ROSTA Windows In 1917, Russia was a nation no longer a nation, but an empire unraveling, torn between a weak provisional government and rear guard resistance of the so-called “White Russians.” The Russian Empire...
by Jeanne Willette | Dec 9, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
What to do During a Revolution The Death of Art It is one of the oddities of modernism that the nations most attached to the past gave birth to movements that yearned most strongly for the future—but that longing for a new way of life cannot be a coincidence. Mired in...
by Jeanne Willette | Dec 2, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Artist and Revolution Art at Ground Zero, Part One In 1981, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presented a remarkable exhibition, selections from the collection of an otherwise unknown individual, George Costakis (1913-1990). Born in Russia, a nation he considered his...
by Jeanne Willette | Nov 25, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Marc Chagall and the War, Part Two Vitebsk as an Art Center When the Great War began, like all eligible and fit young men, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was conscripted for military service to his motherland, the Russian Empire. A more unsuitable soldier could hardly be...
by Jeanne Willette | Nov 18, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Marc Chagall in Moscow The Murals for the Jewish Theater, Part Two Perhaps because he was the first to visually imagine a totally Yiddish world, mystical and magical, sophisticated and folkish, avant-garde and traditional, Marc Chagall’s ability to capture the...
by Jeanne Willette | Nov 11, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Marc Chagall in Moscow The Murals for the Jewish Theater To the end of his life, Marc Chagall remained circumspect about his ouster from the People’s Art School in Vitebsk. And the coup against the artist was no small event. Chagall had been appointed by none...
by Jeanne Willette | Nov 4, 2016 | Modern
Marc Chagall and the Revolution Vitebsk as an Art Center, Part Two A quiet and gentle man who loved his wife and cared for his family, especially his newly arrived daughter, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was an unlikely revolutionary. In fact, his position was not unlike...
by Jeanne Willette | Oct 28, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Marc Chagall and the War Vitebsk as an Art Center, Part One The fable that the Jews stabbed Germany in the back during the Great War began early, put forward by those who could not comprehend that the German army had lost the Battle of the Marne in 1914. This, the...
by Jeanne Willette | Oct 21, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
The Avant-Garde Artists and The Great War Popular Culture While it is undoubtedly true that the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was somewhat responsible for the next war, the Second World War, it is also true that the First World War put an end not just to some empires...
by Jeanne Willette | Oct 14, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Futurism in Transition From War to Fascism The Great War did not go well for the Italians. Aside from the enthusiastic Futurists and their nationalist sympathizers, such as Benito Mussolini, most Italians regarded the war with wary eyes. The nation had to be bribed...
by Jeanne Willette | Oct 7, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Futurism in Transition From War to Fascism Although in the histories of the Great War, Italy is usually written of as a “minor power,” or a minor player in the larger structure of the War. The nation was a latecomer to the conflict and had limited goals....
by Jeanne Willette | Sep 30, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Italy at War The Futurists Fall When Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (1876-1944) called for “war” in his famous Futurist Manifesto of 1909, he was not asking for actual war, as in clashes between nations. The poet was demanding a rebellion against the...
by Jeanne Willette | Sep 23, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
French Visual Culture and The Great War Painting War One of the oddities of the French response of the French to the Great War was that the visual reaction was in large part one of a barrage of popular culture. While the British, English, Irish, Scottish, produced a...
by Jeanne Willette | Sep 16, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Modernity and Military Painting François Flameng It is one of the ironies of the first modern war that the oldest of artists painted the newest of things–the first airplanes that flew combat missions in the Great War. French academic artist François Flameng...
by Jeanne Willette | Sep 9, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
French Artists at War Fernand Léger: A Case Study Equipped only with an inadequate and dysfunctional language inherited from a mouldering nineteenth century, artists were forced to contend with a War like no other. The assumption might be that only the young, only...
by Jeanne Willette | Sep 2, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
The Great War and the Movies Propaganda and Mass Media The Crimean War (1852-1856) taught the British government a very useful lesson: in case of war, censor. One of the famous thorns in the side of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, William Howard Russell (1821-1907)...
by Jeanne Willette | Aug 26, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Sir David Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) The First Official War Artist It is one of the ironies of British military history that Wellington House decided to take two steps that would change the way in which the Great War was depicted for the public in the fateful summer of...
by Jeanne Willette | Aug 19, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Sir David Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) The First Official War Artist The Great War posed unique challenges to artists, especially those born deep in the nineteenth century and trained in its artistic techniques and standards. Mature and distinguished by the time the War...
by Jeanne Willette | Aug 12, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Georges Braque Post-War Return to Cubism The question both during and after the Great War was the fate of Cubism. The forward thrust of the pre-war avant-garde in Paris was abruptly halted by what Barbara Tuchman called “The Guns of August.” Conflict and...
by Jeanne Willette | Aug 5, 2016 | Modern
George Braque at War Recovering from War On August 3rd, 1914, Germany declared war on France and, oddly enough, France never declared war on Germany. The last days of July and the first days of August were like tumbling dice, with the Russians starting the roll of...
by Jeanne Willette | Jul 29, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Matisse at War The Dark Period, Part Two The Great War proved to be an important transition for Henri Matisse (1869-1954), out of Fauvism, an excursion into Cubism, a walk through dark despair and, finally, a breakthrough into the sun. For any artist, finding the next...
by Jeanne Willette | Jul 22, 2016 | Modern, Modern Art
Matisse at War The Dark Period, Part One In the narrow confines of the world of the Parisian avant-garde, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) were well known rivals for the affections of art dealers and art collectors alike. Both were associated...
by Jeanne Willette | Jul 15, 2016 | Modern
Making Parade. Ballet réaliste (1917) Pablo Picasso during the Great War Part Two When Guillaume Apollinaire (1888-1918) scribbled the word, “Surrealism” on his program for the new ballet, Parade (1917), on May 18, 1917, he added a new word to the art...
by Jeanne Willette | Jul 15, 2016 | Reviews
Devout (2016) Produced by Avonbiel A Fine Art Documentary Penetrating deep into the Caucasus mountains and remote villages of Georgia, film auteur James Higginson takes the viewer on a journey into a land that is remote and undeveloped, a place where one can find God....
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