Andy's Corner: Two Avant-Garde Groups and Movenments

Der Blauer Reiter:

It was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany.
Der Blaue Reiter was a movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke which was founded the previous decade in 1905.
The name of the movement is the title of a painting that Kandinsky created in 1903, but it is unclear whether it is the origin of the name of the movement as professor Klaus Lankheit found out that the title of the painting had been overwritten. Kandinsky wrote 20 year later that the name is derived from Marc's enthusiasm for horses and Kandinsky's love of riders, combined with both love of the colour blue. For Kandinsky, blue is the colour of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal.
Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order.

Die Brücke:

Dadaism:

It is a cultural movement that bagan in Switzerland during World War I
From 1916 to 1922
The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature-poetry, art manifestos and graphic design.
The theme of Dadaism is anti-war and anti-art
Three representatives: Tristan Tzara, Mercel Dunchamp and George Grosz.

Pop Art:

It is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the later 1950s in the United States
It presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.
Three representatives: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters.

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