.003 - 1910 to 1950
Entry three gets combined with entry five, right? One museum trip.
Between 1910 and 1950 came a lot of works I can come up right off the top of my head like the description about
The Scream in the last post. All memory! ...Though I hate about 90% of them. Loathe. They're terrible. Half the things look like something I'd doodle in my notebook. At age 4. What
art-art was then-- and I mean paintings specifically are horrible.
One exception that I enjoy and the one I immediately thought of seeing the period in the assignment was of Salvador Dali's
Persistence of Memory. A really odd name for the painting, I think -- as people that usually aren't familiar with any art know it as 'that one painting with the melting clocks' and saying the name of it at them might have them thinking there would be a painting of a brain or something.
I first found it out because there was a Loony Tunes cartoon where the imagery of it was used. And knowing me, you'd get I'm pretty fond of cartoons and interested in where they get their ideas for things.
Besides the fond memories of cartoons, the painting itself is phenomenal in my opinion. I once read somewhere that Dali was thinking of the theory of relativity when he painted it? ...But I'm not sure how true that is. It's in this Art History book I have that he based the clocks on some kind of cheese. In any case, it's a very meaningful piece though the meaning might be different for people looking at it. I think the name of it along with the melting clocks and the ants actually represents the passing of time. Time goes on, you start forgetting things, and then death.
Now to save one a horrible rant about how much I hate soup cans (though because cans are art anything I say after this is now also art)
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What I consider actual art from this period is things from The Golden Age of Animation. This came into being. The first feature-length animated film... animation in general.
Walt Disney came along between this time period and I could go on about him for hours. Hours and hours. Unless you've played the recent Mickey Mouse game for the Wii -- most aren't aware Mickey Mouse came into being because Walt lost the rights to an anthropomorphic rabbit by the name of Oswald. Thank Universal for their fine print contracts for that one, world!
Don't forget about Warner Bros. Their first cartoon
Sinkin' in the Bathtub(click it to watch!) from 1930. It follows Bosko through a little adventure after some gags in a bathtub. Bosko became the first reoccurring character-- staring in over 3 dozen shorts after that one. His design was based off of Felix the Cat but since he resembled a blackface of the time he ended up being a boy. ....A little racist, yeah but it's important for the period. Disney and Warner Bros cartoons then were on par with animation but Warner Bros had a budget of about $6000 per cartoon and Disney spent $10,000.
Cartoons were groundbreaking and important for the art world, the film industry, and my brain. The above Porkey Pig cartoon that got me interested in Dali?
Dough for the Do-Do is from 1949. Animation is very very relevant.
Also relevant? Comic books. Most superheroes originated from this period-- and that's art but I've already used up my wordpage so I won't get too into it.
