ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


Contextualization Videos 5 videos

AP European History 2.2 Period 1: 1450-1648
61 Views

AP European History 2.2 Period 1: 1450-1648. The man portrayed in the image was previously motivated to tack the Ninety-five Theses on the doo...

AP European History 1.2 Period 2: 1648-1815
35 Views

AP European History 1.2 Period 2: 1648-1815. Which best describes the state of nature as highlighted in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes?

AP European History 1.5 Period 2: 1648-1815
22 Views

We know how much you hate rules of any kind, but it's time to consider what effect the absolute rule of European monarchs had on their society. The...

See All

AP European History 2.1 Period 3: 1815-1914 197 Views


Share It!


Description:

AP European History Period 3: 1815-1914 Drill 2, Period 1, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon  represented the beginning of which of the following art movements?

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:03

Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Pablo Picasso

00:06

star of shmoop's new hit game show painted by Picasso or a random six-year-old [Man pointing to a game show board for Painted by Picasso]

00:12

we'll get someone to play with us one of these days all right I'll take a look at

00:18

the image right there not by a six-year-old here's the question Les

00:22

Demoiselles d'Avignon represented the beginning of which of the following art [Le Demoiselles d'Avignon painting]

00:27

movements and here your potential answers [mumbling]

00:31

Oh we forgot to add E) weirdism and F) creepyism but those would

00:38

all be way too obvious so let's just stick with the original form instead of

00:42

trying to work out the answer by looking at the art because well we need a break [Woman in art picture staring]

00:45

from the freaky stare coming at us from the squatting creeper there in the

00:49

corner let's use the date as a starting point if Pablo painted this in 1907

00:54

would that date fit with the timeline for A) futurism? Well, not quite seeing as

00:59

futurism and art movements that played with new advances in digital technology [men delighted with a TV]

01:04

didn't come out until about well 1909 and we know what you're thinking digital

01:08

technology in 1909 but err well people we're not talking about adobe photoshop

01:13

and macbooks here in this context we mean that the art was a commentary on [People looking at paintings]

01:17

new advancements like the car and the airplanes which is for the better really

01:22

because we'd hate to have seen Picasso's brilliant brushstrokes being replaced [Painting of a Picasso's image]

01:26

with a much more convenient and just as lazy.. brushstrokes photoshop filter

01:31

there yep, we use it here at shmoop all the time. Impressionism doesn't fit

01:34

timeline either seeing as it was prominent in the 1870s and 1880s well

01:39

before this work was even started impressionist artists communicated their [Claude discussing the brush stroke]

01:43

perspective on the mundane through their work painting images of natural

01:47

landscapes, daily life and portraits of your third period history teacher like [History teacher unimpressed holding a ruler]

01:52

that Fauvism was a short-lived art movement that lasted from 1904 to 1908

01:58

which yep, fits the dates for this painting it also emphasized strong color

02:03

and unrealistic values which also might sound accurate however when we say [Colorful painting and girl appears]

02:08

strong color we mean strong like Dwayne the rock Johnson

02:12

these colors make Picasso colors look well Michael Cera strong in comparison [Dwayne Johnson and Michael Cera together]

02:17

not our answer Picasso's surreal dissonant and fantastical art marked the

02:22

period of modernism that was popular throughout the late nineteenth and early [

02:27

twentieth centuries. Its best associated with art where traditions were thrown [Man painting]

02:31

out the window in exchange for experimentation which definitely

02:34

describes this painting now Pablo maybe next time you could experiment with

02:38

something a little less terrifying you know like a nice portrait of an

02:42

absolutely horrifying weeping woman great just great glad you're taking your [A painting of a weeping woman]

02:46

public's notes to heart.

Related Videos

AP European History 1.1 Period 4: 1914-Present
40 Views

AP European History 1.1 Period 4: 1914-Present. A person who supported actions such as the one shown in the image would have supported The Final So...

AP European History 2.1 Period 1: 1450-1648
286 Views

AP European History Period 1: 1450-1648 Drill 2, Problem 1. As a result of the meeting in the image, which of the following occurred?

AP European History 2.4 Period 3: 1815-1914
77 Views

AP European History Period 3: 1815-1914 Drill 2, Problem 4. Paintings like the one depicted above were a direct reflection of what?

AP European History 1.2 Period 4: 1914-Present
60 Views

AP European History 1.2 Period 4: 1914-Present Not long before this picture was taken, Hitler rose to power and ruled by decree alone due to which...

AP European History 1.4 Period 3: 1815-1914
32 Views

AP European History 1.4 Period 3: 1815-1914. As evidenced through the passage above, Karl Marx was a passionate leader and is considered the father...