art in transition from the late 1800 to the years between the two world wars

Art in Transition

From the late 1800 to the years between the two World Wars

The Second of May, 1808: the Charge of the Mamelukes. Francisco de Goya, 1814

Guernica. Pablo Picasso, 1937.

The Dance Class. Edgar Degas, 1873-1876.

The Dance (first version). Henri Matisse, 1909.

Trevi Fountain, Rome, finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini

Fountain. Marcel Duchamp, 1917.

Ezra Pound photographed in 1913 at age 28 by Alvin Langdon Coburn

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.

Ezra Pound (1913)

A Girl

The tree has entered my hands,The sap has ascended my arms,The tree has grown in my breast -Downward,The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Tree you are,Moss you are,You are violets with wind above them.A child - so high - you are,And all this is folly to the world.

And the days are not full enough

And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Meditatio When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogsI am compelled to concludeThat man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of manI confess, my friend, I am puzzled.