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Cover of Thirty Thousand Years of Western Art, Season 2: The Modern Revolution
Thirty Thousand Years of Western Art, Season 2: The Modern Revolution
From here, art became unapologetically “ugly”
Completed · 50 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. The Classical Painting Hanging in a Concrete Building Looked Like a Stain 1. An Arts and Crafts Movement Born of Love: Curves, Morris, and the Hôtel Tassel 2. Gaudí and the Spanish Soul: Casa Milà, the Sagrada Família, and Barcelona 3. Industrial Design Aimed at Utility: Straight Lines, Chairs, and the Eiffel Tower 4. Farewell to Beautiful Angels and Venuses: Courbet Fires Realism's First Shot 5. Returning Painting to Painting: Manet's Alternative Bias about Realism 6. Going Outdoors to Capture Light and Color: Impressionism Born under Artistic “Political Correctness” 7. Delighting in Nature, Answering the Times: How Anonymous Impressionists Became Famous 8. Erasing Tradition and Offending the Noble: Impressionism Chosen by Its Era 9. The Exit of Classical Composition: Degas's “Snapshots of the Square” and the Expression of the Instant 10. Western Art Turns Personal: Seurat's Sense of Order and Whistler's Musicality 11. Rebuilding Pictorial Structure with Color: Cézanne's Modernist Revolution 12. Beloved Van Gogh: Passionate Color, Faithful unto Death 13. The Moon and Sixpence: Spirituality and Civilizational Reflection in Gauguin's Painting 14. Ideals, Dreams, and the Netherworld: Subjective Rebellion in Symbolism 15. A New Way to Make Images: Photography's Revolution against Art's Permanence 16. “Art for Art's Sake”: The Museum and the Structural Transformation of Art 17. The “Fauvism” Painted by a “Madman”: Matisse's Pure Color and Explosive Expression 18. Picasso's Spiritual Position: The Birth of Cubism and the Final Exit of Beauty and Harmony 19. Picasso's Creative Mind: Unrestrained, Torchlike Vitality 20. Beyond “Masters” and “Styles”: Free Paris and the “Mother of Modern Art” Who Transcended Gender 21. The Birth of the “Box”: A Modern Architectural Language of Steel, Glass, Logic, and Reason 22. An “Aggressive” Aesthetic: Futurism's Hymn to Machine Civilization 23. The Troubled Fate of the Russian Avant-Garde: Tatlin's “Absolute Art” and Malevich's Earth-Free Abstraction 24. Kandinsky, “Father of Pure Abstraction”: Beautiful Abstraction Painting the Inner World 25. Greatness Born from Ruins: The Bauhaus's Troubled Fate and Enduring Spirit 26. Dutch De Stijl: Rational Beauty amid Fields, Canals, and the Red and Blue Chair 27. Mondrian's Pure Spirit: Cosmic Order and Stillness in “Cold Abstraction” 28. Modern Sculpture's Journey into Abstraction: A Steady Mind Finds Its Place in Civilization 29. Expressionism Crying Out Loud: Pain, Pessimism, and a Scream from Hell 30. Destroy! Dada's Age of Shame and Defiant Reflection amid Civilization's Collapse 31. Babble, Dreams, the Unconscious, and Poetry: Surrealism Paints beneath the Iceberg 32. Dalí's Fantastic World: Better to Mock the World with Burning Extravagance 33. Magritte's Murder of Logic and Miró's Childlike Joy: Collapsed Reason, Dislocated Logic, and Happy Doodles 34. When Art Flew to Virgin Soil: American Modernism Sprouts amid Resistance, Depression, and the New Deal 35. An “Achilles Column” Supporting the Spiritual Universe: Fading Paris and Dazzling, Free America 36. Lower Manhattan beyond 34th Street: A “Drunken Underachiever” Whose Fate Democracy Changed 37. Primal Force from the Western Wasteland: Pollock's Explosive Revolution and the Passing of Europe's Age 38. Heroic Expression, American Style: Abstract Expressionism's Outpouring of Power 39. Dear Ms. Guggenheim: Art's Undimmed Light and Life's Enduring Pain 40. Goodbye, Gilt and Glass: Pop Art Falls to Earth and Laughs Out Loud 41. “Absurd Monuments” in a Material Paradise: Giant, Inflated, Spectacular American Pop 42. Anti-Abstraction Moves toward Destruction and Blood: “Grab Art by the Hair and Punch It in the Face” 43. Modernity's Finale: When Art No Longer Thrills 44. Becoming the Classical's “Mirror Image”: Modern Art out of Step with Its Time, a Collective Project Brought to Completion 45. It No Longer Narrates Pain: Modern Art Trapped by Theory and Power 46. The End of Art: As Linear Thinking Shatters, the Contemporary Arrives Singing Bonus | The Historical Truth behind the “Art Conspiracy”: Did Abstract Expressionism Alarm the CIA?