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Rise of Modernism
Vassily Kandinsky. Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons). 1913.
Kandinsky is the first artist to create a completely abstract painting
Vassily Kandinsky. Composition No. 8. 1923.
Synesthesia = sensation felt in one part of the body when another part is stimulated
"Color
is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.
The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations
in the soul." - Vassily Kandinsky
Abstraction
Constantin Brancusi. Magic Bird. 1908 - 12.
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Constantin
Brancusi. Sleep. 1908.
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Constantin
Brancusi. Sleeping Muse. 1909 - 1911.
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Constantin
Brancusi. The Newborn. 1915.
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Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
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Essence =
that which makes something what it is; intrinsic, fundamental nature or
most important quality
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"Simplicity
is not a means to an end in art, but one arrives at simplicity in spite
of oneself, in approaching the real sense of things." -Brancusi
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Constantin
Brancusi. Bird in Space. 1928?
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Pablo Picasso. Self-Portrait. 1901.
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.
"The first truly twentieth-century painting"
"You may give all the
explanations you like, but your painting makes one feel as if you were
trying
to make us eat cotton waste and wash it down with kerosene." Georges
Braque
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Bakota
Funerary Figure. French Equatorial Africa. Probably 20th century.
Etoumbi Mask. French Congo.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh
ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
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Edmond
Fortier. Type of Women, West Africa. 1906.
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000. |
Cubism
1908
- 1914
Georges Braque. Violin and Palette. 1909 - 10.
Georges Braque. Houses at L'Estaque. 1908.
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Basic
objectives of Cubism:
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To
depict three dimensional forms from all sides at once
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To
show objects as the mind, rather than the eye perceives them
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Pablo Picasso. Ma Jolie. 1911 - 12.
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Two
phases of Cubism:
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| Analytic Cubism | analyzes the form of an object by shattering it into fragments that are spread out onto the canvas |
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Synthetic
Cubism
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involves
a process of building up and synthesizing unrelated bits and pieces
to create a unified form
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Pablo Picasso.
Still Life with Chair Caning. 1911 - 12.
Richard
G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
(Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996) Tenth ed., 1049.
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Analytic
Cubism
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Synthetic
Cubism
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Georges
Braque. The Portuguese. 1911.
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Pablo
Picasso. The Violin. 1913.
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Richard
G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the
Ages. (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996)
Tenth ed., 1049.
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Pablo Picasso.
Guitar. 1912 - 1913. Sheet metal and wire.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick
Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River,
NJ, 2002.
Assemblage
= sculpture using preexisting, sometimes found objects
that may or may not contribute their original identities to the total
content of the work
Futurism
1909
- 1918
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Futurists
expanded Cubists concepts of simultaneity of vision and
metamorphosis by adding
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Sense
of movement/ speed
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Multiplication
of images
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Appreciation
of the machine
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Giacomo
Balla. Abstract Speed the Car Has Passed. 1913.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Umberto Boccioni. States of Mind: The Farewells. 1911.
Thomas Eakins.
Man Pole Vaulting. 1884.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed.
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave
Umberto Boccioni.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed.
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Sonia Delaunay.
Bal Bullier. 1913. Oil on mattress ticking.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed.
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.