Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Art
Movements
- Renaissance
13th - 14th C AD
Anmerkungen:
- - Early Renaissance
- High Renaissance
- Baroque
1600s - 1700s
Anmerkungen:
- - Theatrical emotion
- Concept of time
- Dynamic/diagonal composition
- Ornamentation
- Rich primary colors
- Painterly
- Dramatic lighting
- Landscapes
- Still life
- Portraits
- Rococo
17th C
Anmerkungen:
- - Gentle gradations, mingling of colors
- Light, delicate, feminine tastes
- Frivolous, excessive
- Shell motifs
- The rich and their leisure
- Courting couples
- Pastorals
- Painting/decorative arts/interior design
- Neoclassicism
17th - 19 C
Anmerkungen:
- -Reaction against Baroque's excessive movement and life
- Reaction against Rococo's Ornamentation and asymmetry
- Emphasis on lines, order, symmetry, solemnity, rationality
-Line drawing as purest classical medum
- Romanticism
1800 - 1850
Anmerkungen:
- - "Freedom in art, freedom in society; this is the double aim" -Victor Hugo
- "Artist's feeling is his law"
- "A painter should paint not only what he sees before him but what he sees in him" -Friedrich
- Realism
1850 - 1870
- Gustave Courbet
- LJM Daguerrre
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Failure of Industrial Revolution
- Invention of photography
- Eugene
Delacroix
- Liberty Leading
the People (1830)
Anmerkungen:
- - Commemorating the July Revolution of 1880 that toppled Charles X
-Woman personifies Liberty
- Francisco Goya
Anmerkungen:
- - Spanish mainter
- 1792/3 onwards he was deaf. Withdrawn, intropective
- Disasters of
War (1810 - 20)
Anmerkungen:
- Series of prints from etchings/aquatint
- Saturn Devouring
His Son
Anmerkungen:
- - 1819 - 1823 Black Paintings series
- Not meant for public display
- Precursor expressionism
- Isolated himself: House of the Deaf Man
- Time as devourer
- Fatherland consuming children
- The Family of
Charles IV
(1800)
Anmerkungen:
- - Retarded expressions
- Mocking royalty
- Deviate attention from King
- Self-insertion
- The Third of
May, 1808
(1814)
Anmerkungen:
- - Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808 Peninsular War
- Resemblance to Christ
- Inhuman adversary
- Rawness
-Church in background: no salvation
- Theodore
Gericault
- The Raft of
Medusa
(1819)
Anmerkungen:
- - Large-scale painting of men who were not heroes
- Political allegory of France: Whole society on a raft
- Pyramidal composition
- Context
- Counter Enlightenment
Anmerkungen:
- - Senses > Reason/Intellect
- Against the rationalisation of nature
- Industrial Revolution as corrupt
Anmerkungen:
- -Rapid rise in population
- Civillisation as corrupt and eroding morals
- Human innocence/freedom/happiness threatened
- Nature as being of beauty/innocence/virtue
- Liberty, equality, fraternity
Anmerkungen:
- - Inequalities and injustices of society
- Individual > society
- Originality/Experimentation
- Intuition/inner reality
- Wilderness, expression
- JMW Turner
Anmerkungen:
- - Dramatic landscapes
- Turbulent and fantastic scenery
- Feeling of the sublime
- "Colour is released from any defining outlines in order to express the forces of nature, as well as the painter's emotional response to them"
- The Slave
Ship (1840)
- Rain, Steam and Speed:
The Great Western
Railway (1844)
- John Constable
Anmerkungen:
- - Naturalistic landscapes
- Closely observed tranquil nature
- Religious reverence for landscape
- Counteract industrialisation and urbanisation
- The Corn
Field (1826)
- The Haywain
(1821)
- Ingres
- Grand Odalisque (1814)
- The Turkish Bath (1862)
- Firmness of outline
- "Drawing is 7/8 of what makes up painting"
- "Paint should be as smooth as the skin of an onion"
- Jacques-Louis
David
Anmerkungen:
- -Actively supported French Revolution
- Propaganda art
- Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Anmerkungen:
- -Story from pre-republican Rome
- Three bros going to battle, one of the women engaged one of the men they were going to fight
- Death of
Marat
(1793)
Anmerkungen:
- - Revolutionary stabbed to death in his bathtub
- Pain and outrage
-Directness with detail
- Political martyr
- Napoleon
Crossing the St
Bernard (1800)
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- -Monarchy represented an irresponsible way of life
- Clamour for equality and freedom
- Art against wasteful living
- Purpose: Serve the nation, inspire civic virtues
- After French
Revolution
- Napoleon
dictatorship for
next 15 years
Anmerkungen:
- Moral revolution
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Need for spontaneity and novelty
- Demands for freedom from academic restrictions
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Rise of opera
- Reaction to overly scientific painting, injection of emotion
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Secularization
- Scientific advancement
- Rise of Humanism
- Oil paints
- Subject Matter
- Greek/Roman revival
- Biblical themes
- History
- Allegories
- Mythology
- Characteristics
- Realistic perspective, central axis composition
- Manipulation of light and dark
- Atmospheric perspective
- Accurate anatomy
- Reason and order
- MODERNISM
- Impressionism
1862 - 1868
Anmerkungen:
- - Outdoor scenes
- Everyday life
- Nature's fleeting moment
- Immediate sensations of light
- Sensory impressions
- Calling attention to painting surface (impasto)
- Focus on formal element instead of subject matter paved the way for abstraction
- Post-Impressionism
1880 - 1905
Anmerkungen:
- - Anti-bourgeois movement
1.) Focus on design/structure
- Recovered art's symbolic spiritual/emotional meaning
-Formal, near-scientific
2.) Expression through color- Refusal to imitate nature
- Symbolism
1880s
Anmerkungen:
- - Forerunner of Surrealism
- Saw Realism as trivial
- Optical world rejected
- Exploration of feeling, fantasy, dream, imagination
- Mysterious, sensuous subjects
- Not to see, but to see through
- Deeper significance
- Signs and symbols
- Synthesis of form and feeling, of realiity and subjectivity
- Fauvism
1904 - 1909
Anmerkungen:
- - Fauves: Wild beasts - applied by critic Louis Vauxcelles
- Explosive/aggressive colours
- Broad brushwork
- Falls under bigger category of expressionism, along with German expressionism and Abstract expressionism
- Expressionism
1905 - 1930
Anmerkungen:
- - German expressionism
- Importance of self-expression
- Cubism
1907 - 1914
Anmerkungen:
- - Every aspect of a whole subject, seen simultaneously in a single dimension
- Breaking down subjects into facet
- 2 Phases: analytical and synthetic cubism
- Futurism
1910 - 1930
Anmerkungen:
- - Developed among 5 Italian artists
- Eg: Boccioni, Marinetti, Balla, Severini
- 1911 Manifesto
- "All subjects previously used must be swept aside in order to express our whirling life of steel, of pride, of fever, and of speed"
- Cubism sped up, haha
- Most radical and violent movement of its time
- "We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness"
- "Standing on the world's summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!"
- Dada
1916 - 1930
Anmerkungen:
- - Anti-art movement
- Dematerialisation of art: Art existing as an IDEA- Began in New York and Zurich independently- "Cubism was a school of painting, futurism a political movement: DADA is a state of mind." -Andre Breton- "But the real Dadas are against Dada" -Tristan Tzara- Self destructed in a form of meta-irony- Nihilistic- Noise music, nonsense poems, random chance, readymades
- De Stijl
1917 - 1931
Anmerkungen:
- - Founded in the Netherlands in 1917
- Post WWI was a time of balance petween individual and universal values
- Total integration between art and life
- Surrealism
1924 - 1940)
Anmerkungen:
- - Founded by French writer Andre Breton
- Influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis
- Stressed the value of memories and unconscious experiences
- Importance of dreams and reaching them using free association
- Superior reality
- Abstract
Expressionism
1940s
Anmerkungen:
- - Image is created through the action of painting rather than abstracting the image from real objects
- Henceforth, shift of artistic capital to America
- Pop Art
1950 - 1970
Anmerkungen:
- - Art no longer isolated from consumer-oriented imagery
- portrayal of contemporary experience
- Derived from Dada
- Pop culture
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Reaction against Abstract Expressionism's inaccessibility/incomprehensibility and elitism
- Celebration of post-war consumerism, but at the same time a critique through irony
- Richard Hamilton
Anmerkungen:
- - Declared that Pop Art shoudl be:
- Designed for a mass audience- Transient
- Expendable (short term and easily forgotten)
- Low cost, mass-produced
- Witty, sexy, glamorous
- Just what is it
that makes
today's
homes so
different, so
appealing?
(1956)
- Jasper Johns
- Flag (1954 - 55)
- Target
with
Four
Faces
(1955)
- Robert
Rauschenberg
- Monogram (1959)
Anmerkungen:
- - "Combines"
- stuffed Angora goat
- snout is covered in multicolored war paint
- standing on a painting as if grazing at a pasture.
- tire tread painted white
- paintings on the canvas plus newspaper clippings, fragments of wooden signs, shoe sole, police barrier.
- dingy tennis ball behind goat: it shat the painting
- natural vs industrial
- goat as a symbol of the damned; artist was bisexual
- Retroactive
I (1963)
Anmerkungen:
- - Mass media images
- Commentary on society using the very images that created that society
- Commercially-prepared photographic silk screens
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Masterpiece
(1962)
Anmerkungen:
- Whaam!
(1963)
Anmerkungen:
- - Sensationalization, trivialization
- Dispassionate
- "One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanized and removed style"
- Claes Oldenburg
- Soft Toilet (1966)
- Dropped Cone
(2001)
- Andy Warhol
Anmerkungen:
- - "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"
- Successful commercial artist. Shoe illustrator.
- Use of silkscreen
- Liked mechanical repetition and wanted to be a machine himself
- made a cult of being boring and banal and superficial
- "Just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it"
- Called his studio 'The Factory'. Open-door.
- Four Marilyns
(1962)
Anmerkungen:
- - Bad registration
- Reveals the process
- Construction of image, both the print and marilyn's public profile
- Death and the cult of celebrity
- Repeated image: ubiquitous presence in the media
- Queen
Elizabeth II of
the United
Kingdom (1985)
Anmerkungen:
- - Series of "Reigning Queens"
- Based on a photograph taken for her Silver Jubilee in 1977
- Presents her as iconic and overly glamorous
- Suggests stylized makeup of a Hollywood star; cult of celebrity
- Color field painting
Anmerkungen:
- - "Cold" abstraction
- Flat areas or fields of color to induce contemplation
- Mystic intensity
- Psychological use of color
- Large scale
- Mark Rothko
Anmerkungen:
- - Completely abstract, soft-edge blocks of intense color floating against lighter/darker background
- Color blocks occupy an ambiguous spatial zone
- Color to stimulate emotional reaction in viewer
- Invite contemplation and meditation
- Orange and
Yellow (1956)
- Ad Reinhart
- Black Painting
No. 34 (1964)
Anmerkungen:
- - Perfect surface extremely delicate and fragile
- Physical contact leaves permanent marks
- Symbol of purity in a corrupt world
- Pushed abstraction to the maximum in color and form
- Illusion of unstroked surface
- Siphoned off the oil in the paint to create a matte texture
-
- Barnett
Newman
- Adam
(1951 - 52)
Anmerkungen:
- - ‘Adam’: derived from the Hebrew word adamah (earth), but is also linked with adom (red) and dam (blood) -> man's intimacy with earth
- Line represents man, who walks upright
- Line also represents the void and separation between man and god
- Action Painting
Anmerkungen:
- Active process and energy of making art
- Physical action of painting is not only the means but the end to express subconscious being
- Painting as a proces of self discovery
- "action painting" coined by critic Harold Rosenberg
- "What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event" - Rosenberg
- Overall style
Anmerkungen:
- - Fluid network of ense, interlacing lines
- Surging complex visual rhythms
- Avoided points of emphasis or identifiable parts. No centre of interest or sense of boundary
- No distinction between painting and drawing
- Final composition sometimes cut out of larger canvas
- Abandoned traditional compositions and relations among parts
- Jackson Pollock
Anmerkungen:
- - Liked cowboys
- Was an alcoholic
- Died in drunken car crash
- Grew up in Wyoming, moved to New York and was influenced by muralists/indian sand painting
- (Influenced scale of paintings)
- Painted without planning, embraced accidents
- Bird (1941)
Anmerkungen:
- - Influence of african sand painting and primitivism
- Circumcision
(1946)
Anmerkungen:
- - Focal point no longer present
- Central focus has been multiplied and decentralized
- Fragmented
- The
Moon
Woman
(1942)
Anmerkungen:
- - Compare with Picasso's "Girl Before A Mirror"
- Frontal + side view of face: Duality
- Composition
With Pouring
(1943)
Anmerkungen:
- - Layering of paint explored
- Eyes in the
Heat (1946)
Anmerkungen:
- - First time not using brush
- Pushed paint around with sticks
- Autumn Rhythm:
No. 30 (1950)
Anmerkungen:
- Blue Poles (1952)
Anmerkungen:
- - Poles reintroduce the conventional notion of figure and ground into his work, but without making any concession to traditional concepts of perspective
- Willem de Kooning
Anmerkungen:
- - Inspiration from visual perception and themes from the everyday world
- Bridged the gap of traditional figure painting to modern abstraction
- Direct, vigorous brushwork
- Impulsiveness and spontaneity
- Dense, compressed forms, sometimes abstract
- Seated Figure
(Classic Male)
(1940)
Anmerkungen:
- - Was influenced by Picasso
- influenced Francis Bacon
- Attempt to merge fore- and background
- Pink Angels
(1945)
- Excavation
(1950)
Anmerkungen:
- - SUbject matter is a rice field and workers
- Process: Always drawing and removing (scraping)
- One plane, no focal point
- organization of space into loose, sliding planes with open contours.
- tension between figuration and abstraction
- Woman I
(1950 - 52)
Anmerkungen:
- - Response to American objectification of women as billboard models
- Reminder that women are capable of destruction
- Untitled
(1958)
- Villa Borghese
(1960)
Anmerkungen:
- Franz Kline
Anmerkungen:
- - Gestural strokes in black and white
- SImilar to oriental calligraphy
- Abstract New York city scapes
- Transformation of New York during hte 1950s - torn down and rebuilt
- Work resembled scaffolding and high-rise buildings during construction
- Painting Number 2
(1954)
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Response to WWI
- Just like Dada
- Most Dadaists migrated to Surrealism
- Naturalistic Surrealism
Anmerkungen:
- - Dealt with recognizable scenes that metamorphosed into dream/nightmare
- Giorgio de Chirico
Anmerkungen:
- - Interested in Nietzche's writings (hidden reality revealed through strange juxtapositions)
- Metaphysical painting: the otherworldly, enigmatic
-Eerily still
- References to Classical past
- The Song
of Love
(1914)
Anmerkungen:
- - Colors of the italian flag
- Superiority of the old in face of the new
- Melancholy and
Mystery of a
Street (1914)
- Max Ernst
Anmerkungen:
- - FROTTAGE: First form of visual automatism
- Collage from magazines- French for 'rubbing'- Shading paper with pencil over textured surface
- GRATTAGE: scraping
- Paint layer on canvas, laid over textured object, the scraped over
- COULAGE: Pouring molten material into cold water
- OSCILLATION: Tin of paint on a swinging rope
- Two Children
are Threatened
by a Nightingale
(1924)
Anmerkungen:
- - Ernst experienced a hallucination where the wood grain on a panel took on "successively the aspect of an eye, a nose, a bird's head, a menacing nightingale, a spinning top, and so on"
- The Eye of
Silence
(1943 - 44)
Anmerkungen:
- - Experimented with the texture of the picture surface, leaving surface effects to chance
- Salvador Dali
Anmerkungen:
- - Aim: To project the world of dreams as convincingly as possible
- Spanish
- From childhood was subjected to hallucinations and acts of sudden/uncontrollable violence
EARLY INFLUENCES: Studied how to prepresent objects in space and light with utmost precision
- Futurism: Time and space as one, taste for organic distortion as a process of growth
- De Chirico's endless space, use of light for psychological reasons, and trompe l'oeil details
- PARANOID CRITICAL METHOD:
- Technique invokes paranoid state to harness the brain's ability to perceive links between irrational things
- Ambiguous images to be interpreted in several ways
- The
Metamorphosis
of Narcissus
(1936 - 37)
Anmerkungen:
- - Can be seen as both a giant figure and giant hand
- Sleep (1939)
Anmerkungen:
- - "I have often imagined the monster of sleep as a heavy, giant head with a tapering body held up by the crutches of reality. When the crutches break we have the sensation of falling"
- 'falling sensation' as a memory of the expulsion from the womb at birth
- Animated Still
Life (1956)
Anmerkungen:
- - Overturns the central notion of a still life painting
- Probably derived idea from Atomicus photo
- Influence of Magritte
- Crucifixion
(1954)
- Rene Magritte
Anmerkungen:
- - Began as commercial artist designing wallpapers and fashion ads
- Used mastery of realism to defy logic in his Surrealist work
- Juxtaposition of man-made and natural objects, and between words and images
- Disturbing ambiguity- "Like the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table"
- Exploited discrepancies of scale and gravity
- The Human
Condition
(1934)
Anmerkungen:
- - Canvas has a picture of what we assume to be the view
- Pun: Paintings as 'window' to reality
- Painted realistically: Is the landscape real or painted?
- "This is how we see the world: as being outside ourselves, even though it is only a mental picture of what we experience inside ourselves"
- The Treachery
of Images
(1928 - 29)
Anmerkungen:
- - Comment on human tendency to label everything
- Mimics advertising
- Not to be
Reproduced (1937)
- The Golconda
(1953)
Anmerkungen:
- - Wallpaper-like patterning
- Windows cut off abruptly
- Figures not exactly identical
- Biomorphic Surrealism
Anmerkungen:
- - Automatism, free association
- Eliminate conscious control
- Close to abstraction
- Joan Miro
Anmerkungen:
- - The first to create imagery using automatic techniques in which forms seemed to emerge directly from the unconscious
- Organic imagery, weird and disturbing humor
- Man and Woman
in Front of a Pile
of Excrement
(1935)
Anmerkungen:
- -Impossible embrace
-apocalyptic sky
- Paul Klee
- The Twittering
Machine
(1922)
- Context
- New art a New
Society: utopian ideals
Anmerkungen:
- - Non-objective art as the new post-war ideal
- Theosophy
Anmerkungen:
- - Spiritual movement in late 19th century
- Realize absolute truth by studying all religions
- Search for absolute resonated with abstraction
- Painting could capture a deeply significant invisible reality
- Piet Mondrian
Anmerkungen:
- NEOPLASTICISM
- Painting as a 'plastic' (malleable) form
- "Abolition of all particular form"
- Abstraction of form and color ; straight lines and primary colors
- Flowering
Apple Tree
(1912)
- Composition
No. 10 (Pier
and Ocean)
(1915)
Anmerkungen:
- - Pure geometry
- Pristine, mathematical, mechanical
- No emotion
- Composition
with Red,
Yellow, and
Blue (1920)
- Broadway
Boogie-Woogie
(1942 - 43)
Anmerkungen:
- - Yellow and gray areas painted with the same luminance, causing jittery obtical effect
- New York City I
(1942)
- Lozenge
Composition
with Yellow,
Black, Blue,
Red, and
Gray (1921)
Anmerkungen:
- - lines do not extend all the way to the edge of canvas. stop at 45 degree angle.
- Rich in surface textures
- Different blocks painted in different thicknesses/directions
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- Reaction against WWI
and failings of the system
- Marcel Duchamp
Anmerkungen:
- - Rejected by Cubists
- Interest in mechanical parts/workings
- Exploration of motion, similar to Futurists
- 1923 abandoned art, played chess for 10 years
- Nude
Descending
a Staircase
(1912)
Anmerkungen:
- Nudes usually painted with respect; what Duchamp did was outrageous
- Sad Young
Man on a
Train
(1911)
- Bicycle
Wheel
(1951)
Anmerkungen:
- - First kinetic sculpture
- Idle visual pleasure: Duchamp said he simply enjoyed gazing at the wheel while it spun, likening it to gazing into a fireplace.
- Comic effect: an ordinary unicycle is a comical thing; upside-down and immobile it might be hilarious.
- Juxtaposition of motion and stasis
- art without any pretense of artifice, and unconcerned with imitating reality in any way.
- The Large
Glass
(1915 - 23)
- Hannah Hoch
- Lights and
Shadows
- The Bride
(1933)
Anmerkungen:
- Different races juxtaposed and combined
- Man Ray
- Cadeau
(Gift) (1958)
Anmerkungen:
- - gives a common object a symbolic function. The flatiron, associated with social expectations of propriety and middle-class values, becomes a subversive attack on social expectations.
- Even if the iron is no longer used for pressing clothes, the object resonates with ruinous, violent possibilities.
- Indestructible
Object (Object to
be Destroyed)
(1964)
Anmerkungen:
- - irritation over being watched, and powerlessness in the face of endless time. There is no means to stop the cycle, except to destroy the object itself.- “Other contraptions of mine have been destroyed by visitors; not always through ignorance nor by accident, but willfully, as a protest. But I have managed to make them indestructible, that is, by making duplicates very easily.”
- Idea behind the work cannot be erased
- demeans the value of “original” art and craftsmanship in the true spirit of Dada.
- Untitled Rayograph
[Scissors and Cut
Paper] (1927)
Anmerkungen:
- - Scissors and cut paper
- "I paint what cannot be photographed"
- "I photograph what I do not wish to paint"
- Umberto
Boccioni
- Unique Forms
of Continuity in
Space (1913)
Anmerkungen:
- - Cast in bronze 1931 (posthumously)
- "these days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art."
- originally inspired by the sight of a football player moving on to a perfectly weighted pass
- Strong forward stride, yet treads lightly.
- triumph over the limitations of the human stride to suggest unending movement into infinite space
- Giocome Balla
- Dynamism of
a Dog on a
Leash (1912)
Anmerkungen:
- - abrupt close up
- similar to multiple exposure photography
- Abstract Speed +
Sound (1913 - 14)
- Abstract Speed
(1913)
- Pablo
Picasso
Anmerkungen:
- - Blue Period (1901 - 1904)
- Rose Period (1904 - 1906)
- Cubism (1907 - 1914)
- Return to the figurative
- Reinterpreting Old Masters
- Poor
People on
the
Seashore
(The
Tragedy)
(1903)
Anmerkungen:
- - Blue Period
- His friend Casagemas committed suicide
- Cold palette
- Themes of misery, alienation
- Portrait of
Gertrude Stein
(1906 - 07)
Anmerkungen:
- - Gertrude was one of his first patrons
- Influence of primitivism
- Elongation of features
- Geometrical emphasis
- Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907)
Anmerkungen:
- - Cubism
- Influence from African masks- Simultaneity of frontal and profile view- Fragmentation of space
- La Toilette
(1906)
Anmerkungen:
- - Rose Period
- After meeting his first love, Fernande Olivier
- Rose-hued and earthy palette
- Circus performers
- The Burial of
Casagemas
(1901)
Anmerkungen:
- - Similarity to El Greco's 'The Funeral of Count Orgaz"
- Maquette for
Guitar (1912)
Anmerkungen:
- - Synthetic Cubism (1912)
- Objects and shapes cut from paper/other materials
- Represent parts of a subject to play visual games
- Variations on illusion and reality
--cutaway view, allows viewer to see surface and interior space, both mass and void
- Three Musicians
(1921)
- Two Women (La Muse) (1935)
- Girl With a
Mandolin (1910)
Anmerkungen:
- - Analytical Cubism (1907 - 12)
- Every possible vantage point into a pictorial whole
- Concerned with pure form, not color, texture, character, or representation
- George Braque
- The Portuguese
(1911)
Anmerkungen:
- - use of stencilled text draws attention to the canvas itself
- fragmentation as a strategy to display all angles and aspects of the subject on a static canvas
- Bottle, Newspaper,
Pipe, and Glass
(1913)
Anmerkungen:
- -paper colle- "stuck paper" -charcoal shows surface as well as transparency -paper with printed wood grain -first to use materials not considered 'high art' materials
- Robert Delaunay
- Champs
de Mars
(The
Red
Tower)
Anmerkungen:
- multiple viewpoints, rhythmic fragmentation, and strong color contrasts
- Die Bruke
Anmerkungen:
- - Formed in 1905
- "The Bridge"
- Founder: E L Kirchner
- Artists formed a guild and lived together
- Idea of man in nature
- Revival of graphic arts
- Ernst
Ludwig
Kirchner
- Street, Berlin
(1913)
- Der Blau
Reiter
Anmerkungen:
- - Formed in 1911
- Founders: Kadinsky and Marc
- Later members: Rousseau, klee
- Influenced Abstract Expressionism
- Franz Marc
- The Large
Blue Horses
(1911)
Anmerkungen:
- - absence of a rider is in keeping with Marc's own belief in the supremacy of animal spirituality over that of humans
- Wassily Kandinsky
Anmerkungen:
- - Interested in Theosophy (belief system with links to Buddhism and mysticism)
- Explored paint through new theories of atomic structures, concluded that material objects had no real substnace
- Improvisation 6
(1909)
Anmerkungen:
- The Blue
Rider (1903)
- Lyrical (1911)
- Composition VIII
(1923)
- Context
- 1905 Salon d'Autumne
- Andre Derain
- Charing Cross
Bridge, London
(1906)
- Maurice de
Vlaminck
Anmerkungen:
- - Ignored details
- Violent color and brushwork
- Declared that he "loved van Gogh that day more than my own father" after exhibition
- From 1908 his palette grew more monochromatic (Cezanne's influence)
- Later work displayed a dark palette, punctuated by heavy strokes of contrasting white paint.
- The River
Seine at Chatou
(1906)
- Henri Matisse
Anmerkungen:
- - French
- Believed that color plays a primary role in conveying meaning
- "The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible"
- Sold his wife's engagement ring to buy Cezanne's 'Three Bathers'
- Portrait of
Madame Matisse
(1905)
Anmerkungen:
- - "The green stripe"
- Warm and cool
- Japanese influence?
- Woman
with a Hat
(1905)
Anmerkungen:
- - Simultaneously a wild expression of colors and a cold, calculated reduction of the subject
- Vehement criticism from Symbolists
- The Red Room
(1908 - 09)
Anmerkungen:
- - Decorative interior
- Patterning
- Blue Nude
II (1952)
Anmerkungen:
- - Part of his Jazz Series
- Paper cutout
- Stylized
- Context
- French literary movement
in the 1880s
- Edvard Munch
Anmerkungen:
- - Norwegian
- Painter/Printmaker
- Influenced German expressionism
- "The angels of fear, sorrow and death stood by my side since the day I was born"
- "I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart"
- "My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my r/s with life - it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity"
- Puberty
(1894 - 95)
Anmerkungen:
- - Strange shadow
- Red face, awkward
- Elongated legs
- Black tones
- The Scream
(1893)
Anmerkungen:
- - Sunken/lightbulb head
- Swirling sky
- Complementary colors
- Emotional distres
- Discordance
- Ghoulish
- Highly simplified
- Juxtaposition of figures, 2 people in background seem oblivious and distant
- Sudden depression that descended upon him at a fjord
- Death in the
Sickroom (1895)
Anmerkungen:
- - SIster's death
- Small head- Flat- Solemn- Muted colors- Rigid- No interaction/movement- Pallid blue-grey
- Ashes (1894)
Anmerkungen:
- - His relationship with a woman
- Distress
- Stringy hair
- High contrast
- Gradation, but flat forms
- Exasperation
- Black vs White
- Background: hollowness, mystery, endless void
- Gustave Klimt
Anmerkungen:
- - Austrian
- Female body, eroticism
- Use of gold leaf similar to Byzantine religious art
- Flattened images
- The Kiss
(1907 - 08)
Anmerkungen:
- - Couple is intertwined on a meadow, wrapped in full gilded clothing.
- Cape: mosaic, black and white rectangles for man, coloured circles and the flowers for woman.
- Intimacy: union of heads and hands
- Couple is insulated in sublimation, oblivious to outside world
- Danae
(1907 - 08)
Anmerkungen:
- - Symbol of divine love, transcendence, sensational beauty
- Raised leg: tribute to Titian series of paintings of same name.
- Story: Danae was imprisoned by father. Visited by Zeus in form of golden rain flowing between her legs. Soon after, Danae was pregnant with Perseus.
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - No common artistic goal, merely a bidirectional reaction against Impressionism
- Paul Cezanne
Anmerkungen:
- - Father of modern art
- Greatly influenced Matisse/Picasso
- "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums"
- Early work imitated Courbet: thick paint with palette knife
- Use of color to construct form
- Worked slowly and methodically, studied subjects for a long time
- Preoccupied with underlying geometry
- Table Corner
( 1985 - 1900)
Anmerkungen:
- - Use of multiple perspectives
- Precursor to cubism
- The Large
Bathers
(1898 - 1905)
Anmerkungen:
- - Bipyramidal composition
-
- Georges-Pierre Seurat
Anmerkungen:
- - Neo-impressionist
- Oranization of color on canvas
- Static, unmoving quality
- Pointilism, optical mixing
- A Sunday on
La Grand Jatte
(1884 - 86)
Anmerkungen:
- - Stylized
- Ambiguous, anonymous
- Not about social commentary
- Bathers at
Asnieres
(1884)
Anmerkungen:
- - Workmen taking leisure by the river
- Moment in time captured forever, as if in stone
-Enormous amount of labour
- Not pointilist, but reworked with dots of contrasting colour
- Figures in profile, may have been influenced by Egyptians
- Vincent van Gogh
Anmerkungen:
- - Insane dude
- Quarrelled with Gaugin, cut off own ear, presented it to a prostitute named Rachel.
- Admitted to Saint-Remy asylum
- Borrowed a gun, shot himself, bled in cornfield for 3 days, refused medical assistance
- The
Sunflowers
(1889)
Anmerkungen:
- - Influence of Japanese prints
- Omission of shadows- Broad areas of color-Thick outlines
- Lack of perspective
- Compositional freedom
- Self Portrait with
Bandaged Ear
(1889)
Anmerkungen:
- - Personal catastrophe
- Easel in the background
- Linking his suffering to his art
- Japanese prints in background
- Vulnerable yet steady gaze
- Looking but not seeing
-Contemplation of anguish
- Starry Night (1889)
Anmerkungen:
- - Imaginary church
- Contours and lines to capture shapes and movement of night
- Thick impasto, choppy, heavy strokes of wavy ribbons
- Dramatic use of of color/texture
- Simplified forms
- Rhythmic, different halo sizes, swirling clouds and stars
- Directional strokes for wind
- Stood up three nights in a row to paint
- Paul Gauguin
Anmerkungen:
- - Spiritual truth of subject matter
- Flat colors
- Went to tahiti because he viewed it as exotic and mysterious
- Yellow Christ
(1889)
Anmerkungen:
- - Traditional Mary replaced by Breton women with headdresses
- Christ with Gauguin's face
- Cross in Brittany
- No perspective or modelling
- Blue outlines
- Where Do We
Come From? What
Are We? Where
Are We Going?
(1897)
Anmerkungen:
- - Symbolizes various stages of life and questions of destiny
- Baby & 3 young women
- (Middle) 2 Women talk about destiny
- Puzzled/half-aggressive man
- (Middle) youth plucking fruit of experience. Eats fruit, overlooked by remote presence of an idol (spiritual need)
- (Left) Woman broods, old woman prepares to die. White bird as symbol of afterlife
- Edgar
Degas
Anmerkungen:
- - Circus, opera, women at work, nudes, contemporary life
- BALLERINAS
- Off-center figures, cropped at edge of canvas
- Empty spaces, clustered figures
- Unplanned, spontaneous scenes
- Did not paint outdoors
- No interest in landscapes or light
- Used pastels
- The
Dance
Class
(1873 - 76)
- Edouard Manet
Anmerkungen:
- - Bridge between Realism and Post-impressionism
- Strong outlines, use of black
- Lunch on the
Grass (1863)
Anmerkungen:
- - Ordinary people as subject matter
- Acknowledgement of viewer
- Pointed finger at audience
- Unidealized nude
- Public only accepted nudes if they represented goddesses or idealized beauty
- Olympia (1863)
Anmerkungen:
- -Boldly gazing at viewer
- Gift from admirer
- Not fully nude
- Seen as disrespectful parody of the old masters' work
- Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
Anmerkungen:
- - Women, flowers, children, sunny outdoor scenes
- "Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world."
- Refused to use black, "it is not a color"
- Pals with Monet!
- Le Moulin de la
Galette (1876)
Anmerkungen:
- - Forms fragmented into patches of colour to give impression of flickering light through leaes
- Quick, short, loose brushwork
- Sense of constant movement to capture the dance
- Abrupt cropping suggests it is a part of a bigger whole
- Photo-like composition
- Unposed, candid. Back view of some subjects
- Context
Anmerkungen:
- - Recovery from economic/spiritual depression + new inventions
- Portability of paint + cameras
- Salon of Refusals in 1863
- Japonisme
- Color theory
- - No use of black (not a colour)
- Optical mixing instead of smooth blending
- Japonisme
Anmerkungen:
- -Japanese aesthetic
- Spatial organisation
- Flat shapes, unmodelled colour areas
- Decorative quality
- Patterning
- Odd cropping
- Beauty in asymmetry/imperfection
- Claude Monet
Anmerkungen:
- - Sight began to fail in his last years, but continued painting
- About Japonisme: "I like the suggestive quality of their aesthetic, which evokes presence by a shadow and the whole by a part"
- La Grenouillere
(1869)
Anmerkungen:
- - Jabbing of brush
- Textures through brushstrokes and not linework
- Vertical strokes of boat contrasting with horizontal strokes of water
- Impression:
Sunrise (1872)
Anmerkungen:
- - Shown at 1st impressionist exhibition
- Purpose was to be entirely faithful to reality in tone/color- Spawned the movement name
- Gare St
Lazare
(1877)
Anmerkungen:
- - snapshot-like
- Rule of thirds focal point
- Urbaniastion: movement towards a sense of the city
- Impasto/dry brush: smoke
- Flickering effect on surface of painting
- Muted colours
- No delineation of forms
- Madam
Monet in
a
Japanese
Costume
(1875)