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20th Century Art History Part II Lecture I
Van Gogh, etc
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/24/2010

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Van Gogh, La Bercuse, 1889

 

rocking a cradle; background looks like field 

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Van Gogh, The Poet, Eugene Boch, 1888

 

contrasting blue & yellow-complementary

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Van Gogh, Portrait of Patience Escalier, 1888

 

sense of heat; red in cheek echoed in tie, hat, trimmings, sleeve (blue echoes as well)

strong emotional portrait of man who lived hard life

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Van Gogh, The Postman Roulin, 1888

 

hands, gnarled; full of power and feeling 

filled w/ sympathy-desire to connect 

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Van Gogh, Portrait of Madame Ginoux, 1888
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Van Gogh, The Night Café, 1888

 

same place as gaughins; angled furniture toward viewer; uncomfortable feeling; nightmare painting-harsh colors (glaring)

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Van Gogh, The Yellow House at Arles, 1888

 

 

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Van Gogh, Gauguin's Chairs, 1888

 

phallic representation (Gauguin's power)

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Van Gogh, Vincent's Chair, 1888

 

 

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Van Gogh, Bedroom at Arles, 1888
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Van Gogh, Church at Auvers, 1890

 

feels gothic; sense of dark & light; desire for transcendence 

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Van Gogh, Still Life Vase of Sunflowers, 1889

 

perfectly tuned to yellow; portraits of flowers 

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Van Gogh, Mountains at St. Remy, 1889

 

flowing curves of once strict geometry

houses blend as well

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Van Gogh, The Ravine, 1889

 

houses are blended in the chaos of the painting (consumed in painting)-lost boundaries-become swallowed in the world (uncomfortable feeling)

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Van Gogh, Large Plane Trees, 1889

 

trees consume the area 

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Van Gogh, Fishing Boats at Sea, 1888

 

sepia Ink (great craftsman); contains crudeness 

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Van Gogh, Still Life with Irises, 1889

 

sensuous curved line (marks age)

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Van Gogh, The Road to Tarascon, 1888

 

south of france; more intense colors 

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Van Gogh, Rocks with Trees, Mountmajor, 1888

 

immensely confident for just taking up (inspired)

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Van Gogh, Road with Cyprus and Star, 1890

 

art nouvou line 

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Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889

 

connective turmoil; more of a sense of transcendence (stars are less distant)

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Van Gogh, The Starry Night
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Van Gogh, Wheat Field Under Clouded Sky, 1890
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Van Gogh, Wheat Field with Crows, 1890

 

display dispair (hopeless); suicidal painting; road is so blocked 

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Redon, Apollo's Chariot, 1905-14

 

symbolism-opposite of realistic take; artfullness; metaphor 

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Redon, Cyclops, 1895-1900

 

reinvigorate subject of myth 

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Redon, Head of a Martyr, 1877

 

nightmarish; artful and elegant 

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Redon, Pandora, 1910-14

 

pastel-soft, glowing, mystery; art for art's sake

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Redon, Paul Gauguin, 1903-05
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Redon, Birth of Venus 
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Beardsley, Cover Binding for 'Salome' by Oscar Wilde, 1896

 

art nouvou; art for art's sake; interest in decadence, evil drugs; disengagement with society

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Beardsley, Merlin & Nimue, Illustration for 'Le Morte d'Arthur, 1894-94
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Beardsley, Peacock Skirt, Illustration for Wilde's 'Salome', 1894

 

illustrations for play, contrast, sinuous line, plant-like organic 

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Tiffany, Favrile Glass Vases and Bowl, 1895-1909

 

art nouvou

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Tiffany, Favrile Glass Vase, 1900-1915
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Tiffany, Peacock Vase 
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Tiffany, Peacock Vase 
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Tiffany, Autumn Landscape Windows, 1923-24
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Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1919

 

one of the most important sculptors of 20th c.

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Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1920

 

seemingly simple but very complex; handcrafted 

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Brancusi, New Born, 1915

 

elongated, mannerist desire for perfection 

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Brancusi, Beginning of the New World, 1920
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Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, 1910
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Brancusi, The Fish, 1924
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Brancusi, The Fish, 1930
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Gaudí, Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, 1884-1926

 

medieval, elongated quality; medieval excess 

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Gaudí, Casa Battlo, 1877; 1904-06
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Gaudí, Casa Mila, Barcelona, 1905-07

 

 

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Gaudí, Parc Guell, 1900-14

 

Guell was a BIG patron

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