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Modern Art (Test 2) Week 6,7
Cubism
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/26/2012

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Term
Cubism
Definition

-no single point of perspective

-Multiple viewpoints seen simultaneously

-reduction of forms to basic shapes

-fragmented forms defined by angled lines and planes, and geometric shapes

-integration of figure and background; intersection of planes

-“representation and antinaturalistic”

-Neutral palette; monochromatic

-rational v. emotional

-very conscious of lines and angles

 (intersecting each other/over each other)

E.g. Georges Braque, Violin and Palette, 1909-10

Term
[image]
Definition

 *Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, June-July, 1907, o/c, 8’ x 7’8”, MOMA

-streetname- where many brothels took place

-this work is expressionistic, cool and warm tonalities

-sexually aggressive women

-very disorienting and startling – the way the faces are rendered

-treatment of nose and chin

-the way these women are depicted, the same inspiration is at place

-archaic art

-inspiration from African masks

-not cubism, but getting us to the point so we can see how he is going to go a step further

-5 women’s geometric shapes correspond to background

-Picasso went through a huge process to make this painting

-curtain broken down in angular

-Medical Student, Sailor, and Five Nudes in a Bordello, (study for Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon) March-April 1907

-women very exaggerated, squatting position, turning head like an owl

Term
[image]
Definition

*Georges Braque, Violin and Palette, 1909-1910, o/c, 36 x 16”, Guggenhei

-Analytic Cubism 1909-11 

-      W/ Picasso: artistic marriage

-      -go over to each other’s houses every other day to see what the other is looking at

Loved American cowboys

-stopped signing paintings at one point

-Picasso always perceived as a leader

-however Braque came up w/ many of the ideas but Picasso took it to the next level

 

Term
[image]
Definition

*Braque, The Portugese (The Emigrant), 1911, o/c, 46 x 32”, Basel

Compared to Girl With a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)1910

-Picasso focuses more on humans

-Braque not so much

-Braque more interested in space or the way the elements are placed into space

-Picasso using colors to show person is sort of part of the backdrop but yet still separate

-Braque man holding accordion, rope on boat in the harbor, stenciled letters integrated into composition

-Braque uses texture to add to the composition

 

Term
[image]
Definition

*Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, oil and oilcloth on canvas edged in rope, 1912, 10 x 14”,
Picasso Museum, Paris

Synthetic Cubism 19120-1914

-looks so realistic- woven caning

-using robe as frame

-JOU

-fragmented glassware

-read a newspaper and drink in café

-reference to a game, pun the JOU

-what is real and what is an illusion

 

Term
Futurism
Definition
Milan
Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccinoi, Gino Severini
-about speed, about motion, interest in animals

First Futurist Manifesto, 1909 –Filippo Tomasso Marinetti
-“We want to fight ferociously against the fanatical, unconscious and snobbish religion of the past, which is nourished by the evil influence of museums. We rebel against the admiration of old canvases, old statues, and old objects, and against the enthusiasm for all that is worm-eaten, dirty and corroded by time.”
-wanted to dispel the past and embrace what they saw
-build what they saw into techniques
Term
Dada
Definition
Zurich, Berlin, New York
Ball, Arp, Hoch, Duchamp
-want to paint through mockery
-provoke all of us
-want to liberate the creative act of meaningless of rationalism and materialism and unleash the unconsciousness as part of our creativity
-considered themselves anarchist
Term
[image]
Definition
*Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Leash in Motion), 1912, o/c, 35 x
45”, Buffallo
-even though some things look static, usually in constant motion
Term
[image]
Definition
*Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, bronze, 43 x 34 x
15”, MOMA
-bronze
-denying individualism
-emphasis on power, movement
-flame-like appendages
-implication of power of space
-&desire to thrust through that
-turning human figure into machine??
-helmet head
Term
[image]
Definition
*Jean Arp (1887-1966),Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17, torn and
pasted paper , 19 x 13”, MOMA

-torn and pasted paper
-took torn up sheets and dropped them on the piece of paper how they fell
-has a balance
-giving over to chance –kind of contradictive since says ‘laws’
Term
[image]
Definition
*Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 (replica 1964), porcelain, 360 x 480 x 610 mm., Tate Modern

-reaction of visual difference
-absence of good and bad taste
-readymade
Term
[image]
Definition
*Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q, 1919, pencil on reproduction of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, 7¾ x 4¾”,
Philadelphi

LHOOQ-“she has a hot ass”
Term
Characteristics of Cubism
Definition
• No single point of perspective
• Multiple viewpoints seen simultaneously
• Reduction of forms to basic shapes
• Fragmented forms defined by angled lines and planes, and geometric shapes
• Integration of figure and background; intersection of planes
• “Representational and anti-naturalistic”
• Neutral palette; monochromatic
• Rational v. emotion
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