Henri Matisse

"The Red Room"

1897

oil on canvas

picture within a picture

renaissance idea of art like a window

Henri Matisse

"The Dance"

1909

oil on canvas

center of composition is a void

lack of facial detailed

pendant piece: commissioned for Shchukin along with "Music"

1/3 ground 2/3 sky; women; together; movement (compare to "Music")

Henri Matisse

"Woman With Hat"

1905

oil on canvas

Henri Matisse

"The Joy of Life"

1905-1906

oil on canvas

harmonious colors + composition

Agostino Caracci's "Love Reciprocated"

Henri Matisse

"The Red Studio"

1911

oil on canvas

dominating color

Henri Matisse

"Young Sailor 2"

1906

oil on canvas

Henri Matisse

"Blue Nude"

1907

oil on canvas

outdoors - primitivism - influence from Africa (Biskra, Gabon)

Henri Matisse

"Reclining Nude #1"

1907

cast in bronze

Henri Matisse

"Serpentine"

1909

cast in bronze

experiment with human proportion

contrapposto is off

Henri Matisse

"Music"

1909

oil on canvas

pendant piece w/ "The Dance"; commissioned for Sergei Shchukin

2/3 ground 1/3 sky; men; apart; stationary (compare to "The Dance")

First autumn salon (exhibition) in 1903

Run by members of Royal Academy of Fine Arts - jury chose artwork

held in Salon des Independants

held Salon d'Autome in 1903

since 1884 showed post impressionist art

in Paris

Biskra, Algeria- "oasis"

Matisse drew influence from both these places - aided his "primitive" style

literal definition: "front row"

means new, modern

term coined by Louis Vauxcelles in his influential review of 1905 autumn salon

fauve = beast

inconsistent brush strokes, color to show feeling

art critic/intellectual who wrote an influential review of 1905 autumn salon

coined the term "fauvism"

evolved from realism + impressionism to fauvism

*color = expression!*

primitivism in his art- influence from Africa

French

Like Matisse, color=feeling=emotion=essence

Likes to re-work his art

More industrial concepts

German expressionism

Ernst Ludvig Kirchner

"The Street"

1908

oil on canvas

sense of crowd, compression, industrialization

Ernst Ludvig Kirchner

"Girl Under Japanese Umbrella"

1909

oil on canvas

prostitution- connects with Simmel's urban ideas of industry + commerce

"primitive" like cave painting

Ernst Ludvig Kirchner

"Self Portrait With Model"

1910; re-worked 1926

oil on canvas

expressive color

intimate (clothes like robes), yet not intimate (body language)

Ernst Ludvig Kirchner

"Self-Portrait (as a soldier)"

1915

oil on canvas

painted around time of WWI
Kirchner enlisted, but had breakdown

severed hand- metaphorical

geometric style

Ernst Ludvig Kirchner

"Friedrich Street, Berlin"

1914

oil on canvas

angular, crowded street scene

in Germany

Van Gogh's exhibition in 1905

from Berlin, Germany

wrote in 1903: "The Metropolis and Mental Life"; industrialization makes people act mechanical, impersonal

Germany

"Die Brucke" The Bridge founded here in 1905

art group formed in Dresden in 1905

German expressionists

"bridge" from old world to new world; expression and emotions emphasized; create what inspires you

Vasily Kandinsky

"First Abstract"

1910/1913

pencil, watercolor + ink on paper

line and color are independent

Kandinsky was the first painter to be considered abstract

Vasily Kandinsky

"Composition #6"

1913

oil on canvas

music, experimentation

Vasily Kandinsky

"Old Town (II?)"

1902

white crayon and gouache

color blocks; folk art

Vasily Kandinsky

"View Over The Staffelsee"

1908

oil on canvas

lake in Murnau

Gabriele Munter

"Country House at Murnau"

1909

oil on canvas

geometric structure

"shield/barrier"

group founded in Munich in 1901 by Kandinsky

Post-impressionist, symbolist, art nouveau

New Artist's Assosiation

founded in Munich, 1909

Kandinsky was president

influenced by fauvism

"Blue Rider"

founded in Munich, 1911

splintered off NKV

Kandinsky + Marc leaders

Alfred Steiglitz

"Nude Portrait of O'Keeffe"

1919

photograph

Alfred Steiglitz

"Portrait"

1922

photograph

Georgia O'Keeffe - androgynous

Georgia O'Keeffe

"Black Iris"

1926

oil on canvas

closeup without context

many saw her flowers as female genitals

she kind of hated that

(but they so are female genitals)

Georgia O'Keeffe

"Radiator Building"

1927

oil on canvas

photographic journal published by Stieglitz

began 1903

purpose: to establish photography as a fine art

opened in 1905 in NYC

created and managed by photographer Steiglitz

showcased O'Keeffe's work in 1923; long name, emphasized Stieglitz

Henry McBride criticized O'Keeffe for riding on Stieglitz's fame

curated exhibition: Women Artists' 1550-1950

promoted women in the arts

wrote "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"

created cubism

tends to combine the sacred with the profane

Pablo Picasso

"Evocation"

1901

oil on canvas

scene of Carles Casagemas' funeral

fragmentation of space; division between earthly and heavenly realms

Pablo Picasso

"Family of Acrobats with Ape"

1905

india ink, watercolor, gouache + pastel on cardboard

street performers like Holy Family

Madonna + child

large baby like Jesus

like Albrecht Durer's "The Madonna of the Monkey" 1498

Pablo Picasso

"Family of Saltimbanques"

1905-06

oil on canvas

street performers

barren setting

fat guy may represent Guillaume Apollinaire

Harlequin- androgynous, diamond shaped patterms repeat

Pablo Picasso

"Death of Harlequin"

1906

gouache on cardboard

death of Picasso's style

represents change

part stands for whole "diamonds"