Camille Claudel-The Wave, 1900

-nude female figures shown from woman's perspective

-onyx trasnparent for wave, womean are strong bronze

-genius or psycho?

-female nudes are not objects of desire, but completely absorbed in their own lives

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire 1902-04

-brushstrokes don't make same shape as actual object

-2 dimensional planes layered over one another

-instead of modeling with light and shade he uses color modulation

-fast moving culture shown by different shifting planes

-not shown from one point perspective

      Robert Delaunay, Windows, 1^st part, 2^nd motif, 1912

-view from a window of the eiffel tower

-trying to combine various views of the tower with others

-combining tactile and bodily memory

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Edouard Vuillard, Album, 1895

-decorative, overcoming female-male distinction with genre

-ambiguity between foreground and background

-compare to tapestries of middle ages (unicorn tapestry)

-five decorative panels known collectively as Album 

1.       Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait, c. 1910

-maybe represents internal pathology, but some say shiele just say a market for this kind of imagery

-trying to liberate self through taking away physical inhibitions

-identification of artist as subject

1.       Francis Picabia, Negro Song (Chanson Nègre), 1913

-celebration of american jazz music

-dance become influential

-travelled to ameriac and inspired by african american dancers

-'egyptian style'dancers are very flat silhouttes resemble tomb paintings

1.       George Seurat, Chahut, 1889

-pointilism

-trying to recover the collective roots of impressionism

-is he celebrating mass culture or making fun of it?

-paradoxes:science and idealism

-popular culture and classical art

-harmony based on contrasting values and colors

-meticulous, but figures in rigid manner to make it appear timeless

Gustav Klimt, Expectation (Dance), 1908-09

1.       Wassily Kandinsky, Impression II, 1911

-artist putting his inward feelings into composition

-kandinsky influenced by arnold schonberg

-synaesthetic creation 'inner necessity'

-all of his works were titled as if a work of music

1.       Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Potsdamer Platz, 1914

-what kind of psychological effect will the painting produce?

-northern experience of anxiety and nervousness in paintings, refuge from hostile world

Henry Matisse, Woman With A Hat 1905

-depicts wife in demeaning way because proper woman should not dress the way she is depicted

-wife made hats to support his art=hat is burden

-face is the only human element that cannot be commercialized

-calulated &rushed

-German Expressionism

1.       Henri Matisse, Dance III, 1909-10

1.       Natalia Goncharova, set design for Le Coq d’Or (Golden Rooster), 1914 (Russian folk-style flowers)

-set designs were simple colorful motifs

-art for art's sake

-changed ballets from being more symbolist

-helped create an artistic world seperate from pop culture

Paul Gauguin, The Specter Watches over Her, 1892

-idealized sensual innocence as naively superstitious

-compare to sleeping hermaphrodite

-gauguin almost patronized tahitian people

-compare to blue nude by Matisse

1.       Paul Gauguin, Man with an Axe, 1891

-ambivalance about male sexuality

constructing his persona as 'savage'

-noa noa:gauguin's biography he talks about his own homosexuality

-gender as a cultural performance

-romanticized sexuality without vice (no boundaries)

1.       Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

-rope refers to table or picture frame

-merging of real with illusionistic

-challenging the notion of 'artistic genius'

-can take various objects to create composition

-the collage made art a game to play with a flat surface and 3-D illusion

1.       Pablo Picasso, The Snack, 1914

-literal vs. figurative

-which objects belong to 2-D and which to 3-D?

-what constitutes originality? 

1.       Thomas Wilfred, Study in Depth, 1959