ART304: Modern Test #2 Flashcards
Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911
- portrait of an emigrant
- the use of type here introduces the beginning of collage
Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1911-12
- shape: breaking away from the tradition
- circular or oval canvases
- the rope (real) is containing that what is not real (illusions of space)
- rope around it to contrast texture
- the chair sticks out because it was made out of oil cloth
- listened to a youtube clip on it: it’s basically a breakfast table, questioned the reality of illusionistic space, earliest use of pop art
- uses oil cloth in painting
- foreshadows popart
Juan Gris, La Place Ravignan, Still Life in front of an Open Window, 1915
- much more colorful
- outside and inside the picture, interior and exterior
- shift from ambiguous structure of cubism to clarity and detail of external space seen through Renaissance space
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913
- readymade aided: had to put 2 objects together
- a bicycle wheel on top of a stool
- decided it was readymade a few years after it was made
Piet Mondrian, Tableau II, 1921-25
- primary colors
- same plane
- style he continues
Jean Hans Arp, Objects Arranged According to the Laws of Chance or Navels, 1930
- composition arranged totally by chance
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918
- convey the feeling of fading away
- very conceptualized idea of art
- more to talk about in the background idea and artist motivation than what’s actually in front of you. idea heavy vs visually heavy
- trying to make us look at a new reality
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913
- there’s a rhythm and tempo like in music
- didn’t even attempt to depict something from real life
- most complicated work
- has tempo and rhythm
Rene Magritte, The Promenades of Euclid, 1955
- Euclid is a famous mathematician. he came up with how to find angles in triangles
- painting of looking out a window
- pairing of the real world that isn’t real
- made a painting of a painting
Frida Kahlo, Henry Ford Hospital, 1932
- had a miscarriage
- paints this shortly after
- snail represents how slow it was
- mechanical tools they used
- orchid is what her husband gets her
- pelvic bone symbolizes who she can’t have children (car accident)
- ex-voto, paint and ex-voto of your tragedy, write a prayer to saint to ask for help
Fernand Leger, The City, 1919
- very big!
- a lot of non-local colors
- signs/billboards, roads, people, text, construction implied
- construction going on after war tons of rebuilding
- noisy work. you can almost hear it
- densely packed and claustrophobic space, little depth. no open space
- people are in robot form
- depth
Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910
- heavy on cubes. almost all cubes.
- lost most of its color
- figure and background blend
- distorted
- muted greys and browns
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self Portrait as a Soldier, 1915
- he goes to war as a driver, goes crazy, and gets let go
- representing himself without a hand - a representation of possibly losing the ability and passion to create after his nervous breakdown
- background figure is super african
Umberto Boccioni, The Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912
- sculpture
- talks about the bottle in its surrounding space
- indebted to cubism: yet it’s not the analysis of form. it’s more the unification of forms and space
Juan Miro, The Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924-25
- primary colors
- pure imagination
Giacomo Balla, The Street Light-Study of a Light, 1909
- uses the elements of pointillism
- commentary on space: light fills the entire space
- it’s impossible to separate light and the space
- metaphor for how everything is connected
