Exam 2 Slide Ids Flashcards
Black Square
Kasmir Malevich
1914-15
Russian
Oil on Canvas
- the paint appears to have deteriorated to a certain extent since having been painted
- the black square is slightly off center and tilted slightly.
- shown at the last Futurist exhibition “0, 10; The Last Futurist Exhibition
- he back dated this to 1913, even though we know it to be the dates above, to coincide with a play (?) wehre there was a black square as part of the scenery/background..
- the black square is reinforced by the square shape of the canvas itself–the edges/boundaries of the painting. In Greenberg-ian ideal, this is emphasizing the painting nature of the painting itself. Grounding it, it is a material thing.
- This black square on white background becomes a key part of whta he calls Supremativism.
Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue
Piet Mondrian
1935
Dutch
Oil on Canvas
-verticals and horizontals, like his earlier work, but to new extent. The colors give them different weights.
-White space is not negative space here, but its own thing.
-asymmetrical, but aim at harmony and balance…assessing what is enough of each color to balance ti all out, and where.
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Composition IV
Wassily Kandinsky
1911
German
Oil on Canvas
Kandinsky had been doing abstracted stuff before the first ww, abstracted from nature. Drawing from like music maybe, see references to things that come out of history, out of folklore. Fairytales, mythic subject matter.
Kandinsky increasingly abstracting and expanding on the idea of appreciating and using color for its own sake.
“Inner Necessity”
Kandinsky’s “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” Brings many different world traditions in to his understanding. Including apocolyptic spiritualistic…Also references Theosophy.
Written just before outbreak of WWII.
opportunity after war for renewal.
felt that the artist is effecting change in the world through their work due to the vibrating qualities of color.
Still remnants of narrative qualities in his work. Still working back from references in the world, while Malevich etc is not.
The Development of Abstract Art
Alfred H. Barr
1936
American
cover of exhibition catalogue
-Barr was the director of MoMA from 1929-1943. Great proponent of modernism. Compulsive lister.
Charts 23 different schools and styles of art in this diagram as well as some influences. When there isnt already a term for something he creates it.
This image is on a handout for studying
-this approach of breaking things down into sections and subsections is an Atomist approach to things. Barr is an Atomist.
The atomist approach is the opposite of Monist approach–might just have two or three categories (20th c. art: representational or abstract as an example of the broad categorization).
- thinks of art as a continual, linear progression of styles etc.
Geomtric and non-geometric art.
Teleological Approach–to art history, everything is moving towards a culminating point. Greenberg: Teleological appraoch to AH, for him the highpoint is somwhere in the 1950s.
Barr writing/doing work during the time of Stalinism, Nazism rise.
Cossacks
Wassily Kandinsky
1911
German
Oil on Canvas
Kandinsky had been doing abstracted stuff before the first ww, abstracted from nature. Drawing from like music maybe, see references to things that come out of history, out of folklore. Fairytales, mythic subject matter.
Kandinsky increasingly abstracting and expanding on the idea of appreciating and using color for its own sake.
“Inner Necessity”
Kandinsky’s “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” Brings many different world traditions in to his understanding. Including apocolyptic spiritualistic…Also references Theosophy.
Written just before outbreak of WWII.
opportunity after war for renewal.
felt that the artist is effecting change in the world through their work due to the vibrating qualities of color.
Still remnants of narrative qualities in his work. Still working back from references in the world, while Malevich etc is not.
Dynamic Supremativism
Kasimir Malevich
1915
Russian
Oil on Canvas
Suprematist Composition, White on White
Kasimir Malevich
1918-1919
Russian
Oil on Canvas
White Relief
Ben Nicholson
1935
British
Painted Wood
Ben Nicholson, White Relief, 1935, painted wood.
-different depths of relief
drawing one of the circles by hand, the other with use of compass
abstracted, about the composition iteself, non representational.
married Hepworth.
Three Forms
Barbara Hepworth
1935
English
Marble
Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure
Henry Moore
1934
English
Alabaster
Recumbent Figure
Henry Moore
1938
English
Hornton stone
Hugo Ball in Costume Reciting a Poem
Photographer unknown
n.d.
Swiss-at the Cafe Voltaire
Photograph
Arrangement Accroding to the Laws of Chance (Collage with Squares)
Hans Arp
1916-1917
French
Collage
-defies conditions of traditional sculpture or painting…
chance as part of the creation
Automatism-allowing the element of chance and accident play a role in construction of an image
Opening of the First International Dada Fair, Berlin
Photographer Unknown
1920
German
Photograph
-This organization of chaotic style is one of the things that Hitler references in his degenerate art deal…
Berlin Dada-art needs to take a political side.
Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Hannah Höch
1919-1920
German
Photomantage
The Beautiful Girl
Hannah Höch
1919-1920
German
Photomontage
Battle of Fishes
André Masson
1926
French
Sand, gesso, pencil charcoal on canvas–multimedia
automatism,
aquatic environment with the fish engaging in bloody warfare
liquid glue, pooling and going wherever, then pours sand on glue.
then looks at forms created by chance and allows his artistic vision to take shape and envision what the scene will be
fan of Dali and Picasso
Animating the inanimate is a favourite Surrealist theme, Joan Miro likes to do this a lot.
Object (le Dejeuner en fourrure) (Breakfast in Fur)
Meret Oppenheim
1936
Swiss
fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon
The Accommodations of Desire
Salvador Dali
1929
Spanish
Oil and collage on cardboard
Small scale.
Dealing with sexual anxieties he is dealing with with his affair with a married woman, the wife of a surrealist Poet
On the pebbles he projects the ideas of what might lie ahead of him
The lion is actually collage cut out from a book
Dali
also influenced by Picasso and..
in 1929 he visits Paris and meets Parisian surrealists, stays a while, and later becomes an official Surrealist
“Paranoid Critical” –SEeing two things in the same object/subject
illusionistic but not a window onto the waking world, referring to the dream world
…Blood, excrement, and decay
in a continuous frenzy of induced paranoia
ereseted in pictorial metamorphosis in which tings morph into others.
Salvador Dali’s film “Un Chien Andalou” The Andalusian dog 1929
Woman with Her Throat Cut
Alberto Giacometti
1932
Swiss
Bronze
Minotauromachy
Pablo Picasso
1935
Spanish artist
etching and engraving
Picasso was not rewlly politically involved until after the Spanish civil war
Commissioned for a cover of the newly started Minotaur surrealist magazine
Presents a
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
1937
Spanish artist
Oil on Canvas
Guernica-basque town
Cubism and surrealism
Anti fascist work
Working out his feeling about the attack by Luftwasse
Horse with wound is symbol for Spanish people
Composition 10 in Black and White
Piet Mondrian
1915
Dutch
Oil on Canvas
Mondrian
initially favoring naturalistic and impressionstic landscapes
also falls under the influence of Theosophy.
moves towards greater abstraction.
inspired by analytic cubists
9/25/14
Mondrian and his grids. Shift to his use of idea of New Plasticity (aka Neo-Cubism).
New Plasticism–new approach to visual art, the pictorial elements are not optical illusions, but not alluding to anything else. Only depicting that which it is.
