Exam3 Flashcards
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1900, France
- Given the freedom to choose his own theme for these doors, seems a bit grim subject matter
- Commission never really finished, kinda became his sketchbook, would pop off different parts and add other parts
- Lots of experimental things with the human body
- See precursors of his other work, The Kiss, The Thinker, etc
- Also draws upon famous doors by Lorenzo Ghibertis, Gates of Paradise, 1425-52, bronze
- Rodin’s is clearly exploding and everything is just kinda happening everywhere…all the time, borders don’t really start as borders anymore
- Classical shape of architectural pediment, although blown out of whack due to Rodin’s composition
Emile Gallé, Mirror frame, c. 1898-1900, France
Hector Guimard, Paris Metro Station Entrance, c. 1900, France
- Sense of tendrils and organic design amongst the metal work
- Hand drawn and playful type
- Definitely a commercial movement
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hill House: Master Bedroom, wardrobes & chair, 1903, Scotland
- Façade all white and sort of medieval-esque
- Very asymmetrical and strangely abstract
- All white on the inside
- Very ostentatious to have all white as servants would have to clean a lot due to the coal mines of Glasgow
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Divan Japonais, color lithograph, 1893, France
- Business to be eye-catching
- Became important collector’s market
- Was also a painter, among the mor advanced
- Done for a night club called the Japanese Sofa
- Jane Avril is the spectator, famous performer
- Promoting spectatorship, the role of being a spectator
- May be sitting in the audience with a celebrity as well as watching one
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait, 1911, Watercolor and pencil on paper, Austria
- Self-portrait nude
- Seems to be about fragmentation, anxiety, exaggerated skeletal figure
- Suggests an artist who considers his task as an examination of himself and his conscious and subconscious feelings
- Interested in human figure as something that tells about psyche and mental anguish
Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat, 1905, France
- Colors wild, not true to reality
- Relation between complementary colors in figure and the background, which pushes her forward
- Some arbitrary colors sense of confusion at the hat and illusionistic space
- More color is more, according to Matisse and the fauvists
Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre), 1905-6
France
- Referred to as a parricide.
- Attacks and tries to mess with the history of life
- Seems to be a lack of concern for independent human bodies in a way
- Idea of figures dancing seems to be a big deal for matisse
- Able to reference the past in order to distort it, ex. Great bathers?
- Pack everything in that is uncomfortableI recognize the past, and I say screw it.
- Interested in African art and African masks, as is Picasso
- Interest in primitive as possible substitution
Henri Matisse, Red Room, 1908-09, France
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, France (artist is Spanish)
- Becomes touchstone for contemporary art in Paris
- Disjunction between body and mask-like shape
- Prostitutes in a brothel, from Avignon street, aka red light district
- Did lots of drawing and sketches, knew he was making a breakthrough painting and worked really hard on it
- Considered introducing men into the scene as well
- Prostitution quasi-legal at this time
- Doctor coming for medical inspection or something, lots of interesting background stories
- Ended up not including male figures
- Sense of metamorphosis going from left to right
- Lost of viewers thought this to be a scary picture
- Castration anxiety, what happens when men look at women, men are afraid of losing their dicks and becoming women as being a man is a superior thing
- Men don’t want to lose their superiority
- Widely accepted theoryIdea that a man would look at a scene like this, nude frightening, that it becomes a painting about the male viewer should watch out they are strong women and they are terrifying, they could come after you
- MALE ANXIETY
Has a representation of being the first cubist painting (although it isn’t really, and is more of an experiment)
Pablo Picasso, Houses on Hillside, Horta de Ebro, 1909, oil on canvas, France (born Spain)
- Idea of passage, visual slippage between one element and the other
- Perspective: above and looking down
- Sense of a point of view (bird’s eye)
Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911, oil on canvas, France
- Stencils of letter and numbers laid in
- Possibly a guitar with strings and things
- Paul signac brush strokes
- Arbitrary colors and brush strokes
- Painting has it’s own logic that has nothing to do with the outside world
Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass, 1912, collage, France(born Spain)
- Le Journal means newspaper, piece of newspaper
- Picasso is taking a high culture object, his painting, and mixing it with low culture objects
- Bringing together graphic design and ephemera
- Pretty crazy and new idea around the time
Sonia Delaunay, Cover wrapper for La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, 1913, painted parchment, France
Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, oil on canvas, Italy
Carlo Carra, Free-World Painting, 1914, collage, Italy
- Full of radiating forms and words and headlines
- Partialy about patriotism and encouraging Italians to go to war
