Week 7 - Modernism and American Art Flashcards
Between 1943-55 where did the centre of art production move from and to?
From France to America.
Who did Greenberg think was the start of Modernism?
Manet
How is Manets Music in the Tuilleries painted
Blobs of paint, sketchy in areas. Tree confuses perspective.
T. J CLark describes the Avant Gardes as…
People who reject ‘the norm’ and move away from the bourgeois.
What is Cubism?
A style of painting which breaks up volumes. Unrealistic image where formal elements are positioned in a certain way. Artists recognised the flatness of the canvas and worked with it. The eye travels across the canvas.
What is this image showing and why is it important?
Alfred H Barr, 1936 Front of catalogue ‘Cubism and Abstract Art’ Big exhibtion in MoMa in 1930s.
Various ‘Ism’ moving downwards
Various movments have slowly started to purify art into non-geometric and geometric abstract art. Start of American Art.
What do the red boxes in Barr’s diagram of Cubism and Abstract Art indicate?
Everything outside of the emerging western canon was put in red boxes are separate and can be disposable.
What is Modernism in the sense of Abstract Art?
A critical heritage.
What was Greenbery interested?
The effects of the paintings surface.
What does cubism and surrealism try to do?
Tries to destroy what is familar.
What is the title of the artwork and when was it created?
Automatic Drawing y Masson. 1924
What is Masson’s artwork ‘Automatic drawing’ about?
A line that depicts something else.
Who is the painting by? and what does it represent?
Miro the circus horse 1927. About other types of reality.
What is the title of image and who is it by?
Masson, Minotaire 1937.
What does Masson’s Minotaire use?
What is the name of this painting and who is it by?
Pollock the key. 1946
When was Jackson Pollock’s ‘She Wolf’ painted? and what did it represent?
1943.primitisim.
