Lecture 11Outline of Last LectureI) Cézanne: eccentricity?A) Characteristics of his paintingB) Friendship with PissarroC) Uncle Dominique (1866)D) The Abduction (1867E) House of the Hanged Man (1873- 1873)F) The Bridge at Maincy (1879-1880)G) Chateau de Médan (1880)H) Gulf of Marseille Seen From L’Estaque (1886)I) The Basket of Apples (1890-1894)J) Still-Life with Plaster Cast (1894)K) Mount Ste. –Victoria and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1882)L) Pines and Rocks (1895-1900)M) Mount Sainte- Victoire (again and again)N) Apples (1877- 1878)O) Idyll (Luncheon on the Grass) (1870)P) Temptation of St. Anthony (1870)Q) A Modern Olympia (1873)R) Bather with Outstretched Arms (1887- 1878)S) The Large Bather (1885)T) PhenomenologyU) Three Bathers (1879-1882)V) The Murder (1868)W) Bathers at Rest (1875- 1877)X) Bathers (1883- 1887)Y) Bathers (1890)Z) Large Bathers (1894- 1905)**All post-impressionists seek a systematic way of painting and impose that method on all of their paintingsOutline of Current LectureI) CezanneA) Three monumental canvases on the level of history painting1) Large Bathers (1894-1905)2) Large Bathers (1900- 1905)3) Large Bathers (1898-1906)II) KlimtA) Golden Period1) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baurer (1907)B) Medicine (1900- 1907)C) Philosophy and Medicine (1900- 1907)D) Goldfish (1901- 1902)E) Water Serpents (1907)F) Expectation (1905-1909)G) Beethoven Frieze (1902)III) SecessionCurrent LectureIV) AnnouncementsA) Tonight: conference at the HammerB) Tuesday: TJ Clark lecture at 5pmC) Thursday: lecture at 5pmV) CezanneA) Three monumental canvases on the level of history painting1) Large Bathers (1894-1905)a) Painting bodies naked in the worldb) Reconciliation of body and nature or body and worldi) A classical kind of subjectc) Used to exert a materialist reading upon it, reveal it in a new wayd) Sense of awkwardnessi) Growing and shrinking in strange ways2) Large Bathers (1900- 1905)a) A different directionality from the previous oneb) More standing, more differing gazesc) Strange self-displayd) More realized objects and figurese) Compressed space, loss of separation from one body to another3) Large Bathers (1898-1906)a) The largest of the paintingsb) A new kind of geometry that unifies the compositioni) The bodies bring themselves into comparison with the geometric configuration of trees in the backgroundc) Forms and shapes can only be experienced in the world by our bodiesi) Ideal forms exist above existence, above the world, above the bodyii) The bodies have a strange dimensionalityd) The notion of the flowing and of liquidB) Early modernists were in conversation with seeing, Cezanne is in conversation with the entire body; all that we think that we know actually comes to us as embodies subjects (phenomenological)1) Enacted as well as themetized with his painting of figuresC) Materialist vs. idealist (in conversation with Plato?)1) Thought through the body, material entities and material spaceVI) KlimtA) Golden Period1) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baurer (1907)a) Collision of contradictory languagesi) Gold and silver leaf tie the paintings to religious and spiritual art of the deep pastByzantine iconsEgyptianii) Illusionistically painted figure; three-dimensionality emerges out of geometric shapes and decorative patternB) Medicine (1900- 1907)1) Called faculty pictures or ceiling pictures2) Skeletons and deathly forms rising up behind the woman who holds the attributes of medicine in her arms3) Allegorize erros and sexuality viewed as pornographic by the university4) Influenced by Michelangelo’s Last Judgmenta) Seizes this motif for his own worksb) Jurisprudence (1900- 1907)i) A kind of sea monster, nightmare takes hold of a man as the Gorgans look upon himC) Philosophy and Medicine (1900- 1907)1) Compare to Raphael’s pictures in the Vatican2) Inversion of the commission “light over darkness”3) The body becomes a kind of architecture, everything seems to take on a kind of fluid motion and enact a kind of suffering of the body, vision of irrational forces overtaking light and enlightenmentD) Goldfish (1901- 1902)1) FloatingE) Water Serpents (1907)1) Acquias metaphora) Flow of hair, tentacles, flowing lines: EMPHASIS ON LINEF) Expectation (1905-1909)1) Endless linear motions and force as opposed to color fields in the French Modernisma) Despite this use of line, divisions between objects are incredibly hard to discern  visual confusion, fusion of figure and background using line to uproot the purpose and the ability of lines in painting beforeb) Use of the decorative, calling back to ornament of the Germanic tribes in the late 7th centuryG) Beethoven Frieze (1902)1) A painted representation of Beethoven’s 9th symphony2) Rhythmic genie figures keeping beat across the work3) Monsters and figures, humanity emerges from the darkness4) Fusion, on so many levels5) The vision ends with “a kiss to the whole world”VII) SecessionA) Break from the formerly academic style and teachingsB) The religious is evoked and replaced by art itselfC) A fantasy of nostalgia; retrieving or recapturing what was imagined to be the unity and achievements of art before the fallD) Gesamtisunstwerk: Total work of art; to gather togetherART HIS 54Lecture 11Outline of Last LectureI) Cézanne: eccentricity?A) Characteristics of his paintingB) Friendship with PissarroC) Uncle Dominique (1866)D) The Abduction (1867E) House of the Hanged Man (1873- 1873)F) The Bridge at Maincy (1879-1880) G) Chateau de Médan (1880)H) Gulf of Marseille Seen From L’Estaque (1886)I) The Basket of Apples (1890-1894)J) Still-Life with Plaster Cast (1894)K) Mount Ste. –Victoria and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1882)L) Pines and Rocks (1895-1900)M) Mount Sainte- Victoire (again and again)N) Apples (1877- 1878)O) Idyll (Luncheon on the Grass) (1870)P) Temptation of St. Anthony (1870)Q) A Modern Olympia (1873)R) Bather with Outstretched Arms (1887- 1878)S) The Large Bather (1885)T) PhenomenologyU) Three Bathers (1879-1882)V) The Murder (1868)W) Bathers at Rest (1875- 1877)X) Bathers (1883- 1887)Y) Bathers (1890)Z) Large Bathers (1894- 1905)**All post-impressionists seek a systematic way of painting and impose that method on all of their paintingsOutline of Current LectureI) CezanneA) Three monumental canvases on the level of history painting1) Large Bathers (1894-1905)2) Large Bathers (1900- 1905) 3) Large Bathers (1898-1906)II) KlimtA) Golden Period1) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baurer