Lecture 13Outline of Last LectureI) MatisseA) Sideboard and Table (1899)B) Carmelina (1903)1) Compare to Felix Feneon against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Shades, and Colors, Paul Signac (1890)C) Connection to musicD) Luxe, Calme, et Volutpe (1904)E) Break with post-impressionism; show in the autumn salon in 19051) The Fauves2) Henri Rousseau, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905)3) Andre Derain, The Dance (1905-1906)4) Matisse, The Woman with a Hat (1905)5) Open Window, Collioure (1905)6) Matisse, Woman with a Green Stripe (1905)a) Compare to Van Gogh’s The Night Café7) Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)8) Matisse, Landscape at Collioure (1905)9) Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life), (1906)a) Compare to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Golden Age (1862)b) Compare to Goya, Blind Man’s Bluffc) Compare to Titian, Bacchanal (1523-1524)d) Compare to Carracci, Reciprico Amore (1589-1595)What is the origin of art?Outline of Current LectureI) The two canvases that opened the 20th centuryA) Modernism is involved in a search for originsII) MatisseA) Joy of LifeIII) PicassoA) Self-portrait (1901)B) The Absinthe Drinker (1902)C) The Boy with a Pipe (1905)D) Family of Saltinbanques (1905)E) Tragedy (1903)1) Compare to Ingres, Tu Marcellus ErisF) Woman with a Fan (1905)G) Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)H) Two Nudes (1906)I) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)Current LectureIV) The two canvases that opened the 20th centuryA) Modernism is involved in a search for origins1) The elemental aspect of one’s practice as a painter2) Origins that lead to larger concepts, like that of art itself rather than just one medium3) Simplification, like the achievements of childhood4) The origin of art as something that is different (rather than the same= mimesis), mutilation, a form of violenceV) MatisseA) Joy of Life1) Play of color, bounded by line; simplification of line and color at the same timea) Unification of those two aspects of visual art’s language2) The figures everywhere offer many readings for each of thema) Some of these readings are joyous and beautiful, others are violent and strange and unpleasantb) Multiple and ambiguous meanings in each of the figures of the paintingVI) PicassoA) The blue period was a discussion with post-impressionism1) Painting of the conditions of modern life2) Play with the emotive possibilities of colorB) Self-portrait (1901)1) A flat background2) Grey skin tone with contours clearly filled in reminiscent of Van Gogh or GauguinC) The Absinthe Drinker (1902)1) Marginal, miserable figure in the café drinking absintheD) The Rose Period1) Expansion of the color palate2) Interest in youth and androgynous figuresE) The Boy with a Pipe (1905)1) Decorative ground that reads as wall paper or something of the sort2) Confusing of the actual and the artificial3) The figure offers the edge of the pipe towards the viewer as if turning the pipe this way invites the viewers to join with the paintingF) Family of Saltinbanques (1905)1) Characteristic of the iconography of the rose periodG) The true break with the portrait as a genre (breaking with the mimetic)1) Relationship to Gertrude SteinH) Tragedy (1903)1) Compare to Ingres, Tu Marcellus ErisI) Woman with a Fan (1905)1) The gesture is taken directly from Ingres’ Tu Marcellus ErisJ) Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)1) Compare to Ingres’ Portrait of Louis-François Bertin (1833)2) Massiveness and monumental idea of the physical body, corporeal3) Sculptural4) Depersonalization of the facea) Darkened eyes that appear not to seeb) Compare to Madame Cezanne, Cezanne (1885- 1887)5) He becomes interested in the archaic, beyond just the classicala) Especially Iberian sculptureb) Schematic way that all of these sculptures begin to treat the face6) Compare to Self-Portrait (1906)a) Remove the mimetic reflection of a face, instead the face becomes a signb) Break with spatialityc) Utopic/dystopic sharing of features in the two portraitsK) Two Nudes (1906)1) Iberian faces take over non-portraits2) The figures are volumetric, sculptural, physical, material, massivea) Echoes of Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings3) Light that doesn’t echo sunlight at all4) Break with lightness to give us the true physicala) Art was a screen keeping the physical from us5) What is it?a) Two bodies in confrontation  a type of Narcissus scene? Mirror reflection?i) The spatiality is confused in this readingb) Two different bodies not engaged in mirroring?i) They are different but still echoing each otherc) A non-space? A dream space?6) Compare to Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907)a) The two men become interested in African masks and African motifsb) Confrontational in the idea of sexualityL) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)1) A very process-oriented painting, taking months to get fully worked out2) Displayed only in Picasso’s studio to his friends and laughed as briefly3) Considered a failure and unfinished because of the varying styles mobilized across the canvasa) The faces of the females on the right are changed to Iberian masks4) Also considered the first cubist picture5) The relationship to the viewer (by each of the figures) is the unifying featurea) Confrontationb) The spatiality is incredibly confusedc) The movement of sex itselfART HIS 54Lecture 13Outline of Last LectureI) Matisse A) Sideboard and Table (1899)B) Carmelina (1903)1) Compare to Felix Feneon against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Shades, and Colors, Paul Signac (1890)C) Connection to musicD) Luxe, Calme, et Volutpe (1904)E) Break with post-impressionism; show in the autumn salon in 19051) The Fauves2) Henri Rousseau, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905)3) Andre Derain, The Dance (1905-1906)4) Matisse, The Woman with a Hat (1905)5) Open Window, Collioure (1905)6) Matisse, Woman with a Green Stripe (1905)a) Compare to Van Gogh’s The Night Café7) Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)8) Matisse, Landscape at Collioure (1905)9) Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life), (1906)a) Compare to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Golden Age (1862)b) Compare to Goya, Blind Man’s Blufc) Compare to Titian, Bacchanal (1523-1524)d) Compare to Carracci, Reciprico Amore (1589-1595)What is the origin of art?Outline of Current LectureI) The two canvases that opened the 20th centuryA) Modernism is involved in a search for originsII) MatisseA) Joy of LifeIII)