Lecture 16Outline of Last LectureI) Rodin,A) Gates of Hell (1880- 1917)B) The Prodigal Son (1880- 1882)C) Walking ManD) La CathedraleE) The Mighty HandII) MatisseA) The Serpentine (1909)B) The Back (1909-1931)III) Constantin BrancusiA) The Kiss (1908)1) Compare to Rodin, The Kiss (1886)B) Portrait of George (1911)C) Prometheus (1911)D) The Newborn (1915)E) The First Cry (1917)F) The Birth of the World (1924)G) Bird in Space (1919)The Endless ColumnOutline of Current LectureI) BrancusiA) Watchdog (1916)B) Sorceress (1916-1924)C) Torso of a Young Man (1922)D) Princesse X (1916)E) The Endless Column (1937)II) The Futurists ITALYA) Seems somewhat modernist, allowing freedomB) Giacomo Balla, Girl Running on a Balcony (1912)III) Cubism/collage  FranceA) Braque, L’Estaque (1906)B) Braque, Viaduct at L’Estaque (1907)C) Braque, Houses at L’Estaque (1908)D) Braque, The New Castle at La Roche-Guyon (1909)E) Cubism is NOT about ideal geometriesF) Picasso, Three Women (1908)G) Braque, Violin and Palette (1909)H) Braque, Violin and Pitcher (1910)I) Braque, The Emigrant (The Portuguese) (1911)J) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)K) Picasso, Landscape at Horta de Ebro (1909)L) Picasso, Factory at Horta de Ebro (1909)M) Picasso, Woman with Pears (1909)N) Portrait of Amroise Vollard (1909-1910)O) Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-P) Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning (Spring 1912)Current LectureIV) BrancusiA) Watchdog (1916)B) Sorceress (1916-1924)1) Watchdog used as a pedestal for another sculptureC) Torso of a Young Man (1922)1) His wooden torso is made to look industrial or mechanic  contradicting the “truth” of the material2) The bronze torso is so smooth that it looks liquid, working against the solid-ness of the metalD) Princesse X (1916)1) A female portrait bust resolved itself into this INCREDIBLY phallic objectE) He worked on his pedestals just as much as his sculptures1) Reaching towards the sky by making use of the thing that touches the ground  THE WORLDF) The Endless Column (1937)1) Taking an integer that he worked with endlessly and repeating it to become the object itselfV) The Futurists ITALYA) Seems somewhat modernist, allowing freedom1) Words are allowed to be freed but they are tied to sounds in the worldB) Giacomo Balla, Girl Running on a Balcony (1912)1) Exploration of everyday life2) Glorification of war and the machine3) Moving back towards resemblance rather than abstractionVI) Cubism/collage  FranceA) Collage is the first new mediumB) Braque, L’Estaque (1906)C) Braque, Viaduct at L’Estaque (1907)1) Both are coming right out of fauvism, picking up right about where Cezanne left offD) Braque, Houses at L’Estaque (1908)1) Resolve house architectures in cubic formsE) Braque, The New Castle at La Roche-Guyon (1909)F) Cubism is NOT about ideal geometries1) The system of painting itself; the format of the canvas and the conventions of illusiona) Orthoganals of light and shadow to convey depth and 3-dimensionality on the flat surface of the canvas2) Dismantling of the painterly conventions of illusionism and the representation of spaceG) Picasso, Three Women (1908)1) In the wake of the Demoiselles2) Thinking more forthrightly about Cezanna3) Fragmenting the entire pictorial spacea) Light against dark and especially their meeting point4) Way that the body could meet the laws of painting head onH) Braque, Violin and Palette (1909)I) Braque, Violin and Pitcher (1910)1) Studio still life paintings in cubism2) Analytic/hermetic cubism: seeking to breakdown and analyze the experience of looking at objects?3) The painted in nail is a moment of illusionism meant to highlight the flatness of the compositionJ) Braque, The Emigrant (The Portuguese) (1911)K) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)1) Hermetic, difficult to read2) Speaks to the canvas as a field and the shape of the canvas as important3) Increasing in objectivity from past paintings4) Inscription of wordsa) Assert the physical, literal flatness of the canvas against the represented flatness of the canvasb) Banishing depth and perspectivec) Pushing the languages of illusionism and painting away form their mimetic base  set free; arbitrary illusionism (seeing an object from all sides is a MIMETIC project)L) Picasso, Landscape at Horta de Ebro (1909)1) Not ideal geometries2) Thinking about flattening and dematerializing3) Intense physicalityM) Picasso, Factory at Horta de Ebro (1909)N) Picasso, Woman with Pears (1909)1) Intensification of light against dark: geometricize the body and alienate it in some ways2) Intense experience of projection and recessionO) Portrait of Amroise Vollard (1909-1910)P) Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Q) Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning (Spring 1912)1) Fragments of the real world enter the ruptured space of paintingART HIS 54Lecture 16Outline of Last LectureI) Rodin, A) Gates of Hell (1880- 1917) B) The Prodigal Son (1880- 1882) C) Walking ManD) La CathedraleE) The Mighty HandII) MatisseA) The Serpentine (1909)B) The Back (1909-1931)III) Constantin Brancusi A) The Kiss (1908)1) Compare to Rodin, The Kiss (1886)B) Portrait of George (1911)C) Prometheus (1911)D) The Newborn (1915) E) The First Cry (1917)F) The Birth of the World (1924)G) Bird in Space (1919)The Endless ColumnOutline of Current LectureI) BrancusiA) Watchdog (1916)B) Sorceress (1916-1924)C) Torso of a Young Man (1922)D) Princesse X (1916)E) The Endless Column (1937)II) The Futurists ITALYA) Seems somewhat modernist, allowing freedomB) Giacomo Balla, Girl Running on a Balcony (1912)III) Cubism/collage  FranceA) Braque, L’Estaque (1906)B) Braque, Viaduct at L’Estaque (1907)C) Braque, Houses at L’Estaque (1908)D) Braque, The New Castle at La Roche-Guyon (1909)E) Cubism is NOT about ideal geometries F) Picasso, Three Women (1908)G) Braque, Violin and Palette (1909)H) Braque, Violin and Pitcher (1910)I) Braque, The Emigrant (The Portuguese) (1911)J) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)K) Picasso, Landscape at Horta de Ebro (1909)L) Picasso, Factory at Horta de Ebro (1909)M) Picasso, Woman with Pears (1909)N) Portrait of Amroise Vollard (1909-1910)O) Picasso, Portrait of Daniel- P) Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning (Spring 1912)Current LectureIV) BrancusiA) Watchdog (1916)B) Sorceress (1916-1924)1) Watchdog used as a pedestal for another sculptureC) Torso of a Young Man (1922)1) His wooden torso is made to look industrial or mechanic  contradicting the “truth”of the material2) The bronze torso is so smooth that it looks