Lecture 17Outline of Last 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)Outline of Current LectureIV) Cubism; Braque and PicassoA) Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (1910)B) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)C) Analytic cubism? 1911V) 1912- collage!A) Braque, Still Life BACH (1912)B) Picasoo, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wineglass (1912)C) Collage as related to non-western art forms1) MEANING WITHOUT MIMESIS2) Picasso, Guitar (1912) (sculpture)a) Picasso, Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin (1912)D) Picasso, Glass and Bottle of Suze (1912)E) Picasso, Still Life with Violin and Fruit (1913)VI) Piet MondrianA) The Red Tree (1909)B) The Flowering Apple Tree (1912)C) Composition No. 10 in Black and White (Pier and Ocean) (1915)D) Composition in Line (1917)E) Composition with Grid 9 (Checkerboard with Light Colors) (1919)F) Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue, and Gray (1920)G) New York City (1941- 1942)VII) Jackson PollockA) Cathedral (1947)B) Full Fathom Five (1947)Current LectureVIII) Cubism; Braque and PicassoA) Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (1910)B) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)1) Dematerialized space2) Lines that no longer bound geometric space3) Line shadow and light; no longer belong to coherent objects4) Ambiguity between what is a contour and what is a plane flattened to the canvas5) The deepest sense of contradictiona) Volumetric and flatb) Tied to the body and notC) Analytic cubism? 1911IX) 1912- collage!A) Wall paper inserted into painting1) The medium is ruptured2) HeterogeneityB) Hermetic/fragmented—typical of analytic cubismC) Braque, Still Life BACH (1912)D) Picasoo, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wineglass (1912)1) Reintegration into what seems to be recognizable objects2) Analysis synthesis, the turning point of collagea) Entering foreign fragments, reintegrating mimesis? The return of the object? FALSEE) Collage as related to non-western art forms1) His objects and collages do not resemble African masks, but seem to learn from thema) The eyes and mouth (holes in Western art) are pressing OUT of the faceb) The cheeks and chin (volumetric in the Western arts) are flat and pulled backc) Projections and recessions2) MEANING WITHOUT MIMESIS3) Picasso, Guitar (1912) (sculpture)4) Cubist collage is systematically representing things beyond or after the breakdowna) Picasso, Violin (1912)i) The collage operates like a language, systematic effectsii) He is “writing” depth or what we understand as being depthb) Picasso, Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin (1912)F) Picasso, Glass and Bottle of Suze (1912)G) Picasso, Still Life with Violin and Fruit (1913)X) If you do not leave painting for collage, you have to abandon the object and the body completelyXI) Piet MondrianA) The Red Tree (1909)1) Informed by post-impressionism and fauvismB) The Flowering Apple Tree (1912)1) Informed by analytic cubismC) Composition No. 10 in Black and White (Pier and Ocean) (1915)D) Composition in Line (1917)1) Went piece by piece, eliminating element by element, all references to the natural world n favor of systems2) Move away from figure against groundE) Composition with Grid 9 (Checkerboard with Light Colors) (1919)1) This is somehow not “invented” by the artist, but emerges out of the painting itself2) Simplification of the color scheme in favor the primary3) Reduction and simplificationF) Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue, and Gray (1920)1) Turn away from fully-regularized grids in favor of the irregular; conforming only to the implicit gridding of the canvas2) Neoplasticism, the styleG) These laws were imagined moving beyond the canvas, to architecture reinvent the world1) The utopia of reduced language2) Forces were egalitarianH) New York City (1941- 1942)1) Gave up the distinction between line and shape/color2) Colors became lineXII) Jackson PollockA) Cathedral (1947)1) No longer geometric2) Biomorphic?3) Giving up the language of line, plane, and gridB) Full Fathom Five (1947)1) Give up the division between line and color2) rld enter the ruptured space of paintingART HIS 54Lecture 17Outline of Last 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)Outline of Current LectureIV) Cubism; Braque and PicassoA) Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (1910)B) Picasso, Ma Jolie (1911)C) Analytic cubism? 1911V) 1912- collage!A) Braque, Still Life BACH (1912)B) Picasoo, Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wineglass (1912)C) Collage as related to non-western art forms1) MEANING WITHOUT MIMESIS2) Picasso, Guitar (1912) (sculpture) a) Picasso, Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, and Violin (1912)D) Picasso, Glass and Bottle of Suze (1912)E) Picasso, Still Life with Violin and Fruit (1913)VI) Piet MondrianA) The Red Tree (1909)B) The Flowering Apple Tree (1912)C) Composition No. 10 in Black and White (Pier and Ocean) (1915)D)
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