arts 349 fall 2012

philosophical and literary movement before an art movement

biomorphic surrealism (forms and shapes with no visual referent in the natural world)

oneiric surrealism (highly naturalistic representations of forms, figures, structures, spaces, and narratives that defy the laws of artistic composition and the laws of physics)

emergence of fantasy in painting (marc Chagall is a big influence) (de Chirico was also one i guess)

pittura metafisica

the soothsayer's recompense the melancholy and mystery of a street 

max ernst

(two children are threatened by a nightingale) (escaper from histoire naturelle) (the horde) 

andre breton, valentine hugo, greta knutson, tristan tzara Exquisite Corpse

(exquisite corpses will be on the exam)

frottage (rubbings off of various things pieced together) (thanks caffey for talking about frottage)

grattage (additional paint is added, and then paint is scraped off to reveal the subconscious)

decalcomania (putting something on the paper with pressure, then pulling it off, and the image/composition is revealed through chance)

joan miro (painting) (object) (beautiful bird revealing the unknown to a pair of lovers)

automatic drawing

andre masson (battle of fishes) (pasiphae) 

yves tanguy (satin tuning fork)

paranoiac-critical method (have to be completely manic to do art)

hand-painted dream photographs

salvador dali (accommidations of desire) (the persistence of memory) 

surrealism beyond france and spain

(voices of space)

rene magritte (the treachery (or perfidy) of images)

REALITY IS BOTH TRUE AND FALSE WOAHHHH WOAHH DANG let's be both athiest and faithful awesome that's how it is in the real world Yeah DANG

paul delvaux (the break of day (l'aurore)) (apollo and daphne) (the awakening of the forest) (surrealist commentary on what it means to LOOK, focusing on the specimen instead of the naked frolicking people who are the sur/reality) 

hans bellmer (articulation of globes the doll) (the doll)

matta (disasters of mysticism)

ernst ludwig kirchner

der blaue reiter

wassily kandinsky

collective constant with symbols that all humans understand he had synaesthesia he had visual-audio synaesthesia

color with a specifically symbolic rather than descriptive

pessimism

edvard munch Madonna (1894-1895) Madonna (Conception) (1895) The Dance of Life (1900) Vampire (1895-1902) The Sick Child (1885-1886) The Cry [The Scream] (1893) 

hooray addictions and substance abuses

christian krohg The Sick Girl (1880-1881)

it was pretty common to lose children back then child mortality rate was high

james ensor Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (1889-1890)

paul serusier The Talisman (Landscape of the Bois d'Amour) (1888)

everyone was scared that non-representation would tear art apart serusier and his contemporaries are transitionaries between post-impressionism and fauvism

paul bonnard Nu a contre jour (Nude against the Light) (1908)

intimisme: "speaking in a low tone, suitable to confidences" before now, painters were limited to public spaces, to not be seen or heard and return to their studios but now they were invited into private, intimate scenes

henri matisse The Open Window (1905)

fauvism violently done like a wild animal did it fuck representational color fuck concrete representation just do it messily

matisse hung out with seurat and stuff

henri matisse Le bonheur de vivre (1905-1906)

let's fantasize about pagan rituals in the woods orgies amongst the trees let's all be naked

henri matisse La Desserte (Dinner Table) (1896-1897)

henri matisse Male Model (1900)

henri matisse Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line) (1905)

henri matisse Woman with the Hat (1905)

andre derain London Bridge (1906)

andre derain Turning Road, L'Estaque (1906)

on the test, there will be a "what do these have in common" question; the answer is: they all represent l'estaque

maurice de vlaminck The River Seine at Chatou (1906) Picnic in the Country (1905) Portrait of Andre Derain (1906)

raoul dufy Sainte-Andresse Jetty (1906) Street Decked with Flags, Le Havre (1906)

georges roualt Prostitute before a Mirror (1906)

henri matisse Harmony in Red (The Dessert) (1908)

equal attention is paid to all parts of the painting it's kind of a 2D space thing about artist emotions 

there will be a thing with a bunch of pictures and go "what do they have in common?" like eight or nine paintings that look nothing alike the answer is that they are all by matisse

henri matisse Dance (II) (1909-1910) Music (1909-1910)

finally we're getting patrons for artists again some guy was collecting matisse's work before he died and commissioned the above

henry van de velde Tropon (c 1899)

"Catalogues, posters, advertisements of all sorts. Believe me, they contain the poetry of our age." -Guillaume Apollinaire, 1912

victor horta Stairwell of interior Tassel House (1892-1893)

hector guilmard Entrance to Porte Dauphine Metro station (1901)

antoni gaudi Sagrada Familia (begun 1883)

antoni gaudi Casa Mila (1907)

(art nouveau, but also concrete)

anti-capitalist

"modern urban industrial practices had de-humanized civilization"

everything must be done by hand because everything manufactured is "low-quality"

philip webb Red House (1859-1860)

mckim Mead & White William G Low House (1886-1887)

charles rennie mackintosh Glasgow School of Art (1907-1909)

william morris Green Dining Room (1867)

charles rennie mackintosh Ladies' Luncheon Room Ingram Street Tea Room (1900-1912)

"have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"

william morris Trellis (1864) woodblock print wallpaper 

william morris Honeysuckle (1883) wallpaper 

english gothic revival

american gothic revival (carpenter gothic --> fashion, style)

green revival (in the american south)

french neoclassical (completing napolean's rule)

romanesque revival (create illusion that christianity had been in n. america forever)

english baroque revival (english are owners of SPACE and TIME)

(what goes around comes around) 

andrea palladio Villa Rotonda (Villa Capra) (begun 1565-1566)

Palladianism signaled Britons' rejection of the excesses of the Rococo and the desire to present themselves as gentlemen on the scale of the Italian Renaissance

richard boyle (lord burlington) Chiswick House (begun 1725) 

thomas jefferson Monticello (begun 1769)

benjamin henry latrobe United States Capitol (1808)

horace walpole Strawberry Hill (1749-1776)

charles barry and augustus welby northmore pugin Houses of Parliament (1836-1860)

St. Paul's Cathedral (1708)

john nash Royal Pavilion (1815-1818)

charles garnier L'Opera (1861-1874) (Place de L'Opera (aerial view))

beaux-arts

historicism

baroque revival

haussmannization

art against naturalism

gustave moreau The Apparition (1876)

architecture is etched into it, rather than painted calls attention to the fact that the rest is paint "this isn't real. this is paint. look how i can manipulate it." 

odilon redon Roger and Angelica (1910)

pretty abstracted applied the story portrayed to his own life it doesn't mean the same thing to anybody but him 

pierre puvis de chavannes The Sacred Grovev (1885-1889) 

attempt at recreating the renaissance italian fresco arcadia, utopia refers to no specific narrative, but is reminiscent of classical stories academic art + avant garde art (this guy did both and made money)

paul gauguin Vision after the Sermon (1888)

synthetism cloissonism 

paul gauguin Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching) (1892)

vincent van gogh The Night Cafe (1888) 

one of the first ones in which color isn't representational at all

vincent van gogh The Starry Night (1889)

henri de toulouse-lautrec At the Moulin Rouge (1892-1895)

georges seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) 

still demonstrates ~leisure time

divisionism the way that we characterise the theoretical impulse behind this painting. uses color theory + law of simultaneous contrast with knowledge that the human eye will register the middle space as a different color altogether

pointillism technique with which he did it (ie, using tiny dots like pixels)

distance from the canvas is important 

paul signac Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints, Portrait fo M. Felix Feneon in 1890 (1890) 

paul cezanne Still Life with Basket of Apples (c 1895) 

paul cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire (1868)

paul cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves (1902-1906) 

caprice in blue and gold nocturne in blue and gold: old battersea bridge

he was influenced by ukiyo-e 

modern art represents shift between painting and poetry whistler used color the way that composers used notes

riverside bamboo market: kyobashi really influenced whistler

nocturne in black and gold (The Falling Rocket) (1875) this was one of the first ones that dictated the way modern galleries work the work gets as much goddamn space as it needs

it's so impressionistic that it pissed people off they got so mad so mad whistler sued ruskin (bad reviewer) for libel and won but it ruined his career because he was bankrupt (what he won was barely anything)

ruskin liked the old stuff, figures and sacred scenes he also really hated japanese people because he was a big racist asshole he liked pre-renaissance stuff because he was living ~in the past whistler was having none of it

ukiyo-e "image of the floating world" all that we see is an illusion reality is a fleeting moment in the presence of a permanent sacred (usually fujiyama)

hokusai Gust of Wind 

HOKUSAI is pretty fucking important

Modernism looks to influences outside of Europe

The viewer is floating sort of up over the scene; we aren't there. This dominated impressionist art.

pierre-auguste renoir La loge (1874)

men painting women with strong gazes ---> does this give the women power? does it just reinforce previous notions?

it reinforces and challenges, in this case

eva gonzales A Loge at the Theatre des Italiens (1874) 

berthe morisot Villa at the Seaside (1874) most directly influenced by Bonington, despite her not having been at the Salon of 1824

claude monet Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) (1894)

mary cassatt Woman in a Loge (1870)

mary cassatt In the Loge (1879) 

mary is the only american invited to be part of the impressionist movement there were other women, however

other people (watching them) is more exciting than what is actually happening on the stage woman in a loge ---> mirror reflecting behind her, she's looking away; challenged traditional sight lines

mary cassatt Reading Le Figaro (1878)

gustave caillebotte The Floor-Scrapers (1875) everything is created by the reflection of light literally stripping away the past + ignorance about art + darkness + etc

pierre-august renoir Le Moulin de la Galette (1876) light is the organizing principle of the composition documents leisure-time created by modern capitalism usually they had to work from dawn to dusk in the country they can now generate more income in less time within the city leisure becomes an important part of modern life

degas Ballet Rehearsal (1874) it wasn't terribly innocuous back then, more like burlesque dance was one of the few ways that a low-class woman could climb the social ladder (there was a be-sponsored-by-wealthy-man sort of system) this was a leisure activity, of course

camille pissarro Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pointoise (1878) only member of impressionist group who presented at all 9 impressionist exhibitions

impasto (thickness of paint?)

camille corot Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas Breau (1832-1833?) 

claude monet Impression: Sunrise (1872) it's all about the reflection of light, nothing about form or texture or reality  impressionism is based a lot on color theory and law of simultaneous contrast also, the theory of optics also also, the influence of japanese woodblock prints on european paintings